The George Massey tunnel. Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG
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The provincial government is promising to spend $26.4 billion over three years to build hospitals, schools, transit and roads creating 85,000 jobs.
Among those projects is extending SkyTrain service to Langley in the Fraser Valley and completing a toll-free replacement for the George Massey Tunnel south of Vancouver. Nisha Yunus, a residential care aide at Providence Health Care, is injected with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTEch COVID-19 vaccine by Christina Cordova, a regional immunization clinical resource nurse in Vancouver on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo by JENNIFER GAUTHIER /REUTERS files
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Exactly one year ago, British Columbians were trying to decipher what living in a pandemic would mean, how long it would last and how it might change our daily routines.
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by Craig Takeuchi on December 23rd, 2020 at 6:00 PM 1 of 18 2 of 18
It’s the year we all wish didn’t happen. But it did and what a year it was.
For many people, the changes witnessed this year are the most far-reaching they have seen in their lifetimes, and would have been unthinkable a year ago. Everyone s experience of the pandemic greatly differed, ranging from mild frustrations to tragic losses and hardships.
What was common, however, was the uncertainty of what would happen next as we continued along.
Looking back over what has occurred since the COVID-19 pandemic began in British Columbia, a great deal has taken place within this province alone that can be both surprising and intriguing to review.