A group of Downtown Eastside health-care and outreach workers want Vancouver Coastal Health to reinstate a wound care clinic in the neighbourhood.

Health Minister announced Wednesday that the province is ending its three-year, first-in-Canada pilot program

The mother of Myles Gray, who died after a Vancouver Police beating more than 10 years ago, says she wants the public to hear the full truth “without institutional protection” at a hearing that begins on Monday.

A group of Downtown Eastside health-care and outreach workers want Vancouver Coastal Health to reinstate a wound care clinic in the neighbourhood.

Although the literature evaluating various police practices and reforms continues to broaden, little research has examined police funding in Canada. To describe the current landscape of Canada's police funding, we collect and publish data on municipal police service expenditures from 2010 to 2021 in 20 of the most populous urban municipalities in Canada. Our analysis describes how police funding changes over time and varies between regions, and it examines its correlation with crime rates. Spending on police services is extracted from municipal budgets, and population and crime severity index data are collected from Statistics Canada databases. In 2019, police services were the top operating expenditure in a majority of the municipalities. Real per capita spending on police services increased in 16 of 20 municipalities from 2010 to 2020. Marked differences are seen in spending between municipalities: in 2019, in 2020 dollars, Vancouver spent $495.84 per capita, whereas Quebec City spent $217.05 per capita. No consistent associations were found between police funding and crime rates across municipalities, and overall, net increases in spending per capita are not associated with greater net decreases in crime rates. These findings describe the wide local variation in police funding trends and point to the complexity of interactions between crime rates and police funding.

Community inclusion and the decentralization of care is needed during dual toxic drug and housing public health crises.

Community inclusion and the decentralization of care is needed during dual toxic drug and housing public health crises.

Extended release buprenorphine is not

The lawyer for a senior British Columbia RCMP officer says his client intends to plead not guilty to assault charges laid after an alleged off-duty altercation in Abbotsford in July. 

The British Columbia government is doubling down on involuntary treatment for people who use drugs, fast-tracking a law to skirt ...

A police watchdog report does not reveal the officer’s name or the school where he met the teenage girl.

The joint letter warns that expanding involuntary treatment in British Columbia would violate medical ethics, endanger patients, and deepen human rights harm, calling instead for evidence-based, volun...