Highlights

Classes at the Hearth's Cultural Campus start this Saturday and run throughout January

Kidnapping is a "serious security risk" throughout much of the country.

Wholesales for wine, spirits and coolers rose last summer, while beer wholesales fell.

Fireworks were seen erupting from a highrise balcony in Surrey.

The vaccine is manufactured by Pfizer.

"I just want this to be over," said a Facebook post.

They had seen the bear fishing in the nearby Cowichan River but didn’t want it living under their home during hibernation, which can be up to six months

MONTREAL — A small group of leaders of Canadian charities in the environment, conservation, and animal protection sectors are taking home compensation packages equivalent to, and in some cases higher than, the salaries of provincial premiers.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered Burnaby's Gisborne Holdings Ltd. to pay an ex-employee more than $81,000 for wrongful dismissal.

"No penalty amount or sentence can compensate for the loss of life," WorkSafeBC says.