When the Canadian National Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) released its Final Report in June 2019, it referenced Canadian Indigenous peoples as “victims of a race-based genocide empowered by colonial structures.” Immediately, as Indigenous Issues columnist Tanya Talaga reported in the Vancouver Star, various non-Indigenous persons and groups across the  read more…

Being a nurse in the lower mainland of British Columbia can be tough. We are increasingly confronted with fewer resources, coupled with an expectation that somehow we will be able to do more. An important piece of providing excellent nursing care is approaching all of our patients from a place of compassion. Compassion exists in  read more…

PCN, CHC, ISC, CSC, UCC, PSP . . . . and the list goes on. Every major shift in health care should be accompanied by a dictionary, I have been blessed (or cursed) to have been in the midst of more than one of these major shifts. As BC heads into the next big shift  read more…