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