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Canadian Press NewsAlert: Canada spending $192M to prepare for COVID-19 vaccine: Trudeau

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is spending $192 million on developing and producing vaccines for the novel coronavirus. He says being prepared to mass-produce a vaccine, no matter who creates it, will be essential for suppressing COVID-19 in Canada in the long run.…

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Benjamin’s Legal Fund organized by Bernadette DArcy

gofundme.com – Benjamin Akhile received a deportation order on the 16th March 2020. He has been residing in Ireland for 14 years. Seven of those years he has been in a relationship with Bernie D’Arcy. During his ti…

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Golf Operations Supervisor – Guest Services in Whistler, BC

careerarc.com – Golf Operations Supervisor – Guest Services As a Golf Operations Supervisor with The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, you will be an ambassador for our on-site championship golf course and our golf course …

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Canada refuses to go to Tokyo Games in 2020

Olympic and Paralympic sport committees asks for one-year postponement

Canada won’t have a team at the Tokyo Olympics unless the Games are postponed by a year-a bold move that would at least give Canadian athletes some sense of direction in the coming months. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) and Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) issued joint statements Sunday evening saying that they refuse to send their teams to Tokyo unless their respective Games are pushed back a year.…

RMOW announces closure of playgrounds, basketball courts, skate park and other gathering areas

Village of Pemberton follows suit; asks visitors to postpone their trip to the area

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) has announced the closure of all local playgrounds, basketball courts, the skate park and other public gathering areas, effective immediately. The closures include Rainbow Park, Bayly Park, Alta Lake Park, the Lost Lake beach area, Train Wreck trail, and all other gathering areas like beaches, lawns, picnic areas and tennis and basketball courts in other parks, such as Alpha Lake and Lakeside parks.…

B.C. parents push for electric school buses

Diesel buses bad for kids’ health, parents say

A group of B.C. parents is lobbying the provincial government for a rapid shift to electric school buses. “It just seems to me like we’re being totally outpaced by other parts of North America—like California and New York state and Virginia [in terms of] buying electric school buses—and sometimes buying them from Canadian inventors,” said Whistlerite Paul Shore, who is helping lead the efforts as part of the advocacy group For Our Kids.…

A weekend retreat at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health

In the last couple of years, I’ve started to question self-improvement. I’m a middle-aged person.…

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Going with the flow on the cutting edge of neuroscience at X Camp

They hunch in swimsuits on cramped wooden benches, surrounded by firewood and snow-caked boots. Some steam, having just stepped from the sauna, sweat dripping from their noses.…

Victoria encouraging restaurants to use laid-off servers for liquor delivery

Restaurants temporarily allowed to deliver liquor products with purchase of meal

As a way to reinforce social-distancing guidelines and support the restaurant industry, the B.C. Government is temporarily allowing restaurants to deliver liquor products—and is encouraging businesses to use unemployed servers to do so. “In these extraordinary times, more British Columbians are relying on delivery services during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said B.C. Attorney General David Eby in a release.…

BC Parks closes all Stawamus Chief trails due to COVID-19 concerns

Closures are in effect immediately

Those seeking fresh air during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic will no longer be able to do so atop the Stawamus Chief. On Sunday, BC Parks announced it has closed all trails accessing the provincial park, including Stawamus Chief Peaks Trail, as well as the two main parking lots at Stawamus Chief Provincial Park, effective immediately.…

House of Commons to sit Tuesday to pass COVID-19 measures

Urgent economic measures to be introduced as part of feds’ $82-billion aid package

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked for the House of Commons to return sitting March 24 to introduce urgent economic measures, as part of his government’s $82-billion response to support Canadians during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have to take immediate action to address the global COVID-19 pandemic,” Trudeau said in a Sunday news release.…

Fines, arrests possible for social distancing non-compliance

Federal Emergency Measures act ‘on the table’

People not exercising physical distancing and doing things like walking Vancouver’s Seawall could face fines or arrest if they continue to ignore health officials in the COVID-19 crisis, Canada’s health minister said Sunday (March 22). And that means the federal Emergencies Measures Act, the successor to the War Measures Act, is “on the table,” Patty Hajdu said.…

B.C. health officials not providing basic data on COVID-19 testing

The 74 new positive tests reported in B.C. Saturday is a lagging indicator of novel coronavirus infections, said Dr. Bonnie Henry

Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Saturday she does not know exactly what the province’s COVID-19 testing capacity is or the exact backlog of tests needed to be processed. Henry did acknowledge capacity is in the “several thousands” and said the backlog of tests will be cleared by early next week.…

‘Unsettling’ images of packed parking lots and hikers not social distancing in Squamish Saturday

Local resident counts 200 people climbing ladder with bare hands on the Chief

Squamish’s Leigh McClurg says he counted about 200 people climbing a metal ladder with bare hands, on the trail up the Stawamus Chief in the couple of hours he was there on Saturday. According to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the virus that causes COVID-19 can linger for several hours to days on surfaces.…