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On February 14, 2023, Vancouver City Council voted to allocate $2.8 million to Vancouver Coastal Health, to hire 58 mental health workers to "to support people who are suffering from mental illness combined with lack of stable housing and substance abuse issues." [29] [30]
Penny Janet Drury Ballem OBC is a Canadian physician [1] and government administrator. She was the city manager for the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 2008 to 2015 [2] and served as a member of the VANOC board of directors, corporate director for Bentall Capital G.P. Ltd., as well as a senior adviser to RPO Management Consultants. [3]
GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre is the largest rehabilitation hospital in British Columbia. [1] It is located in the South Cambie neighbourhood of Vancouver.. It provides inpatient, outpatient, outreach and clinical support services to clients/patients across British Columbia and the Yukon in four programs: acquired brain injury, spinal cord injury, and neuromusculoskeletal.
Arran Stephens was born on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, the son of Rupert Stephens, a berry farmer and songwriter, and Gwen Stephens.Stephens has a brother, Godfrey Stephens, a well-known Canadian artist.
The Vancouver Island wolf, also known as the coastal wolf or sea wolf (Canis lupus crassodon) [2] is a subspecies of grey wolf, endemic to the coast of the Pacific Northwest. [3] They are a unique subspecies of wolf due to their semi-aquatic lifestyle, which includes a diet that is almost entirely marine-based.
Health system services and governance in the Lower Mainland are provided by Vancouver Coastal Health, serving Vancouver, Richmond and the North Shore, and the mainland coast as far north as the Central Coast region, and Fraser Health, which serves the area of the Lower Mainland east of Vancouver and Richmond. [18]
Fraser and Vancouver Coastal Health Authority have had the highest number of illicit drug toxicity deaths (188 and 164 deaths, respectively) in 2019, making up 65% of all such deaths during this period. 2019: Vancouver Coastal Health Authority has the highest rate of illicit drug toxicity deaths (27 deaths per 100,000 individuals). [94]
After Eby's Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside requested that Vancouver Coastal Health defund the Drug User Liberation Front in October 2023, he famously stated, "It’s unfortunate because they were providing essential life-saving work. But they were also breaking the law."