Category Archives: British Columbia
Rapid response teams in place to support COVID-19 safety in B.C. schools
VICTORIA - Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside says six new rapid response teams will help schools in B.C. identify gaps in COVID-19 safety plans to help reduce exposure risk. The government says in...
Mar 02, 2021
WHL gets green light to play in B.C.
Kelowna and Kamloops will be the hub centres for the Western Hockey League's return to play in British Columbia.The Provincial Health Office has given its approval for the five B.C. Division teams to ...
Mar 02, 2021
$5.6M in funding for 'vending machines' that dispense safer drugs to prevent ODs
VANCOUVER - The federal government has provided nearly $5.6 million in funding for five vending machines that will dispense medical-grade opioids in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia, in order...
Mar 02, 2021
Ontario waits for national guidance as B.C. pushes ahead with delayed second dose
VANCOUVER - Ontario is waiting for a recommendation from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization before delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccine, while British Columbia is pushing ahead with ...
Mar 02, 2021
Homicide team joins probe into death of 11-year-old injured in his Fraser Valley home
AGASSIZ, B.C. - An autopsy is expected after the death of an 11-year-old boy severely injured several days ago at his family's home east of Vancouver. Agassiz RCMP said Monday that the Integrated Homi...
Mar 02, 2021
B.C. coroner says increased drug toxicity responsible for another OD death record
VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief coroner says deadlier street drugs are behind another grim milestone in the province's overdose crisis as a record was set for the number of deaths in January. The ...
Mar 02, 2021
Record number of drug overdose deaths
The B.C. Coroners Service is reporting 165 drug overdose deaths in January, the largest number ever for the month.It represents a 104 per cent increase over the number of deaths in January 2020 (81) a...
Mar 02, 2021
Vancouver home sales up 73% year-over-year, market shifts in favour of sellers: REBGV
VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the market is heating up so fast that home sales in the region doubled between January and February and have climbed by more than 70 per cen...
Mar 02, 2021
Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 needs better promotion: experts
VANCOUVER - Essential workers who are more likely to contract and transmit COVID-19 should be prioritized for immunization with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine now that a national panel is not recommen...
Mar 02, 2021
Churches continue legal fight against British Columbia's COVID-19 rules
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a group of British Columbia churches that are challenging the province's COVID-19 rules is scheduled to resume his arguments today that the restrictions violate his clients' c...
Mar 02, 2021
