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Your Good Health: Nerve compression may be cause of pain in neck and shoulder

Your Good Health: Nerve compression may be cause of pain in neck and shoulder

Imaging of the neck or shoulder should help with refining a diagnosis
John Ducker: Nothing is worth driving into a wildfire

John Ducker: Nothing is worth driving into a wildfire

If the B.C. Wildfire Service is saying “Don’t go there,” then don’t go there. No vacation, or even that great short cut route, is worth your life or the lives of your passengers.
B.C. First Nations ’shutting down’ access to Joffre Lakes Provincial Park

B.C. First Nations ’shutting down’ access to Joffre Lakes Provincial Park

Líl̓wat Nation and N’Quatqua First Nation are temporarily shutting down public access to Joffre Lakes Provincial Park so they can harvest resources, carry out ceremonial activities and educate the public.
How 13 members of one B.C. fire department lost their homes to wildfire

How 13 members of one B.C. fire department lost their homes to wildfire

A fire chief’s ‘nightmare’ as McDougall Creek wildfire leaves 13 firefighters homeless
TSB report warns that unnoticed locomotive fires pose wildfire risk

TSB report warns that unnoticed locomotive fires pose wildfire risk

The board says there have been at least 21 more on-board fires involving "remote" locomotives in the middle or at the end of a train since the incident in B.C., with 34 occurring in the 10 years before.
The wildland-urban interface: why wildfire fatalities seem so prevalent in the U.S.

The wildland-urban interface: why wildfire fatalities seem so prevalent in the U.S.

In the U.S., wildfires are becoming mass-casualty events — unlike in Canada, where an encroaching fire is still largely a matter of mass evacuations and narrow escapes. 
Ask Lisi: I want to help my sister so I met with her boyfriend. Now I'm falling in love

Ask Lisi: I want to help my sister so I met with her boyfriend. Now I'm falling in love

My sister is stoned all the time. I started talking to her boyfriend about it and we're ready to intervene to help her — but I'm starting to fall in love with him. Now what?
Your Good Health: How to handle a diagnosis of CREST syndrome

Your Good Health: How to handle a diagnosis of CREST syndrome

Formerly called scleroderma, Systemic sclerosis is an autoimmune disease that can affect multiple organs, not just the skin
'Astronomical costs': N.W.T. politicians to discuss next steps in wildfire crisis

'Astronomical costs': N.W.T. politicians to discuss next steps in wildfire crisis

YELLOWKNIFE — Wildfires threatening communities in the Northwest Territories were kept at bay Wednesday as politicians continued grappling with “astronomical” costs of fighting the blazes and how to eventually get people home. The N.W.T.
Trans Mountain pipeline project runs into fresh construction-related hurdle

Trans Mountain pipeline project runs into fresh construction-related hurdle

The Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project has run into another construction-related hurdle that could delay its completion.