‘Voice’ winner Jordan Smith joins Amy Grant, Michael W Smith for Christmas Tour
Once again rekindling their synonymous holiday music magic, multi-platinum GRAMMY® winners Amy Grant and Michael W. Smith will co-bill their popular symphony-filled Christmas tour this year, joined by Republic More...
Joey Houssian, Nomads team leader, reflects on Ultimate Frisbee’s Olympic Status
In the summer of 2015, many Ultimate Frisbee players got the news they had been waiting for – Ultimate Frisbee has become a sanctioned Olympic sport. The August 2nd, 2015 announcement came after a two year More...
Politician ‘horrified’: Aborted fetuses in Oregon medical waste energy plant
Local offiicals moved fast as the news broke that British Columbia was sending their aborted and miscarried babies, along with the rest of their medical waste, to a plant in Brooks, Oregon where they would be burned More...
Fraser Health warns of spread of measles in public in Chilliwack and Agassiz
The cases of measles reported in children at a school in Chilliwack, B.C. appears to be spreading in the general communities of Chilliwack and Agassiz, according to Fraser Health officials Thursday. Public More...
Vancouver syphilis rates ‘highest level in 30 years’, predominantly in gay community
Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) announced Monday that “Syphilis rates are at epidemic proportions in the Lower Mainland”, predominately in the gay community. Darkfield More...
Canada health officials now investigating 25 E.coli cases linked to Gort’s Gouda Cheese
In a follow up report to the E. coli O157:H7 cases linked to certain contaminated cheese products manufactured by Gort’s Gouda Cheese Farm in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) More...
Gort’s Cheese linked to E.coli outbreak in British Columbia
British Columbia (BC) health officials have issued a public alert today advising people not to consume cheese products from Gort’s Gouda Cheese Farm of Salmon Arm as it is being linked to an outbreak of E. More...
British Columbia: Measles confirmed in four people, health officials urge vaccination
Fraser Health is warning all residents and health care professionals to be alert for measles after several individuals in the Fraser Health region were recently diagnosed with the disease. According to health officials, More...
Canada: Fraser health officer confirms case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), says there is no outbreak
Responding to several media accounts of an outbreak of the deadly prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in Fraser, British Columbia (BC), Dr. Paul Van Buynder, Chief Medical Health Officer of Fraser Health More...
Vancouver health reports infection rates of syphilis the highest in three decades
Health officials in the western province are advising sexually active gay and bisexual men to have quarterly syphilis testing in light of the new numbers released yesterday by Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) and More...
Angelica Spanidis charged with murder of baby, which cannot be found in Toronto as search expands to BC
A 25-year-old Toronto woman has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing her newborn baby. Staff at a local hospital contacted police on May 23 when Angelica Spanidis came in after giving birth, More...
Elisa Lam, Missing Vancouver student, found dead in rooftop water tank of Los Angeles hotel
A body found in a large water tank on top of a downtown Los Angeles hotel on Tuesday may belong to a 21-year-old Canadian woman who went missing under suspicious circumstances while staying there late last month, More...
Canada: Kinnikinnick Foods Pie Crusts recalled due to undeclared eggs
Kinnikinnick Foods brand Pie Crusts Image/CFIA Edmonton, AB company, Kinnikinnick Foods Inc. have announced a voluntary recall of certain Kinnikinnick Foods brand Pie Crusts because an ingredient, eggs, was More...
Ron Mackintosh, missing Canadian man, found dead in Mexico
Missing Canadian man was found dead in Mexico, allegedly tied to a tree. Ron Lloyd Mackintosh, age 64, from Vancouver Island, was discovered on Tuesday in Barra de Navidad, a small beach town north of Manzanillo. Ron More...
