Island Health says 17 more people have tested positive for COVID-19 in an ongoing outbreak at the Sunset Lodge long-term care home in Victoria. The health authority says testing over the weekend found 13 residents and four additional staff members were positive for the virus, up from 5 previously detected positive tests among staff. Island Health says most residents are not experiencing symptoms at this point, while staff and residents are being screened for the illness twice a day. It says admissions, transfers and social visits have been paused.

Justin Trudeau says Canada supports a move by several other countries to have a safe zone established at Kabul international airport in Afghanistan. Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is defending Canada's efforts to get Canadians and vulnerable Afghan citizens who helped Canada's mission in Afghanistan out of that country. At an election campaign stop in Quebec this morning, Trudeau was asked why Ukrainian soldiers were able to rescue Canadians from Kabul. Former Afghan translators who worked for the Globe and Mail have described how Ukrainian soldiers found them and escorted them into the Kabul

The union representing RCMP officers says it's concerned by Premier John Horgan's suggestion that businesses should call police for help enforcing the province's vaccine card rules. The National Police Federation says its members will always respond professionally to businesses and individuals in need of support. However, the union says police are being called to do more without additional resources or funding and they're already stretched thin. This summer alone, it says more than 650 Mounties have been deployed to wildfire response and even more have been sent to enforce an injunction grant

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau has outlined a plan to help restore Canada's big lakes and river system. In Quebec, he announced his government would invest one billion dollars over 10 years. In Ottawa, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is promising to crack down on ``ultra-rich'' tax dodgers. Singh says his party's plan to tax the rich could raise the money to help pay for programs like universal pharmacare and more affordable housing. He later is scheduled to fly to Ladysmith, BC. Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, meanwhile, is promising to get tougher on animal cruelty. He began the day at a dog sanc

The wildfire situation is continually evolving, and the information below is current as of 7 p.m. (Pacific time) on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021.Fires:Wildfires burning in B.C.: 232Since April 1, 2021:1,558 wildfires864,665 hectares of area burnedActive fires by fire centre:Cariboo: 25Coastal: 19Kamloops: 79Northwest: 5Prince George: 49Southeast: 55Resources:Firefighters and other personnel fighting the fires: 2,979Out-of-province firefighters: 443Helicopters and planes supporting ground crews: 110Evacuations:Evacuation orders: 28 (-1) Evacuation alerts: 77 (-2) Properties:Number of properties on ord

Health Canada has finally given the green light for Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine to be used to inoculate kids as young as 12.The original approval for Moderna in December 2020 was only for people at least 18 years old.Moderna applied for authorization for youth in early June, citing a clinical trial of 3,700 youth in which none of the teens who got two doses developed a COVID-19 infection.Youth as young as 12 in Canada have been authorized to receive the vaccine from Pfizer-BioNTech since May 5.As of mid-August, 75 per cent of kids in that age group had received at least one dose, and 59 per cen

Slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government, Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said the police action against protesting farmers in Haryana's Karnal is a kind of Talibani mentality. Speaking to mediapersons, Raut said, "Attack on farmers is a shameful incident for the nation. This is a kind of Talibani mentality. Farmers are doing protests for two years on the Ghazipur border, Haryana border... They are fighting for their rights. SDM gave an order to break the head of the farmers and the government is not serious about this issue. How can this government say it is for the poor and

Indian shooter Avani Lekhara on August 30 clinched gold medal in women's 10m Air Rifle standing SH1 in the ongoing Tokyo Paralympics. China's Zhang Cuiping won silver and Ukraine's Iryna Shchetnik won bronze. "For me, there can be no greater happiness than this. This is the result of her hard work. I hope she brings a gold medal in 50m shooting also," said Avani's grandfather. Lekhara became the first woman from India to win gold medal at Paralympics.

B.C. is reporting 867 new cases of COVID-19, including four epi-linked cases, for a total of 163,560 cases in the province. There are 5,657 active cases of COVID-19 in the province and 155,928 people who tested positive have recovered. Of the active cases, 159 individuals are in hospital and 84 are in intensive care. The remaining people are recovering at home in self-isolation.In the past 24 hours, three new deaths (Interior Health) have been reported, for an overall total of 1,807. From Aug. 12-25, people not fully vaccinated accounted for 82.0% of cases and 85.9% of hospitalizations.Past we