WATCH: Drug Overdose crisis sees 175 deaths for July, Trudeau invests $2B in schools, Canucks win against Vegas
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 26 Aug, 2020 08:07 PM
WATCH: Drug Overdose crisis for BC Up by 136% - 175 deaths in July 2020, hospitalizations on the rise in BC due to COVID-19, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pumps $2 Billion dollars in time for schools re-opening in the Fall, Vancouver Canucks showed they could do better as they win Tuesday night's game against the Golden Vegas Knights.
A 26-year-old Indigenous woman from British Columbia who was fatally shot by police in northwestern New Brunswick was remembered Friday as a caring person as questions were raised about police conduct of so-called "wellness checks."
The death of George Floyd in Minnesota following a police intervention has spurred massive protests in both Canada and the United States and societal soul-searching on the need to fight racism on both sides of the border.
Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Canada needs a reckoning over a repeated and disgusting pattern of police violence against Indigenous people. Miller says he "watched in disgust" video and reports this week of violence against a 22-year-old Inuk man in Nunavut and a 26-year-old First Nations mother in New Brunswick.
Canada clawed back 289,600 jobs in May as provincial governments began easing public health restrictions and businesses reopened, Statistics Canada said Friday. Still, the unemployment rate in May rose to 13.7 per cent, the highest level in more than four decades of comparable data.
The head of Toronto's police service took a public knee on Friday in solidarity with marching anti-racism demonstrators protesting police killings of black people, with similar demonstrations planned in other Canadian cities.