Champion ice-dancers Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue are among 114 athletes, artists, scholars and community leaders named to the Order of Canada today. Gov. Gen. Julie Payette's office announced the new honourees this morning. Others in the group include Indigenous writer Thomas King, winemaker John Peller, dancer and choreographer Elizabeth Langley, geriatrician Roger Wong, Cree elder Doreen Spence and ex-politicians Bill Graham and Allan Rock. Moir and Virtue catapulted to national stardom with their gold-medal performances at the Winter Olympics in 2018. They're being honoured for their athle

Premier John Horgan says, "belligerent people should grow up" and follow COVID-19 measures. Horgan says he recently witnessed a group of customers abusing two young waiters and a receptionist at a restaurant when they wanted to sit at one table. He says similar behaviour will not be tolerated in the retail sector because police can be called to remove aggressive customers not wearing a mask. Provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry introduced an order recently to make masks mandatory in all indoor public spaces.

Swedish authorities said Friday they need more information before deciding whether to reopen the case of a 1994 ferry sinking in the Baltic that killed 852 people, in one of Europe's deadliest peacetime disasters at sea. A TV documentary aired Sept. 28 on the M/S Estonia includes video images from the wreck site showing a hole in the hull measuring 4 metres (13 feet) on the starboard side. A 1997 report concluded that it sank after the bow door locks failed in a storm, and flatly rejected the theory of a hole, which has long been the focus of speculation about a possible explosion on board. T

A temporary drive-thru site to test for COVID-19 was supposed to close Saturday in Whitehorse but will now be open for an extra two weeks as new cases of the virus have been confirmed. Officials in Yukon announced the measure following news that cases of the illness had reached 39 yesterday afternoon and then, just hours later, officials announced another three confirmed cases to bring the total to 42. Health Minister Pauline Frost says the drive-thru testing option has been very successful and she wants to thank health-care staff who have been working in the cold at a car wash. The Yukon gov

Welcoming the protesting farmers, who were allowed to enter Delhi through the Tikri border to hold demonstrations on Nirankari Samagam Ground in the Burari area against the new farm laws, the Aam Adami Party on Friday said that it will make all the necessary arrangements for them. "The Aam Aadmi Party welcomes the farmers to Delhi. We will take full care of the farmers and make all the necessary arrangements for them. We stand with the farmers in this battle. Jai Kisan," the party tweeted from its official handle. Prior to that, the party also disclosed the capital territory government's deci

A 30 year old Dawson Creek man faces assault and mischief charges related to an attack on an employee at the Dawson Creek Walmart who asked the man to wear a mask. RCMP say the attack happened yesterday and a review of surveillance tape helped them identify a suspect and arrest him at his home. The employee received minor injuries but didn't need medical attention. Police say they must enforce the provincial health order requiring masks in all indoor spaces and, with a few exceptions, anyone defying the order faces a 230 dollar fine, plus identical, additional fines if the person is abusive o

British Columbia has recorded 887 new cases of COVID-19 as the province nears 30,000 infections from the illness. Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry say in a joint statement Thursday that 13 more people have died, for a total of 384 fatalities. The statement says 294 patients are in hospital, 64 of them in intensive care. Dix and Dr. Henry are calling on the public to keep their contacts small as a way to support health-care teams working to track the virus. A total of 10,307 people are being monitoring by public health-care providers as a result of iden

The new Cabinet of B.C.:Anne Kang is Minister of Advanced Education, Skills and Training.Lana Popham is Minister of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries.Lisa Beare is Minister of Citizen Services.Mitzi Dean is Minister of Children and Family Development.Katrina Chen is Minister of State for Childcare.Jennifer Whiteside is Minister of Education.Bruce Ralston is Minister of Energy and Mines.George Heyman is Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Minister responsible for TransLink.Selina Robinson is Minister of Finance.Katrine Conroy is Minister of Forests, Lands and Rural Development.Nathan C

COVID-19 has changed a lot of things this holiday season but it hasn't changed the need to keep drinking drivers off the road. The Insurance Corporation of BC, RCMP detachments and municipal police forces around the province launch annual CounterAttack holiday road checks tomorrow night, continuing through December and into the new year. ICBC says an average of 67 people die in BC annually because of impaired driving, with the highest number in the southern Interior where an average of 23 people are killed by drunk drivers. Statistics from ICBC show an average of 17 people are involved in fat