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BCDec 10, 2020

An octopus named after Dr. Bonnie Henry set to be released next week from an aquarium

An octopus named after provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry is set to be released next week from an aquarium on Vancouver Island. Henry is a giant Pacific octopus who was brought to the Shaw Centre for the Salish Sea for care in June. The aquarium says in a release that Henry has been particularly calm, just like Dr. Henry, during its time at the facility in Sidney. Henry is set to be released next Thursday in the area where it was found, on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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BCDec 10, 2020

Long-term care workers to get priority vaccination in B.C. to protect elderly: Dr. Bonnie Henry

British Columbia's top doctor says health-care workers in long-term care facilities and intensive care units will be the first to be immunized against COVID-19 with the Pfizer vaccine starting next week. Dr. Bonnie Henry says immunizations will happen at two clinics in the Vancouver Coastal Health and Fraser Health regions, before eventually expanding to 30 sites as part of a process that will ramp up as more doses and vaccines become available. Up to 400,000 B.C. residents can get a shot in the arm by the end of March. Henry says prioritizing those who work at care homes will protect the eld
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BCDec 09, 2020

Five minks test positive for a virus that causes COVID-19 at a Fraser Valley mink farm

Five mink on a Fraser Valley mink farm have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. The BC Ministry of Agriculture says the farm has been quarantined and testing to determine the genome sequence of the strain of virus continues. An outbreak was declared at the farm this week when several workers tested positive for COVID-19. Test results from five mink samples taken from a Fraser Valley mink farm have all been confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said then that the outbreak was concerning
BCDec 09, 2020

194 tickets handed out to businesses or individuals who have broken the provincial health officer's orders on COVID-19: BC Government

The BC government says 194 tickets have been handed out in the last three and a half months to businesses or individuals who have broken the provincial health officer's orders on COVID-19. The tickets include three dozen 2,300 dollar fines to owners or organizers of gatherings or events. Another 142 people received 230 dollar fines for refusing to comply with the direction of law enforcement. The province formally extended its state of emergency yesterday, allowing officials to keep using extraordinary powers under the Emergency Program Act in response to the pandemic.
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BCDec 09, 2020

City of Vancouver passes 1.6 billion dollar budget, Police chief says he's disappointed

The City of Vancouver's 1.6 billion dollar COVID-19 response budget for 2021 has passed after nearly 139 million dollars in pandemic-related losses. Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the budget includes more money for overdose response efforts, supports for small businesses, as well as housing, sanitation and community policing. He says the budget also keeps property tax increases at five per cent and holds the city's largest line item, the police budget, to 2020 levels. Police chief Adam Palmer says he's disappointed the force asked for 322 million dollars to maintain current staffing levels and fi
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BCDec 09, 2020

More information on the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines coming today

There will be more information on the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines today with a briefing that includes provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry, Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix. Horgan tweeted yesterday that the first vaccine doses are just days away and about four-thousand high-risk people in B-C will be immunized by the end of next week. BC recorded 566 more cases yesterday and another 16 deaths. A statement from Henry and Dix says while it's encouraging the cases numbers are trending down, the number of people in hospital remains high and public health restrictions
BCDec 09, 2020

Participant in a recent anti-mask protest in Vancouver arrested for allegedly threatening another man: Police

Police say a participant in a recent anti-mask protest in Vancouver was arrested shortly after for allegedly threatening another man with dog spray. He had left the protest and was allegedly yelling obscenities without practising physically distancing when the other man called him a "disgrace." Officers arrested the protesting man for uttering threats, and he's been issued two tickets under the province's COVID-19 Related Measures Act. Around 500 rallied against public health public health orders outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Saturday, including the former anthem singer for the Vancouver
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BCDec 09, 2020

B.C. premier says nearly 4,000 high-risk people to be vaccinated next week; 566 new COVID-19 cases and 16 deaths reported

British Columbia has recorded 566 new cases of COVID-19, which the provincial health officer and health minister say is the "start of encouraging trends" in the progression of the virus. However, Dr. Bonnie Henry and Adrian Dix say the number of new cases and hospitalizations due to serious illness are still high, requiring health orders and restrictions to stay in place. They say 352 people with the illness are being treated in hospital, with 74 of them in intensive care. Sixteen more people have died, for a total of 543 fatalities in the province. Premier John Horgan says on Twitter that ab
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BCDec 09, 2020

Two Vancouver police officers face assault cherges in the arrest of a former UBC football player

The BC Prosecution Service says two Vancouver police officers have been charged in the arrest of a former UBC football player nearly three years ago. It says Constable Jarrod Sidhu has been charged with assault with a weapon and Constable Jagpreet Ghuman has been charged with assault. The charges relate to the arrest of Jamiel Moore-Williams, during which a stun gun was deployed after he was stopped for jaywalking in February 2018. The police complaint commissioner referred the matter to the prosecution service for consideration of charges after the RCMP failed to do so following its investig
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