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Shea Perkins helped set up the original community care tent, which was removed from Beacon Hill Park by bylaw officers in November because it lacked the proper permits. He said Monday it’s a huge relief to have a legitimate location so volunteers can focus on providing services for people without homes. “We can stop focusing on fighting and start focusing on creating,” he said, as he and volunteer Anthony Bryan set up a second tent where electric heaters can provide warmth to people. The tent serves as a donation centre and provides food, water and harm-reduction services. Located at th...

The arrest involved more than a dozen officers, including armed tactical members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team. The man surrendered just after 2 a.m. after tactical officers used a flash bang device. No one was injured. Victoria police statistics show that 60 per cent of high-priority calls between June and November were focused on the city’s multi-unit residential temporary housing facilities and encampments in parks and areas in the immediate vicinity. Police responded to 4,384 priority one or priority two calls at the 13 locations between June — shortly after the B...

by Rossland Telegraph on Tuesday Mar 06 2018 Ambulance called to a crash scene First, a bit of background.  ICBC is in dire financial straits. Back in 2016, ICBC applied to the BC Utilities Commission for permission to raise its rates by 4.9%.  This publication posted an article by Dermod Travis of Integrity BC on ICBC’s request. Travis unpicked the rationale for the proposed increase in rates, delved into ICBC’s arguments in favour of the increase and found them a bit misleading: according to Travis’s analysis, they seem manipulated to present only some of...

Year in review: A look at news events in December 2020 The first Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine dose in Canada sits ready for use at The Michener Institute in Toronto on December 14, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn December 31, 2020 - 11:30 AM A look at news events in December 2020: 01 - U.S. President Donald Trump's science adviser announced he is leaving his post. Dr. Scott Atlas, who had no formal experience in public health or infectious diseases, gained infamy for his skepticism of measures to control the coronavirus outbreak. Atlas joined the White ...

Throughout her career, Kendal has been involved in education and service, including as a sessional lecturer at Thompson Rivers University and serving on various boards, including the Board of the Law Foundation. She was the founding chair of the Kamloops Women Lawyers Forum and has also volunteered internationally. “I want to congratulate each of these extraordinary lawyers and thank them for their contributions to British Columbia and to the legal profession," Attorney General David Eby in a release. “Each one of them is deserving of the honour of the Queen's counsel title for demonstr...