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By Staff The Canadian Press Posted December 26, 2022 10:18 am Descrease article font size Increase article font size Thousands of Canadians are spending another day in the cold and dark, as hydro crews continue working to restore electricity to those affected by the power outages caused by fierce winter …

There’s disagreement about what hue the street lights currently are in parts of downtown Vancouver, but they’re definitely not white. Perhaps “light blue,” “definitely purple,” or “black light-ish” — all depending on who you ask walking under their glow on Davie Street, near Richards. Nancy and Sebastian Schlote have been puzzling about …

Health Canada has distributed enough of the antiviral Paxlovid to treat more than 700,000 people with COVID-19, yet the provinces have given only a fraction of that medication to patients.  Paxlovid has been shown to significantly reduce hospitalizations and deaths among people most at risk from COVID-19, such as seniors and people …

Karan Singh says his parents decided to send their son to Canada because they thought he’d get into fights at home. The 20-year-old, who studies criminology at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) in Surrey, B.C., hails from the tiny village of Bakipur in Haryana state, in northern India. He said his parents …

Rainbow flags, dancers, drag queens and trailblazers filled the streets of downtown Calgary on Sunday as the annual Pride parade made its much anticipated in-person return.  Thousands of people — both allies and community members — gathered to celebrate the movement, the achievements, and mark the end of a two-year absence …

Kyle Jacques has one wish before his 29th birthday this month — to find an accessible home.  Jacques uses a wheelchair and has spent the past nine months looking for an affordable, accessible home in Vancouver. At his current rental, he grapples with everyday tasks such as getting his wheelchair inside …

A group of women in Barrie is hoping to raise $60,000 for the six young people killed in a car crash on a closed road in Barrie, Ont., last weekend. Ripple of Kindness, with support from Barrie Mayor Jeff Lehman, has raised more than $11,000 for the families of Luke West, Curtis King, River Wells, Haley Marin, Jersey Mitchell and Jason …

Thunder Bay-born Barbara Reynolds lived and made regular pension payments in the U.K. for two decades before returning to Canada, where she made another one-time payment to the British government to top up her contributions. That didn’t protect her from worrying about paying the rent on her Halifax apartment this month after she …

A destructive wildfire near Yosemite National Park in central California burned out of control through tinder-dry forest on Sunday and had grown into one of the state’s biggest blazes of the year, forcing thousands of residents to flee remote mountain communities. Some 2,000 firefighters battled the Oak Fire, along with aircraft …

Two East Vancouver residents have distributed thousands of high-quality N95 masks in the last two months in direct response to what they say are “neglectful” public health measures concerning disabled and immunocompromised people. Jane Shi and Vivian Ly are the organizers behind Masks4EastVan, which was started in May this year, …