BC Doctors Embracing New Payment Model
BC's Health Minister says more than one-thousand doctors have already signed onto a new payment model that took effect today, and he expects the number to grow ``dramatically.'' Adrian Dix says the new model developed with Doctors of B-C is aimed at addressing the shortage of physicians in the province. He says it redu...
Feb 02, 2023
Lisa Helps Named Housing Advisor By Eby
Premier David Eby has named former Victoria mayor Lisa Helps as his advisor on housing solutions. Helps will work with BC Minister of Housing Ravi Kahlon, stakeholders, and partners to help design and develop the "BC Builds" program, an initiative to build housing for middle-income families, individuals and s...
Jan 26, 2023
Paul McCartney Found Some Forgotten Photos
A trove of previously unseen photos taken by Paul McCartney as The Beatles shot to global stardom will go on display in London this year. The National Portrait Gallery announced Wednesday that the exhibition will help mark the gallery's reopening in June after a three-year refurbishment. Gallery director Nicholas Culli...
Jan 25, 2023
Update On 2022 Shelbourne Robbery And Shootout
Police say two brothers killed by police in a shootout outside a Victoria bank were there for an armed confrontation, not robbery. An investigation by the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit says 22-year-old Isaac Auchterlonie and his brother, Matthew, waited around for 11 minutes after they were given the cas...
Jan 20, 2023
University-educated Racialized Canadians Earn Less
Statistics Canada has found that people of colour are generally more likely to earn a university degree than their white counterparts, but less likely to find a job that pays as well. The findings published today are based on data from the 2021 and 2016 censuses. It shows that two years after graduating, people of colo...
Jan 18, 2023
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Jeff Beck Passes Away At 78
Guitar legend Jeff Beck has passed away at the age of 78. Beck's representatives said in a statement that he died yesterday (January 10) after suddenly contracting bacterial meningitis. Jeff Beck was known as a guitar player's guitar player, and pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz, and rock - as well as the instrument...
Jan 12, 2023
Second Sentencing In Metchosin Murder
One of the men guilty of killing a Metchosin man in 2019 has just received his sentence. Zachary Armitage has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in the killing of Martin Payne in Metchosin, shortly after escaping from William Head Institution with another inmate. Partway through his ...
Jan 11, 2023