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  • How Saanich Peninsula's Shoreline Medical Society has been fighting the doctor shortage

    Emily Fagan

    February 11, 2022 |

    Capital Daily |

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    Response Location: Canada, Saanich Peninsula, British Columbia

    Shoreline Medical is a non-profit primary care network on the Saanich Peninsula that has expanded residents’ access to primary care doctors. The group has successfully attracted family care doctors despite a severe shortage through combining community and hospital-based care. Doctors spend five weeks working in family medicine and one week assisting with low-severity cases in the emergency room. The physician staffing growth has allowed Shoreline to increase their patient case load to over 17,000 residents, 11,000 of whom previously lacked a primary care doctor.

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  • Cracking the housing puzzle: What Victoria could learn from other cities

    Emily Fagan

    December 15, 2021 |

    Capital Daily |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Increasing public housing units has helped alleviate the strain on housing supply in Berlin and Vienna where corporate-owned developments were bought out by the government. Housing advocates in Canada are calling for similar measures, in additional rent control and community land trusts.

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  • Areas hard hit by B.C. drought now the target of bottled water corporations

    Emily Fagan

    November 21, 2021 |

    The Narwhal |

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    Response Location: Canada, Merville, British Columbia

    The Merville Water Guardians, the Canadian Freshwater Alliance, and K’ómoks First Nation successfully prevented rezoning that would allow water to be drawn from shared aquifers, bottled, and sold for private profits. Protests at District board meetings, letter writing campaigns, petitions, and door-to-door campaigning led the District board to vote against the rezoning and sign an historic agreement to collaboratively manage and conserve water with the K’ómoks First Nation.

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