Kelowna 'Freedom Rally' organizer convicted of 2 counts of assault during 2021 protest (www.cbc.ca)
Public safety warning issued as toxic drug deaths in B.C. rise to 7 per day (www.cbc.ca)
The B.C. Coroners Service (BCCS) issued a public safety warning Wednesday amid “a recent increase in deaths caused by toxic drugs.”...
Surrey Memorial Hospital considering leased housing, including hotels, to ease overcrowding (www.cbc.ca)
The health authority that oversees one of B.C.'s busiest hospitals is looking at leasing transitional housing for patients who no longer need urgent care, hoping that moving those patients off-site will reduce the overcrowding that’s plagued the hospital for months....
Minister mum on confidence in CBC head, says work to find successor begins next year (www.cbc.ca)
'They're all back': B.C. medical experts warn of seasonal illness 'tridemic' (www.cbc.ca)
A range of viral and bacterial infections are all back in circulation, including COVID-19....
'No longer any doubt,' says Soleiman Faqiri's family as inquest deems Ontario jail death a homicide (www.cbc.ca)
Vancouver Park Board votes to continue work in defiance of mayor's plans (www.cbc.ca)
In what may go down as a purely symbolic motion, a majority of Vancouver Park Board commissioners voted to continue the elected board’s plans and reaffirm their oaths on Monday....
Hwy 97 north of Prince George closed, 1 taken to hospital after crash (www.cbc.ca)
Kenneth Law charged with 14 counts of 2nd-degree murder in multiple Ontario deaths (www.cbc.ca)
A charge sheet from the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket shows Law was charged Monday with 14 counts of second-degree murder, in addition to the 14 counts of counselling or aiding suicide that he was already facing.
Amnesty International reports 'ongoing violations' of human rights on Wet'suwet'en territory (www.cbc.ca)
Hudson's Bay workers in Kamloops, B.C., walk off the job (www.cbc.ca)
Workers at the Hudson’s Bay store at Aberdeen Mall in Kamloops, B.C., have walked off the job after their union and the company were unable to reach a wage agreement....
Surrey RCMP cancel Amber Alert, arrest suspect after 'safe recovery' of missing baby (www.cbc.ca)
Police in Surrey, B.C., say they arrested a 28-year-old man, ending their search after the “safe recovery” of a missing two-month-old baby.
Full-time residents of North Vancouver marina learn they won't be evicted after all (www.cbc.ca)
It's not just COVID anymore, or a triple-demic. Welcome to the 'new norm' of seasonal illnesses (www.cbc.ca)
As health-care teams remain dangerously overstretched, they’re also grappling with the pressure of what some physicians are calling a “new norm” for seasonal illnesses — a range of viral and bacterial infections all back in circulation, with COVID-19 still chief among them.
Companies are clear-cutting next to wild life protection areas to log more old growth trees (www.cbc.ca)
5 now dead in cantaloupe salmonella outbreak as Canadian cases nearly double (www.cbc.ca)
Federal government hikes income requirement for foreign students, targets 'puppy mill' schools (www.cbc.ca)
As expected, Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady at 5% (www.cbc.ca)
Developer's suit against environmental groups leads to call for protective law (www.cbc.ca)
A litigious developer doesn’t like it when people call him out....
Construction difficulties in Fraser Valley could delay Trans Mountain pipeline (www.cbc.ca)
Huge spike in herring killed in B.C. salmon farm operations: DFO data (www.cbc.ca)
Vancouver adds electric fire truck to its fleet (www.cbc.ca)
Street artist who froze to death memorialized in retrospective exhibit (www.cbc.ca)
An exhibit at the Penticton Art Gallery is honouring Cree artist Alvin Elif Constant, also known by many as the Wandering Spirit, who sold his work on the streets of Vancouver and Victoria....
CBC B.C.'s Food Bank Day surpasses $1.6 million, online donations open until Dec. 31 (www.cbc.ca)
CBC B.C. has now raised more than $19 million since Food Bank Day began, with $2,967,719.26 raised across the province last year alone....