Province's top doctor Dr. Bonnie Henry says BC needs to be ready for a second wave of the novel coronavirus we need to put into practice what we have learned so far. She says as we slowly re-open we need to make sure that we practice physical distancing, hand-sanitization and most importantly stay calm and stay safe.
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B.C. teachers have voted to approve a new, three-year collective agreement with the provincial government. The deal with the B.C. Public School Employers' Association includes general wage increases of two per cent every year along with a mediated process on how to better support negotiations in the future.
Finance Minister Carole James says thousands of people applied for British Columbia's $1,000 tax-free emergency benefit in the first minutes of the program going online today.
Vancouver police are reporting an increase in anti-Asian, hate-motivated incidents in recent weeks. The department makes the announcement as it seeks public help to identify a man seen scrawling graffiti on several large windows at the Chinese Cultural Centre on April 2.
Canada has officially entered a recession due to the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the C.D. Howe Institute's Business Cycle Council declared Friday.
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Tiff Macklem, a former second-in-command at the Bank of Canada, is returning to the central bank to take over the top job at a moment that he says cries out for bold, unprecedented responses to the economic crisis fuelled by COVID-19.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is banning a range of assault-style guns, with an order that takes effect immediately. The cabinet order he described in a Friday-morning announcement doesn't forbid owning any of 1,500 "military-style" weapons and their variants but it does forbid them to be used and halts the trade in them