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Cardinal Mauro Bassetti, right, celebrates a penitential rite in front of the altar of the confession inside St. Peter’s Basilica, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Cardinal performs rite to restore Vatican altar desecrated by man’s naked protest
Lifeguards work at Brittany Beach on the Ottawa River in Ottawa on Friday, June 24, 2022. Staff running pools and beaches across Canada are trying to entice people to work as lifeguards amid a shortage, the Lifesaving Society says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Canadian towns and cities try creative ways to recruit lifeguards amid shortage
ICBC is implementing a new discount for vehicles driven less than 10,000 kilometres in a year. (ICBC)
ICBC rolls out new discount for vehicles driven under 10,000 km a year
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix pauses while responding to questions during a news conference in Vancouver, on Monday, Nov. 7, 2022. Dix announced on Friday $4.5 million in new funding for Canuck Place Children’s Hospice in Vancouver. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
B.C. giving $4.5 million to upgrade children’s hospice facility
Minister of Public Safety Mike Farnworth speaks to media during a press conference in the press gallery at Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Monday February 5, 2018.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
B.C. group gets $5.5M to help end violence against Indigenous women, girls
FILE — This March 28, 2017 photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Nearly four years after Epstein died in jail in New York, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to his death from the Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Law. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
New details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP
FILE - Ernie Field pushes the doorbell on his Ring doorbell camera, July 16, 2019, at his home in Wolcott, Conn. In a vote Wednesday, May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission is ordering Amazon to pay more than $30 million in fines over privacy violations involving its voice assistant Alexa and its doorbell camera Ring. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
Amazon to pay $31 million in privacy violation penalties for Alexa voice assistant and Ring camera
Canada is a leader in co-operative education, a learning model that alternates between academic and paid work terms. It's a form of so-called work integrated learning, an umbrella term that also includes other approaches to experiential learning like apprenticeships, internships and clinical placements. A worker welds oil pipe at the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary, Tuesday, June 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
‘Earn while you learn:’ Co-op programs gain appeal amid rising cost of living
Marie Clements, creator of the film “Bones of Crows,” poses for a photograph during the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
Residential school drama ‘Bones of Crows’ explores ongoing legacy of trauma
Police are investigating after someone threw black paint on the front entrance and a window of Ladner United Church in the early morning of Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Police are treating the incident as a hate crime as the locations are where Pride flags were hanging inside the building. (Ladner United Church/Facebook photos)
Vandal again targets Pride flags at B.C. church
The provincial government announced June 1, 2023 that it’s giving $1.1 million to expand counselling services at Looking Glass Foundation that helps people with eating disorders. Anorexia nervosa is the leading cause of death for young women between the ages of 15 and 24. (Unsplash)
B.C. group gets $1.1M to expand counselling services for people with eating disorders
A new report from the BC Teachers’ Federation finds teachers are working longer than in the past with negative effects for their health and the quality of instruction. (Photo courtesy of Langley School District/Black Press Media file photo)
B.C. education system suffering as teachers in worse health, working more: survey
Provincial Environment Minister George Heyman announces $10 million in funding for the BC Parks Foundation outside Goldstream Nature House in Goldstream Provincial Park on June 1. (Bailey Moreton/News Staff)
B.C. gives $10M to parks foundation to expand programs
Danny Masterson and his wife Bijou Phillips arrive for closing arguments in his second trial, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. Masterson is charged with raping three women at his Los Angeles home between 2001 and 2003. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Danny Masterson convicted of 2 counts of rape; ‘That ’70s Show’ actor faces 30 years to life
FILE - Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters on Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. A group of Amazon workers upset about recent layoffs, a return-to-office mandate and the company's environmental impact is planning a walkout at its Seattle headquarters Wednesday. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Corporate Amazon workers protest company’s climate impact and return-to-office mandate in walkout
This was the aftermath of a 2021 explosion at CFB Comox after crews had hit a gasline. According to the 2022 annual report from the Technical Safety BC, it was one of two serious gas-related explosions caused by unattentive crews. (Photo courtsey of Technical Safety BC)
Climate change is threatening technical safety, says B.C.’s regulator
The provincial government has made B.C. the first province in Canada to offer free prescription contraceptives to all women. Starting June 1, participating pharmacists will be able to write prescriptions for contraceptives as well as for 21 minor ailments. (Photo credit: Pixabay)
B.C. pharmacists to treat minor ailments, prescribe contraception as of June 1
A recreational boat travels on the harbour as Canada Place and the downtown Vancouver skyline are seen from North Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, March 12, 2022. The City of Vancouver says it is giving Canada Place a second, honorary name to acknowledge historical discrimination against South Asian communities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Vancouver announces Komagata Maru street name to address historic wrongs
Hundreds of nurses in Vancouver for a B.C. Nurses Union conference marched along the streets of Vancouver Wednesday (May 31, 2023) calling for safer staffing levels. (Lauren Collins)
PHOTOS: Protest highlights B.C.’s ‘dire’ nurse staffing shortage
Avril Lavigne confronts a topless protester during the Junos on Monday, March 13, 2023. A woman who protested topless onstage at the Juno Awards in Edmonton in March says she has agreed to pay a $600 fine. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Timothy Matwey
Topless protester at Juno Awards pleads guilty to trespassing, agrees to pay fine