In this week’s issue of our environment newsletter, we look at how mycelium could be used to make sustainable building materials and why RBC ranks so high on the list of banks funding the fossil fuel industry.
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland held her first call with U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris on Thursday, a discussion that touched on migration from Central America, the impact of the COVID-19 recession and the continued detention of two Canadians in China.
Okanagan Indian Band member Cory Brewer says the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, adopted by B.C. in 2019, gives him the right to sell cannabis outside of the band’s reserve without a provincial licence.
The B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres, whose website hosts the app, aims to use the information to figure out patterns of racist incidents in the health-care sector, and present solutions on how to address these issues with policymakers.