B.C. does not know how many people are on extended leave from involuntary hospital stays | Unpublished
Hello!
Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Mike Hager, Kathryn Blaze Baum
Publication Date: May 18, 2025 - 20:21

B.C. does not know how many people are on extended leave from involuntary hospital stays

May 18, 2025
The B.C. government does not know how many people are under involuntary mental-health supervision outside hospital settings at any given time, the province’s Ministry of Health acknowledges. That lack of tracking makes it impossible to know whether the teams responsible for caring for such people are properly resourced in a province with one of the worst ratios of mental health care professionals to patients in the country, critics say.


Unpublished Newswire

 
Connor McDavid goes way back with Sam Bennett.
June 9, 2025 - 14:58 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province’s oil and gas industry. Smith said on her weekly radio show this weekend that Guilbeault, now heritage minister, has an “overt motive” to establish new federally protected parks in the path of pipelines and other energy infrastructure. She added that she wouldn’t consent to the creation of any...
June 9, 2025 - 14:46 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
OTTAWA — A group of Canadian Sikh organizations is calling on members of Parliament to denounce Prime Minister Mark Carney’s invitation to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to next week’s G7 leaders’ meeting.  The open letter comes after Carney defended the invitation to Modi last Friday, saying it was important to have India at the table, given that it represents the world’s fifth-largest economy, is essential to supply chains, and now boasts the world’s largest population. “Carney’s decision is not merely a...
June 9, 2025 - 14:13 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post