Holiday season wraps Ucluelet in giving spirit

Judy Gray’s Mid-Island RE/MAX Realty team are helping connect local kids in need with willing ‘Secret Santas’ through their Angel Tree program. Residents are encouraged to help bring joy to Christmas mornings by picking up an angel from the tree at the local RE/MAX office,<tcxspan tcxhref="1091917" title="Call 109-1917 via 3CX"> 109-1917 </tcxspan>Peninsula Rd, (Andrew Bailey photo)
Food Bank on the Edge Society’s Christmas Hamper program underway as COVID-19 increases need

Seniors Advocate Isobel Mackenzie is photographed at her office in Victoria, B.C., on Friday, December 15, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Seniors advocate calls for reporting line for abuse and neglect amid rising reports
The proposed Calgary Airport to Banff Passenger Rail is shown in this artist’s rendering handout image at the Banff Train Station. The company behind a proposed passenger rail service that would connect Banff to the Calgary International Airport says the project will cost $1.5 billion. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Liricon Capital

Company behind proposed Calgary-Banff rail link asks province to kick in
Vernon soil producer takes home national cannabis award

Vernon soil producer takes home national cannabis award
How storytelling in tourism can support truth and reconciliation

How storytelling in tourism can support truth and reconciliation

Canada forward Sidney Crosby and Sweden defenceman Johnny Oduya rub shoulders during first period men’s gold medal final hockey action at the Sochi Winter Olympics Sunday, February 23, 2014 in Sochi. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Olympics top NHL agenda at board of governors’ meeting in Florida
Elders for Ancient Forests along with people declaring themselves “land defenders” take part in a peace circle along a logging road in the Fairy Creek logging area near Port Renfrew, B.C. Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Elders for old growth arrested as Fairy Creek blockade readies for winter
Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry announces bars closing and other restrictions for parts of northern B.C., Oct. 14, 2021. Those restrictions have been expanded to all of the Northern Health region until Jan. 31, 2022. (B.C. government photo)

Six more deaths Wednesday, 379 cases of COVID-19 in B.C.
Police are looking for suspects and witnesses after shots were fired into a car in north Nanaimo early Wednesday, Dec. 8. (File photo)

Shots fired at parked car, SUV speeds away from scene in Nanaimo
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A hotel worker is seen in a hotel window in Mississauga, Ont. by the Pearson International Airport on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021 as new air travel rules come into effect in Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Canadian traveller forced to stay in quarantine facility after negative COVID-19 test

Members of the Canadian Forces build a temporary dike with sandbags behind houses on Clayburn Creek in Abbotsford, B.C., on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. flood recovery moves to cleanup of damaged materials

Beams of light are projected into the air behind a plaque placed in memory of the fourteen women who were murdered on December 6,1989, in an anti-feminist attack, in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

VIDEO: Tributes planned for victims of Ecole Polytechnique shooting on 32nd anniversary

An Afternoon with Prince Harry & James Corden was one of the top trending YouTube videos in Canada this year. (The Late Late Show with James Corden/YouTube)

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Shaney Hoyhoy lifted a piece of plywood off a downed fence at her Nanakai Place home after heavy rains flooded her Pearl City neighborhood on Monday. (Cindy Ellen Russell/Honolulu Star-Advertiser)

Floodwaters keep ‘coming and coming’ as storms bring widespread damage to parts of Hawaii

Schools, homes, businesses all bore the brunt of heavy rains

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People gather at the edge of the pond at the Salmon Arm campus of Okanagan College on Dec. 6 during the United Against Violence Against Women candlelight vigil held to mark the 1989 massacre of 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal as well as to remember and bear witness to the women murdered and missing in the Okanagan-Shuswap and beyond. (Martha Wickett-Salmon Arm Observer)

Emotional vigil held on day police find remains of Shuswap woman missing for 5 years

Annual vigil pays respects to women killed in the École Polytechnique massacre and local women

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Greta on the day she was brought 'home' at four months old, only to run away that very night. (Submitted photo)

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North Island College students will explore Indigenous literature and B.C. history alongside peers from Costa Rica and Japan, thanks to a pair of upcoming virtual exchange programs starting this January. ADOBE STOCK IMAGE

North Island College connects students in Canada, Costa Rica and Japan, virtually

 

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Obituaries

Bruce Borden Grant

Nov 17th, 2021

Ria McLorie

Nov 8th, 2021

Hilda Ruth Sadler

Oct 26th, 2021

Mary Graham Hardy (nee MacLeod)

Oct 23rd, 2021

Mike Mead-Miller

Oct 12th, 2021

Theodora Berendina Maria ‘Thea’ Eeftink

Aug 16th, 2021

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Flooding this past spring forced many houses in the Houseman Subdivision to erect makeshift barricades from sandbags to hold back the water. (Patrick Davies photo)

Water, water everywhere, and a tough choice about what to do with it all

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      The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales activity in the area for the month of October remain below long-term historical averages. A real estate sign is pictured in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, June, 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward

      Mortgage rates predicted return to pre-pandemic levels of 3% by late 2022, BCREA says

      First rate increase from Bank of Canada is expected in mid-2022

      Royal City Youth Ballet’s performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ at the Cowichan Performing Arts Centre on Dec. 7, 2019. Theatre and sports events with more than 50 people now require proof of vaccination and seating, but business holiday events can include standing and mingling. (Andrea Rondeau/Cowichan Valley Citizen)

      Business holiday parties OK for more than 50, B.C. tourism group says

      Standing, mingling allowed if you’re vaccinated for COVID-19

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      Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau watches his team play against the Colorado Avalanche during the first period of an NHL hockey game on February 9, 2020, in St. Paul, Minn. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Hannah Foslien

      Struggling Vancouver Canucks hope Boudreau can kickstart dismal season

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      Vancouver Canucks goalie Thatcher Demko (35) covers up the puck as Quinn Hughes (43) checks Los Angeles Kings’ Phillip Danault (24) during first period NHL hockey action in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, Dec. 6, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

      Demko records 30-save shutout, Canucks beat Kings 4-0 in Boudreau’s debut

      Victory comes less than 24 hours after Vancouver fired Green, Benning

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      Darius Rucker is the headliner for Sunfest 2022. (Photo courtesy of dariusrucker.com)

      Darius Rucker to headline Sunfest 2022

      Cowichan Valley also welcomes Dallas Smith, Billy Currington Hardy, Kip Moore

      Jesse Roper of Metchosin performs with his band at the All Ways Home music festival in Langford at Starlight Stadium in September. Live performances have been somewhat rare for Roper lately, but he had excerpts from two of his songs play on Netflix and CBS recently. (Black Press Media file photo)

      Vancouver Island tunesmith Jesse Roper cracks TV soundtrack barrier — twice

      Popuar bluesman’s songs heard on Netflix’s Riverdale and The Equalizer on CBS

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      Heir to the Dutch throne Princess Amalia, left, takes an honorary seat at the Council of State, the highest government advisory body in The Hague, Netherlands, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, as her father King Willem-Alexander, right, looks on, one day after celebrating her eighteenth birthday. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool)

      ‘No school for becoming queen’: Dutch princess in limelight

      Heir to the throne steps into her future on her 18th birthday

      This combination of 2021 photos shows Philadelphia Eagles’ Jason Kelce,, left, and Billie Eilish in London. The grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and Eagles center have something in common, broadcasters have difficulty pronouncing their names. Both Eilish and Kelce, as well as “omicron” made it onto this year’s list of most mispronounced words as compiled by the U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms. (Tim Tai/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP, Pool, Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)

      ‘Cheugy,’ ‘omicron’ among 2021’s most mispronounced words

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