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.
4 hours RCMP confirm 2 bodies found in U.S. belong to missing Vancouver Island kayakers The Sidney/North Saanich RCMP has confirmed that two men who were reported missing on April 20 while kayaking have been found dead.
4 hours ‘It’s horrible’: Nanaimo man with developmental disabilities bear sprayed in attack The Nanaimo man with developmental disabilities was bear sprayed in what police say appears to have been a random attack Thursday.
4 hours North Cowichan council rejected overpass plan where fatal hit-and-run took place North Cowichan council had previously rejected a proposed pedestrian overpass where a 17-year-old was recently killed in a hit-and-run near Duncan.
5 hours Faulty equipment blamed for ‘airborne’ diesel leak in Saanich The District of Saanich says a malfunction with a hydro excavator truck caused diesel leak to leak and be pumped into the air, affecting a handful of homes.