China on Friday attacked the theory that the coronavirus pandemic may have originated as a leak from a Chinese laboratory as a politically motivated lie, after the World Health Organization
Read MoreMexican experts said Monday that 35 per cent more monarch butterflies arrived this year to spend the winter in mountaintop forests, compared to the previous season. Experts say the rise may
Read MoreMore than 90 scientists are calling on the Canadian government to protect the country’s temperate and boreal forests — what they describe as a “critical lifeline” to guard against a
Read MoreA class complaint has been filed at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against a regional health-care authority over their policy prohibiting hospital patients and visitors from using N95 respirators. The
Read MoreA sleek, modern building in downtown Victoria has been given the green light to move forward on development, but an avian biologist is worried the design, which features a lot
Read MoreA Vancouver-based herbal medicine company has been fined $75,000 for importing fins from a protected species of shark without a permit. Hang Hing Herbal Medicine pleaded guilty in Vancouver Provincial Court
Read MoreB.C. health officials reported 819 people in hospital with COVID-19 on Monday, including 99 in intensive care, as the province recorded 22 more deaths from the disease and 5,625 new
Read MoreOnce again, a tiny elementary school on Vancouver’s west side is moving toward closure. On Monday evening, the Vancouver School Board voted seven-to-two to begin the school closure process for
Read MoreHealth Canada has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 therapeutic for use in adults 18 and older, paving the way for the distribution of a potentially lifesaving drug at a time when the
Read MoreCOVID-19 modelling released by the B.C. government shows the latest wave of the pandemic, propelled by the Omicron variant, may have peaked in parts of the province — but that British
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