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Churches in B.C. get $18,400 in tickets for breaking COVID-19 rules

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — The RCMP say they have served tickets totalling $18,400 to representatives from three places of worship in British Columbia's Fraser Valley for violating public health orders.

Dec 18, 2020 4:44 PM Read more >

Flood of COVID 'Christmas benefit' applications crashes B.C. government website

At 8:30 a.m. Friday, applications opened to 3.7 million British Columbians eligible for some or all of the new B.C. COVID-19 benefit, immediately crashing the government website

Dec 18, 2020 4:44 PM Read more >

COVID-19: What Vancouverites and others had to say in 2020

A collection of quotes mined from stories posted during an extraordinary year

Dec 18, 2020 4:24 PM Read more >

2,592 B.C. frontline health-care workers have received a COVID-19 vaccine

So far 2,592 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine have been given to front-line health-care workers

Dec 18, 2020 4:22 PM Read more >

No easy solutions to complex problem of high condo insurance premiums: B.C. report

VANCOUVER — A Crown corporation that regulates British Columbia's private-sector insurance companies says an average 40 per cent increase in condo insurance premiums resulted from various factors including risks that insurers face from earthquakes, w

Dec 18, 2020 1:59 PM Read more >

Former legislature clerk charged with fraud and breach of trust

The charges allege that Craig Harley James used his position to advance his own personal interests over the public good

Dec 18, 2020 12:01 PM Read more >

Port Coquitlam neighbourhood, school get first dibs on new child care spots

As many as 145 new child care spaces coming to Port Coquitlam, with dozens of spots in one B.C.-funded site to go to families in the neighbourhood of Kwayhquitlum middle school and to Kwikwetlem First Nation members

Dec 18, 2020 11:46 AM Read more >

'Baby bust’: Canada’s population growth drops to lowest levels since 1946

British Columbia posted the largest declines of the third quarter, down 1,861 people between July and October

Dec 18, 2020 10:27 AM Read more >

Surge in website applications slows process for B.C. COVID-19 benefit

VICTORIA — A high volume of online applications for the British Columbia COVID-19 recovery benefit has slowed the process. Some users have reported getting an error on the site when making their application for the benefit of up to $1,000.

Dec 18, 2020 10:20 AM Read more >

Burnaby Hospital fire that contributed to COVID-19 outbreak deemed arson: RCMP

BURNABY, B.C. — The RCMP say a fire that has been blamed for contributing to an outbreak of COVID-19 at a Metro Vancouver hospital was set deliberately.

Dec 17, 2020 5:43 PM Read more >