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She Struggled To Reclaim Her Indigenous Name. She Hopes Others Have It Easier

A new Canadian policy answers a 2015 call for government action. Danita Bilozaze hopes it means that no one will face the resistance she did to rescue her name from a history of forced assimilation.
Emma Bowman
National

The West Coast Heat Has Killed Dozens And Hospitalized More In Canada And The U.S.

Heat-related illnesses have sent hundreds of people to the ER across the region as temperatures hit unprecedented highs. British Columbia reported about 100 excess deaths from Friday to Monday.
Jaclyn Diaz
Government

Food crisis feared on peninsula isolated by border as only grocery teeters on closure

A local fire chief is warning of a looming "humanitarian crisis" on the peninsula of Point Roberts in northwest Washington state. It's a strange predicament brought on by a money-losing supermarket and pandemic-related restrictions on crossing the U.S.-Canada border.
Tom Banse
Sports

Cuba's Baseball Team Fails To Make The Olympics — And It's Canada's Fault

"Clearly we have not learned how to beat Canada," reports Granma, the official newspaper of Cuba's ruling Communist Party.
Bill Chappell
Government

Ongoing closure of Canadian border to nonessential crossings makes Washington enclave 'stir crazy'

The United States and Canadian governments confirmed Thursday that pandemic border crossing restrictions will continue for at least another month to June 21. This is the fourteenth month-by-month extension of the closure of the northern border to nonessential crossings. The lengthy closure has been especially wearing on Point Roberts, a community in northwestern Washington state that is cut off from the U.S. mainland by the Canadian border.
Tom Banse
Health

Come for your shot, Canadians, proposes exclave of Point Roberts, USA

As the story of the COVID-19 vaccine in the Pacific Northwest changes from scarcity to surplus, one northwestern Washington community says it is in a unique position to extend a helping hand across the border.
Tom Banse
Health

Border Communities Offer Surplus COVID Vaccines To Canadian Neighbors

With just over 3% of Canadians fully inoculated against COVID-19, a growing number of America's northern border states and communities have stepped up to offer them excess doses.
Emma Jacobs
Health

Biden Takes First Jab At Vaccine Diplomacy, Sharing Doses With Mexico, Canada

The United States will loan millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine — not yet approved for emergency U.S. use — to its closest neighbors.
Tamara Keith
Government

Couples, families separated by U.S.-Canada border closure find oasis at Peace Arch park

This coming Sunday, March 21, will mark one year since the U.S. and Canada closed their shared border to nonessential crossings due to the pandemic. It's anybody's guess when the border might reopen for discretionary trips. In the meantime, every weekend rain or shine, Peace Arch State Park in Blaine, Washington, becomes a happening meetup point for couples and families separated by the northern border.
Tom Banse
Border officials lied about targeted stops of Iranian Americans back in January

Last January, 277 people, many of them U.S. citizens or permanent residents with Iranian heritage or ties to the Middle East, were stopped by border agents, records obtained by the Council for American Islamic Relations in Washington and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project found.
Esmy Jimenez

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