4 months COVID-19 outbreak declared at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital A COVID-19 outbreak was declared at the largest hospital in the Mid-Island earlier this week.
7 months Novavax touts non-mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, hopeful to meet domestic production deadline The last remaining manufacturer to offer an alternative to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in Canada is hopeful it will meet the government's 2024 deadline to make the shots domestically.
7 months COVID outbreak declared at Victoria General Hospital, 11 cases confirmed An outbreak has been declared at the Victoria General Hospital after 11 health-care-acquired cases have been confirmed from one unit.
9 months Highest court refuses to hear appeal from B.C. churches opposed to COVID-19 ruling The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from three British Columbia churches that argued their constitutional rights were violated when provincial restrictions banned indoor religious services at the height of the[...]
1 year Removal of healthcare mask mandate violates right to equal participation: human rights commissioner B.C.'s Human Rights Commissioner says the healthcare mask mandate removal infringes on vulnerable people's rights to equal participation.
1 year Ottawa ends shipments of rapid COVID-19 tests as millions set to expire The federal government has stopped shipping rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to provinces as millions are set to expire within the year, and experts say the once-essential tool has lost its importance in the pandemic. There[...]
1 year Long-COVID clinic closing in Victoria as care transitions to virtual care Less than one year after the long-COVID clinic opened at Royal Jubilee Hospital, the province is closing it and moving three of the province's four clinics to virtual care. Island Health announced RJH's clinic would[...]
1 year COVID critic Mak Pahar had illness but died of drug overdose: B.C. coroner Parhar's death occurred soon after he shared a video online where he admitted to having COVID-like symptoms, but denied having "CONVID" and said he was treating himself with over-the-counter medications.
19 mins Canucks' run prompts riot reflections. Can fans be trusted not to repeat history? Simon Coutts remembers being "heckled" by passersby in 2011 as he boarded up his bike shop on Vancouver's Robson Street before the Canucks' Game 7 Stanley Cup loss to the Boston Bruins, that would spur hordes of drunken fans to riot.
47 mins Community mourns thousands of fish lost as B.C. drought risk looms again Images of steelhead and trout flicker over long sheets of paper, brought to life in blue and green crayon rubbings by the thousands.
1 hour ‘Could see a plume of smoke’: 5 years since Plaza Hotel burned down lot remains empty It’s been five years since a raging fire gutted the Plaza Hotel in downtown Victoria. It took firefighters a week and 1-million gallons of water to finally extinguish the blaze.
12 hours Heavy police presence in a Bear Mountain neighbourhood West Shore RCMP closed off a neighbourhood in Bear Mountain on Tuesday evening to respond to an "incident." In a social media post at 8 p.m., Mounties said there was a "heavy police presence" at[...]