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[max.bravo]

Our economy is a real estate bubble.

[Tony]

Nurse Salary info.

 

https://affordablesc...ada-vs-the-usa/

 

https://nurse.org/ar...ies-for-nurses/

[Victoria Watcher]

Health Minister Adrian Dix insists there are no plans to have overdose-prevention sites at all B.C. hospitals, but how a provincial task force will standardize rules around patient drug use in hospitals remains unclear.

 

“Smoking anything, least of all serious illicit drugs, is not allowed in hospital, and drug use is not allowed,” said Dix in an interview on Thursday, adding the task force is focused on standardizing the rules and their application.

 

There were 10,200 people in hospital on Thursday, some of whom are living with addictions, but there are other patients and staff who must be protected from second-hand smoke and any other drug-related harms, he said.

 

“So what we need are clear rules and we need plans to enforce them and that’s what the task force is looking at,” said Dix.

 

A statement from Dix last week said the task force would “ensure the use of drugs is specific to designated spaces within or around the facility,” but Premier David Eby said this week there will be “no province-wide mandate that every single hospital has to have an overdose-prevention site or a consumption area,” because not all hospitals are dealing with the issue.

 

Although patients can’t smoke tobacco, crystal meth or fentanyl in hospital, said Eby, that rule is not being followed “in some hospitals in some places.”

 

The task force, he said, will identify where and why this is happening, “and how do we address it.”

 

There are official and unofficial overdose-prevention sites or smoking areas at and near some hospitals in the province, including one embedded in St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.

 

A leaked memo from the Northern Health authority instructing hospital staff not to confiscate patients’ personal drugs led to nurses in other parts of the province, including the Island, complaining of inhaling illicit drug smoke from patients, drug deals in hospitals and drug paraphernalia in rooms.

 

Nurses say the problems have ramped up since January 2023, when the province introduced a three-year pilot allowing people to possess up to 2.5 grams of illicit drugs for personal consumption.

 

Dix said he wants to see health authorities all following the same set of rules when it comes to illicit drugs.

 

“I want clarity, so that the rules apply for Fort St. John and in Quesnel and in Victoria, in Richmond, in Delta.”

 

Injection was the most common mode of drug consumption prior to 2017, but now it’s increasingly inhalation, with 75 per cent of drug users imbibing that way, according to a recent B.C. Coroners Service report.

 

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...ix-says-8626948

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 April 2024 - 04:45 AM.

[JimV]

I don’t think Dix’s mumbled evasions and BS are going to cut it.  Everyone knows he’s just trying to flip the hot potato to the task force.  All he has to do is order the hospitals to follow the rules.  If the crackpot harm reduction nurses group wants to make a big issue of it then invoke the notwithstanding clause.  The public would be 90% on side.  (Alternately, just drop this idiotic decriminalization experiment and return to criminal justice enforcement.)

 

The government will probably have to beef up security.  The announcement that 350 would be hired amounts to about 2 per hospital, though they won’t be deployed that evenly if and when they ever appear.  They will need serious training and possibly a peace officer designation.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://twitter.com/...125859140055419

 

[Nparker]

When politicians start to believe their own propaganda. 

[Mike K.]

Oh god. Here I thought it was just a potential possibility.

[Victoria Watcher]

The quality of these politicians is really lacking.

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia...i/Rechie_Valdez

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 April 2024 - 09:48 AM.

[Nparker]

As a baker she might make a better finance minister than Freeland, since I am sure she'd know how to cook the books.

[aastra]

Pay no attention to the sheer number of actors, comedians, pro athletes, and performers of all kinds who transition far too easily into political careers all over the world.

[Matt R.]

Is that even a bakery or some business run out of her basement? “On demand” bakery screams Facebook marketplace cakes to me.

Good luck, Canada!

[Matt R.]

Pay no attention to the sheer number of actors, comedians, pro athletes, and performers of all kinds who transition far too easily into political careers all over the world.

And lawyers. Can’t forget the lawyers.

[max.bravo]

I'm ok with lawyer/politicians. Knowing how our laws work is an essential part of government leadership. Abraham Lincoln was a good crossover. 

[aastra]

Lawyer was traditionally the dominant profession among politicians, although I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that wasn't necessarily because they wanted to provide good government leadership. It's because they wanted to be sure they could never face any legal consequences for their good government leadership.

[spanky123]

I'm ok with lawyer/politicians. Knowing how our laws work is an essential part of government leadership. Abraham Lincoln was a good crossover. 

 

As the saying goes, you still the guy who graduated at the bottom of his med school class "doctor".

 

Strikes me that although there are many lawyers in politics, there are not too many that had successful careers in the profession.