Instead of forcing people into substance use treatment, provinces should work with municipalities and health boards to expand life-saving safe use sites and tackle the housing crisis.
Rigor académico, oficio periodístico
Artículos sobre British Columbia
Mostrando 41 - 60 de 128 artículos
High-risk, high-uncertainty events like earthquakes tend to fall out of view when we are occupied with more predictable seasonal events like wildfires, which have very visible effects on our lives.
There is a continuing misunderstanding of rural realities by policymakers. Ultimately this puts transit out of reach for many rural areas.
New agreements in B.C. provide economic compensation for land restoration activities to several First Nations and limit new oil and gas development projects.
Political pressure is mounting on the federal government to launch a registry of foreign agents. But a history of racial discrimination is reason to be cautious.
British Columbia’s move to provide free contraceptives is a positive step that fully embraces sexual and reproductive health and rights for everyone in post-Roe North America.
Food quality, not just quantity, matters when it comes to the health and survival of the southern resident killer whales.
By reflecting on the violent origins of the Canadian sugar industry, we can bring wider attention to the exploitation underpinning the history of Canadian cuisine.
As federal and provincial governments bring in measures to make child care more affordable, the voices and needs of children with disabilities must not be ignored.
Decriminalization helps recharacterize drug addiction as a chronic health condition instead of a criminal activity, reduces the stigma associated with drug use and improves treatment options.
As British Columbia begins a new era in drug policy, the drug poisoning crisis continues without an end in sight.
Canada’s zero-emissions vehicle sales target will need hundreds of thousands of EV charging points to be installed in homes, workplaces, retail spaces and along highway corridors in the coming years.
Canada is sidelining qualified doctors while many Canadians struggle to find health care. Here’s what we can and must do better for internationally trained physicians.
Building trusting relations among teachers, parents, a community and school administrators is important when schools enter decision-making processes about programs of choice.
Unprecedented droughts leave the subsurface drier than usual, affecting water supply in subsequent years.
Dec. 1 marks World AIDS Day. Canada has the tools and means to end the epidemic. The question remains, are we up to the task?
One project on a small island in B.C. is demonstrating how archaeology can bring communities together and serve as a basis for reconciliation.
Bats have important roles to play in ecosystems, but their populations have been declining due to disease and habitat change.
In B.C., residential school principals sat on public school boards, and some Indigenous children even attended public schools. Understanding such links matters for truth and reconciliation.
The declining salmon and whale numbers raise a critical question: Is the southern resident killer whale population solely reliant on the abundance of salmon? And, if so, since when?
Principales colaboradores
-
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences; Senior Scientist, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University
-
Chair and Member from North America of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) and Professor in Political Science, Public Policy and Indigenous Studies, University of British Columbia
-
Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
-
PhD Candidate, Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment, Concordia University
-
Program Director & Associate Professor of Industrial-Organizational and Applied Psychology, Adler University
-
Fellow, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Contributor to the special issue on Ethnobiology Through Song/CEO Ninogaad Knowledge Keepers Foundation/Board of Directors APTN
-
Professor in Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
-
Chair in Insurance and Professor, Finance, Wilfrid Laurier University
-
Postdoctoral Fellow, Pacific Institute on Pathogens, Pandemics and Society, Simon Fraser University
-
Assistant Professor of Indigenous Health, Simon Fraser University
-
Postdoctoral fellow, School of Public Policy & Administration, Carleton University
-
Professor, History and Director, Past Wrongs, Future Choices, University of Victoria
-
Director, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Queen's University, Ontario
-
Adjunct professor, School of Communications, Simon Fraser University
