Today in BC

25/11/2023

The community Leader Awards hosted by the Surrey Now-Leader were wonderful last night. Thanks to all who attended and congratulations to all who won!

18/08/2023

TODAY IN B.C.: Film ‘My Name is Arnold’ earns widespread accolades

17/08/2023

“I was the only Asian kid in the school, and it wasn’t always an easy experience,” he said. “People would hit me; they would call me names. No one cared, no one did anything. I didn’t do anything. It was a time where I went to school angry almost every single day. Maybe to process that and maybe for cathartic reasons, I wrote a short, I called it, My Name is Arnold.”

TODAY IN B.C.: Film ‘My Name is Arnold’ earns widespread accolades

17/08/2023

Directing the feature film All in Madonna, which won numerous awards in 2020, Lim has followed it with his own story My Name is Arnold. It details the story of when he was 10 years old growing up in Blue River, B.C.

TODAY IN B.C.: Film ‘My Name is Arnold’ earns widespread accolades

13/08/2023

TODAY IN B.C.: Kelowna band hit the stage more than 40 years ago

13/08/2023

Rasheeda Frost’s relationship with hip-hop started in 1981.

She was a kindergartener when her mother gave her a record player, and she would continuously spin it, not knowing what it was. Then her mom gave her a record from The Sugarhill Gang.

Early female rappers battled sexism to carve out a perspective that often wasn’t heard

13/08/2023

The 2023 Pan American Games will take place from Oct. 29 to Nov. 5 at the Centro de Entrenamiento Olímpico. The event holds special importance as the gold and silver medallists in the mixed doubles category will directly qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Two B.C. athletes are gearing up to represent Canada at the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games

13/08/2023

The regulations would drive up the cost of energy slightly, but federal officials say that would be offset by the savings expected to come from moving away from fossil fuels.

Regulations expected to help Canada reach target of making the electricity grid net-zero by 2035

13/08/2023

Film, television, fashion: You name it and Kim Kimble has done it in her 30-plus years as a hair stylist in Hollywood — but even through the good times, she never gave up her backup plan.

Until the pandemic.

Hair, makeup and nail stylists idled by entertainment labour wars on heels of pandemic struggle

13/08/2023

Meta is set to remove all news for Canadian users in response to the Liberal government’s Online News Act, which requires some tech giants to pay for news content shared or repurposed on their platforms.

Police services across Canada are grappling with how they will relay emergency information, including breaking news and details of missing persons, once Meta begins permanently removing news from its social media platforms.

13/08/2023

More than 10,000 tweets were collected and analyzed for the study. These were used to document organizations’ responses to consumer complaints across four industries, including airlines, casual dining chain restaurants, hotels and fast-food restaurants.

10,000 tweets were collected and analyzed to show the responses to consumer complaints

13/08/2023

Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon said he is “cautiously optimistic” that the federal government will step up its support for housing in B.C., but also repeated previous calls for greater federal involvement.

Ravi Kahlon is ‘cautiously optimistic’ that Ottawa will support provincial efforts

13/08/2023

Rick Austin knew he had hooked a big one as his fishing rod bent and he reeled furiously from his kayak off the Nova Scotia coast, but he never dreamt there would be a great white shark on the end of the line.

‘When you hook them up, they’ll come back and wreak vengeance on you’

13/08/2023

Thick smoke and gray skies have appeared every morning for the past few months in Jakarta, the capital city of the world’s fourth most populous country.

Indonesian authorities blame the dry season and vehicles for gray skies and unwelcome title

13/08/2023

As he settles in to the corner office in Ottawa’s National Defence headquarters, Bill Blair is feeling pretty comfortable in his new role.

This is his fourth ministerial job since 2018, when he was put in charge of border security and organized crime reduction. Blair has also overseen the departments of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness — roles where he’s been in close contact with the military.

Blair was chief of the Toronto Police Service from 2005 to 2015

13/08/2023

\\“Either you love them or you hate them,” Hanna Mayor Danny Povaschuk said

Canadian Music Hall of Famers also named second worst band of the 1990s, by Rolling Stone

12/08/2023

The headline-grabbing frenzy to secure tickets to Taylor Swift’s Toronto shows is a culmination of the pop star’s “unique” status in music history and her brilliant marketing skills, says a professor who taught a course on the subject.

A look inside the overwhelming demand to get tickets for pop star’s lone Canadian show

12/08/2023

In light of that decision, the cases against other people who took part in the Fairy Creek blockade on southern Vancouver Island have been withdrawn.

Dozens of cases against Fairy Creek logging protesters are dropped after high court ruling

12/08/2023

Hawaii boasts what the state describes as the largest integrated outdoor all-hazard public safety warning system in the world, with about 400 sirens positioned across the island chain to alert people to various natural disasters and other threats.

Many survivors said they didn’t hear any sirens or receive a warning

12/08/2023

Air Canada says the travel situation to Maui remains “dynamic and evolving” given the ongoing fires, with the airline planning to send a second empty plane to the island this evening after the first emergency ferry flight returned to Vancouver this morning.

Non-essential trips to devastated Hawaiian island should be avoided: Global Affairs Canada

12/08/2023

Luke Gordon Field is trying to figure out how he can explain the concept of deadpan satire to an algorithm.

He says he never thought in a million years that the need to explain a joke would transcend humans. But it’s a situation he believes he has found himself in as editor-in-chief of The Beaverton, a Canadian comedy website.

Beaverton and other Canadian comedy sites getting caught in Facebook battle over online news bill

12/08/2023

It’s expected to be operational by Wednesday, Aug. 16, and will be managed by the Emergency Management Ministry. It will accommodate up to 300 people.

It’s expected to be operational by Aug. 16

12/08/2023

Blowing out the candles of a birthday cake would be an achievement for many octogenarians.

Roger Thomas is not like most people.

Roger Thomas went up Vancouver Island’s Mount Washington in less than 2 hours

12/08/2023

The return of the mystery-comedy “Only Murders in the Building” and Gal Gadot getting her “Mission: Impossible”-style action film with the international espionage thriller “Heart of Stone” are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you

What’s on line for your entertainment pleasure this weekend?

12/08/2023

It has been a particularly deadly year on the water in Quebec, where more than a third of all drownings reported in Canada in 2023 have occurred. Quebec has reported 54 drownings so far in 2023, but this year’s number has been inflated by a few incidents that resulted in multiple deaths.

Five-year average at this time of year is 45 drownings, and 2023 is first year to surpass that number since 2020

12/08/2023

\Carley Fortune says in an Instagram post she is thrilled to announce she is teaming up with Netflix and Archewell Productions, which is owned by Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, on the adaptation of her book “Meet Me at the Lake.”

‘Meet Me at the Lake’ is a Toronto-set romance being adapted by Netflix

12/08/2023

Thousands of tourists spill onto a boardwalk in Alaska’s capital city every day from cruise ships towering over downtown. Vendors hawk shoreside trips and rows of buses stand ready to whisk visitors away, with many headed for the area’s crown jewel: the Mendenhall Glacier.

Mendenhall Glacier is receding so quickly that by 2050, it might no longer be visible from the visitor center

12/08/2023

A dangerous mix of conditions appear to have combined to make the wildfires blazing a path of destruction in Hawaii particularly damaging, including high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation.

‘What these … catastrophic wildfire disasters are revealing is that nowhere is immune to the issue’

12/08/2023

Cruise-In volunteers are now busy refunding everyone who tried to buy burger meals through the car registration portal.

Burger fans are trying to get a jump on the one-day burger sale event