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Quest University’s biggest lender drops lawsuit against school

The Squamish post-secondary school remains under financial protection until May 29

Quest University’s biggest lender has dropped a lawsuit that it filed against the school. Vancouver Foundation filed a notice of discontinuance for its civil action on March 27.…

Your letters: Fear should not influence covid-19 policy

I have been hesitant to submit this letter to Pique, given my profession. For the record, I have a loved one who will likely die of COVID-19.…

Feds quietly probe expanded role for childcare in post-pandemic recovery

“The need for childcare has never been made clearer”: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

The federal government has been quietly probing how to provide provinces with more money annually for childcare, as part of what sources describe as an issue that is at, or near, the top of the Liberal agenda to restart the economy. Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen has spent the past two weeks making phone calls to experts in the field, asking about how federal spending on childcare can be better targeted.…

Your letters: Consider the unintended consequences of fighting COVID-19

As a local family physician, I feel compelled to write in support of the concerns expressed by my colleague Dr. Denton Hirsh in last week’s Pique (“Fear should not influence COVID-19 policy,” May 7). After centuries of rule by emperors, popes, sultans, kings, economists, multinational corporations and elected officials, we now have doctors controlling world politics.…

WorkSafeBC announces safety guidelines for business reopening this week

Workers should be consulted about re-opening plans

WorkSafeBC has announced industry-specific resources and guidelines for businesses re-opening during phase two of B.C.’s Restart Plan. Al Johnson, head of prevention services at WorkSafeBC, said employers are required to have a COVID-19 Safety Plan that will “assess the risk of exposures” at their workplace along with safety measures for employees.…

Air Canada to lay off 20,000 workers amid travel industry collapse

Air Canada believes recovery will be slow, with at least three years of subpar earnings.

Air Canada will lay off more than half of its 38,000 employees next month as it grapples with the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. The layoffs, which will take place June 7, will affect a minimum of 19,000 staff and could go as high as 22,800.…

Cats can be infected with virus that causes COVID-19: Study

There is no evidence that cats transmit the virus to humans

A new study has found that cats can become infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and may be able to pass it to other cats. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, on Wednesday, May 13, the study found that felines can become infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.…

Province wants more B.C. seniors to take its COVID-19 survey

Taking the survey will help the province in its response to the pandemic

The B.C. government wants more seniors and older adults to take its new online survey, which aims to gather information on how the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted people’s lives. “I want to thank everybody again who has completed the survey-the provincewide Your Story, Our Future survey-and just to make a note: we would like to hear from more seniors, as well as those who live outside our major urban centres,” said Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, during a press conference May 16.…

Canada joins call to review WHO COVID-19 timeline of actions

World Health Assembly resolution also calls for future methods to reduce further risks of emergence and transmission of zoonotic diseases

Canada is part of a coalition of 62 countries calling for an “independent and comprehensive evaluation” of the World Health Organization’s timeline of actions pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic. The May 18 World Health Assembly draft resolution is not an explicit exploration of China’s early response in the pandemic, although the investigation could provide insight as to what Chinese officials told the WHO and what the United Nations body knew in the early days, during the first reported outbreak in Wuhan, China in late December, 2019.…

The Whistler by The White Buffalo

music.apple.com – Editors’ Notes Moving on from 19th-century folk tales to 21st-century narratives, The White Buffalo (Jake Smith) achieves a new immediacy on his third album, Shadows, Greys & Evil Ways. It seems fitt…

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Tubing in Whistler

mommytravels.net – Whistler has a solid tubing park near the base of Blackcomb and you can drive all the way up to it without having to take a lift. I will not give your directions, because I feel confident they would …

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B.C. premier condemns rise of anti-Asian racism in wake of COVID-19 pandemic

There have been a number of anti-Asian racist incidents across the Lower Mainland in recent months, including in Whistler

As British Columbians grapple with COVID-19, many are also facing the threat of another type of virus-racism-according to B.C. Premier John Horgan. “We are hearing disturbing stories of a rise in anti-Asian racist behaviour since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Horgan in a statement released Sunday, May 17 condemning that behaviour.…

Snowbird member dies in crash in Kamloops

Royal Canadian Air Force plane nosedives into residential neighbourhood

One person has died and another is badly injured after a Canadian Force’s Snowbird plane crashed in a residential area of Kamloops, B.C., while on a cross-country tour meant to impart hope during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It is with heavy hearts that we announce that one member of the CF Snowbirds team has died and one has sustained serious injuries.…

N’Quatqua hand out free trout to band members

With surplus of fish at hatchery, band wanted to support community through pandemic

As a proud N’Quatqua member, Sylvia Patrick was well aware of the work that’s been done at the band’s sustainable rainbow trout farm. Her brother manages the facility, and she has a clipping of a Pique article about the initiative hanging on her wall.…