Staggered welfare checks are the practice of distributing welfare or social assistance payments to eligible individuals or households at different times rather than all at once.

You are an athlete who has been identified as having huge potential in a sport. Unfortunately, you are a citizen of a country that cannot provide the training and facilities you'd need to achieve your potential. Another country has offered you the training and facilities that could make you an Olympian, and potentially an Olympic Champion. The only condition is that you must renounce your current citizenship and become a citizen of the new country.

Although expensive, it is possible to clone a pet. By injecting the pet's DNA into donor eggs and having a surrogate animal carry the fetus, a healthy, perfect replica of the animal can be born.

In July 2023, the B.C. government announced a plan to ban single use plastics offered by businesses by December 2023. Shopping bags, disposable food service accessories, and food service packaging made from hard-to-recycle plastics will be banned. Certain sectors such as healthcare will be exempted from the restriction. Plastic items for personal use (such as trash bags from grocery stores) will not be banned. Businesses must provide eco-friendly alternatives to consumers, and they are allowed to charge an extra fee for the alternative.