-Donald Trump is on his twitter keyboard this morning talking trade with Canada and Mexico tying in Steel and Aluminum with Farmers and NAFTA. With all this talk there seems to be no rationale by the US President when talking about trade as he flip flops from one point to the next. So what is his end game?
-Donald Trump is on his twitter keyboard this morning talking trade with Canada and Mexico tying in Steel and Aluminum with Farmers and NAFTA. With all this talk there seems to be no rationale by the US President when talking about trade as he flip flops from one point to the next. So what is his end game?
-Jimmy Kimmel got the 90th Academy Awards underway with an opening monologue that mixed Harvey Weinstein punchlines with earnest comments about reforming gender equality in Hollywood. At the ceremony Sunday, Kimmel jumped straight into material about last year’s infamous best picture flub.
-The man who ran the Miracle Mile has passed away. Jason Beck is the curator of the BC Sports Hall of Fame - he also wrote a book about Roger Bannister
-Questions are mounting about a speculation tax and the impact on part-time residents from other Canadian provinces, and on British Columbians with recreational properties, summer cottages, bolt holes in the city or residences in smaller communities. The Vancouver Sun's Vaughn Palmer is here with his take on the day's headlines.
-A Paramedic is often racing against time to save their patient in an emergency; but what if time was no longer an issue. Tim Dickert has the tech report.
-Washington State is going to phase out open net fish farming by 2025 which has some people looking at British Columbia and wondering if the same decision could be on the way here.
-A new Canadian guideline for managing opioid use disorders lays out the optimal
strategies for the treatment of opioid addiction, including recommending opioid agonist
treatment with buprenorphine–naloxone as the preferred first-line treatment.
Chapter 9:
-A month long fundraising campaign for ALS begins today. It includes a Golfathon and Walk for ALS. This comes on the heels of a big campaign you might remember called the “ice bucket challenge”.
-The remains were found in a planter at 53 Mallory Crescent, where six other sets of dismembered body parts were found. Also during today’s news conference, Lead investigator Detective Sergeant Hank Idsinga released a picture of an unidentified man. He warned that the picture may be distressing, and that he only released it as a last resort in an effort to identify the man.
-33 year old American Elizabeth Swaney, who competed for Hungary, has been described as the ‘worst Olympian ever’ after an average run in the women’s ski halfpipe at PyeongChang. How did she end up competing at the Olympics? Did she play the system?
-Cape Town’s Day Zero is approaching on July 9, when authorities will switch off the taps, leaving four million residents without running water. A city the size of Los Angeles is facing a water crisis, the likes of which the world has never seen. Cato Bekker, who lives in Cape Town, she talks us through what Cape Town is facing.
