B.C.’s provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says most people are feeling stressed out because of the pandemic and advocated reaching out to others to ask if they are OK. Henry made the comments during a keynote address Saturday morning to more than 1,500 girls, aged 11 to 13, at Science World’s third annual Girls…
Health officials say a COVID-19 outbreak is over at a long term care home in Surrey but have declared a new one in Mission. Fraser Health says the outbreak is over at PICS Assisted Living in Surrey, while two residents have tested positive for the virus at The Residence in Mission. Fraser Health says it has…
VANCOUVER, B.C.: Saturday, Nov.7. Today’s weather is expected to be mainly cloudy, with some sunshine, and windy near the water this afternoon, with a high of 8 C, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. Overnight, watch for the temperature to drop down to 2 C, and then Sunday looks sunny, with a high of…
B.C. health officials have called a rare Saturday news conference to address the spike in COVID-19 cases in the province. Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Health Minister Adrian Dix will speak at 1 p.m. On Friday, they reported 589 new cases , the highest number in one day for the province, and two…
It may be the most famous Canadian photo of the Second World War. It has been 80 years since the Vancouver Daily Province published a front-page photo of a five-year-old boy breaking away from his mother’s grasp to run after his soldier father. Rifleman Jack Bernard was marching off to war as part of a…
Police say hate crime investigators are probing a pair of unprovoked attacks on Asian women in downtown Vancouver this week. The first happened Wednesday, around 4:30 p.m, on Granville Street near Helmcken, where a woman told police she was punched in the nose by an unknown man. “After falling to the ground, the woman was…
B.C. health officials confirmed a staggering 589 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, far exceeding the previous one-day record of 425, set yesterday. Two more British Columbians have died, bringing total deaths to 275, and six healthcare facilities are contending with new outbreaks, according to Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.’s provincial health officer, and Adrian Dix,…
An Abbotsford hot dog vendor will go under the knife in December to donate one of his kidneys to a customer. Skully White, owner of Lullys Food Experience, a gourmet hot dog stand in the parking lot of the local Canadian Tire, first met Tim Hiscock when he bought a hot dog from him several…
The governing nation for Métis people in B.C. is calling on the provincial government to give the Pattullo Bridge’s replacement a name that recognizes the province’s Indigenous people. The Fraser River crossing, which links New Westminster to Surrey, is named after Thomas Dufferin (Duff) Pattullo, who was premier of B.C. from 1933 until 1941. A…
When the B.C. Parks Foundation set out early this year to solicit not cash but uploaded photos of species living across B.C. to raise awareness of its efforts to support parks, it seemed like COVID-19 was going to doom the effort from the start. “We officially launched in March and then all the parks were…