In June of 2021, when governments around the world were hoping the worst days of the pandemic were behind us, British Columbia’s chief medical officer Dr. Bonnie Henry came up with an idea to...

When dealing with disasters like wildfires and floods, rural communities are often left to their own devices. Help might eventually come from higher levels of government, but the initial response is in the hands of residents. Not only do they know the area best, they are the first responders.

“Fear is among the biggest barriers to inter-municipal cooperation and collaboration. But it is not the biggest. The number one spot, in my opinion, goes to “ego.”

Volunteer departments tend to have a higher proportion of firefighters over the age of 50, and in some rural areas it is not uncommon to find volunteers in their 60s or 70s. About one-third of small-town firefighters are 50 or older.

Americans rarely give a second thought to Canada but that changed in June of 2023 – for all the wrong reasons. Canada’s record-breaking wildfires – that have forced more than 155,000 people from...

In early 2015, a group of unvaccinated children visiting Disneyland in California triggered an outbreak of measles that spread to about 150 cases across eight states, as well as into Canada and...

It is called the news desert: areas of North America that no longer have a local newspaper. And the desert is growing, swallowing up larger and larger swaths of the continent as newspapers shut...