I've tried to delete my earlier post, but for the folks of you who might have seen it:

It's all good! The little guy went on a stroll by itself and knows his way home!

He is known to the West Vancouver Bylaw Division and they confirmed that he's all good.

Thank you!

I saw these installed on the Arbutus Greenway today. This doesn't look in any form wheelchair, stroller, one wheel, skate board or bike friendly to me at all.

Is there any practical reason to build those barriers to justify making life harder for above mentioned groups?

Kleenex, the brand that became the generic term for facial tissues, is pulling out of Canada.

Harrison Fleming served Alberta premier Jason Kenney by barraging critics with hard-right insults and attacks.

In an ideal world, Stéphanie Alain would already be in Calgary and part of an experimental treatment she's hoping will save her life.

Instead, the 31-year-old from Rouyn-Noranda, Que., is stuck at home with her four-year-old son, having to commute to Montreal for cancer treatment that her doctors say isn't working.

Last year, she was diagnosed with alveolar soft part sarcoma, a rare cancer that has since spread to her lungs.

Alain's only hope for a recovery lies in the clinical trial in Calgary. The doctors running the trial in Alberta say their funding will cover the cost of her treatment, but RAMQ, Quebec's health insurance board, won't cover any of the other expenses — standard procedures like scans and blood tests as well as possible adverse reactions associated with the experimental trial.

"It's the only treatment in the world that exists that could cure me," said Alain.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/3413638

New signs emphasize strength and hope of Indigenous women and communities.

Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women in northern B.C. and an Indigenous social service agency have unveiled four new billboards to honour and remember the women and girls who've died or disappeared along a notorious highway that's been dubbed the Highway of Tears.

The route has been called the Highway of Tears because more than 40 women and girls, mostly Indigenous, have gone missing or been murdered along the 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in northern B.C. since 1969.

New signs emphasize strength and hope of Indigenous women and communities.

Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women in northern B.C. and an Indigenous social service agency have unveiled four new billboards to honour and remember the women and girls who've died or disappeared along a notorious highway that's been dubbed the Highway of Tears.

The route has been called the Highway of Tears because more than 40 women and girls, mostly Indigenous, have gone missing or been murdered along the 700-kilometre stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert in northern B.C. since 1969.

There is relief tonight that two children missing for weeks have been found safe and sound. For 11 days, an Amber Alert was issued, looking for any sign of them, and it was finally lifted last night when Surrey RCMP say the kids were located in Alberta. Grace Ke reports. (...)

(...) Abduction charges have been laid against the mother and her boyfriend in relation to the incident.

The project was previously rejected by the city in 2017 amid community concern about the tall building’s architectural disconnect with historic Chinatown and the lack of social housing, which has continued to motivate opposition. Proponents, on the other hand, believe the project will economically revitalize the area.

It is now officially termed as “being held,” with further spread unlikely.

That has allowed the reopening of the southbound lanes of Highway 99, although northbound traffic to Squamish, Whistler and beyond was still being detoured through the morning rush hour.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/742622

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/80133

The Berber Queen who defied the Caliphate: Al-Kahina and the Islamic Conquest of North Africa

Seventh-century North Africa would see the rise of a warrior queen named al-Kahina. Who was she and how was she able to wage a war against the Umayyad Caliphate?

After their unification under the banner of Islam and the rule of the caliphs in Medina, the Arabs embarked on a series of spectacular conquests during the 7th and 8th centuries. By the mid-8th century, they created an empire that encompassed the territories between the Iberian Peninsula in the west to Norther India and Central Asia in the East Morocco's 🇲🇦 Indigenous Berber women play a prominent role in their culture.

For example, the story of Kahina, the pre-Islamic female warrior, is still very much alive in Berber culture and nowadays is used by the youth as a symbol of Berber language and culture. Kahina is remembered for her acts of bravery and her clairvoyant ability to lead her people against the Arab invasions in the 7th century CE. She surmounted the masculine monopoly of military enterprise to become a legend and the only uncrowned ‘she king’ in Moroccan history. Kahina, whose name means ‘priestess’ or ‘prophetess’, was born in the Aures Mountains in Algeria in the 7th century; the exact date is unknown.

During her lifetime, Arab generals began to lead armies into North Africa, preparing to conquer the area and introduce Islam to the local peoples. Kahina directed a determined resistance to the invasions. Around 690, she assumed personal command of the African forces, and under her aggressive leadership, the Arabs were forced to retreat.

I've tried to cross post a posting in lemmy.ca/c/TIL to lemmy.world/c/women, but there's no community option for that community.

I've also noticed, when logged into my account on lemmy.world, I have different community options to cross post to than if I'm logged into my lemmy.ca account.

How can you cross post to communities that are not yet in the drop down menu?

Thanks

Metro Vancouver was in the middle of its “Go By Bike” Week – and the country in the midst of a wildfire crisis – when the mayor’s ABC Party sent out a congratulatory tweet about the removal of most of a temporary bike lane from Stanley Park.

“More access to more users again,” the municipal party that forms the majority on Vancouver’s City Council and Park Board trumpeted on June 1, as it recognized the Park Board for its “hard work” on the matter. (...)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/701140

Summary:

• Creation of universal pharmacare program is a condition of Liberal-NDP supply-and-confidence deal
• In 2018, the Liberals appointed Dr. Eric Hoskins, a former Ontario Liberal health minister, to chair an advisory council to assess a national pharmacare plan. The council's report, released the following year, recommended the establishment of a universal, single-payer public pharmacare systen
• The NDP's health critic says their bill follows the council's recommendations and the principles of the Canada Health Act. He said the proposal allows the government to negotiate with provinces and territories on a pharmacare plan, and would allow Ottawa to withhold funding from provinces if they don't comply with the act.

I've just received a road alert: The middle lane of the Lionsgate bridge is closed due to a police incident. Motorists are advised to expect delays

Edit They've just updated the alert. The middle lane is open again. I would still expect delays due to the backlog plus now the usual rush hour traffic

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