A reporter who wrote about graffiti ended up being turned into graffiti himself.
On Sunday, longtime Vancouver Sun reporter John Mackie wrote an article headlined “Graffiti overwhelms Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Chinatown.” A print version of the article was titled “‘Chaos breeds chaos.’”
A Newfoundland man who allegedly told police he was going to “execute local politicians” after leading officers on a high-speed chase in a truck full of knives 'appears to have had a social media profile full of wild right-wing conspiracies.
George Brake, 66, was on his way to “stop the election” when he was arrested, police said. (Newfoundland is currently in the midst of a provincial election campaign.) RCMP said that they first became aware of Brake when they received a call on January 26 regarding a man behaving “erratically,” making political statements, and talking about firearms.
Health Canada will officially begin discussing Vancouver’s request to decriminalize the simple possession of all illicit substances, the city’s mayor announced on Wednesday. If granted, Vancouver would become the first city in Canada where possessing small amounts of drugs won’t be a crime.
“This is another hopeful and critical milestone on the path towards fully embracing a health-focussed approach to substance use in the City of Vancouver,” Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a press release. More than 1,500 people died of drug toxicity deaths in B.C. during 2020.
Advocates are warning that the Ontario government’s latest plan for managing support services for autistic children could take key decisions over care and funding out of the hands of medical professionals and parents.
In December 2020, Ford’s Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services released guidelines for independent agencies looking to secure contracts to run Ontario’s autism program, including managing waitlists, funding allocations and a “needs-based assessment process.”
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), the fulcrum of national efforts to combat COVID-19, has been struggling to fulfil its role since the onset of the pandemic. That's the shocking conclusion of an internal federal government review of PHAC's pandemic response.
The Health Canada/PHAC Office of Audit and Evaluation conducted the review and completed its report in September 2020.
It was the first week of Kolin Sutherland-Wilson’s final semester at the University of Victoria. But he wasn’t there. Instead, on a chilly January morning in 2020, he sat alone on the front steps of the British Columbia legislature, dressed warmly and holding signs that called on provincial leaders to stand with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink project in their traditional territory.
We’re a decade away from blowing our global carbon budget and exceeding the 1.5 C temperature target set in the Paris Agreement, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.
“We have a limited amount of carbon that we’re allowed to burn over time, a carbon budget that is not going to replenish itself,” said Damon Matthews, lead author of the report and a climate scientist at Concordia University.
A long-term care facility in Barrie, Ontario in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak that has to date infected over 120 residents and killed over 40 people was cited by inspectors a number of times for violating health and safety regulations.
Roberta Place made national headlines this weekend following a deadly outbreak involving the more contagious UK-variant of COVID-19.
A wealthy Canadian couple have been charged after allegedly lying about their residency and occupation to receive doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine meant for largely First Nation residents of a remote Yukon community.
Businessman Rodney Baker, 55, and his wife Ekaterina Baker, a 32-year-old actor, flew into Whitehorse last week, where they chartered a private plane to take them 450 kilometres northwest to Beaver Creek, a community of approximately 100 people, most of whom belong to White River First Nation.
Climate change journalists around the world are part of a “disturbing” effort to hype up Greta Thunberg and “distribute propagandized climate change issues in their reporting,” says a new report paid for by an inquiry set up by the government of Alberta.
The 133-page report says reporters who focus full-time on climate change are aiding powerful progressive global elites whose goal is to abolish capitalism and create a society in which life “will be constantly monitored, short, cold, and miserable, just like pre-industrial times.”