Daphne Bramham
The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Daphne Bramham: Healthy communities require more than medical care
Opinion: Instead of increased medical spending, reallocating money from it to housing, poverty and education might make us all healthier → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Provinces, not Ottawa, responsible for fixing health care
Canada spends more on health than most wealthy nations. Premiers need to quit whining and start making better use of what they already have. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: To attract nurses, Canada must do better
A Nigerian's traumatic and expensive road to licensure is a cautionary tale for internationally trained nurses wanting to come to Canada. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Canada's response to nursing shortage lacks urgency and co-ordination
Daphne Bramham: It’s hard to assess how well Canada is faring in the cutthroat, global competition to attract nurses, who are essential to sustaining a health-care system that was already threadbare and battered before COVID-19. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: 'Freedom fighter' John Carpay advocates justice, then tries to subvert it
Opinion: Spying on and intimidating a judge isn't freedom fighting, it's criminal and it may cost a career and crash a so-called justice centre → Read More
Daphne Bramham: B.C.'s children finally protected from (most) hazardous work
B.C.'s archaic child labour regulations will finally, almost, match the rest of the developed world with changes banning hazardous work. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Health administrators well-paid, now they need to prove their worth
Opinion: With the system in crisis, the question isn't the quantity of high-paid administrators, but the quality of their decisions. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Students go hungry while school food money is squandered
Opinion: By failing to target the poorest, a $60-million BC grant is little more than virtue-signalling when needs have never been greater. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Cookbook provides a glimpse into the lives of our foremothers
Seven decades later, the recipes and ads in a fundraising cookbook provide a nostalgic glimpse into the lives of our foremothers. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: No should mean no especially when it comes to the Olympics
The Canadian Olympic Committee and the IOC keep on pushing to get the B.C. government to say yes to the 2030 Games. Enough already. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Decades of work remain long after the shaking ends
Daphne Bramham: Christchurch, N.Z., provides stark reminders both about B.C.'s lack of quake readiness and our willingness to prepare for it → Read More
Daphne Bramham: A Canadian boycott would send a signal that FIFA must change
Bramham: If Canadian officials boycott the World Cup in Qatar, it would be a well-placed rebuke by a future host to FIFA and its executives → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Improving the lives of severely disabled people should be a good-news story, but isn't
Opinion: Instead, delays have undermined trust in the process. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Former B.C. soccer coach sentenced to jail, but what about his enablers?
Soccer coach Bob Birarda will be jailed for abusing teen girls. But the Canadian Soccer Association needs to do more to keep kids safe. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: First Nations' disappointment over Olympics decision understandable
If reconciliation is set back by B.C.’s refusal to fund an Indigenous-led 2030 Winter Games, blame the Canadian Olympic Committee. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Vancouver hospital residents forced to wait as contract fight played out
Opinion: Using people with disabilities as pawns, a Vancouver developer callously forced both the city and the health region to give it what it wanted. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Historic Vancouver election changes big-city politics
Ken Sim will be the first Chinese-Canadian mayor in a city with a radically altered political landscape after lower than ever turnout. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Historic Vancouver election changes big-city politics
Ken Sim will be the first Chinese-Canadian mayor in a city with a radically altered political landscape after lower than ever turnout. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Vancouver's disconnect between densification and school planning
Opinion: School board candidates need to bridge stunning disconnect between forecast for continued declining enrolment and the city's growth plans. → Read More
Daphne Bramham: Ridiculously long ballots lead to voter paralysis in B.C.'s two largest cities
B.C.'s two largest cities are the only ones in Canada without a ward system. It means ridiculously long ballots and voter paralysis. → Read More