1+ week, 3+ hour ago   (585+ words) Dr. Trevor Hancock is a retired professor and senior scholar at the University of Victoria’s School of Public Health and Social Policy Last week, I discussed the wicked problems of the ­polycrisis and the need to work together to find…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (692+ words) Mary Singer was in her early 20s when she was told that her blood was special, since she’s O negative — a universal donor. Since then, the Nanaimo woman has donated blood whenever she could — 225 times, as of last month. Now 88 years…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (347+ words) A massive California sea lion slowly being strangled by a plastic packaging band has been freed from the ocean debris on Race Rocks Ecological Reserve off Metchosin. The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society, working with Fisheries and Oceans Canada,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (679+ words) Veterinarians on Vancouver Island and the mainland are warning of a surge in bat encounters and increased demand for the rabies vaccine. Experts have suggested the spike in bat encounters and sightings in some areas could be related to wildfires…...

3+ week, 19+ hour ago   (324+ words) Emergency personnel are urging people to be careful in the water after a recent death at Goldstream Provincial Park that marked one of many water-related deaths in B.C. this summer. Langford Fire Chief Chris Aubrey said most drownings occur in natural…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (539+ words) For Madison Sutcliffe, vision loss happened virtually overnight almost five years ago when she was 30 years old and pregnant with her daughter. It turned out she had a form of a rare eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa that was likely…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (583+ words) A new machine designed to improve safety and efficiency during cataract surgery was wheeled into an operating room at the Saanich Peninsula Hospital last month, making it the first in use at a public hospital across the country. Dr. Patrick…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (343+ words) Dear Dr. Roach: I was reading your recent column about shingles. Several years ago, I contracted shingles, even after getting the shingles vaccine. It hit me in my left eye, so I went to my eye doctor. (I wasn’t sure…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (249+ words) A construction company operating in Ucluelet has been fined $17,593.16 after a worker was struck by an excavator and seriously injured at a water treatment plant. WorkSafeBC issued the fine to Ridgeline Mechanical in July after investigating the site and finding…...