Author Archives: Bill Nation

British Columbia has entered its longest period in a state of emergency in its history. Premier John Horgan says the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging the province's social and economic foundations but...

Vancouver is being considered as a possible hub city for the National Hockey League if play resumes in the near future. The league's commissioner Gary Bettman says the decision depends on COVID-19 con...

British Columbia didn't report any new deaths from COVID-19 on Tuesday, but there have been 11 additional cases of the virus. A total of 2,541 people in B.C. have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and 2,12...

British Columbia's top doctor says the province's robust public health teams are being beefed up this summer to do more contact tracing. Doctor Bonnie Henry says there will probably be an increase in ...

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says chances are that a second wave of COVID-19 could sweep back into B-C along with other colds and flu in the fall. Henry says they've been watching a simi...

The search for answers continues, following the deadly crash of a Canadian Forces Snowbirds plane in Kamloops. A team of military investigators from Ottawa was been dispatched and spent much of Monday...

The Courtenay Canada Day celebrations, one of the Comox Valley's largest annual gatherings, have been cancelled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The cancellation includes the Night Before Conce...

Singer Bryan Adams is being called a racist on social media for his COVID-19 rant on Twitter and Instagram. Adams blamed the global pandemic on -- quote -- ``(expletive) bat eating, wet market animal ...

Almost 300 NIC students will receive $1,000 each, thanks to the largest bequeathed gift in NIC Foundation history. The $285,000 legacy gift came from Dr. Allan Duncan Pritchard, who passed away Novemb...

Health Minister Adrian Dix has announced a plan to increase health-care capacity to address the backlog of surgeries worsened by COVID-19 restrictions. But he says it could still take two years to tac...