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An Indigenous contractor wants the provincial government to repeal the agreement that governs the construction of a $1.4 billion hospital on Vancouver Island. Jon Coleman, the owner of Jon-co Contracting, issued the appeal Monday afternoon in the provincial legislature during a news conference after listening to Question Period, where opposition parties attacked the NDP government for excluding Indigenous workers from working on a hospital in Cowichan Valley, near Duncan. Coleman said the Community Benefits Agreement administered by the BC Infrastructure Benefits prevents him and other Indigenous contractors under the umbrella of Khowutzun Development Corporation from working on the project because...

For some people, football is not the most exciting part of the Super Bowl. There's so much else competing for viewers' attention! The tastiest party snacks of all time are consumed on Super Bowl Sunday, along with the most polarizing halftime shows. Between bites of chips and dip, those watching at home delighted in seeing new commercials and highly anticipated trailers during breaks from the last night's hard-hitting game. Budweiser Clydesdales and Pepsi ads always abound, but we're to celebrate this year's upcoming releases.Super Bowl LVII featured the Philadelphia Eagles playing against the Kansas City Chiefs, along with superhero-themed trailers,...

In the early spring of 2020, the condition we now call long COVID didn’t have a name, much less a large community of patient advocates. For the most part, clinicians dismissed its symptoms, and researchers focused on SARS-CoV-2 infections’ short-term effects. Now, as the pandemic approaches the end of its third winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the chronic toll of the coronavirus is much more familiar. Long COVID has been acknowledged by prominent experts, national leaders, and the World Health Organization; the National Institutes of Health has set up a billion-dollar research program to understand how and in whom its...

  TW — the following post may be triggering as it talks about child abuse and inappropriate child-on-child touch. … You can’t avoid the dreaded talk. Can’t postpone it. And can’t pretend it’s too early either. What we think is too early for our small children may prove to be too late. So, you have to watch for the signs. And be prepared for whatever you see. As a mother, I talk to or eavesdrop on parents’ conversations. I’m shocked by what I hear. And it’s crazy how many of the sexually abused children aren’t aware that what happened to...

Rihanna is putting in the work ahead of her Super Bowl halftime show, focusing so hard on what she promises will be “a jam-packed show” that her upcoming birthday and Valentine’s Day almost slipped her mind. “The setlist was the biggest challenge. That was the hardest, hardest part. Deciding how to maximize 13 minutes but also celebrate — that’s what this show is going to be. It’s going to be a celebration of my catalog in the best way that we could have put it together,” Rihanna said. At a media preview Thursday ahead of Sunday’s matchup between the Philadelphia...