Category Archives: Local News

Restaurant Brands International Inc. says it is asking Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant owners to provide take-out, drive-thru and delivery only in an effort to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The compa...

Canada's top public health official says COVID-19 poses a serious health risk to all Canadians. Doctor Theresa Tam -- in her strongest language yet -- says there's only a narrow window to ''flatten th...

Canada's Parliament has agreed to shut down for more than a month. The move comes while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is governing remotely from his home, in self-imposed quarantine after his wife tes...

Three days after the Toronto Raptors played in Utah, the players, coaches and travelling staff have gone into self-isolation amid the threat of COVID-19. The Raptors' 14-day isolation comes after a Ut...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government is creating a one-billion-dollar COVID-19 response fund. He says he wants all premiers and Canadians to know that the government will make sure they h...

B-C is marking a tragic first -- Canada's first death from COVID-19. A man in his 80s with other health issues has died at a long-term care centre in North Vancouver. British Columbia's provincial hea...

The federal government says it has chartered a plane to bring home Canadians on board the Grand Princess cruise ship anchored off the coast of California. The ship is carrying 35-hundred people, inclu...

Canada has tallied 34 cases of the novel coronavirus, as the global outbreak continues. The latest case is a B-C woman in her 80s and provincial health officials say she is in critical condition in a ...

B-C health authorities say they're monitoring the situation after the coronavirus deaths of six people in Washington state. Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says there is no evidence of wide...

The B-C government plans to bring in legislation to prevent I-C-B-C surpluses from being diverted to cover other government expenses. Attorney General David Eby says the former Liberal government took...