Ontario has locked down for a month! Quebec has moved schools to online learning. Nova Scotia has closed its borders. What is BC doing?...

We seem to be living in an alternate reality in BC. Our situation is the worst in Canada on a per capita basis. Look at our statistics....

I should have come away from Monday’s briefing feeling elated. After all, we finally had a partial mask mandate in schools, something we...

There is finally a mask mandate in Surrey Public Schools for students in grades 4 to 12. With our rapidly rising numbers and the variants...

Our province is not in a good way! The weekend statistics make us number one in Canada for the per capita infection rate! The reported...

Friday was a terrible day in B.C. Even with our exceptionally low testing rates, we recorded 634 new cases, we reached six deaths in the...

The pandemic has been revealing in BC. It clearly showed that our long-term care practices needed reform. Everything from how many...

The mask issue demonstrates that School Boards seem to be missing in action during this pandemic. I wrote this piece seven years ago in...

This weekend we learned that the variant has arrived in our schools. In fact, it has been here for three weeks and is rampant in Surrey...

On Thursday we registered sixty exposure letters and several multiple exposures in schools. Hollyburn Elementary School, from my old...

I sit in disbelief at the news conference just held to announce ‘enhanced’ safety measures in schools. Rather than increasing the mask...

The following report is out tonight: “Garibaldi Secondary in Maple Ridge SD#42 exposure from Jan 18th and 19th has confirmed that the...

I have resisted writing since school started in January thinking, perhaps just hoping, we might see the Government and the PHO make some...

On New Year’s eve, the PHO issued an order that stopped all alcohol sales at eight o’clock that evening. The order was in effect for that...

As schools break for Christmas let us consider what we have learned about how we are dealing with the pandemic in BC. First, we are in...

When it comes to the pandemic, British Columbia is in a mess. Yesterday we had 566 new cases and we had 16 more deaths. We only tested...

In yesterday’s briefing Marcella Bernardo asked a excellent question of the PHO. She indicated many parents and educators were asking the...

I received this tonight. It makes me angry, sad and frustrated. It also supports everything I wrote in my open letter to the Minister. ...

Dear Minister Congratulations on your appointment to the B.C. cabinet. You have assumed a challenging role in what I consider to be the...

Let’s talk about schools which our PHO says are safe for children. She bases this statement on the following: 1) There are layers of...