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China calls COVID ‘lab leak’ theory a lie after WHO report

June 10, 2022 Hélène Warin

China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization

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After years of declines, numbers of wintering monarch butterflies rise by 35% in Mexico

May 24, 2022 Daniela Juarez

Mexican experts said Monday that 35 per cent more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared to the previous season. Experts say the rise may

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Logging threatens ‘critical lifeline’ to fend off climate crisis

March 23, 2022 Hélène Warin

More than 90 scientists are calling on the Canadian government to protect the country’s temperate and boreal forests — what they describe as a “critical lifeline” to guard against a

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Human rights complaint filed against B.C. health-care authority over N95 respirator ban

January 27, 2022 Ashley Kryschuck

A class complaint has been filed at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against a regional health-care authority over their policy prohibiting hospital patients and visitors from using N95 respirators. The

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New building in downtown Victoria could potentially harm birds

January 19, 2022 Dereck Carrier

A sleek, modern building in downtown Victoria has been given the green light to move forward on development, but an avian biologist is worried the design, which features a lot

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Vancouver herbal medicine company fined $75K for illegally importing shark fins

January 19, 2022 Ed Juskow

A Vancouver-based herbal medicine company has been fined $75,000 for importing fins from a protected species of shark without a permit. Hang Hing Herbal Medicine pleaded guilty in Vancouver Provincial Court

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B.C. reports 173 more people in hospital with COVID-19, 4 more in the ICU and 22 additional deaths over 3 days

January 18, 2022 Ruby Roux-Roche

B.C. health officials reported 819 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Monday, including 99 in intensive care, as the province recorded 22 more deaths from the disease and 5,625 new

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Vancouver elementary school might be headed for closure once again

January 18, 2022 Ashley Kryschuck

Once again, a tiny elementary school on Vancouver’s west side is moving toward closure. On Monday evening, the Vancouver School Board voted seven-to-two to begin the school closure process for

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Health Canada approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 therapeutic

January 17, 2022 Ivan Deneweth

Health Canada has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 therapeutic for use in adults 18 and older, paving the way for the distribution of a potentially lifesaving drug at a time when the

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Omicron transmission is declining in B.C., modelling suggests — but hospitalizations won’t

January 16, 2022 Ruby Roux-Roche

COVID-19 modelling released by the B.C. government shows the latest wave of the pandemic, propelled by the Omicron variant, may have peaked in parts of the province — but that British

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