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COVID-19: TransLink losing $75 million a month, seeks emergency funding

COVID-19: TransLink losing $75 million a month, seeks emergency funding

TransLink is seeking emergency relief funding from the provincial and federal governments to offset losses incurred for providing essential services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elizabeth May explains plane trip to Ottawa for emergency session

Elizabeth May explains plane trip to Ottawa for emergency session

First, there was carpooling. Now, with the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s plane-pooling. Last weekend, members of three Canadian political parties hopped on a government jet to travel to Ottawa to pass emergency economic legislation.
Jack Knox: Don’t be too quick to judge ferry travellers

Jack Knox: Don’t be too quick to judge ferry travellers

We’re at the finger-pointing stage of the pandemic now. That’s the part where we demand to know why our leaders A) didn’t see this coming, or B) saw it coming but failed to react quickly or decisively enough to head it off.
Burnaby hotel offers free rooms and food to health workers

Burnaby hotel offers free rooms and food to health workers

Bosa Properties has announced that it is offering free rooms to Fraser Health workers at its Element Vancouver Metrotown hotel during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Burnaby family fears eviction before it's safe for vulnerable grandma

Burnaby family fears eviction before it's safe for vulnerable grandma

B.C. won't enforce evictions until the state of emergency is over, but Nazila fears the risk won't be gone for her immunosuppressed mother by then
Survey: Almost half of Canadians struggled to buy necessities during pandemic

Survey: Almost half of Canadians struggled to buy necessities during pandemic

A nationwide survey has revealed more than half of Canadian adults have struggled to purchase basic necessities in the wake of COVID-19 panic-buying sweeping the nation. That’s an estimated 16.
Boozy, burning campfire left on Richmond's West Dike Trail

Boozy, burning campfire left on Richmond's West Dike Trail

Social distance scofflaws leave party trail behind in wooded area
Free hand sanitizer refills on Saturday in Port Moody

Free hand sanitizer refills on Saturday in Port Moody

Social distancing procedures will be in place when Stellava Ventures helps Port Moody residents refill hand sanitizer containers at its proposed cannabis shop
'Web' of evidence convicts woman caught with credit cards stolen in Burnaby

'Web' of evidence convicts woman caught with credit cards stolen in Burnaby

A 30-year-old woman who tried to use a credit card stolen from a Burnaby home was “enmeshed in a web of circumstantial evidence” from which she could not escape in court, according to a recent B.C. provincial court ruling.
Terry Fox Marathon of Hope remembered by his brother

Terry Fox Marathon of Hope remembered by his brother

Forty years ago Fox, a Port Coquitlam resident, set out on his Marathon of Hope, today his efforts have helped raise $800 million for cancer research