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Apps like Checkout51, Caddle, Drop, Eclipsa offer gift cards, points and cash back in exchange for uploading receipts, tracking purchases or completing surveys. Fresh produce and groceries are shown at Summerhill Market in Toronto on Wednesday February 2, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Cashback, reward apps helping Canadians save, but where is the data going?
Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says all British Columbians can “likely” get a COVID-19 boosters in the fall as part of a campaign that might become an annual ritual like the a flu-vaccination campaign.
B.C. announces spring COVID-19 boosters to be available soon
A suspect seen on security cameras stealing purses from victims in Vancouver in January 2023. (VPD handout)
VIDEO: Police look for suspect behind string of purse thefts in Vancouver
A woman types on a laptop on a train in New Jersey on May 18, 2021. A panicked 14-year-old from British Columbia and his family paid $1,500 to a company that claimed it would recover intimate images that were being used to extort him. It didn’t. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Jenny Kane
‘Recovery scams’ targeting sextortion victims are on the rise, experts warn
VicPD is looking for witnesses and a suspect after a father reported a man offered him money for his three-year-old daughter. (Black Press Media file photo)
Victoria police look to identify man reported for trying to buy toddler
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks during a news conference in Vancouver, on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
All talk and no clock? B.C. premier explains pause on Daylight Saving Time plan
A report from Destination Vancouver predicts that the demand for hotel rooms in the City of Vancouver will start outstripping supply in 2026, in Metro Vancouver by 2030 with consequences for the rest of the province. (Photo courtesy of James Smith)
No Vacancy: Lack of hotels in Vancouver could bring loss of $31B by 2050, report says
People shop for produce and seafood in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. A new report by RBC says Canadians are on average making fewer grocery store runs as food inflation persists, but still spending roughly the same amount per trip. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Canadians making fewer trips to the grocery store as inflation pinches: RBC report
Air Transat aircraft are seen on the tarmac at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, on Wednesday, April 8, 2020. Transat AT Inc. reported a $56.6-million loss in its latest quarter compared with a loss of $114.3 million a year earlier as its revenue more than tripled. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Transat CEO says travel demand nearly on par with 2019 despite higher prices
President Joe Biden, left, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, arrive for a news conference in Mexico City, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. Biden will travel to Ottawa on March 23 for two days in Canada, his first visit in person since taking office in 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Andrew Harnik
U.S. President Joe Biden’s long-awaited Canada visit to happen March 23-24
People carry umbrellas while crossing Robson Street as rain falls in Vancouver, on Thursday, January 6, 2022. Canada’s intelligence service warns that technological innovations adopted by municipalities could be exploited by adversaries such as the Chinese government to harvest sensitive data, target diaspora communities and interfere in elections. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
CSIS warns ‘smart city’ technology can open door to attacks, foreign interference
Galen G. Weston CEO, chairman and president of Loblaw Companies Limited speaks during the company’s annual general meeting in Toronto on May 3, 2018. The CEOs of Canada’s largest grocery store chains will appear before a parliamentary committee today to answer questions about the rapid rise in grocery prices. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Grocery CEOs deny accusations that food price inflation is driven by profit-mongering
Kris Dudoward is shown aboard the commercial fishing vessel Irenda earlier this week with catch of sockeye salmon on B.C.���s Skeena River near Prince Rupert. The union representing commercial fisheries, the United Fisherman Allied Workers filed a petition on Feb. 22 requesting the end of foreign ownership of fishing licences and quotas on the BC coast. File - THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Mitch Dudoward **MANDATORY CREDIT**
Union files petition in Ottawa to stop foreign ownership of fishing licences and quotas
Tseshaht First Nation elected Chief Councillor Wahmeesh (Ken Watts) speaks during the Doing it for our Ancestors announcement on Feb. 21, 2023. (ELENA RARDON / Alberni Valley News)
B.C. First Nation issues 26 calls to action in wake of unmarked grave discovery
A Tim Hortons cup is shown in Toronto on Thursday, February 3, 2017. Tim Hortons say a technical error caused some customers using the restaurant’s app to receive an incorrect award message during the first day of its Roll Up To Win contest. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Tim Hortons customers subject to ‘technical error’ incorrectly saying they’d won $10K
A Southern Resident female orca leaps from the water while breaching in Puget Sound, west of Seattle. Females examined in a new study were capturing less prey and spent less time hunting than their male counterparts, contrary to previously understood gender behaviour among southern residents. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
Study finds endangered orcas hunting longer, catching less than northern B.C. counterparts
Nelson’s Chase Adams reads to a child during a drag story time at Kootenay Kids in 2018. A similar event has been postponed by the Nelson Public Library due to online backlash. Photo: Tyler Harper
Online backlash forces Nelson library to postpone drag story time event
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duke and Duchess of Sussex leave after a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II at St Paul's Cathedral in London, Friday, June 3, 2022 on the second of four days of celebrations to mark the Platinum Jubilee. Prince Harry and his wife Meghan announced Wednesday, March 8, 2023 that their daughter had been christened in a private ceremony in California, publicly calling her a princess and revealing for the first time that they will use royal titles for their children. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, Pool, File)
Harry & Meghan’s daughter christened, will use royal title
Members of five Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations — Tseshaht, Hupacasath, Uchucklesaht, Tlaoquiaht and Huu-ay-aht — perform a series of songs and dance in Port Alberni. MIKE YOUDS PHOTO
B.C. women working to keep Indigenous traditions and roles alive
Jacob Hes was a regular member of the RCMP in E Division at the time of the alleged offences. (Contributed to Black Press Media)
Former Fort St. James Mountie charged with historic sex assault of young teen
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