VANCOUVER Another Metro Vancouver city is considering a pilot project that would allow drinking in some of its parks. New Westminster s city council is expected to discuss the idea in a meeting Monday. The motion, brought forward by Coun. Patrick Johnstone, proposes trying the program for the 2021 picnic season at six parks. The suggested locations are: Pier Park: On the grass picnic field and the grass knoll beside it Moody Park: On the mixed-use grass fields north of the multi-use path (not on the paved areas or sports courts) Hume Park: Upper Hume Park south of the off-leash dog and forested areas
A provincial court judge in Richmond has found Tenshi Seafood Limited and its co-owner, Dishi Liu, guilty of charges under the Fisheries Act and has imposed a total fine of $100,000 dollars.
British Columbians will get another COVID-19 case update Monday, as health officials will reveal how many positive tests were recorded over the weekend.
VANCOUVER A professor at B.C. s Simon Fraser University is leading a new national program with the goal of helping Canadians better prepare for future pandemics. Professor Caroline Colijn will oversee the Canadian Network for Modelling Infectious Disease, supported by $2.5 billion in federal funding over the next two years. The network will inform decisions related to public health threats. In the past year we ve really seen modelling come to the forefront of public conversation in a way that we never have before. People know about variants and they know about exponential growth and they know about flattening the curve, Colijn told CTV News Vancouver.
British Columbia s NDP government is set to present its throne speech later today, laying out its priorities more than a year after the COVID-19 pandemic began.