BC Health Coalition

03/23/2026

Rising heat. Rising risk. Rising urgency.

Climate change is already reshaping life in our province. Over the past decade, we’ve seen record-breaking wildfires, heat domes, droughts, and water shortages alongside increasingly frequent flooding and atmospheric rivers.

The economic and environmental costs are enormous. But what does this mean for our health and our health care system?

Now is the time to come together.

Join Voices for Public Health Care for an important conversation with physicians from the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE). They are on the front lines, seeing firsthand how climate change is affecting health across our province.

Let’s listen. Let’s act. Let’s build a health care system and a future ready for this moment.

Rising Heat, Rising Risk: Climate Change and Health Care in BC
📅 Tuesday, March 31
⏰ 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

ActNow

03/17/2026

Yesterday in Vancouver, something important happened.

In the rain, under red umbrellas, health care workers and advocates stood together and raised their voices.

And it worked.

Our pressure forced the Liberal government to respond.

Participants called on MP Hedy Fry, as Chair of the Standing Committee on Health, to defend and enforce the Canada Health Act as Alberta moves ahead with Bill 11. This legislation would allow doctors to bill patients directly and expand private insurance.

After hearing from speakers, Fry confirmed:
“There is no doubt that Bill 11 contravenes the Canada Health Act.”

She also warned about the risks a two-tier system poses to equity and access.

That matters.

But no clear federal action was outlined.

Instead, Canadians are being told negotiations are happening behind closed doors.

That is not enough.

We need enforcement, not delay or silence.

We cannot stand by while the fate of universal public health care hangs in the balance.

03/04/2026

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Break the Silence.
Stop Alberta’s Two-Tier Health Care Plan.

Alberta’s new legislation opens the door to U.S.-style, for-profit medicine, threatening the universal single-payer system Canadians fought to build. And so far, the federal government seems willing to stay silent rather than confront it.

But political silence only works if the issue stays quiet.

That’s why health coalitions across the country are organizing rallies at MPs’ constituency offices and asking a simple question: Will our MPs break the silence and stand up to U.S.-style two-tier health care?

📍 Vancouver Rally

Office of MP Hedy Fry
🗓 Monday, March 16
⏰ 9:30 AM
Join us and make it clear: Canadians support universal public health care.

03/03/2026

Great webinar on the impact US style! Must Watch

Our expert guests:Andrew Longhurst, senior health policy researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy AlternativesDrs. David U. Himmelstein and Stephanie W...

02/27/2026

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02/27/2026

NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
Break the Silence.
Stop Alberta’s Two-Tier Health Care Plan.

📍 Where:
Constituency Office of MP Hedy Fry
Standing Committee on Health
112–1030 Denman Street

🕤 When:
9:30 A.M.
Monday, March 16

Alberta has passed legislation that creates US style two-tier health care.

That means:
💳 Credit cards and private insurance replacing health cards.
🏥opens the door to the American for-profit health care industry

This directly undermines the core promise of the Canada Health Act: care based on need not the ability to pay.

And while this happens, the federal government has remained silent, despite its responsibility to enforce the Canada Health Act.

Many Canadians don’t yet realize what’s at stake.

That’s why we’re rallying at MPs’ offices across the country.

We are asking our elected representatives:

Will the end of universal public health care be met with government silence?

public health care belongs to all of us.

And it will take all of us to defend it.

02/26/2026

🚨 Join us TODAY — Feb. 26 at 6:30 PM PST

BCHC Webinar: VOICES FOR PUBLIC HEALTH CARE
Austerity on the Front Lines: Health Care Workers and Rural Patients at Risk

The Finance Minister called it “not an austerity budget.”

But for rural and remote communities, there is no relief in sight.

In health care, a marginal budget increase over multiple years effectively means a cut in services. Fewer supports. Longer waits. Greater strain on workers and patients alike.

Join us for The Provincial Budget: Rural Care at Risk, a timely conversation on what the BC Budget will mean to rural residents.

Rural communities deserve better.
Health care workers deserve better.
Patients deserve better.

02/15/2026

BC joins the Lobby on the Hill

Three days.
Two hundred advocates.
Every province and territory represented.

100 meetings with Senators and MPs.
Press coverage across the country.
Strategy sessions.
Rallying together for Public Health Care

One powerful reminder: we are not alone.

10/04/2024

The BC Health Coalition just launched a platform for public health care, including six priority solutions that will deliver real impact on the health of all BC residents.

Join the campaign calling on candidates and parties to commit to six solutions to heal and improve public health care in BC. Pledge to vote for public health care!

https://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/vote

09/26/2024

We've launched a provincial election campaign in support of public health care! Are you ready to join in?

Between now and October 9, you can pitch in by reaching out to your local candidates and asking them where they stand on six solutions to heal public health care.

This Action Toolkit will help you connect to other people in your area, reach out to your candidates, and report back with what you’re learning about candidates who are willing to stand for public health care.

https://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/elections2024_action_toolkit

09/26/2024

It’s World Contraceptive Day of Action, but we need you to take action on October 19th.

Take the vote pledge on our website and vote to protect and expand pharmacare. https://www.bchealthcoalition.ca/vote