aggregated from: Vancouverite

Hey there H1N1 vaccine fans, if you aren't high risk, you aren't getting the delicious vaccine. Government health officials will be patrolling the lines to ensure only high priority people get it. What is this, a 1960's bread line in Russia? Get used...

topics: cope, health-care

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

The North Shore News reports that shortages of H1N1 vaccine mean that many health care workers can't be immunized:NOT all health care workers will be getting their swine flu vaccines as originally planned this week, after the B.C. Centre for Disease ...

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Health is politics: How much of our money goes directly into the health care system?Know the Difference between Cold and H1N1 Flu Symptoms Fever Fever is rare with a cold. Fever is usually present with the flu in up to 80% of all flu cases. A tempera...

topics: health-care, politics

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Editorial: Celebs provide Olympic spark. Celebs, is there anything they can't do? Considering the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Games are a little more than 100 days away, it's odd -- almost eerie -- that the city hasn't yet caught even the...

topics: 2010-winter-games, economy, health-care, ski, vanoc

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

After two weeks of intense election-no-election drama in Ottawa, it s obviously by now that we will not have a fall election.Ignatieff has shown he s a gambler, and he has strategically changed the ecological environment in Ottawa. Now after years of...

topics: economy, election, employment, federal-government, health-care

aggregated from: TheTyee.ca

How two BC lawsuits could change health care in Canada. ...

topics: health-care, supreme-court

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

jack_bonner.jpg With a history that could surprise the most jaded Beltway insider, Jack Bonner, head of the D.C. public relations firm Bonner & Associates, might just be the king of corporate Astrotu...

topics: business, busted, climate-change, elected, health-care

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

FACES clean coal.jpg The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security (FACES of Coal). the latest grassroots organization to join the public conversation on behalf of the coal industry, appe...

topics: business, climate-change, elected, health-care, mining

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Grist took a deeper look at a list of local organizers” of the Astroturf ‘Energy Citizens rallies and discovered that most of them are actually oil industry lobbyists. Go figure. Since the American Petroleum Institute cooked up the idea...

topics: business, health-care, oil-and-gas

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

I have to start with an apology. Recently I wrote that Langara students don t have U-Pass. Turns out I am behind the times againLangara College and Capilano University were added to the program only in May 2008 and January 2009, respectively.I wish I...

topics: employment, gateway, health-care, liberal, liberals