Their growing popularity has forced an attitude shift in hospitality, from alcohol free drinks as an afterthought to curating them with as much thought as alcoholic options.

Many people rose to the occasion to help their community during times of danger, loss and uncertainty in 2021. Here are some of them.

After being separated for almost three years, a Canadian and her spouse, an Iraqi national, are calling on the new immigration minister to address the spousal sponsorship application backlog, and change the requirements around obtaining visitor visas.

The curator of the Black Strathcona Resurgence Project says her goal is to use public murals to push back against the erasure of the Black communityin Strathcona, many members of which were displaced by the construction of the Georgia viaductin the 1970s.

The Pacific Post Partum Support Society logged around 6,000 calls in the first 12 months of the pandemic, an increase of fifty per cent on the previous year, and demand remains high.

Catholic order that staffed Kamloops and other residential schools still refuses to share records that could help Indigenous families locate lost loved ones.

Birth doulas in B.C. are reporting increased anxiety among their third trimester clients as they grapple with the prospect of bringing new life into hospitals the public is being told to avoid for safety reasons.