Category Archives: News

Residents of BC care homes to receive COVID booster shots
People that reside in long-term care homes and assisted-living facilities throughout BC are going to be getting booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine at the start of next week. Provincial health offic...
Rob Young Sep 29, 2021

Covid Forces Lheidli T'enneh Orange Shirt Day Celebration to Scale Back
Covid has put a damper on a planned Prince George gathering to honour Truth and Reconciliation Day. Soaring Covid cases in the north have prompted the event, in Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park to be sig...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

College of New Caledonia Announces New Bursary Program for Nurses
The College of New Caledonia is doing their part to tackle the north's nursing shortage with a new bursary program. Dedicated to Betty Smith, Becky Beck and her mother Edith, the award will benefit fo...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

Cancer Patient Transport Service to Make BC Return
Cancer patients in BC in need of a lift will now have access to a renewed resource. Wheels of Hope is a Canadian Cancer Society project which looks to provide cancer patients with rides to and from th...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

Bear Attack Near Granisle Leaves One in Hospital
A grizzly bear attack near Babine Lake has left one in hospital. According to the Conservation Service, the attack took place near the Village of Granisle early this morning. The victim was taken to h...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

Quesnel RCMP Prepare for New Phase of Drug Trafficking Crackdown
Drug dealers in the Quesnel area had better get used to looking through bars. Quesnel RCMP are preparing to enter what they call the arrest phase of an extensive investigation in to drug trafficking i...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

Review in to Tribunal Over On-Reserve Welfare System Dismissed in Court
A long awaited Federal Court decision which came down today marks justice in the eyes of many Indigenous children. Today the Federal Court dismissed a judicial review initially requested by Ottawa in ...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

BC Based Online Platform Helps Seniors Find the Right Care
Covid has reminded us all just how much work goes in to ensuring our seniors are well cared for. With National Seniors Day on Friday, one online platform is looking to make finding the right caregiver...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021

Numerous Bears Sighted in Burns Lake
A group of bears have decided to take a vacation in Burns Lake, at least according to numerous recent sightings. RCMP in the Village say that over the post few days, they have received several calls o...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021 Big brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the forest

BC Supreme Court Refuses to Extend Fairy Creek Injunction
A saga more than a year in the making, which became the largest act of civil disobedience in Canada's history, may be coming to an end. Following more than 1,000 arrests over the 6 month order, the BC...
Jeff Blagden Sep 29, 2021