WATCH: The BC NDP promising voters a $1000 dollar payment as part of its election platform. Canada recording it’s highest COVID19 case count. A classroom at a Surrey elementary school has been exposed to COVID19.
The $1,000 recovery benefit would apply to families whose household income is under $125,000 (with reduced amounts for families making up to $175,000) and would give $500 to single people making under $62,000 (with reduced amounts for single people making under $87,000).
UPDATE: She has been found safe and sound. Shirley Gamlin left her residence in the area of West 41st Avenue and West Boulevard yesterday morning.
The police board says in a statement that it has learned the Crown has not approved criminal charges and referred the matter to alternative measures.
Some epidemiologists believe testing a group of COVID nasal-swab samples together — a strategy known as pooled testing or batch testing — might be a more efficient method for dealing with a large number of tests that could potentially be coming in.
While about a dozen demonstrators rallied on the Boardwalk, about a half-mile away, volunteers for the city painted the words “Black Lives Matter” in bold yellow on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The woman was seeking a stay of a lower court ruling that rejected her request for an injunction, having concluded the 83-year-old man with end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease — identified as Mr. X — was entitled to the procedure because he met the criteria under federal law.
Next week will mark one year since Ortis, director of an RCMP intelligence centre, was arrested, making international headlines.