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Ottawa’s plan for rolling out vaccines to Canadians requires “strategic” work to determine who will be dosed first.

Unfortunately, not all Calgary Flames fans are taking the joke in good humour — "You wouldn't believe the malicious calls."

Canada’s overdose crisis — fuelled by increasingly toxic street drugs and compounded by COVID-19 — is going into overdrive, and youth are particularly vulnerable, researchers say.

Researchers in a study on maternal overdose have found that having a child apprehended made a mother 55 per cent more likely to have an unintended non-fatal drug overdose.

It was the beginning of a new healing journey for Tl’etinqox women as the orange braided ribbons of a dream catcher strung with 91 ties of tobacco burned in a small fire at the site where one of Canada’s most notorious residential schools once stood.

Long-term care and assisted living facilities in B.C. are facing an increasingly deadly second wave of COVID-19 outbreaks, while at the same time imposing restrictions that leave seniors increasingly isolated.

A volunteer committee is asking the provincial government to complete a project mapping grizzly bear habitat.

Northern Health has already received more influenza vaccines in 2020 than it administered during the whole flu season last year, with more vaccines on the way, according to a spokesperson for the health authority.

Spring conditions in December? Maybe...

Dr. Bonnie Henry talked with PrinceGeorgeMatters about COVID-19's current state in the north and in B.C.