British Columbia's mental health and addictions minister says the province will expand services for young children, school-aged youth and their families. Sheila Malcolmson says 60 new full-time family support workers will be added over the next three years to help deliver services for children with emotional, behavioural and developmental challenges. She says that would give families better access to mental health care during children's formative years. Five integrated child and youth teams currently exist, but the province is aiming to add more teams to another 15 communities by 2024, based o

An 18 year old woman has been critically hurt after police in Abbotsford, B.C., say a car crashed seconds after ignoring an order to pull over. A statement from Abbotsford police says the crash happened early Monday on Highway 11 between Abbotsford and Mission. Const. Mike Wilford says the vehicle hit a cement barrier. He says collision specialists are at the scene and the department has also contacted the office that investigates all police-involved cases of serious injury or death. Wilford says members of the Independent Investigations Office are responding. Police are also appealing for das

Canada may have suspended flights from India over COVID-19 concerns, but the BC Centre for Disease Control is still catching up to the infections. Eight flights from Delhi to Vancouver between April 16th and April 21st had passengers with COVID infections. The centre says multiple rows were affected in several of the flights. The federal government suspended direct flights from India and Pakistan for a month as cases surge in those countries. BCCDC on Twitter: New flights or row numbers listed with possible #COVID19 exposures: http://ow.ly/kbL850EuHFA Apr 21: Air Canada 45, Delhi to Vancouver

A 15 year old Vancouver boy has died after a fight between two groups of young people in a west-side park. Vancouver police says the teen was stabbed during the fight on Saturday. He underwent surgery for a chest wound but Sgt. Steve Addison says the teen died Sunday. A 14 year old was arrested shortly after the fight. Addison says the boy has been charged with possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose. The Vancouver police homicide unit wants to speak to anyone who may have information about the killing.

A Vancouver city councillor is angry about disturbing graffiti that compared BC's provincial health officer to a notorious Nazi concentration camp doctor. Councillor Pete Fry says the spray painted message on the Vancouver Seawall made him mad. Fry says it's an appalling lack of respect for Jewish people and he can't imagine how anyone can compare the pandemic to the deliberate murder of people based on their ethnicity. Nico Slobinsky, with The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, tweeted that the role of a public Health Officer is the exact opposite of the role Josef Mengele played during t

A first-degree murder charge has been laid in what Vancouver police say was a "shocking and unnerving" shooting in a busy city neighbourhood last week.The victim, 31-year-old Harpreet Singh Dhaliwal of Abbotsford, B.C., was shot and killed outside a popular restaurant last Saturday.On top of the murder charge, 51-year-old Francois Gauthier is also accused of possession of a loaded prohibited weapon.Gauthier remains in custody until his next court appearance.Police say no one else was hurt in the targeted shooting, but safety was at risk for others in the public location.There have been three

318 Oxygen Concentrators on Monday arrived at Delhi airport from the United States as India receives global support to fight the unprecedented health crisis of COVID-19. Union Minister, Hardeep Singh Puri, in a tweet, said, "All efforts to strengthen India's fight against the pandemic are on. 318 Philips Oxygen Concentrators on @airindiainflight from JFK Airport land at @DelhiAirport. Let there be no doubt. We will turn the tide."India also received the aid of 500 BiPAPs, 250 oxygen concentrators and other medical supplies from Singapore, which landed in Mumbai last night on an Air India fligh

A Delhi Court on Monday granted bail to actor-turned-activist Deep Sidhu in another Republic Day violence case. The Court noted that the accused has already been interrogated in police custody for 14 days and has been in custody for about 70 days when he has been granted regular bail by the ASJ on similar facts in the first case. On Friday, the Court had granted one more day to the Delhi Police to file a reply on Sidhu's bail plea. Metropolitan Magistrate adjourned the hearing on Sidhu's bail plea till Saturday and asked Delhi Police to file a reply on his bail plea. Sidhu was arrested in this

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Gregoire Trudeau, received their first shot of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine Friday at a Rexall pharmacy in downtown Ottawa.Pharmacist Zaineb Hassan disinfected a spot on Trudeau's left arm where the prime minister has an Indigenous tattoo, before he jokingly asked his wife to hold his right hand while he received the vaccine dose.Trudeau told the pharmacist he was "very excited" before Hassan injected the shot into Trudeau's arm and covered the spot with a bandage.Hassan then gave Gregoire Trudeau her vaccine shot and told the coupl