Health Minister Terry Lake says he wants British Columbia's seniors to have more flexibility to live independently before their only option is full-time residential care.
A Mountie who responded the night Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver's airport has filed a lawsuit alleging RCMP negligence and harassment in the handling of his case.
Of 33 suicides MacDonald has investigated in the last three years, 17 were indigenous girls.
That's the strain that claimed several hundred lives during the 2009 pandemic.
A doctor affiliated with a Catholic hospital in a small British Columbia community says the facility's likely ban on assisted-dying is a violation of terminally ill patients' charter rights.
James Clifford Paul, who is 22, was charged after a six-year-old girl was found lying naked in the snow on the Paul reserve west of Edmonton on Dec. 20, 2014.