The province says it's accelerating the expansion of post-secondary programs in early childhood education.
The Ministry of Education and Child Care says 16-million-dollars will create 400 new spaces in each of the next three years.
It says the new grads will help address staffing pressures and prepare for anticipated job openings in the coming decade.
In B-C, 18 of 25 public post-secondary institutions offer early childhood education programs
There are more than eight million additional doses in provincial and territorial stockpiles, according to data provided by ministries and departments of health across the country. Those numbers show morethan two million of the provincial and territorial doses will expire by the end of the year.
Investigators seized more than seven kilograms of suspected fentanyl, 800 grams of methamphetamines, and $39,000 cash from inside the lab. A man arrested near the lab was found in possession of an additional 15 kilograms of suspected fentanyl, along with two kilograms of cocaine and nearly $48,000 cash in a nearby vehicle.
The toddler was found unconscious and not breathing in a bathtub on May 26, 2011, and was flown to a Calgary hospital, where she later died. The B.C. Court of Appeal ruling issued Wednesday says police and/or the BC Prosecution Service failed to disclose to Bouvette's lawyers several items of key evidence.
The Opposition BC Liberals have been calling on the government to introduce tougher public safety measures, citing numerous violent crimes allegedly connected to people who were arrested and released, only to be involved in other violence shortly afterwards.
The federal government made the day a statutory holiday for its workers and federally regulated workplaces in 2021. The decision to do so is in response to one of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 calls to action.
Police say it happened just before 9:30 Tuesday night. Investigators say the victim and his attacker had some sort of altercation while on the bus, not far from the King George SkyTrain station.