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RCMP officers should be high priority for COVID vaccine, union tells officials
The union representing front-line RCMP officers is asking federal and provincial officials to consider Mounties for priority access to COVID-19 vaccination.
Indigenous patients in B.C. feel unsafe using health-care system: new report
The author of a damning report that found widespread racism in British Columbia's health system has released the results of surveys and data collection, revealing a massive gulf between the experiences of Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients.
Every vaccine maker was asked to produce doses in Canada and all said no: Anand
Every COVID-19 vaccine maker Canada signed a contract with last summer was asked if they could make the doses in Canada and all of them concluded they could not, Procurement Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday, February 4, 2021.
B.C.'s COVID restrictions may stay in place longer, province's top doctor says
Restrictions on social gatherings and events to contain the spread of COVID-19 are supposed to lift in British Columbia today, February 5, 2021, but the provincial health officer has indicated that may not happen.
NDP makes pre-emptive election strike with pledge to end for-profit, long-term care
The NDP is calling for the elimination of for-profit long-term care by 2030 in a multibillion-dollar plan presented as a potential election promise.
Conservatives work to lay Michigan’s Line 5 pipeline dispute at Trudeau’s feet
Federal Green Party Leader Annamie Paul says rhetoric portrays “false choice” between jobs and environment.
Plant-based diets critical to wildlife preservation: report
More than 80 per cent of global farmland, which chews up natural habitat, is used to raise animals for meat.
Aaren Topley on the power of school farms and urban agriculture
He has worked in food system development for eight years and is now the provincial manager of Can You Dig It at the Public Health Association of BC.
Why this Canadian company wants your used chopsticks
Last February, Felix Böck picked up a shipping container sent express from Disneyland and stuffed with a precious load: Single-use chopsticks the company couldn’t use because of a package design error.
Online magazine bringing African culture to young audience
Calling themselves TRAD, they’ve launched an online magazine that weaves together videos, art, poetry and live virtual gatherings to examine big questions through the lenses of philosophy and the arts.
Legislation forcing Facebook, Google to pay for news content to come this year
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is promising legislation this year to ensure tech giants like Google and Facebook pay for the news content they disseminate on their platforms.
Feds urge Canadians to stay vigilant as active COVID cases drop by 30%
Canada has seen nearly a 30 per cent drop in active COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks, but chief public health officer says strict measures should remain in place as more contagious variants of the virus threaten to derail this downward trend.
Court refuses CSIS request to collect foreign intelligence
A court has put the brakes on a Canadian Security Intelligence Service request to collect foreign information, ruling a proposed technique would stray beyond the spy service's legal mandate.