The strain on the health-care system in northern B.C. is extreme, with new numbers showing demand for nurses especially is far beyond supply. The crunch is leaving patients without access to basic services and waiting years for surgeries.

Researchers develop new way to match young cancer patients with the right drugs
Erik Rolfsen Apr 1, 2025 UBC Researchers at UBC’s faculty of medicine are using chicken eggs to study how childhood cancers respond to different treatments.