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Higher property values in B.C. prompt increase in 2021 homeowner grant
VICTORIA - A grant that helps British Columbia homeowners offset a portion of their property tax is being raised to reflect an increase in the assessed value of their homes. The Ministry of Finance sa...
Jan 05, 2021
B.C. mink farmer decides to destroy 1,000 animals after positive COVID-19 tests
VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief veterinarian says a mink farmer decided to euthanize the remaining 1,000 animals on his Fraser Valley operation after some of the mink tested positive for COVID-19....
Jan 05, 2021
B.C. mink farmer decides to destroy 1,000 animals after positive COVID-19 tests
VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief veterinarian says a mink farmer decided to euthanize the remaining 1,000 animals on his Fraser Valley operation after some of the mink tested positive for COVID-19....
Jan 05, 2021
Mobile home owners face higher electricity costs - report
PRINCE GEORGE - A new BC Hydro report says mobile home owners are at a major disadvantage when it comes to electricity costs.The report found that many of those who live in mobile homes, including tho...
Jan 05, 2021
BC Hydro offers options to cut power consumption by mobile home residents
VANCOUVER - A new report from BC Hydro says mobile homes gobble power, putting their primarily senior or low-income residents at a disadvantage.The report released Tuesday by the Crown utility finds m...
Jan 05, 2021
WHO 'disappointed' at Chinese delays letting experts in
GENEVA - The head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday that he is "disappointed" Chinese officials haven't finalized the permissions to allow a team of experts into China to examine the origi...
Jan 05, 2021
Nunavut to start vaccinating elders Wednesday; community clinics to begin next week
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut's chief public health officer says first doses of a vaccine against COVID-19 are to be given Wednesday to residents at Iqaluit's elders home. Elders and front-line health ca...
Jan 05, 2021
Canada probing whether delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses could help more people
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she has asked the national vaccine advisory panel to investigate if there is merit to delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a bid to get more...
Jan 05, 2021
Info watchdog raps Privy Council Office for terminating access requests from public
OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister's bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from the public without good cause. In a series of decisions made public Tue...
Jan 05, 2021
Human rights commission to investigate death of seven-year-old Quebec girl
MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights and youth rights commission is launching an investigation into the death of a seven-year-old girl found Sunday north of Montreal. The commission said in a statement th...
Jan 05, 2021