health and safety

health and safety


‘Cannot believe COVID-like outbreaks don’t happen far more often’: Canada’s role in animal trade driving pandemic risks

British Columbia conservation biologist Chris Shepherd has spent more than three decades, oftentimes undercover, inside wildlife markets across the globe.  The gruesome sights he has witnessed make it hard to believe that “outbreaks like COVID don’t happen far more often”. In the early 90s, Shepherd had just completed high school, unaware of the world he […]

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‘I was terrified I was going to die.’ Rape victims in Brazil struggle to access legal abortions

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A 27-year-old Brazilian woman, who said she became pregnant after being raped in March during Carnival in Brasilia, should have been granted access to a legal abortion. But when she sought to terminate the pregnancy at a hospital around a month later, she was told she needed a police report […]

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FIPA complaint to OIPC: Mount Polley tailings pond

Request for an investigation into the failure of the BC Government to release information about the Mount Polley tailings pond, contrary to s.25 of FIPPA. Download the complaint

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