CBC - British Columbia (8 minutes ago)
Nearly one month ago, Jim Pera was living in a broken-down 1976 motorhome in a remote area outside of the city when it caught fire on the morning of Dec. 9, 2025. The 69-year-old was airlifted to hospital in Victoria and was recently transferred to the burn unit at Royal Jubilee Hospital after spending 28 days in intensive care.
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An organization that provides free mental health and substance-use care for youth will now be able to help more young people in downtown Vancouver, thanks to a donation worth more than $13 million. Foundry says a private foundation has gifted it a four-storey building in Yaletown at 1220 Homer Street. It will allow the group […]
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Hal Wake worked for CBC Radio for 17 years, hosted The Early Edition in Vancouver and was a stalwart of Canadian literature. He's described by a former CBC co-worker as a man who "loved finding unexpected angles to stories, quirky characters and spontaneous moments within interviews that made you sit up and take notice."
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The chair of Filipino B.C. said holding a 2026 Lapu-Lapu Day festival is "important for collective healing" after 11 people were killed and dozens more were injured in an alleged vehicle attack last year. The festival will take place the weekend of April 17-19.
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The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra says it won't be taking legal action against a violinist who broke a non-disclosure agreement to go public with accusations that she had been raped by one of its senior musicians, then faced retaliation from the orchestra.
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (3 days ago)
The Toronto Blue Jays will formally introduce Japanese infielder Kazuma Okamoto on Tuesday, days after signing the 29-year-old to a four-year, $60-million contract. Okamoto joins the Blue Jays after spending more than a decade with the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), developing into a slugging superstar overseas. From 2018 to...
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