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Canada making progress on including sign languages

Canada making progress on including sign languages

Last week, Ontario’s Education Minister Stephen Lecce announced that the high schools in Ontario would start offering for-credit courses in American Sign Language (ASL). I take this as a huge step for Canada in the right direction.
Choose to challenge the status quo

Choose to challenge the status quo

International Women’s Day just went by and while I am of the opinion that women should be celebrated everyday, I am also open to celebrating them on this particular day and just take the opportunity to uplift, empower and celebrate women.
OPINION: Helping a 97-year-old man get his COVID vaccination appointment

OPINION: Helping a 97-year-old man get his COVID vaccination appointment

Call centre inundated with 1.7 million calls while there are just 50,000 folks over 90 in B.C.
More transparency, more information needed

More transparency, more information needed

Yet another day, yet another vaccine approved in Canada.
FINLAYSON: Government should focus on strengthening B.C.’s leading export industries

FINLAYSON: Government should focus on strengthening B.C.’s leading export industries

To revive the economy, this piece in the strategy is integral, writes Jock Finlayson
OP-ED: 1 year into pandemic, B.C.’s tourism sector hopes for a light at the end of the tunnel

OP-ED: 1 year into pandemic, B.C.’s tourism sector hopes for a light at the end of the tunnel

Only about 17 per cent of businesses have been operating as usual in B.C.
What does kindness really look like?

What does kindness really look like?

Over the past several months, I have come across over a couple of dozen acts of kindness in the community. From random strangers helping out people stuck in the ditches to community members raising funds to help families who lost their homes in house fires. People have come together in ways I wouldn’t have thought of.
OP-ED: B.C. tourism needs a boost from 2026 Commonwealth Games

OP-ED: B.C. tourism needs a boost from 2026 Commonwealth Games

‘Far more profitable’ than 1994 event hosted by Victoria
MALCOLMSON: 2020 left us grappling with overdose tragedy and working for change

MALCOLMSON: 2020 left us grappling with overdose tragedy and working for change

B.C.’s Addictions Minister reflects on visit to Overdose Prevention Society in Vancouver
If you think Black history isn’t Canadian history, think again

If you think Black history isn’t Canadian history, think again

‘In a community with a relatively small number of Black residents, it would be easy to let Black History Month pass without pausing’
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