Fraser Health is warning the public about potential COVID-19 exposure at a sports bar in Surrey. The health agency says anyone who visited Baselines Pub at 8233 166 Street in the Fleetwood neighbourhood between Oct. 23 and 26 may have been exposed to the virus. Although the exposure is believed to be low risk, Fraser…
A Metro Vancouver Transit Police officer was sent to hospital with serious injuries following a two-vehicle collision in Surrey on Wednesday night. Surrey RCMP say the accident, which involved an unmarked Transit police SUV and a sedan, occurred just before 11 p.m. on 128th Street and 93rd Avenue. The force of the crash sent the…
It is a sign of just how rapidly the early character of Vancouver is vanishing. The new book of heritage watercolours by Michael Kluckner , president of the Vancouver Historical Society, is not slated for official launch until Nov. 21 and already it has been overtaken by events: More demolitions in the name of gentrification.…
Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C. for Nov. 5, 2020. We’ll provide summaries of what’s going on in B.C. right here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated regularly throughout the day, with developments added as…
A Burnaby biotech company has enrolled and dosed its first volunteer with an oral DNA vaccine to prevent COVID-19. On Wednesday, Symvivo Corporation reported that “investigators have enrolled and dosed the first healthy volunteer in its bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial in Australia.” According to the firm, the treatment delivers genetic material to the…
VANCOUVER, B.C.: Thursday, Nov. 5. — The bad news: It’s going to be mostly miserable in Vancouver today. Environment Canada says we can expect cloudy skies, showers this morning and high winds near water. The good news: The weekend is going to be sunny. The weather agency says we are in for mainly sunny days…
A woman who provides support for people living in homeless camps in the Qualicum Beach area says she was warned not to visit an encampment near Whiskey Creek where three people were later found dead. Kelly Morris, a peer-support worker based in Qualicum Beach, said she had previously been to the encampment where the killings…
The new federal recommendation to wear a face mask with three layers of protection will be easy to follow for anyone who bought them with the opening for an optional filter. The handmade fabric masks Stephanie Schneider created and sold at her East Vancouver designer studio Glasnost soon after COVID-19 hit have always had an…
Cyanea Zheng and Isabella Wehner were excited to join their high school’s robotics club last year, but not so excited to discover they would be asked to send out funding applications instead of building robots. So the Grade 12 Templeton Secondary students, both 17, decided to start their own club, and formed Puddle Jumper Robotics,…
Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart is blasting the B.C. government for shortchanging the province’s biggest cities, including his, in the distribution of COVID-19 recovery funds. The city is already looking at cuts, including possible layoffs, as well as the largest drawdown in recent memory from reserve funds to make up for a $60 million revenue shortfall…