BC family of 5 set to fly around the world over the next year – and raise $1M for charity

The Porter family is set to take off on their flight around the world from Vancouver on June 14. Samantha Porter, 21, could take a year off between her third and fourth years of studying geography, environment and sustainability at the University of British Columbia. It also needed to be relatively easy to fly with […]

Balance between normal life and managing COVID may be more attainable now: Tam …

While health experts say vaccines greatly prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death, chief public health officer Dr. Two doses of an mRNA vaccine are 75 to 80 per cent effective against severe illness from Omicron, according to Canada’s National Advisory Committee on Immunization. Ontario and Quebec, which have seen a slight decline in COVID-19-related hospitalizations […]

B.C. professor’s Mother Tree research branches out to bestselling book, movie deal – Peace …

Simard said her book is a personal story of a decades-long journey that starts with her being a new hire at a B.C. “They’re actually like societies,” Simard said. But Simard said she was undaunted. “What we found in connecting this map is that pretty much all of the trees were connected together,” said Simard. […]