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• Victoria nurse reprimanded for drinking on the job, encouraging others to do so

  A Victoria nurse who drank alcohol at his workplace and encouraged subordinates to do the same has been reprimanded by his professional college.

  

• B.C. First Nations face complex, stressful choice: should school sites be excavated?

  The chief of the Williams Lake First Nation says he would support excavating possible unmarked graves at the site of the former St. Joseph's Mission residential school if that's what elders and the community decide is best.

  

• 'This is too much': B.C. mom records police handcuffing 12-year-old in hospital

  A review has been launched after police officers were recorded restraining a handcuffed Indigenous child on the floor of a Vancouver hospital – an incident the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has denounced as "horrendous."

• B.C. distillery first in Canada to join prestigious Scotch Malt Whisky Society

  A distillery on Vancouver Island is the first ever in Canada to be welcomed into the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.

• Plush monkey inspires Olympic swimmer to write children's book

  Before we can appreciate the important role a plush toy named Monkey Guy has played in Elaine Tanner’s life, we need go back to when people started calling her Mighty Mouse.

• Canucks winger Ilya Mikheyev to have season-ending knee surgery

  The Vancouver Canucks have shut down Ilya Mikheyev for the season, months after the right-winger suffered a serious knee injury.

• 'Why not sign two years?:' Vancouver Canucks winger Kuzmenko happy with extension

  In a season marked by loss and frustration, the Russian forward with the dimpled grin, gravity defying hair and enthusiastic goal celebrations has been a rare bright spot both on and off the ice.

• Health Canada maintains use of COVID prevention drug Evusheld despite FDA pullback

  Health Canada says it will continue to recommend COVID-19 prevention drug, Evulsheld, despite U.S. FDA pulling back its emergency use authorization due to concerns around its efficacy against Omicron subvariant 'Kraken.'

• Delaying decision on Surrey's policing plans was the right move, councillors say

  B.C.’s public safety minister made the right call asking for more information before approving Surrey's policing plans, according to two city councillors.

• New Vancouver tax intended to chip away at FIFA World Cup costs

  The price of hosting the FIFA World Cup is rising in Vancouver, and the province is using a new tool to help cover the costs.

• Owners of Vancouver's most expensive homes pay very little tax, UBC study finds

  A new study from the University of British Columbia has found owners of the most expensive properties in Vancouver are paying very little income tax.

• No jail time for teenage girl who took part in Surrey swarming

  A teenager who took part in the swarming of a 15-year-old girl in Surrey last year will not serve any jail time.

• VGH psychiatrist who released Const. Nicole Chan hours before her suicide testifies at inquiry

  On Jan. 26, 2019, Vancouver police officer Const. Nicole Chan was detained under the Mental Health Act after being found with scissors, a knife and a dog leash fashioned into a noose.

• 'That was the last time I saw my mother': Vancouver-based survivor opens up on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Marie Doduck was just five years old when she says the Nazis tore her family apart.

• Sexual assault charges against 3 UBC Thunderbirds football players stayed

  Charges that were laid against three former University of British Columbia football players over an alleged sexual assault in Vancouver more than four years ago have been stayed.

• 300-foot rental towers proposed for 2 locations in Vancouver's West End

  Two proposed 32-storey towers would bring hundreds more rental units to Vancouver's West End if rezoning applications are approved by city council.

• Sentencing held for anti-pipeline activists over game of dinosaur badminton at TMX construction site

  Supporters gathered outside B.C. Supreme Court in downtown Vancouver on Friday morning, as two anti-pipeline activists awaited sentencing over a disruptive game of badminton played last May.

• B.C. health minister 'delighted' premiers finally set to meet PM on funding

  British Columbia's health minister says he's "delighted" Canada's premiers are set to meet with the prime minister early next month to discuss a potential deal to increase federal health funding.

• Bones found near Kamloops hiking trail identified as missing Kelowna man, police say

  Mounties in Kamloops say the bones discovered along a hiking trail near the Trans Canada Highway last week have been identified as belonging to a Kelowna man who went missing in November.

• BC SPCA seizes 129 cattle found on property with 'numerous' dead cows

  The BC SPCA is recommending animal cruelty charges after seizing 129 cows from a property in the south Similkameen Valley, where "numerous carcasses of dead cows" were also found.