COVID-19: B.C. students head back to school after Spring Break with mask mandate removed

Credit to Author: Joanne Lee-Young| Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 01:14:50 +0000

Some parents were a bit dismayed that schools and school districts didn’t issue more explicit — and earlier — instructions about the need for continued mask-wearing following travel outside of Canada.

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Students head back to school after Spring Break with mask mandate removed

Credit to Author: Joanne Lee-Young| Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:59:08 +0000

Some parents were a bit dismayed that schools and school districts didn’t issue more explicit — and earlier — instructions about the need for continued mask-wearing following travel outside of Canada.

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House okays bill punishing ‘electronic violence’ against women, children

Credit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 13:04:25 +0000

THE House of Representatives has approved on third and final reading a bill defining electronic violence against women and their children and prescribing corresponding penalties. Voting 227-0-0 on Tuesday, lawmakers passed House Bill 5869 or the proposed Expanded Anti-Violence Against Women and their Children Act. The bill seeks to amend Section 3, paragraph (a) of […]

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Daphne Bramham: Outspoken activist against polygamy dies

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 01:21:04 +0000

One of Bountiful’s first child brides, Debbie Palmer was the first mother to flee the fundamentalist Mormon community with all her children and the first to shine a spotlight on it. She died last weekend at 64.

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Daphne Bramham: Outspoken activist challenges the stereotype of political wife

Credit to Author: Daphne Bramham| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:00:16 +0000

Nazanin Afshin-Jam doesn’t fit the stereotype of political wife, which could provide some interesting moments during Peter MacKay’s Conservative leadership bid.

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