BC COVID-19 UPDATE: Cases Remain Above 800 Wednesday With 11 New Deaths

COVID-19 related deaths continue to rise with 11 people dying on Wednesday with cases remaining above 800. Active cases have gone above 6000 with Fraser Health having the largest number with over 2300...

Jim Pattison Makes $4 Million Matching Donation To Kick Start Fundraising Campaign For Outpatient Care and Surgery Centre

The Surrey Hospitals Foundation announced that Canadian business icon Jim Pattison is making a $4 million matching donation to kick start a fundraising campaign to upgrade the 10-year-old Jim Pattison...

KOMAGATA MARU APOLOGY: New Westminster Apologizes To The South Asian Community And Descendants Of The Victims Of The Historical Wrongdoing

On Monday, September 27 at the Open Meeting of Council, with representatives of the South Asian Community in attendance, Mayor Jonathan X. Cote read the City of New Westminster’s official apology to...

BC COVID-19 UPDATE: Over 600 Cases Reported Tuesday With Two New Deaths

VICTORIA – Cases of COVID-19 continue to hover over 600 Tuesday with two new deaths. The unvaccinated continue to make up bulk of the cases even as the vaccination rate continues to rise.As of Tuesd...

KINGMAKER: Jagmeet Singh-Led NDP Again Holds The Balance Of Power

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's gamble to seek a majority by calling a snap election did not pay off even if he won additional seats in the west but lost key battle grounds in the east and in the Atla...

Indo-Canadian Businessman Buys The BC Lions Football Team

Amar Doman is the son of pioneering Indo-Canadian Ted Doman and nephew of lumber tycoon Herb Doman, who along with a third brother Gordon, founded Doman Industries in 1953, the company was one of Nort...

PICS Founder Charanpal Gill Honoured With Picture-Plaque

SURREY – Progressive Intercultural Community Services (PICS) Society celebrated its 34th anniversary by honouring the Late Charanpal Singh Gill, the “Founder and Founding CEO” of PICS Society (1...

BC COVID-19 UPDATE: Weekend Sees Over 2200 Cases And 18 New Deaths

The spread of COVID-19 continues to remain strong with the weekend seeing over 2200 cases and a whopping 18 new deaths. Over a three-day period, B.C. is reporting 2,239 new cases of COVID-19, for a to...

Home Sales In BC Coming Down After A Lengthy Red Hot Run

The British Columbia Real Estate Association (BCREA) reports that a total of 9,507 residential unit sales were recorded by the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) in August 2021, a decrease of 7.1 per cent...