At the convergence of the opioid crisis, mental health crisis, housing crisis and a rapidly aging population are vulnerable seniors like Melanie Keays of Surrey, B.C., who are bounced between emergency rooms and homeless shelters — sometimes twice in one day. And while hospitals say the patients they discharge are ‘medically stable,’ shelters say they’re too sick for staff to care for.

The Southsiders swooped in “like your big brother” showing up at the playground, says the former player who started the backlash against the team’s management.

Once drawn into a database like the FBI’s TUSCAN list, it can be exceedingly difficult — if not impossible — to get answers or get out, security experts say.

Star Vancouver speaks with one woman who faced her abuser in court multiple times and still fears for her life. She hopes no one else has to go through what she did.

In February, a federal court judge struck down the government’s no-testing policy on PRV, a highly contagious virus that environmentalists fear is killing wild salmon. The court gave Fisheries and Oceans Canada until June to come up with a new approach.

Despite a huge need for child care, centres are shutting down or operating under capacity because they can’t recruit and retain workers. The fix, according to an association for childhood educators, is to raise hourly wages to at least $25.