Category Archives: News

Trudeau on Defensive Regarding Handling Indigenous Affairs
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was on the defensive at last night`s leader`s debate after his handling of Indigenous affairs was called in to question. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was the first to call ou...
Jeff Blagden Sep 10, 2021

Pandemic Relief Funding for Indigenous Groups To Be Made Available
Over 330 million dollars in pandemic relief money is being made available in Indigenous communities across Canada. Indigenous Services Canada announced the funding in their Fall Economic Statement. Th...
Jeff Blagden Sep 10, 2021

September 10th Covid-19 Update
British Columbia is reporting 774 new cases of Covid-19, as of last night. Of the new cases, 253 are in the Interior, and 98 are within Northern Health`s jurisdiction. That brings the total number of ...
Jeff Blagden Sep 10, 2021

BC's Health Minister criticizes anti-vaccine passport protesters
The Health Minister for BC has made his feelings known about the demonstrators who are refusing to get a COVID-19 vaccine and are staging protests against the province's vaccine passport. Adrian Dix s...
Rob Young Sep 09, 2021

National Police Federation releases results of survey on old growth logging injunctions
The National Police Federation released a report earlier today detailing the results of a survey that determined what people think of the RCMP enforced supreme court injunctions that allow for old gro...
Rob Young Sep 09, 2021

Vaccine card not required for voting in Terrace and surrounding area
The Vaccine card is not going to required for people living in Terrace and the surrounding area to vote in the federal election on September 20th. Andrea Marantz, a spokesperson for Elections Canada a...
Rob Young Sep 09, 2021

Lots of Prince Rupert residents go to get vaccine card in person after online problems
A lot of Prince Rupert Residents were out at the Service BC centre yesterday in order get their COVID vaccine cards verified, set up and printed due to a significant amount of online difficulties. Som...
Rob Young Sep 09, 2021

BC government wishes to get public input on plans to update BC's anti-racism data legislation.
The Province of BC is looking to get some input from the public on their recent plans to both shape and update the province's anti-racism data legislation. The Attorney General's Ministry sent out a s...
Rob Young Sep 09, 2021

Report estimates that COVID care cost Canada a billion dollars
A report from the Canadian Institute for Health Information has stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has cost Canada's health care system a billion dollars in a period from January 2020 to March 2021, an...
Rob Young Sep 09, 2021

NorthPac Forestry Project Near Hazelton to Repurpose Thousands of Pulp Logs
A new NorthPac Forestry project looks to repurpose approximately 42 thousand pulp logs in BC. Funded via a 484 thousand dollar grant from the Forestry Enhancement Society of BC, the project aims to re...
Jeff Blagden Sep 09, 2021