Pink Shirt Day is Wednesday, February 23!
In 2007, David Shepherd and Travis Price, high school students in Nova Scotia, witnessed the bullying of a new classmate. This bullying happened because the new boy was wearing a pink shirt to school....
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Our People: Viva Swanson champions the “land of opportunity”
Nurse Viva Swanson is Northern Health’s northeast leadership development advisor and has called Fort St. John (“the Energetic City”) her home for the past 27 years. What brought you to Fort S...
New Health Career Access Program students stepping up for residents at Acropolis Manor long-term care home
The Health Career Access Program (HCAP) is an excellent example of an innovative strategy to address recruitment challenges in the long-term care sector. The program gives people the opportunity to...
Physician spotlight: Dr. Faiza Jabbar
Dr. Faiza Jabbar has worked as a psychiatrist at the University Hospital of Northern BC (UHNBC) in Prince George for almost ten years. Before coming to Canada, she worked in Ireland for over ten years...
Finding love during a global pandemic
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Spotlight on Shannon Saxler, mammography technologist in Quesnel
(Shared with permission from BC Cancer) Meet Shannon Saxler, a mammography technologist at G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital in Quesnel When she’s not saving lives, Shannon enjoys being outdoors, i...
