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.
WATCH: Banquet Hall owners lash out at BC NDP MLAs for not being on their side. "Discrimination against South Asian Community," Says Sukh Mann, President of the BC Banquet Hall Association. Record breaking heat wave in BC
Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs used potato fields in Florenceville in the northwest of the province as the backdrop as he called on voters to return his party to government.
COVAX is aimed at averting a scramble by individual countries to secure vaccines for their own populations, often by pre-buying doses directly from pharmaceutical companies.
Earlier this year Ottawa scaled back the requirements of the standard over the first few years to give companies more time to recover from the economic crisis caused by COVID-19, but McMillan says that is not enough.
Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Friday the federal government is providing $13.9 million to Toronto Public Health — enough to operate the 140-room isolation centre that opens this weekend for the next 12 months.
