BCHF conference once again slated for Cloverdale
Surrey Historical Society to host 2021 history conferenceMalin Jordan / April 30, 2020
Month: April 2020
Social conscience is apolitical
It’s time to free the free-market system, and get government out of people’s personal lives.Wire Service / April 30, 2020
CVRD wages the problem causing tax increases
I will be using financial information from the yearly audited financial statements from 2018Wire Service / April 30, 2020
MAP: Province adds 35 portable toilets along B.C. routes for truck drivers
The portable toilets were added to replace rest stops which have been shuttered due to COVID-19Ashley Wadhwani / April 30, 2020
Police seize 1,500 fake COVID-19 tests being sold in B.C.
Richmond resident won’t be charged, fraud task force saysAshley Wadhwani / April 30, 2020
Nunavut confirms first case of COVID-19 in Pond Inlet
Pond Inlet is on the northern part of Baffin Island, about 1,000 kilometres north of Iqaluit,The Canadian Press / April 30, 2020
One dead, five missing after helicopter crash off Greece, Trudeau says
The search has been complicated by a large debris field, chief of defence saysThe Canadian Press / April 30, 2020
COVID-19: Budget officer says federal deficit could top $252 billion
Yves Giroux’s report assumes real GDP will contract by 12 per cent this yearThe Canadian Press / April 30, 2020
‘Aggressive’ pet rat results in denied taxi ride for Okanagan woman
Attack leads to frustrating, saddening experience with taxi driver for rat ownerJesse Day / April 30, 2020
Broken hip and COVID keep B.C. couple apart for 76th anniversary
After a fall broke her hip, Violet Kosinski is in hospital while her hubby, Roy, in self-isolationRoxanne Hooper / April 30, 2020
Editorial: Start of work on new weir at Cowichan Lake good news
The problem is that the weir that we have can only do so much.Wire Service / April 30, 2020
Toronto stock market soars to near eight-week high on surging energy sector
Stock markets also rose in the U.S. even though its economy slipped into recessionThe Canadian Press / April 29, 2020
Canadian doctors fret over surgery backlog after immediate COVID-19 crisis
Some worry their elective procedures could become urgent by the time operating rooms are availableThe Canadian Press / April 29, 2020
Calls for crackdown on public trade in police gear after Nova Scotia shootings
Shooter had acquired four former police vehicles at auctionsThe Canadian Press / April 29, 2020
Duncan Christian School receiving donations of masks from Chinese families
International students’ parents shipping package after packageKevin Rothbauer / April 29, 2020
Contact tracing needs to balance public health benefits with privacy: Trudeau
Tam says such technology could make it easier to manage the spread of COVID-19The Canadian Press / April 29, 2020
Man charged after allegedly breaking into Vancouver helicopter base, threatening staff
Police said the suspect ‘allegedly threatened to kill the employees’Katya Slepian / April 29, 2020
Four temporary foreign workers on separate flights to B.C. test positive for COVID-19
More than 900 temporary foreign workers have come to B.C. in the past few weeksKatya Slepian / April 29, 2020
Wanted California man who allegedly illegally crossed the border arrested in B.C. interior
Efforts remain underway to return the man to the United StatesMichael Rodriguez / April 29, 2020
B.C. has 34 new COVID-19 cases, two more in senior homes
Additional chicken processing workers test positiveTom Fletcher / April 29, 2020