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Anti-Asian bias is spreading throughout Canada’s largest cities during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the results of a new poll by the Chinese Canadian National Council for Social Justice (CCNC-SJ).

It was going to be a lemonade stand, but COVID-19 quashed that idea. Instead, six-year-old Callaghan McLaughlin is dishing out jokes to neighbours and passersby from a table on his front lawn at Cadboro Bay.

Alert Bay Mayor Dennis Buchanan struggles to talk about the first COVID-19 death on Cormorant Island under his watch, and a local state of emergency. “It’s tough,” says Buchanan, 72, stopping to compose himself.

The wandering goat in east Richmond was reunited with its owner Monday afternoon. Jade McGregor, a Richmond resident, was able to return the lost goat with its owner after reaching out for help from the Richmond community.

Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) is encouraging municipalities to re-open playgrounds, parks and other outdoor recreational facilities, but Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie said he’d like to see a coordinated approach between cities on how this is done.

Charges have been laid in connection with the theft of items from a New Westminster hospital nurse. On April 14 at approximately 2:45 a.m.

Richmond has around 500 such employees working in six long-term care facilities

Unclear signage and sports field closures appear to be aimed only at discouraging gatherings, and not passive use by individual households

Passenger in one car died of his injuries on Monday

Angela White has a message for everyone – COVID-19 is no hoax – it is a serious and life threatening virus. White and her fiancé Jerry Rice-wyse know this first-hand after he landed in hospital with COVID-19.