Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions, has released the following statement regarding the BC Coroner’s Service’s year-end report: “The toxic-drug crisis continues to devastate our province. Today’s release […]
Guterres urges radical global finance shake-up to help Pakistan after deadly floods
The International Finance system is flawed and biased, to say the least, and does very little to help people who have very little money or the impoverished. The residents of […]
New Supports for Internationally Trained Nurses In British Columbia
This would seem to be a step towards removing barriers for people with international degrees in the Sciences. Science is the same no matter where we go in the […]
United Nations: Europe Warm start to 2023 breaks records and skiers’ hearts
Temperatures lift off in Spain At Spain’s Bilbao airport, a reading of 25.1C on 1 January smashed the previous all-time record established 12 months earlier, by 0.7C. And in the eastern French […]
UN Experts Call for Renewed Aid to Syria
The UN Security Council has been ensuring that aids and goods are available to the people of Syria for a number of years now. The launching place for the aid […]
More families in B.C. benefit from $10-a-day child care
More families in B.C. will save thousands of dollars per year as more than 1,375 child care spaces move into the $10 a Day ChildCareBC program in January. These spaces […]
Home Owner Grant to help people with property taxes in 2023
The Home Owner Grant will continue to cover 92% of residential properties in B.C. with the threshold set at $2.125 million for 2023. The basic grant amounts remain the same […]
COVID-19: China infection surge on agenda at WHO coronavirus meeting
China has been employing very different strategies for dealing with Covid-19 than the rest of the world. In recent developments, they are experiencing and surge in cases. Some countries have […]
Reducing fees for licensed child care for Ontario families by 50% on average
For too long, families have faced high monthly child care fees and too few high-quality child care options. That is why the Government of Canada is supporting the implementation […]
Guterres: Put human rights at the heart of efforts to reverse today’s damaging trends
Unprecedented interlocking challenges The world is currently facing unprecedented and interlocking challenges to human rights, the UN chief said, such as increased hunger and poverty, shrinking civic space, and a […]
action needed to ensure safe drinking-water, sanitation and hygiene for all
Clean drinking water is one of the essentials to a healthy life. Just by cleaning a certain level of bacteria and dirt from the water we drink we can eliminate […]