Protect Our Province BC and other advocacy groups to sponsor BC’s First Annual Clean Air Festival When: Saturday Sept 2, 2023. Time: 4:30pm – 8:30pm Where: Trout Lake pavilion, John Hendry Park, East Vancouver Cost: Free! Suggested donation $10 Accessibility: Trout Lake is a municipal park with some paved paths across it and fairly even… Continue reading TAKE TWO: BC’s First Annual Clean Air Festival, (An Immunocompromised Accessible Event)!
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Update – Postponed: BC’s First Annual Clean Air Festival!
Protect Our Province BC and other advocacy groups to sponsor BC’s First Annual Clean Air Festival Important update: Today’s #CleanAir Festival will be postponed to September due to — ironically — the unclean air. We’re thinking of all those in BC impacted by the tragic climate-change induced wildfires. For those interested, please join us &… Continue reading Update – Postponed: BC’s First Annual Clean Air Festival!
Write your MLA – Demand Clean Indoor Air for British Columbians
Elected officials in Ontario and New Brunswick have put forth private members’ bills for legislation that would require improved indoor air quality in all workplaces and public spaces.
Protect our Province BC has provided a draft letter that you can customize to send to your MLA demanding that they bring forward or support a similar bill here in BC.
June 28, 2023: (Un)Safe September Again? It Doesn’t Have To Be
A Protect Our Province BC panel discussion about how we as a community, can pull together to create a safer learning environment for kids when school starts again in September! We can avoid another ‘tripledemic’ if we work together! Ready for Fall 2023? Briefing video:
May 31, 2023: COVID and Pregnancy
“COVID-19 vaccination is safe during pregnancy and may protect newborns from infection, especially if vaccines are given in the second or third trimester. This is similar to what we are already doing with other maternal vaccines, including TDaP and seasonal influenza.” – Dr. Eastabrook
Letter of a concerned citizen and healthcare professional to their MLA
This is the first time I have ever written a letter to my MLA. As a constituent who is a healthcare professional, a parent, and a recent cancer survivor, I feel compelled to reach out after the removal of mask mandates in BC hospitals, and I ask you, as my elected representative, to hear and, I hope, understand how serious this issue is, and how urgently change is needed in our provincial government’s pandemic management strategy.
Anonymous letter to Premier Eby from a concerned British Columbian lawyer with Long Covid
Our health officer has previously advocated for kindness. But as someone with a disability (long Covid), I need you to know that resting under this rubric of “personal choice”, many of us who are disabled actually experience this framing of the matter as a personal choice, rather, as your government’s complete and abject disregard of the disabled and elderly, for how else are we to understand why our lives and health don’t matter?
A BC Public Health Scandal: Long Covid, Failure to Warn
B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry, her medical health officers, Minister of Health Adrian Dix, and his health ministry have never warned you about post Covid health impacts beyond an acute infection. They’ve never told you about the chronic debilitating medical condition that can affect every organ in the body, including your heart, lungs, pancreas, kidneys, brain, gut, blood vessels and more. But they’ve all known about these harms for three years.
POP BC opposes BC public health’s withdrawal of pandemic data and of masking in healthcare
POP BC opposes BC public health’s withdrawal of pandemic data and of masking in healthcare Today, in a BC government press conference with Dr. Bonnie Henry and Minister of Health Adrian Dix, Dr. Henry announced the removal of mask mandate in BC healthcare settings, despite a high number of Covid cases continuing to strain BC’s… Continue reading POP BC opposes BC public health’s withdrawal of pandemic data and of masking in healthcare
March 29, 2023: Long Covid – It Could Happen to You
“If we had an epidemic of people with broken limbs and we saw people in plasters and crutches, it would be more evident. But there is a lot of disability that is happening, which is a hidden disability often, which is why we need to talk about it more, for people to understand what the consequences are. And that will help to make better decisions.” – Lynette