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Feature by Gregory Beatty The lifeblood of arts and culture is public engagement, so when the pandemic first struck last March, says Marnie Gladwell, the effect was immediate. “We did two surveys — one of artists and cultural workers, the other of arts organizations — and found that they’d been hit hard and were reeling,” says Gladwell, who is the executive director of Saskatchewan Arts Alliance (SAA). “And I’m not sure it’s improved a whole bunch since then in what they’ve been able to do.” Not surprisingly, artists and arts organizations rallied, shifting programming on...

After working on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a year, the mental health of health-care workers across Canada has suffered considerably. Seventy per cent of health-care workers who participated in a Statistics Canada survey released last week reported worsening mental health as a result of working during the pandemic. Approximately 18,000 health-care workers around the country filled out a questionnaire between Nov. 24 and...

Kelowna continues to be one of the fastest growing regions in Canada.

$19.95, 30pp Over 15 per cent of the world’s population lives with disability, according to the United Nations. In Canada, that number is higher. Twenty-two per cent of Canadians, according to Stats Can, live with disability, and nearly half of us who live past the age of 75 deal with some disability challenge, often one that limits mobility. In 2012, 81 per cent of disabled Canadians needed to use assistive technology. Too often, Canadians with disabilities are hampered as much by stigma, bias and inadequate public services as they are by their underlying physical challenges. Beep, Beep, B...

Article content The good news is that pre-pandemic, B.C. kids and their families were better off than they had been for more than decade as the province’s chronically bad child poverty rate continued its improving trend. COVID stopped that progress in its tracks and is making it even more challenging for the province to meet its 2024 target of reducing overall poverty by 25 per cent within five years. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Daphne Bramham: Especially in a pandemic, B.C. needs to continue reducing child poverty Back to video