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[ad_1] VANCOUVER – The BC Teachers’ Federation has created new campaigns to increase the use of face masks in BC classrooms. The BCTF took matters into their own hands after provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry excluded schools from the new BC mandate. On Saturday, the teachers’ union posted on …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – A Hudson’s Bay store in Coquitlam is closed and a letter posted on the front door indicates that the closure was due to non-payment of the rent. The letter on the door of the department store inside the Coquitlam Center shopping mall indicates that the owner, Pensionfund …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – BC’s new and stringent COVID-19 restrictions didn’t appear to be the priority for people queuing outside a Foot Locker store in downtown Vancouver on Friday. Shoppers outside the Foot Locker Power Store on Robson Street said they were concerned about what appeared to be groups of friends …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – British Columbia added 516 additional cases of COVID-19 to Friday’s total, bringing the province to more than 25,000 confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic. The province also added another 10 deaths from illness, for a total of 331 overall. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – Several COVID-19 exposure alerts have been posted online for BC grocery stores in recent days. Parent companies Sobeys and Loblaws have posted multiple alerts each, warning customers that employees have tested positive for the disease in some of their stores. The latest warnings concern: Shoppers Drug Mart …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – The BC Center for Disease Control has added 16 flights to its list of COVID-19 exposure alerts. The BCCDC added two flights to the list on Thursday and added 14 more on Friday. Flights are a mix of domestic and international flights and each is connected to …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – Several other grocery stores and pharmacies in the Lower Mainland have had employees tested positive for COVID-19 in the past few days. Parent company Loblaws has issued warnings of possible exposure to COVID-19 for several stores Shoppers Drug Mart and Real Canadian Superstore, and T&T Supermarket has …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – The BC Center for Disease Control has added several more flights to its list of COVID-19 exposures. The BCCDC added two flights to Tuesday’s list e nine more on Wednesday. The latest additions only took off on November 5th and October 22nd. The details of the affected …

[ad_1] VANCOUVER – With the increase in the number of COVID 19 in the Fraser Health region, nursing homes are also seeing an alarming number of people infected, despite protocols in place to protect them. At the Fellburn Care Center in Burnaby, 36 residents and 16 employees tested positive for …

[ad_1] SURREY, BC – A Surrey company that claims to be the first in BC to manufacture N95 respirator masks says it is ready to begin providing first-line healthcare workers – pending approval from Health Canada. Eternity Medical Equipment opened a store in April and has spent the past few …