The recent article on wait-lists identifies the dire situation facing families awaiting a bed for their loved ones. Caregivers endure fatigue, frustration and uncertainty daily.
Caregivers Under Pressure
The Vancouver Sun published an article about my husband's diagnosis of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) in November 2025. Brian is now confined to a wheelchair and unable to manage his own care. I care for him daily with the help of family and private home support three mornings a week.
The article serves also to identify the need for increased caregiver support through improved access and continuity of community-based services and respite care. Sadly, the limited number of respite beds and the costs and accessibility of community-based services do little to alleviate the burnout of many caregivers.
Costly Solutions
The cost of a privately funded long-term care bed is $10,000 a month. The recent provincial budget gave no indication of improvement in the timeliness and quality of long-term-care-bed access nor more support for caregivers. These decisions are short-sighted and fail to take into account the consequences of inaction. How can we make this better?
Beverley Miller, Port Coquitlam
Major League Baseball Should Look at Vancouver
I read that the City of Vancouver is exploring the process of bidding for one of the two future Major League Baseball expansion teams. If Vancouver identifies an ownership group capable of getting 75 per cent of the vote required for expansion (no easy task), and continues to prove that they're serious about funding a new stadium plus the hefty league expansion fee, I don't see any reason why they won't be on the shortlist.
First, nearly half of all Canadian households tuned into some part of Game 7 of the 2025 World Series, showing that MLB can and should thrive with a second team in Canada again. Second, Vancouver would add a regional neighbour for the Seattle Mariners, helping to reduce the number of long travel games for both teams. (Out of the West, Salt Lake City and Portland will likely submit bids as well.)
I remember as a young fan when baseball added the Toronto Blue Jays and the Mariners. Expansion was as exciting then as it is now, no matter how far away I live from those cities.
Adam Silbert, New York
Facts of New Brunswick and B.C. Cases Are Quite Different
If I were B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma I wouldn't get too excited about the Supreme Court of Canada declining to hear the appeal of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal decision in the J.D. Irving Limited vs. Wolastoqey Nation case.
