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Grocery clerks and food service staff will be among the 150,000 British Columbians getting a pay raise when the minimum wage increases on June 1 to to $16.75 from $15.65. (Contributed)
B.C.’s minimum wage to go up to $16.75 on June 1
A UBC research reveals that customers prefer self-checkout or interacting with robotic individuals when purchasing blush-inducing items. (Courtesy/Contributed to Black Press Media)
Self-checkout preferred for blush-inducing purchases, B.C. study affirms
The Canada sign in Victoria’s Inner Harbour is pictured in early 2023. The provincial government will up support for temporary residents starting in 2024 as B.C.’s demographics continue to change. (Black Press Media file photo)
Provincial government boosts supports for newcomers to B.C.
UBC researchers aim to lead the charge in defining what is a concussion. (Black Press File Photo)
B.C. researchers look to bridge gap in ‘wildly inconsistent’ concussion diagnoses
Madison Scot (RCMP handout photo)
Remains of B.C. woman found 12 years since going missing in Vanderhoof
E-bikes, here seen at Vernon’s Sun Country Cycle, will be subject to a new provincial rebate program June 1. Some eligible British Columbians could get up to $1,400 off their next e-bike purchase. (Contributed)
New provincial program rings up to $1,400 in rebates for e-bikes
A smoker puts out a cigarette in a public ashtray in Ottawa on May 31, 2016. Three national health organizations want Canada’s premiers to push for initiatives to reduce smoking during settlement negotiations with major tobacco companies, which provinces sued to recoup health-care costs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Provinces must seek anti-smoking measures in Big Tobacco settlement: health groups
The Edson Forest Area wildfire is shown in a Thursday, May 11, 2023 handout photo. (Alberta Wildfire/Twitter)
Early snowmelt in Western mountains means drier summers, more wildfire risk: study
The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023. Premier David Eby acknowledged concerns around AI, but sees more light than shadow when it comes to the effects of artificial intelligence. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Richard Drew)
AI opens up ‘incredible opportunities’ for B.C.: Eby
Emergency crews put on a “mock crash” scenario at Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver Friday (May 26, 2023) to show students just how serious impaired driving and reckless driving can be. Students look on during the demonstration. (Lauren Collins)
Mock crash staged at B.C. high school serves as cautionary tale
WestJet pilots are poised to get a 24 per cent pay bump over four years under an agreement-in-principle between the company and the union. Members of the Air Line Pilots Association demonstrate amid contract negotiations outside the WestJet headquarters in Calgary, Alta., Friday, March 31, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
WestJet pilots deal grants 24% pay raise over four years
B.C. Premier David Eby talks with the media in Langford on May 25 alongside NDP candidate for the Langford-Juan de Fuca byelection Ravi Parmar. Eby will lead a trade delegation to Asia starting May 27. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
Eby says Asia trade mission a way to ‘protect’ B.C. from geopolitical tensions
A new report is casting doubt on the idea that Canada is facing a widespread labour shortage, bolstering arguments by labour economists who say the country has more than enough workers. A sign for help wanted is pictured in a business window in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 12, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
StatCan report casts clouds on claims of a widespread labour shortage in Canada
Guillermo Hernandez, right, a soil scientist, and Camila Quiroz, a research intern from Peru, look over their plants in a research room used to simulate sunlight at the University of Alberta in Edmonton in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez, University of Alberta. *MANDATORY CREDIT*
‘More connected’: Researchers looking at growing food under solar panels
Lululemon CEO Calvin McDonald, left, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, centre, and Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Sean Fraser arrive for a news conference at the company’s headquarters, in Vancouver, on Thursday, May 25, 2023. The company has received a waiver from immigration rules restricting access to foreign workers as it expands its global headquarters, with plans to hire 2,600 additional workers over the next five years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Lululemon promises 2,600 new jobs after exemption from some immigration rules
A woman places one of 215 pairs of children’s shoes on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery as a memorial to the 215 children whose remains have been found buried at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, in Vancouver, B.C., Friday, May 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Vancouver brings temporary residential schools memorial to a close after 2 years
The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, Thursday, May 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Richard Drew
B.C., Alberta and Quebec join Ottawa in investigating ChatGPT
A woman walks past a Freedom Mobile story in Toronto on November 24, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Freedom Mobile unveils first nationwide plan following Rogers-Shaw deal
Customers make their way through the parking lot of a Target store Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. Target is removing certain items from its stores and making other changes to its LGBTQ+ merchandise nationwide ahead of Pride month after an intense backlash from some customers including violent confrontations with its workers. (AP Photo/George Walker IV
Target on the defensive after removing some products aimed at LGBTQ+
Police cars are seen parked outside Vancouver Police Department headquarters in Vancouver, on Saturday, January 9, 2021. The second phase of a year-long Vancouver Police investigation has led to $13 million worth of drugs, guns and cash being seized. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
B.C. police seize $13M worth of drugs, guns, cash