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Company provides advice for travellers during holiday period

After small local distilleries produced tens of thousands of litres of hand sanitizer for free for months during the pandemic, the Liberal government thanked them by turning around and giving paid contracts to large companies like Fluid Energy Group

Dale Lawson acclaimed to School District 47 position

With the approval of a COVID-19 vaccine in Canada, employers could soon be navigating a tricky situation if staff choose not to be immunized. The first doses of the newly approved Pfizer vaccine in B.C.

B.C. Ferries has committed to help fund the restoration of the Persephone, the boat that was at the centre of much of the action on CBC television’s The Beachcombers.

Long-term care and front-line workers in intensive and emergency care and COVID units will receive the initial 4,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada on Wednesday and due to arrive at two clinics in B.C. next week.

New installation would improve cell phone and internet service north of Powell River

Four thousand vaccines are expected for the province in the first round of Pfizer vaccines available over the next few weeks. Premier John Horgan outlined the last ten months before giving way to science.

RCMP seize more than 1,800 cannabis plants from industrial property

British Columbians’ alcohol consumption has spiked during the pandemic, particularly during the spring lockdown, and UVic researchers are tracking to see whether the same will happen in the second wave.