There is one route to a family doctor in British Columbia, and it is the Health Connect Registry. You register, an attachment coordinator contacts you when a provider in your area has capacity, and you cannot search for a doctor yourself through it.

What nobody will tell you is how …

Two houses on the same rural road can have completely different internet, and the coverage map will show both as served. That is not a flaw in how you are reading the map. It is how the map is built.

The federal government aggregates coverage to road segments of roughly …

There is no central childcare waitlist in British Columbia. Every waitlist is held by the individual centre, and a family joins each one separately, which means the work of finding care is a series of phone calls rather than a single application.

That one structural fact decides everything else about …