Over 80% of Canadians wants to keep the US -Canada border closed for the foreseeable future.
Amidst rising Coronavirus cases in the US- the Canada US border closure has been extended for the 4th time.
It will now remain closed til August 21st. BC has also seen a jump in numbers and is projecting a $12.5. billion deficit during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 means the true north is not entirely free this Canada Day, but a new survey suggests that's not going to change how many people mark the holiday.
The full impact of sweeping economic lockdowns meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 came into sharper view, with new figures showing Canada saw the largest monthly drop on record in April as the country came to a near standstill.
Canada Day comes this year as Indigenous Peoples absorb reports of confrontations between the police and Aboriginal people, as well as accusations of systemic racism in British Columbia's health-care system.
The association says a survey of its members shows more than 67 per cent of farmers have reduced fruit production because of uncertainties linked to the pandemic.
An investigation into a fatal plane crash north of Tofino, B.C., last December has raised potential safety issues for other pilots.
Scientists in China have identified a new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic. The sceintists say it has come to light recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans.