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Hundreds of people turned up at the DND grounds to see the hot air balloon glow Friday, Jan. 4. (Jennifer Smith - Morning Star)
VIDEO: Vernon Winter Carnival lights up winter blues
Kw’umut Lelum Foundation is selling Valentine’s Day cards to raise awareness about its efforts and promote the Hul’q’umi’num’ language. Pictured are Sharon Hobenshield, foundation executive director, and Kayla Seymour, cultural support worker. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
B.C. non-profit’s Valentine’s Day cards say ‘I love you’ in Indigenous language
Counter protesters block a convoy of truckers opposed to COVID-19 health measures and vaccinations, in Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022. A group of more than 200 counter protesters on foot and on bikes held up the convoy for nearly an hour before police officers turned the trucks around and sent them on another route. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
5 arrested at Vancouver trucker convoy, counter-protests as eggs thrown, vehicles kicked
The Surrey Local Immigration Partnership is holding two online workshops Feb. 4 and 5 , both from 10 to 10:30 a.m., to explain how to use a new racism-mapping tool. (Stock photo)
B.C. immigrant organization hopes racism mapping tool will prompt change
Ice Decor (Langley) employees Sergei Woewoda (front, left) and Isaac Woewoda (right) are joined by Vernon Winter Carnival ice sculpture competitor and volunteer Tyler Welfing in creating a 30-foot ice slide that will be among the features at the Carnival’s Winter Playground at the Vernon Army Camp. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
VIDEO: Ice creators slide into Vernon Winter Carnival
Solar Mountain Games has added The Rise golf course in Vernon to its 2020 video game, PGA 2K21. (Submitted photo)
VIDEO: Vernon golf course rendered in B.C. video game
A cyclist rides towards a police barricade where trucks are lined up near Parliament hill on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Military response to Ottawa protest ‘not in the cards,’ Trudeau says, urging caution
Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole speaks during a news conference responding to the federal government’s COVID-19 response, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole speaks during a news conference responding to the federal government’s COVID-19 response, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Erin O’Toole voted out as Conservative leader by MPs
Respiratory therapist Mehul Delvada, back centre, and health-care workers prone a ventilated COVID-19 patient, who’s also an unvaccinated nurse, in the intensive care unit at the Humber River Hospital in Toronto on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. Two years into the pandemic, the highly transmissible strain has led to severe staffing crunches and a dramatic spike in hospitalizations. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
‘I’m just exhausted’: Inside a Toronto hospital during the Omicron wave of COVID
People hold a sign against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and vaccinations during a rally against COVID-19 restrictions on Parliament Hill, which began as a cross-country convoy protesting a federal vaccine mandate for truckers, in Ottawa, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Trudeau denounces ‘hateful rhetoric’ at Ottawa trucker protest, won’t meet with convoy
Trucks are parked on Metcalfe Street as a rally against COVID-19 restrictions, which began as a cross-country convoy protesting a federal vaccine mandate for truckers, continues in Ottawa, on Sunday, Jan. 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
VIDEO: Protesters show no sign of rolling off as Ottawa residents brace for more disruption
Protesters participating in a cross-country truck convoy protesting measures taken by authorities to curb the spread of COVID-19 and vaccine mandates protest near Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Thousands gather on Parliament Hill for protest against vaccine mandates
The Scoop for the week of Jan. 21-28. (Josh Piercey/Revelstoke Review)
The Scoop: News that made headlines this week
Protesters and supporters drive over the Nipigon Bridge on the Trans Canada Highway as part of a trucking convoy against COVID-19 vaccine mandates in Nipigon, Ont., on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/David Jackson
Trucker protest converging on Canadian capital
Four people were found dead in a Richmond home on Jan. 25, 2022. (Shane MacKichan)
UPDATE: IHIT says family member responsible for Richmond shooting
U.S. Border Patrol agents Katy Siemer (left) and David Marcus stand outside the Customs and Border Protection facility in Pembina, N.D., on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022 not far from where agents intercepted a group of undocumented Indian nationals on Jan. 19. The incident prompted the discovery north of the border of the bodies of four other Indian migrants who were believed to be trying to enter the U.S. with the rest of the group. THE CANADIAN PRESS/James McCarten
Winter weather, vast expanse make patrolling Canada-U.S. border a daunting challenge
Julie Black, a Special Olympics athlete and Tim Hortons employee, shows off a Choose to Include doughnut, which will be on sale Jan. 28-30 benefiting Special Olympics Canada. (Karl Yu/News Bulletin)
Tim Hortons asks customers to choose doughnut to benefit Special Olympics
Williams Lake First Nation announced the preliminary findings of the probe at former residential school, St. Joseph’s Mission on Tuesday, Jan. 25. (Williams Lake Tribune Facebook live image)
‘93 is our number’: Williams Lake First Nation releases findings in residential school probe
Mourners attend a candlelight vigil for Jasmine Lovett and Aliyah Sanderson in Calgary, Sunday, May 12, 2019. A Calgary man who admitted to murdering his former girlfriend but denied killing her daughter is scheduled to receive a verdict in the case. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
‘We got justice’: Man who killed girlfriend also found guilty in her toddler’s death
People leave a COVID-19 vaccination site in Montreal, Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Omicron may be peaking but COVID-19 isn’t done with us just yet: Tam