While new numbers show almost 30 per cent of Canadians have now received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, it could likely be more were it not for hesitancy about one of the options. Some of British Columbia’s harshest travel restrictions yet are now in effect. There are new developments in the death of the late Billie Wynell Johnson, the 30 year old Cree woman who went missing on Christmas Eve. A second Indigenous person has come forward with a complaint about their treatment at an Alberta hospital.

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