Source Feed: National Post
Author: Tristin Hopper
Publication Date: June 25, 2024 - 07:20
FIRST READING: B.C. library boasts of program to explicitly reject white job applicants
June 25, 2024
Discriminatory hiring is illegal, but not if the B.C. government gives you a special exemption for "equity" purposes
Unpublished Newswire
Dire predictions that Western Canadian provinces would endure a repeat of last year’s monstrous blazes that forced widespread evacuations and scorched huge swaths of land have yet to materialize. But it would be premature to breathe easy, warn wildfire officials in Alberta and British Columbia, who say lightning storms and expected sizzling temperatures will increase the risk as summer progresses.“Thanks to the weather, we’re really in a much better place this season compared to where we were at the same time last year,” Alberta Wildfire spokesperson Josée St-Onge said. Roughly 31,000...
June 28, 2024 - 19:34 | Alanna Smith | The Globe and Mail
The property, which cost $12 million, is located between Okanagan Provincial Park and Fitzpatrick Estate Winery.
June 28, 2024 - 19:32 | Doyle Potenteau | Global News - Canada
A gene therapy made specially for a Toronto boy with an ultrarare genetic disorder is safe and appears to have halted the progression of his disease, according to a new paper outlining the results of a single-patient clinical trial that his family raised millions of dollars to fund.When Michael Pirovolakis, now 6, was diagnosed with spastic paraplegia type 50 (SPG50) at 16 months of age, he was the only patient in Canada known to have the disorder.
June 28, 2024 - 19:20 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
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