Nanaimo only has 1 walk in clinic that services around 170’000 people. To get an appointment, you realistically have to show up 2 hours before they open and even THEN you might not get in. Today there’s only 1 doctor, meaning 12 people will get seen out of 40+ people waiting.
I am so floored that I opened Twitter for the first time in months LOL. But no. To put it lightly this is an incredibly dangerous situation that has been ongoing since COVID. Our health sector in BC, across Canada, and globally, is in a DIRE place and it’s scary.
Supports are emerging to help Yellowknife evacuees. Read our list so far and add anything we're missing to help people reach safety.
https://t.co/qAbIhu0QBI
(1/3)🔴 HAY RIVER UPDATE🔴 : The situation has changed quickly. Strong winds have blown the fire within 10 km of the community. It is anticipated the fire will reach Hay River this evening.
The author of a comprehensive study of the 2016 Fort McMurray wildfire sees "echoes" in Yellowknife. He's worried. Here's the full interview.
https://t.co/IEt4cEenqS
A fire west of Yellowknife is now 16 km from the city having moved four kilometres closer on Tuesday. "Meaningful progression east" is expected on Wednesday.
https://t.co/ajirnj51C5
Yellowknife has several districts on evacuation alert and the NWT is in a state of emergency. Live wildfire updates continue here: https://t.co/qPLVBJRVOh
I need a Nelly Furtado resurgence this year. Not like when the Black Eyed Peas came out with a hard right turn to electronic pop, but more along the lines of a true early 2000s renaissance. Pls and thank u
I understand that the cost of living is extremely high but why are people selling dusty piss stained cushions on fb marketplace for $75?! Is it really THAT dire?!
People around the country were outraged when Helen Naslund was sentenced to 18 years in prison for killing her abusive husband.
Over months, Helen and her family have bravely opened their lives to me, in the hope their story can help someone else. https://t.co/MqHxdI0eBC
You often hear about students leaving the North for post-secondary but you rarely hear about the northern students who have to move away from home for high school. Thank you to everyone who spoke with me for this story. https://t.co/hOhFUMlzyc via @nationalpost
Elijah McClain, a Black man who died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019, died because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released on Friday. https://t.co/BP15QiF4ef
it’s a fundamental human right that is being infringed on!! whatever happened to the basic premise that “competition” is necessary for a “free market”? - or is this only true when convenient??
it’s troubling how little regulators seem to care about access and mobility of northerners to travel. airlines have wielded far too much power for far too long, and yet there’s no intervention? we (especially!! those from remote communities) have been screaming into a void
There was another court appearance and yet another adjournment this morning for one of the accused in the death of Megan Gallagher.
https://t.co/t2jez8t89Y
Just once, I'd love for the RCMP -- or literally anyone in a position of power/authority -- to give a real, clear, honest, transparent answer to a simple question: what happened?