New report released today by Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt reaffirms BC seniors on fixed incomes disproportionately impacted by high cost of living and unable to absorb increased costs for housing, food, mobility aids and other necessities for healthy ageing https://t.co/ubanGqLffO
BC Seniors Advocate calls on government to address the current confusing legislative landscape to protect seniors from significant rent and service fee increases, improve oversight and reporting, and address affordability challenges. https://t.co/bf94UWMmF5
BREAKING: Barbara Walters, who shattered the glass ceiling and became a dominant force in an industry once dominated by men, has died. She was 93. https://t.co/tydwREgTb2
100% agree with @VaughnPalmer in this column.
BC's got a great seniors advocate right now in Isobel Mackenzie, who operates fearlessly even though her office is unprotected and at the whim of gov.
NDP should try listening to her, rather than insulting her.
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Use our interactive health system performance tool — Your Health System — to take a closer look at long-term care facilities in your area and across Canada. https://t.co/AlyvSybMno
"To be powerful today is to be generous, to wield one’s impact with grace and to effect change on scales large and small." Congratulations to our Seniors Advocate for making the @vanmag_com 2022 Power 50 List. https://t.co/3KCuCFANvI
B.C.'s seniors advocate is set to release a review of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province's care facilities this morning. The report will examine the worst of the outbreaks to help the public better understand what went wrong. https://t.co/DPU1zVYJOs
More heartbreaking news about “sudden deaths” in our province. Please, please take the time to check on your family, friends and neighbours. We send our gratitude to fire, police, paramedics and everyone working so hard to keep us safe!
81 members of the Conservative Party voted in favour of anti-choice legislation today. It is completely unacceptable that they will not support, protect, or defend a woman’s right to choose. Our government always has - and always will.
Happy #CensusDay! Do you have questions about the ongoing #2021Census? Our experts will be answering your questions under this post all day—so ask away! https://t.co/Aqe3vPDU97
Outside my office this week, someone was shouting xenophobic comments about how Asian women didn’t belong in government. I am grateful for the community support our office received but I want to take a moment to denounce this kind of racism and harassment.
Regional Breakdown:
579 Vancouver Coastal
986 Fraser Health
100 Island Health
129 Interior Health
95 in the Northern Health
23 new COVID-19 related deaths since April 1, for a total of 1,486 deaths in British Columbia.
#bcpoli#COVID19BC
Lists of immunization clinics by Health Authority are now online:
Northern: https://t.co/Gs44WyfJAD
Fraser: https://t.co/5WCW5r4xrc
Vancouver Coastal: https://t.co/P57lUhcDdK
Island: https://t.co/0k53WmoqzB
Interior: https://t.co/qhK5R4BpVA