Zoomed out? Here are some other ways to stay connected this Christmas
From sharing playlists to playing games, a B.C. tech expert offers up creative ways to keep in touch without touching.
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Posted: Dec 21, 2020 8:00 AM PT | Last Updated: December 21, 2020
Dreading another video chat? There are other, more creative ways to connect with loved ones this holiday season, a B.C. tech expert says.(Shutterstock / amenic181)
by Martyn Brown on December 18th, 2020 at 9:42 PM 1 of 3 2 of 3
In my last article, I argued that B.C. premier John Horgan’s planned cut to the COVID-19 support supplement for B.C.’s most vulnerable citizens is dead wrong and especially unworthy of an NDP government.
To recap, effective January 1, that desperately needed assistance for all those who receive income assistance, disability assistance, hardship assistance, the comforts allowance, or the B.C. Senior s Supplement will be slashed in half: from $300 monthly to $150.
And after March, even that reduced monthly grant will be entirely eliminated, regardless of whatever other measures might be announced in the April 20 budget.
Long-awaited, long-debated new wastewater plant ends Victoria s dumping of untreated sewage
The lack of wastewater treatment before the $775-million facility opened Dec. 15 attracted international criticism and threats of tourism boycotts.
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Posted: Dec 17, 2020 7:01 AM PT | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 We are doing what probably should have been happening for a long time before today, said Capital Regional District Chair Colin Plant after the $775-million project came online.(Capital Regional District)
Master sailor remembered as devoted father who was keen to get home to young sons for Christmas
Duane Earle of Winnipeg is believed to have fallen overboard from the deck of a navy frigate during the return trip to its home base in Esquimalt, B.C.
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Posted: Dec 16, 2020 3:53 PM PT | Last Updated: December 16, 2020
Master Sailor Duane Earle was photographed on board HMCS Winnipeg in September while on a five-month deployment in the Asia-Pacific region. (Valerie LeClair/MARPAC Imaging Services)