Island Health reports COVID-19 outbreak at Parksville longterm care facility

Arrowsmith Lodge. (File photo)
Two resident cases identified related to outbreak at Arrowsmith Lodge

A strike by the Canadian Merchant Services Guild against key Island-mainland shipping service Seaspan Ferries Corporation was called off Friday, after the two sides reached a tentative agreement. (Seaspan Ferries)

Island communities breathe sigh of relief, Seaspan Ferries reaches deal with union
Hospital Way next to Victoria General Hospital was renamed Jeneece Place to mark the home’s fifth anniversary in 2017. Visionary of the home, Frankie Edroff holds up the new sign. (Courtesy of Jeneece Place)

Jeneece Place celebrates 10 years of offering Island families a ‘safe landing place’
New provincial program promotes Indigenous cannabis products

New provincial program promotes Indigenous cannabis products
Airlines, airport ask Canada to drop arrivals testing requirement

Airlines, airport ask Canada to drop arrivals testing requirement

Campbell Riverite Tyler Turner won gold at the para snow sports world championships event in Lillehammer, Norway on Jan. 21. Photo Samuel Andersen / Lillehammer 2021

Vancouver Islander rides local board to world championship in Para Snowboarding
Daily COVID-19 cases reported to B.C. public health, to Jan. 19, 2022. Seven-day moving average in white. (B.C. Centre for Disease Control)

B.C. reports 2,364 more COVID-19 cases, 9 deaths Friday
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      The Canada Post logo is seen on the outside the company’s Pacific Processing Centre, in Richmond, B.C., on June 1, 2017. A claim by Chinese health authorities that the Omicron variant was introduced to a resident of Beijing through a piece of regular mail from Canada is being dismissed as ludicrous. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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      A women walk her dog past a parked school bus in the deep snow after a major snow storm in Mississauga, Ont., on Monday, January 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

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      Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry looks on as Health Minister Adrian Dix speaks during a COVID-19 update press conference in Victoria, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. Guidance on the home management of COVID-19 symptoms and decisions about who should self-isolate and for how long could dominate the Friday pandemic update with British Columbia's health minister and top doctor. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

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      Public Health Agency of Canada involved in ‘error’ on trucker vaccine rules: sources

      Government provided no more explanation for the botched messaging

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      Popular annual Seedy Saturday event in Qualicum Beach cancelled for 2022

      More memberships needed for next planned event in 2023

      David Doyle, left, and Emily Doyle of Parksville share their journey with Alzheimer’s disease. (Submitted photo)

      Parksville couple: ‘No one should face dementia journey alone’

      British Columbians invited to attend free virtual event on Jan. 27

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      Maple Ridge’s Brandon Yip will captain Team China at the Olympics. (Kunlun Red Star Facebook/Special to The News)

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      Brandon Yip has carried his career to Europe and Asia

      Justin Kripps of Summerland will compete in bobsleigh in the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. (Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton)

      Summerland bobsleigh athlete to compete in Winter Olympics

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      Louie Anderson appears during the 2017 Winter Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 12, 2017. Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely and Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series Baskets, has died at age 68. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

      Louie Anderson, Emmy-winning comedian, dies at 68

      Anderson died at a hospital in Las Vegas of complications from cancer

      Meat Loaf gestures during an interview for “Bat Out of Hell - The Musical’” in Toronto on Monday, May 15, 2017. The singer born Marvin Lee Aday died Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

      Meat Loaf, legendary ‘Bat out of Hell’ rock superstar, dies at 74

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      Route of the proposed Pacific Trail Pipeline. (BC Environmental Assessment Office)

      Enbridge purchases Northwest B.C. pipeline from Chevron, Woodside

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      A plane arrives at the Comox Valley Airport at dusk. Photo by Comox Valley Airport

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      According to University of Toronto Global Journalism Fellow Anthony Fong, sexually aggressive online behaviours, affects 88 per cent of all Canadian university undergraduate women. THE CANADIAN PRESS

      FONG: Legal reform needed to protect young women from growing online sexual violence

      Liberals promised to rework online harms legislation within 100 days of Parliament’s Nov. 22 return

      FILE – Smoke rises from the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake, B.C. Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

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