PAUL IN MEDIA

Out of thousands of applicants across North America, only 120 were selected for the first-ever Defender Trophy competition earlier this year — and two of them came from Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue.

Three prominent Sunshine Coast community leaders in widely varied disciplines were honoured with the King Charles III Coronation Medal at a ceremony on the North Shore in September.

Youth from Navy League, Air, and Army Cadet programs prepare to honour veterans through ceremony, service and tradition

Two Sunshine Coast physicians, Dr. Ted Krickan and Dr. Paul Dhillon, have returned home following Team Canada’s historic performance at the 2025 World Medical Football Championships in Dublin, Ireland.

This year’s event will be especially meaningful for the Sunshine Coast, as two local physicians — Dr. Krickan and Dr. Paul Dhillon, founder of Team Canada Medical Football — will travel together to represent the country.

Dr. Paul Dhillon now calls Sechelt home, but before settling there, he grew up in Tsawwassen, BC, where he developed a love of learning and of travel.

Teddy bears on the Coast are feeling much better after their visit to the Teddy Bear Hospital at the Botanical Garden on March 30. Hosted by Dr. Paul Dhillon

Sunday, March 30, the Teddy Bear Hospital, a delightful, interactive event designed to familiarize children with the medical world in a friendly, engaging way, returns.

"A unique event to be a part of and I think my team had an exceptional time and I know there's a number of them that are hoping to volunteer in Birmingham in 2027,": chief medical officer, 2025 Invictus Games Dr. Paul Dhillon.

Sechelt-based family doctor Paul Dhillon appointed to the top position with the medical team with the seventh Invictus Games, to be held in Vancouver and Whistler Feb. 8 to 16, 2025.

Doctors Ted Krickan and Paul Dhillon were part of the Canadian Medical Football Team competing in Australia.

Organized by local couple Sarah Dhillon – a lactation consultant – and Dr. Paul Dhillon, the event successfully raised more than $1,000 for the Halfmoon Bay Childcare Society.

This unique event is hosted by Dr. Paul Dhillon, a Sechelt physician, and his wife Sarah Dhillon, a lactation consultant.

Two doctors from the Sunshine Coast of B.C. and one from Lions Gate Hospital will be heading down under to World Medical Soccer Championships on the Sunshine Coast of Australia

The College of Family Physicians of Canada is halting its plan to increase the time it takes to train a family doctor from two years to three, bowing to pressure from medical students, family doctors and provincial health ministers.

Over nine in 10 Canadian family doctors rejected their regulator's proposal to extend residency from two years to three years, amid a nationwide doctor shortage.

'It's a very real reminder of the sacrifices people made, who would have been your neighbours, who would have been your friends, your family members, or your sons and daughters,': Maj. Paul Dhillon

Dr. Paul Dhillon speaks to his motions, one of which called on the College of Family Physicians of Canada to 'immediately cease the implementation of the third year in family practice program.' The motion passed overwhelmingly.

Paul Dhillon, the physician who proposed the motion, told The Globe and Mail that 2,500 doctors – just over 91 per cent of the 2,775 who cast electronic ballots – voted in favour of suspending the three-year residency plan.

ut as word of it spread, opposition began to grow, prompting Paul Dhillon, a British Columbia doctor, to put a motion calling for the plan to be paused on the agenda of the college’s annual meeting of members.
“The palpable anger and the fact that people are so upset about this speaks volumes,” said Dr. Dhillon, who practises in Sechelt

That argument doesn't fly with Dr. Paul Dhillon, who has a family medicine practice in Sechelt, BC "I think about my personal experience," he said. "At the end of the day, I've never had someone say, 'My doctor hasn't had enough education or haven't hasn't spent enough time in school before they can start treating me.'"

Dr. Paul Dhillon, who works in Sechelt, is managing Canada’s team at this July’s World Medical Football Championship

Sechelt’s Dr. Paul Dhillon collaborated on 'Mommy is Becoming a Doctor' with Vancouver's Dr. Simon Moore in the family-focused study guide storybook.

Physicians from many disciplines come together for annual international tournament

Joining Pospisil’s fundraising and coordination efforts is Dr. Paul Dhillon of Sechelt. The two men have mutual friends going back 20 years, but it wasn’t until they both moved to the Sunshine Coast that they met. Dhillon and his wife were looking for ways to donate and help Ukrainians and it was “fortuitous”, Dhillon said, when he began hearing of Leach and Pospisil’s separate efforts and was able to connect the two.

Baby Ruairí Singh Dhillon entered the world at Sechelt Hospital at 10:06 a.m. Jan. 4, making him the first baby of 2021 born on the Sunshine Coast.

There will not be a Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph in downtown Sechelt this year, but the monument is still being used to mark the occasion.

“We were proud to participate with the Sunshine Coast Rotary Club in providing soccer jerseys for these underprivileged youth in Mexico,” Romer said. Local physician Dr. Paul Dhillon will be attending the tournament in early July as a member of the team and will be delivering the jerseys and shoes to the school in person.

Mike Gojevic and Dr. Paul Dhillon were pleased with the results of the recent Coastal Clinic Challenge in support of organ donations.

Dr. Chinmay Dalal and Dr. Paul Dhillon attended the school at the start of the month to distribute activity books and encouraged the children to participate in physical activity and healthy eating during the month.

Paul Dhillon suiting up for Canada at World Medical Football Championship in Prague

Many children dream of being a doctor or astronaut, playing sports, or saving the world. At age 36, Paul Dhillon has done nearly all of it. Now a captain in the Canadian Army Reserve and a rural family physician, Dhillon started his exhaustive list of accomplishments at a young age with a focus on helping others – including an early entry into the world of Rotary.

Dr. Paul Dhillon scheduled to receive Young Leaders Award

I always knew I was going to be a generalist but I had no idea when I started on that hamster wheel of undergrad, medical school, and finally residency of where it would take me. To quote a more famous Dr. “Oh, the Places You Go!”

Both sad and lighthearted stories share the experience of what 
it’s really like to be a doctor practising somewhere in rural Canada


Dhillon contacted physicians with rural practices, past or present, and asked them to submit recollections. Forty doctors from across Canada answered the call. The resulting book, The Surprising Lives of Small-Town Doctors, was published in time for this year’s gathering of the Society of Rural Physicians of Canada.

South Delta Secondary grad Paul Dhillon, now a GP in remote Saskatchewan, edits book

As editor, Dr. Dhillon introduces each doctor with a short paragraph. Before relocating to rural or remote areas in Canada, many of these professionals gained experience internationally, such as through Doctors Without Borders.

Rural physicians across Canada share stories of fear, laughter and friendship in a new book

Dr. Paul Dhillon and registered nurse Raylene Elsasser examine Adam Meier in a procedure room of the Leader Hospital