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Cats can be infected with virus that causes COVID-19: Study

By Elana Shepert/ Vancouver is Awesome There is no evidence that cats transmit the virus to humans A new study has found that cats can become infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 and may be able to pass it to other cats. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, on Wednesday, May 13, […]

WorkSafeBC announces safety guidelines for business reopening this week

By Valerie Leung / Richmond News Workers should be consulted about re-opening plans WorkSafeBC has announced industry-specific resources and guidelines for businesses re-opening during phase two of B.C.’s Restart Plan. Al Johnson, head of prevention services at WorkSafeBC, said employers are required to have a COVID-19 Safety Plan that will “assess the risk of exposures” […]

Feds quietly probe expanded role for childcare in post-pandemic recovery

By Jordan Press and Teresa Wright / The Canadian Press “The need for childcare has never been made clearer”: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau The federal government has been quietly probing how to provide provinces with more money annually for childcare, as part of what sources describe as an issue that is at, or near, the […]

Your letters: Consider the unintended consequences of fighting COVID-19

As a local family physician, I feel compelled to write in support of the concerns expressed by my colleague Dr. Denton Hirsh in last week’s Pique (“Fear should not influence COVID-19 policy,” May 7). After centuries of rule by emperors, popes, sultans, kings, economists, multinational corporations and elected officials, we now have doctors controlling world […]

Quest University’s biggest lender drops lawsuit against school

By Steven Chua / Squamish Chief The Squamish post-secondary school remains under financial protection until May 29 Quest University’s biggest lender has dropped a lawsuit that it filed against the school. Vancouver Foundation filed a notice of discontinuance for its civil action on March 27.…

Sea to Sky flyover tribute for Snowbirds set for tonight

By Jennifer Thuncher/The Squamish Chief Squamish Flying Club to fly over Whistler and Squamish in honour of Snowbirds’ Operation Inspiration, which ended with a deadly crash Sunday Tonight at 7 p.m., as your head outside to make noise for those on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19, look up. Pilots with the Squamish […]

Adidas releasing replica Terry Fox sneakers with all proceeds to charity

By Andy Prest / North Shore News New collection commemorates 40th anniversary of Marathon of Hope A Canadian hero, the quest to crush cancer, and the love of cool sneakers will collide with a new commemorative collection being launched in honour of Terry Fox. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope, Adidas […]

Taking advantage of a hard reset

By Vince Shuley Every technologically adept person knows that 99 per cent of IT issues are solved by the good ol’ “turn it off, then turn it on again” trick. Sometimes you need to go a bit further by unplugging the device from its power source or wiping the hard drive’s memory altogether in order […]

A funny thing happened at the lake:

By Tim Morch Spending the weekend at a Portuguese sailing regatta I crossed into southern Portugal from Spain’s Rosal de la Frontera border and turned northwest to nearby Grande Lago Alqueva. In 2002, Portugal completed the 96-metre-high dam on the River Guadiana, creating Portugal’s largest artificial lake.…

N'Quatqua hand out free trout to band members

By Brandon Barrett With surplus of fish at hatchery, band wanted to support community through pandemic As a proud N’Quatqua member, Sylvia Patrick was well aware of the work that’s been done at the band’s sustainable rainbow trout farm. Her brother manages the facility, and she has a clipping of a Pique article about the […]

Researchers unveil details of Mount Meager field studies

By Alyssa Noel ‘Very preliminary’ results released on geothermal energy potential More than 80 people logged into a Zoom open house last Thursday, May 7, to learn more about field work that took place last summer exploring the geothermal energy potential on Mount Meager. “If we seem a little bit nervous or maybe a little […]

Biodiversity: Playing the long game

By Leslie Anthony Back in 2015, federal, provincial, and territorial governments, with input from other stakeholder groups, collaborated on producing 2020 Biodiversity Goals and Targets for Canada in response to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its global Aichi Biodiversity Targets (Aichi being the Japanese town where […]

Home and the deranged (plus Quarantino 8)

By Feet Banks If there’s one thing most of us know a lot about these days, it’s home. And since we all signed up (and probably forgot to cancel) those trial Apple TV+ accounts to watch Beastie Boys Story a couple weeks ago, it’s a good time to check out Home, an Apple series dedicated […]

Ferry service between Horseshoe Bay, Departure Bay to resume June 3

By Jeff Bell / Times Colonist Expect four round trips per day instead of the usual eight B.C. Ferries is planning to resume service between Horseshoe Bay and Departure Bay starting on June 3. There will be four round trips per day instead of the usual eight.…

Giving birth in Squamish during COVID-19 — and a baby boom

By Jennifer Thuncher/The Squamish Chief Five babies born on Mother’s Day at Squamish Hospital; 35 expected by end of the month As if being pregnant and in labour during COVID-19 wasn’t enough, Micaela Giuffre wasn’t sure she was going to make it to Squamish General Hospital to deliver her second child on Mother’s Day night. […]