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Mysterious Space Signals Line Up With the Cosmic Web Connecting the Universe, Scientists Find
The CHIME collaboration announced the detection of 535 fast radio bursts (FRBs), the biggest haul from a single survey ever.
Remains of 215 Indigenous Children Found Buried at Former Residential School
“To our knowledge, these missing children are undocumented deaths,” said Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosanne Casimir. “Some were as young as 3 years old.”
Social Workers Forced Indigenous Girls Under 10 to Get IUDs, Canadian Lawyer Alleges
The former counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says it happened to girls as young as 9.
Police Are Preventing Journalists From Reporting on Anti-Logging Protests
Now, Canadian journalists are going to court on Wednesday, and one told VICE World News that police interference “is by far the most significant press freedom issue in Canada.”
A Canadian Program Is Monitoring People’s Online Habits to Prevent ‘Radicalization’
Experts worry that peaceful protesters, such as Black Lives Matter or Indigenous activists, could be wrongly caught up in the program.
College Students Are Fighting Addiction Hell During the Pandemic
Campus centres for students recovering from addiction are exploding during COVID.
This City Gave Sex Workers Priority Access to COVID Vaccines
Because sex workers are essential workers.
Activists Give Out Free Heroin and Meth as Vancouver Proposes Legal Limits for Drugs
Earlier this week Vancouver put forward a proposal to Health Canada that would decriminalize a three day supply of drugs.
Canada’s Most Famous Ski Resort Epicentre of P1 Variant Outbreak
The variant of concern is more than two times more contagious, deadlier, and can reinfect people who are presumably immune.
West Coast Scientists Encourage Public to Set Traps for Murder Hornets
Government experts in Washington and British Columbia say they need the public's help to eradicate the invasive Asian giant hornet species.
Doctors Call For Safer Cocaine Supply
While a Canadian province mulls adding the drug to its safe supply, experts say full legalization is a better approach.
Police Shot and Killed Another Indigenous Person Over the Weekend
The man, identified as Julian Jones, is the second Tla-o-qui-aht person to be shot by an officer in under a year