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After sitting empty for more than two years, the more than century-old London Hotel on the edge of Vancouver’s Chinatown will soon be housing patients in St. Paul’s Hospital’s Road to Recovery program, Global News has learned. Members of the local business community said they are hopeful the new tenants will be a good fit for the neighbourhood.“I’m feeling optimistic,” Vancouver Chinatown BIA president Jordan Eng said in an interview Friday. 2:05 B.C. premier updates addiction ‘road to recovery’ care initiative In January 2023, Vancouver city council approved a $720,000 grant to the notorious SRO’s operator, Atira Women’s Resource Society,…

Roger Cook says he is ‘not taking anything for granted’, despite being at unbackable odds to win today’s state Election.

NewsFeedYemen’s Houthis have said they will resume naval operations against Israel if it does not lift its blockade of aid into Gaza within four days. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, the Houthis have carried out dozens of attacks on commercial and military ships in the Red Sea.Published On 7 Mar 20257 Mar 2025

An illegal immigrant who once served as an aide to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., has reportedly self-deported to Colombia, praising the “freedom of movement” in the South American nation after working in Congress despite being in the country illegally.  Diego de la Vega was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a 7-year-old in 2001 on a visitor’s visa that he overstayed, Migrant Insider reported. The news raises thorny questions about his employment status for the Queens-based congresswoman.”It’s bittersweet. I hadn’t left the country in 23 years — from age seven to age 30,” de la Vega told…

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning to conduct a large-scale study to re-examine whether there is a connection between vaccines and autism, federal officials said Friday.Dozens of scientific studies have failed to find evidence of a link. But the C.D.C. now falls under the purview of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long expressed skepticism about the safety of vaccines and has vowed to revisit the data.“As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the rate of autism in American children has skyrocketed. C.D.C. will leave no stone unturned in…

A deep-sea anglerfish that was recently spotted in shallow waters has captured the hearts of hundreds of thousands of social media users in recent days – and the photographer who spotted it recently opened up about the creature’s fate.David Jara Boguñá, a marine photographer affiliated with Condrik Tenerife, a Spanish conservation organization, posted a video about the viral anglerfish on Feb. 13. The fish was documented swimming vertically in shallow waters less than a mile from Tenerife, the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands, earlier this month.But the menacing-looking photos did not capture the fish’s true size, Jara said – as…

New Mexico officials have announced the cause of death for actor Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa, a week after they were found dead at their home in Santa Fe. Hackman died of heart disease, with Alzheimer’s disease as a contributing factor, and Arakawa died several days before him of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, Chief Medical Investigator Dr. Heather Jarrell said Friday.Investigators had been trying to determine a cause of death for the couple since they died in their home last month.How did Gene Hackman die?Hackman, 95, and Arakawa, 65, were found dead in their home in a gated community in Santa Fe…

Apple on Wednesday debuted its iPhone 16e, a lower-cost addition to the tech giant’s iPhone 16 lineup that features Apple Intelligence tools. The iPhone 16e replaces the iPhone SE, last released in 2022, which was Apple’s budget-friendly iPhone option. At $599, the starting price for the iPhone 16e is less than the $800 it costs for a standard iPhone 16, but more than the SE, which sold for $430.The new phone is powered by Apple’s own cellular modem chip, called the C1, which processes the phone’s AI features. The tools can summarize text and audio, create new emojis and has made…

ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via EmailJim Risoleo, Host Hotels and Resorts CEO, joins ‘Closing Bell Overtime’ to talk quarterly results, consumer travel trends, and more.04:39Wed, Feb 19 20255:21 PM EST