After Rafael Nadal’s win at Australian Open, vaccine memes take over the internet | Trending …

Rafael Nadal created history on Sunday and achieved the unthinkable as he won his 21st Grand Slam at the Australian Open moving ahead of Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic. The 35-year-old Spaniard was outplayed by Daniil Medvedev, the higher-ranked and in-form Russian, for more than two sets and two hours in the Australian Open final. […]

Sidney infrastructure performed well through November storms, despite some issues – Saanich News

“You should be proud of public works,” Jenn Clary, Sidney’s director of engineering, told councillors sitting as committee of the whole at their Jan. Staff responded to 41 work orders related to flooding, with about 20 on private property, although not all of those residents alerted the municipality. The cases where town crews responded were […]

View Royal photographer working to unearth forgotten BC artists – Saanich News

Don Denton, a photographer with Black Press Media, has collected hundreds of photographs, magazines and exhibition booklets as well as conducting more than 50 interviews with members of the province’s photography community. It was one of those things where, here was a person who was fairly prominent, but now that he was gone, it was […]

Local truck convoys draw crowds across BC – Saanich News

Hundreds of protesters gathered in communities like Kelowna, Smithers, Chilliwack, Langley, Princeton and Victoria among others. In the Lower Mainland, a convoy departed from Langley for a slow roll convoy through downtown Vancouver ultimately ending in Chilliwack. Meanwhile, a convoy worked its way through the Okanagan, beginning in Vernon bound for the Osoyoos-Oroville border crossing. […]

Friend of Navjot Singh Sidhu’s father rejects NRI Suman Toor’s claims – Tribune India

Khaira, an old friend of Sidhu’s father, at a press conference said no such controversy happened after the death of his friend. The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore . The Tribune, the largest selling English daily in North India, publishes news and views without any bias or […]

Covid cases plateauing in parts of India, but risk persists, says WHO

While some cities or states in India may be beginning to see plateauing of Covid-19 cases, the risk persists and focus must be on reducing transmission and implementing situation-specific measures, senior WHO official Poonam Khetrapal Singh said. Implementing situation-specific public health and social measures and increasing vaccine coverage – that’s the way forward for all […]

‘1 in 3 dies, should we worry’: Wuhan scientists warn of new Covid virus ‘NeoCov’ with high …

Scientists from China’s Wuhan, where the Covid-19 virus was first discovered in 2019, have warned of a new type of coronavirus ‘NeoCov’ in South Africa, stated to have a high death and transmission rate, according to a report by the Russian news agency Sputnik. The research findings stated that the novel coronavirus poses a risk […]

Boy, 11, charged in armed carjacking, Chicago police say – Boston 25 News

The Chicago Police Department’s Vehicular Hijacking Task Force took the boy into custody Thursday, more than two months after a neighbor’s doorbell camera captured footage of the boy taking the vehicle at gunpoint from two women on Nov. According to WLS-TV, the doorbell camera footage shows the victim and her adult daughter return home in […]

Nearly 6000 flights canceled as blizzard blankets East Coast – FOX23

Nor’easter cancels thousands of US flights A brutal nor’easter grounded more than U.S. According to flight-tracking website FlightAware, cancellations within, into or out of the United States by 3 p.m. The lion’s share of impacted Saturday flights, according to FlightAware, had been scheduled to depart from Boston Logan International Airport or the three main aviation […]