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  VANCOUVER -- B.C.'s restart plan is getting a failing grade from families with loved ones in long-term care. Families complain visits are still severely restricted and access is inconsistent from one facility to the next. “Booked appointments, limited time, we’re told frequency, duration and who we can take,” said a frustrated Jeanette Harper, whose mom is in a nursing home. She said the province’s current reopening plan makes no mention of easing restrictions and she doesn’t understand why. “I’ve had my two vaccines. My mother’s had her two vaccines. I have to wear a...

  VANCOUVER -- Two suspects have been charged in connection with an ugly incident at a Richmond, B.C., coffee shop earlier this year that allegedly involved racial slurs. The RCMP said officers were called to Rocanini Coffee Roasters in the city's Steveston neighbourhood after the manager reported an alleged assault on March 29. Staff said two customers came in, ignored COVID-19 protocols and then became agitated after being asked to move tables. Surveillance video captured drinks being poured on the floor and an object being thrown as a couple was leaving the coffee shop. Authorities w...

The seven o'clock cheer for health-care workers is still alive in a Langley, B.C., neighbourhood, but not everyone's cheering: a neighbour has filed a noise complaint.

  VANCOUVER -- Advocates wanting to keep the RCMP in Surrey are hoping a last-ditch effort will stop the city from transitioning to a municipal police force. Elections BC has approved a petition under the Recall and Initiative Act. If it garners enough signatures, it could force a binding referendum asking whether Surrey should keep the RCMP or transition to a police force. The campaign is being led by Darlene Bennett, a Surrey resident whose husband Paul was shot and killed in 2018 in a case of mistaken identity. “I am very excited, hopeful,” Bennett said in a Zoom news conference ...

  VANCOUVER -- There’s a very happy Father’s Day ahead for the new parents of a baby boy who ended up needing some high-level care at a Vancouver hospital. Their journey to becoming a family of three required an actual journey, all the way from Yukon to the neonatal intensive care unit at St.Paul’s Hospital. In mid-April, Greg Shaw and his husband Allen Penny got an unexpected call from their friend, who was the surrogate carrying their child. She told them she needed to go to the hospital. At that point, the pregnancy was just shy of 33 weeks along.