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COVID-19: Online applications for B.C. Recovery Benefit now open, but you might want to wait https://www.msn.com//covid-19-online-applicati/ar-BB1c2Q2Q

On December 31, 2020, alcohol may not be sold or served after 8 pm by order of the PHO. PHO Order Food and Liquor Serving Premises and Retail Establishments which Sell Liquor (PDF) By order and direction of the Provincial Health Officer (PHO), all events and social gatherings are suspended to significantly reduce COVID-19 transmission related to social interactions and travel. ... Last updated: December 30, 2020

FYI, update. Horgan said the reduction of the COVID PWD disability supplement is on him in one of his year end interviews not on the Minister overseeing it. He said he could have handled it better or differently??? Protesters award '2020 Grinch of the Year award to the Coquitlam MLA’s constituency office in protest of the reduction in government disability and income assistance payments

For people with disabilities, prescription drug costs are often layered on top of other health-related costs

Why is Dr. Bonnie Henry writing a book right now about the four months that shaped the pandemic? What four months? Why taking preorders in the midst of an unfolding and evolving pandemic? Our hospitals are at 89% capacity according to Dix yesterday.... This pandemic is far from over. This is truly bizarre. Global BCThe Globe and MailThe TyeeCTVThe Vancouver Sun

‘Slower than a snail’s pace’ critic slams federal housing funding There is a desperate need for more affordable homes for low-income people as B.C. communities face a homelessness and housing crisis that has led to encampments like this one in Strathcona Park. While the federal Liberals have touted their government's "ambitious," "historic" investments in housing, the NDP critic says new figures reveal how far short the plan is falling, particularly in B.C....Continue reading

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Mandatory masks, bans on non-essential travel and strict limits on social gatherings all introduced to reverse the growing infection rate.

Banking rules allow seizure of funds from other accounts

Members of the school's staff, just months later, would accuse their principal of assaulting four students, all with disabilities. He had screamed, grabbed, pinched, threatened, and squeezed, according to their allegations. In all, he faces five charges. McGrath flatly denied all of this from the witness box.

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If you understood how much this hurts, you might stop planning your holidays.

The major cities include: Quebec City, London, Hamilton, Region of Waterloo, Halifax, Calgary, Region of Peel, Montreal, Winnipeg, Surrey, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto and Capital Regional District (British Columbia). Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, will get the lion’s share of that funding pie with about $203 million.

I'm encouraging the prime minister to take this opportunity with all of us." He said the travel restrictions brought in a week-and-a-half ago in B.C., which advise against non-essential travel in and out of the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions, will be extended for "the next two weeks at least." Horgan said the province is looking into whether a mandatory 14-day quarantine rule would be brought in for travellers arriving on Vancouver Island.

Aren't 'Disabled people' individuals? Doesn't that mean we should support traditional liberal values i.e. freedom of speech, reason, science, permission for nonconformity. We must defend freedom of speech: Lionel Shriver & Brendan O'Neill https://youtu.be/P60G1gJ3Q8Y #BCPoli

@BerkeleyCanada catches up with #WindsorLaw Associate Dean @LavJacobs (2014 Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Canadian Studies) to discuss her research on disability, equality & admin law. Read the full interview: http://bit.ly/3e4Yzfw #WindsorLawResearch

Masks now an 'expectation' in all public places after sobering weekend of record cases, says Dr. Bonnie Henry

Is Stephanie Cadieux BCs last disabled MLA ... The polls have closed and while final numbers are not expected for a couple of weeks, the current front-runner for the Surrey South riding is At of 10:15 p.m. with 94 of 100 ballot boxes reported Canadian Press has projected victory for Cadieux, who led with 5,910 votes, followed by NPD candidate Pauline Greaves with 5,442 votes and Green Party candidate Tim Ibbotson with 1,262 votes. With Sam losing in False Creek and Mich...elle Stilwell losing in Parksville-Qualicum she could be the one disabled MLA in the BC legislature ... Yes, we know Dix has diabetes and some other NDP MLAs have impairments .. but at $100,000 + per year is diabetes or most other impairments disabling ... ? We've yet to see Dix address the poor access disabled people have to things like physio ... where we are told we must pay extra charges or go without Thoughts? See more

Andrew Wilkinson resigns as leader of BC Liberals https://globalnews.ca//bc-liberal-andrew-wilkinson-resigns/