The B.C. Ministry of Education will soon begin public consultations on an Indigenous-focused learning requirement for high school students.
Granville Island’s Smoke Shop has been in business for 30 years, but the island’s management says its lease won’t be renewed because it doesn’t fit with the area’s long-term plan.
Ekam Sandhu believes his work permit application was incorrectly rejected, but he’s now stuck waiting months to reapply and can’t work in the meantime.
‘We’ve been told that if we’re not comfortable we can drop the program, which is kind of disheartening to hear,’ one student told Global News.
The most important thing to do, says Wenecwtsin, is to look after the future, the children and make sure we implement our own laws and processes based on Secwépemc values.
The Vancouver Coastal Health Authority confirmed that at least a handful of people did obtain bogus BC Vaccine Cards through what it called “deplorable” behaviour.
‘Based on my last two years’ salary, I can’t afford a new or few-years-old truck. So I will have to find another job,’ one trucker told Global News.
The BCTF has long opposed the Foundational Skills Assessment tests, which are administered annually to Grade 4 and Grade 7 students and focus on literacy and numeracy.
More than three-quarters of delegates at B.C. chiropractors’ annual general meeting supported a non-binding motion against vaccine mandates this week.
Private pilots backed by a small army of volunteers have been collecting food and other essential supplies from around the Lower Mainland to pack into the dozens of daily flights.
The Nooaitch First Nation has been isolated by the floods in B.C. this week, which destroyed all of the bridges connecting the community to commercial supplies.
‘There were thousands of people in Flanders’ fields during an iconic moment of Canadian history that have been left out traditionally,’ historian Steven Purewal said.
This marked the first time Sukhwinder Singh, known as Mithu, was face to face with his slain wife’s mother and uncle since he and his wife were attacked on June 8, 2000.
Indigenous leaders say the federal government’s potential appeal of a ruling ordering Ottawa to compensate children removed from their homes is a step backwards in reconciliation.
Trudeau said all government documents related to residential schools have been turned over to the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. The centre says that’s not the case.