WATCH: Hot Weather & Street Parties, Covid19 Cases Rise Among the Young, CFL season cancelled
Darpan News Desk Darpan, 17 Aug, 2020 07:34 PM
Hot weather in BC breaks temperatures, Public doesn't care for COVID-19 pandemic protocol of physical distancing amidst the hot weather.
The Vancouver Canucks take on the St Louis Blues in Game 4 of the Playoffs and Huge disappointment for Football fans as the CFL cancels the 2020 season.
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.