WATCH: Bearded RCMP officers face discrimination over mask policy and Farmers in India protest agriculture bills
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 25 Sep, 2020 07:09 PM
WATCH: Some bearded RCMP officers assigned desk duty during the COVID19 pandemic feeling being discriminated against. UBC professor Dr. Josef Penninger uses knowledge of SARS to develop COVID19 drug. Farmers in India protest blocking railways and streets in relation to agriculture bills.
The $55-billion, five-year environmental economic plan from the Task Force for a Resilient Recovery is just one of a rising number of reports bombarding the Liberal government with demands for a robust and fair recovery ahead of next week's throne speech.
For the first time in days, the weather office lifted smoky skies bulletins for all areas north of Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast and Thompson regions.
More than 5,000 people have fatally overdosed in B.C. since the province declared a public health emergency in 2016, but fatalities were declining before COVID-19.
A civil war gripped the country between 1983 and 2009, with insurgents who sought a separate Tamil state battling a central government dominated by Sri Lanka's majority Sinhalese.
Nathan is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, with a slender build, black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing grey sweat pants and black shoes, carrying a purple and pink backpack.
Kasari Govender says use of data about ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation is minimal in B.C., leading to policies that fail to address discrimination, including how people of colour may be disproportionately affected by the pandemic.
