COVID19

The provincial government announced last month that it will provide up to $14.25 million in funding for B.C.’s manufacturing sector, including food and beverage processing.

Dr. Samantha Hill said if people fear the vaccines they won't get them, and whether vaccines are delayed by supply issues or patients hesitant to take them, the result will be tragic.

The year 2020 witnessed the intersection of the global pandemic, anti-Black racism and the climate crisis. How do we overcome the crisis? The Jewish faith tradition has some hopeful teachings that can help with the answers.

Canada has approved two vaccines and is currently scheduled to receive four million doses from Pfizer-BioNTech and another two million from Moderna before the end of March. That is the same delivery plan that has existed since November.

The pair couldn't earn enough to afford Ottawa's rental market, and unknowingly brought the virus from long-term care into the shelter, Dr. Jeff Turnbull told the commission on Dec. 16.

Brazil is second in the world for total highest COVID-19 cases and death rate, following the U.S. But it is Brazil’s Indigenous communities who have been hit especially hard, highlighting the ongoing political, social and geopolitical conflict.

“Our stories are true,” Tyson Atleo's great-grandmother used to tell his father growing up. Tyson Atleo's father taught his son the same words. Throughout his life, Atleo came to understand what those words, "our stories are true" meant.

Systemic racism, unfettered capitalism and environmental destruction have reached a boiling point in 2020. 

“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.

Just a few generations ago, Tlaook, a Nuu-Chah-Nulth ancestor of the Tla-o-qui-aht nation led families to a safe place of refuge in their territory to wait out fatal diseases European settlers brought to the coast of B.C. When the people returned, many had died, but the story of the importance of preserving the land during times of pandemics lived on and continues to shape the nation's work.

The Emergencies Act, Canada's "measure of last resort," is getting more attention as Members of Parliament prepare a legislative package for Tuesday to battle COVID-19.

“As the virus continues to spread, we’ve decided to take increasingly aggressive steps to keep you and your family safe,” Trudeau said Monday outside his residence in Ottawa.

Canada's prime minister is self-isolating while his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau awaits test results for the COVID-19 virus after she showed "mild flu-like symptoms."