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Members of North Cedar Fire Department search a stretch of the Nanaimo River on Friday, Jan. 14. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
First responders, search-and-rescue crews looking for man missing along Nanaimo River
Quebec Director of Public Health Dr. Horacio Arruda responds to a question during a news conference in Montreal, on January 5, 2022. Arruda, who had been public health director since 2012, abruptly resigned Monday after overseeing the province’s pandemic response for 22 months, citing criticism about the government’s response to the fifth wave. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Canada’s public health leaders navigate choppy waters as pandemic drags on
Police investigating a scammer who took $17,000 from three Vancouver seniors on Jan. 12, 2022. (VPD handout)
VIDEO: Fraudster takes $17,000 from Vancouver seniors in 1 day for fake ‘legal fees’
Port Alberni firefighters respond to a boat fire on Jan. 11. (PHOTO COURTESY SUSAN ROTH)
Port Alberni firefighters douse boat fire in harbour
The driver slips and falls while fleeing his burning pickup. (Special to the Langley Advance Times)
VIDEO: B.C. pickup driver loses vehicle to fire after attempted doughnuts
B.C. Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon announced that businesses can apply for COVID-19 Relief Grants on Jan. 12, 2022. (BC Government/YouTube)
B.C. businesses closed by COVID orders can now apply for relief grants
Quebec Premier François Legault, right, and then-Quebec Public Health Director Horacio Arruda leave a news conference in Montreal, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021. Quebec is reporting 62 additional deaths linked to COVID-19 today, one day after the province’s public health director resigned. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Quebec to force unvaccinated to pay ‘significant’ financial penalty
A school bus and an SUV collided at the intersection of Cedar and Fielding roads on Monday afternoon, Jan. 10. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
UPDATE: Superintendent praises school bus driver for ensuring crash didn’t turn out worse
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participates in a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Critics stress health system capacity constraints as Trudeau speaks with premiers
Nanaimo RCMP speak with Extinction Rebellion protesters who are blocking the intersection of Nicol and Milton streets on Monday, Jan. 10, demanding an end to old-growth logging. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Extinction Rebellion blocks Nanaimo’s Nicol Street
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Its 21 foot 4-inch primary mirror has been built to fold to a much smaller size for takeoff. (Photo by Chris Gunn/NASA)
James Webb space telescope’s ‘golden eye’ opens, clearing last major hurdle
Calgary cookbook author Julie Van Rosendaal is offering hundreds of children a sweet reprieve from lockdown restlessness with an online class teaching them how to whip up homemade treats. Hundreds of children have signed on to learn new recipes over Zoom. (Canadian Press)
VIDEO: Online cooking camp a treat for kids in lockdown
Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog, left, was confronted by protesters at city hall Friday over mandated vaccinations for municipal employees. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Protesters gather outside Nanaimo City Hall in response to city’s vaccine mandate
Brett Renaud alongside his dog Molly at the Revelstoke Golf Club. (Contributed by Brett Renaud)
VIDEO: B.C. man turns snowy golf course into cross country ski track
Erik Jessen and his heavy-duty Dodge pickup tow a big rig B-train in Nanaimo on Wednesday, Jan. 5. (Photo courtesy Les Girard)
Nanaimo pickup driver tows big rig fuel truck up snowy hill
As forecasted, more snow fell on Nanaimo overnight Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 5-6. (News Bulletin photo)
Snow day slows down Nanaimo
The Peace Tower is hit with late afternoon light on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. An agreement in principle that will see Ottawa pay billions in compensation to First Nations children harmed by an underfunded child welfare system is set to be announced in Ottawa today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Ottawa announces details of $40 billion Indigenous child-welfare settlement
A few customers watch a movie at a Cineplex movie theatre in Laval, Que., Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
All the big movies due out in 2022, from The Batman to Avatar 2
Shawna White holds her newborn son on New Year’s Day at Victoria General Hospital. (Photo courtesy of Ishmael Grimwood)
UPDATE: It’s a boy! B.C.’s first baby born at Victoria General Hospital
People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing and vaccination site in Montreal, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Ontario and Quebec are both reporting new COVID-19 case records today as Canadian provinces explore changing their isolation rules to keep health systems afloat amid an unprecedented wave of infections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
New COVID-19 health measures announced amid another record-breaking day in Canada