With the news Italy has shutdown the country and areas in the United States have banned large scale public events,

It’s @jillreports’s

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🔥🔥 Hot question of the day 🔥🔥

Canada's Chief Public Health Officer says she is now advising all Canadians avoid travel on cruise ships due to coronavirus

It’s @jillreports’s 🔥 question of the day: Are you cancelling your spring break vacation because of the coronavirus? 

Yes

No

 

CHAPTER 2

Wall Street, TSX pause trading as stocks plunge amid oil market chaos

The New York Stock Exchange and the Toronto Stock Exchange temporarily paused trading Monday morning as stocks plunged at open after plummeting oil prices compounded investor anxiety over the new coronavirus outbreak. The New York Stock Exchange halted trading after the benchmark S&P 500 index dropped seven per cent. Trading resumed at 9:49 a.m. ET.

Guest: Michael Campbell

Host of Moneytalks, Saturdays at 8:30am on CKNW

 

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2 Surrey schools notified of COVID-19 cases, Fraser Health says risk is low

Two Surrey schools are open Monday morning amid concerns over COVID-19.

A letter to parents and guardians of students at Serpentine Elementary says a person who was in the school for part of a “community-use rental” has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus.

Guest: Ritinder Matthew

Surrey School District Communications Services Manager

 

CHAPTER 4

Canadian mayors may have unwittingly been targets of Chinese influence campaign

When a group of seven Vancouver-area mayors landed in Beijing in April 2007, they believed they were in China to study eco-friendly development and build trade ties for British Columbia.  

But an investigation by Global News raises questions about whether the Canadian mayors were unwittingly drawn into an influence campaign aimed at improving perceptions of China and reducing criticism of human rights abuses.

Guest: Sam Cooper

Global News Investigative Journalist

 

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Coronavirus cases in Alberta and B.C. are linked. What does that mean for further spread? 

One of B.C.’s confirmed cases of the new coronavirus is responsible for a presumptive case in Alberta, health officials in that province announced Sunday — marking the first instance of spread between provinces.

Guest: Tom Koch 

Adjunct professor of medical geography at the University of British Columbia

Author of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine and Disease Maps, Epidemics on the ground

 

CHAPTER 6

Officials urge Canadians to ‘avoid all cruise ship travel’ over COVID-19 risk

A lot of news about COVID - 19 today. B.C. Medical Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health minister Adrian Dix announced the first Canadian death in connection to COVID-19 has been recorded in B.C.

One of the residents of a care home in North Vancouver's Lynn Valley, whose case was announced Saturday, died on Sunday. 

A lot of attention is now being focused on the cruise ship industry as Canada prepares to repatriate 237 Canadians aboard the Diamond Princess, which is expected to dock in Oakland. There are six cases of the virus in Canada linked to a previous voyage of the Grand Princess.

Guest: Claire Allen 

CKNW Contributor

 

CHAPTER 7

Canada introduces legislation to ban conversion therapy

Justice Minister David Lametti has added another bill to the government's agenda, tabling new amendments to the Criminal Code, to impose a ban on conversion therapy. The legislation — a campaign promise and evolution on the government's position last parliament — is proposing to prohibit religious counselling seeking to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, nationwide.

Guest: Travis Salway 

SFU Health Sciences Professor

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Justice Minister David Lametti has added another bill to the government's agenda, tabling new amendments to the Criminal Code, to impose a ban on conversion therapy. The legislation — a campaign promise and evolution on the government's position last parliament — is proposing to prohibit religious counselling seeking to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, nationwide.

 

Guest: Travis Salway 

SFU Health Sciences Professor

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Justice Minister David Lametti has added another bill to the government's agenda, tabling new amendments to the Criminal Code, to impose a ban on conversion therapy. The legislation — a campaign promise and evolution on the government's position last parliament — is proposing to prohibit religious counselling seeking to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, nationwide.

 

Guest: Travis Salway 

SFU Health Sciences Professor

A lot of news about COVID - 19 today. B.C. Medical Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health minister Adrian Dix announced the first Canadian death in connection to COVID-19 has been recorded in B.C.

 

One of the residents of a care home in North Vancouver's Lynn Valley, whose case was announced Saturday, died on Sunday. 

 

A lot of attention is now being focused on the cruise ship industry as Canada prepares to repatriate 237 Canadians aboard the Diamond Princess, which is expected to dock in Oakland. There are six cases of the virus in Canada linked to a previous voyage of the Grand Princess.

 

Guest: Claire Allen 

CKNW Contributor

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A lot of news about COVID - 19 today. B.C. Medical Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health minister Adrian Dix announced the first Canadian death in connection to COVID-19 has been recorded in B.C.

 

One of the residents of a care home in North Vancouver's Lynn Valley, whose case was announced Saturday, died on Sunday. 

 

A lot of attention is now being focused on the cruise ship industry as Canada prepares to repatriate 237 Canadians aboard the Diamond Princess, which is expected to dock in Oakland. There are six cases of the virus in Canada linked to a previous voyage of the Grand Princess.

 

Guest: Claire Allen 

CKNW Contributor

One of B.C.’s confirmed cases of the new coronavirus is responsible for a presumptive case in Alberta, health officials in that province announced Sunday — marking the first instance of spread between provinces.

 

Guest: Tom Koch 

Adjunct professor of medical geography at the University of British Columbia

Author of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine and Disease Maps, Epidemics on the ground

One of B.C.’s confirmed cases of the new coronavirus is responsible for a presumptive case in Alberta, health officials in that province announced Sunday — marking the first instance of spread between provinces.

 

Guest: Tom Koch 

Adjunct professor of medical geography at the University of British Columbia

Author of Cartographies of Disease: Maps, Mapping, and Medicine and Disease Maps, Epidemics on the ground

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a group of seven Vancouver-area mayors landed in Beijing in April 2007, they believed they were in China to study eco-friendly development and build trade ties for British Columbia.  

But an investigation by Global News raises questions about whether the Canadian mayors were unwittingly drawn into an influence campaign aimed at improving perceptions of China and reducing criticism of human rights abuses.

 

Guest: Sam Cooper

Global News Investigative Journalist