COVID-19: Travel agents brace for end to federal assistance programs A pickup in demand for post-pandemic travel doesn t mean travel agents who haven t been paid for the past 16 months will see an immediate boost in revenue
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Publishing date: Jul 21, 2021 • 7 hours ago • 3 minute read • Travel agent Barbara Young. The predicament of travel agents, who are still at risk of going out of business, though travel is reopening, if federal assistance programs aren t extended..........(Photo credit: Francis Georgian / Postmedia) , Vancouver. Vancouver Reporter: , ( Francis Georgian / PNG staff photographer) [PNG Merlin Archive] Photo by Francis Georgian /PNG
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As Vancouver looks to replace aging flood-prevention infrastructure that a city report says poses “high to medium-high risk of failure,” experts say this small example underlines the challenges that coastal cities face from climate change and sea-level rise.
Vancouver will seek $750,000 through the province’s Community Emergency Preparedness Fund, after council endorsed the funding application Tuesday.
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The money is earmarked for replacing tide gates in Southlands, a neighbourhood near the Fraser River along the city’s southern edge that city staff say is at risk of flooding in the near future. The gates, at openings in the riverfront dike for such things as streams, close when dangerously high tides or storm surges are anticipated.
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The first thing travellers from Vancouver see when they drive into Hope off the Trans-Canada Highway is a handsome old train station.
But not for much longer: the District of Hope wants to tear it down.
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Hope has been leasing the property where the station is located from the province’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. Hope had plans to fix up the 1916 structure and turn it into a tourist info-centre, but the proposal fell apart.
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With the federal government announcing vaccine deliveries are back on track following weeks of reduced shipments, the focus in B.C. returns to preparations to inject millions of doses beginning in April.
But few details are available, particularly from the B.C. Ministry of Health.
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In late January, in outlining a phased vaccine rollout plan, provincial health officials said 2.6 million doses would be administered from April to June and another six million would be available from July to August. That far outstrips the 800,000 doses expected to be delivered by the end of March.