Golfers of all ages from across the province began teeing off Monday in B.C.’s first Indigenous golf tournament. Competitors and organizers say it’s a step forward for a sport that has not historically been inclusive. “Golf traditionally has been a fairly elitist sport and the doors have been closed to many,” said competitor and event chair Christina … Read more
1/5 Miles Morales swings through the air in “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’. Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Animation LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, in theaters Friday, furthers both the multiverse concept of 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse and the characters it introduced. The sequel also explores vivid animation style and has … Read more
I grew up in the 1980s and 90s, with parents who strictly controlled my “screen time,” which almost exclusively meant TV back then, as well as a pocket game that died when I was 10 and was never replaced. Like many in my generation, I absorbed a general sense that video games, like TV, were … Read more
Ideas53:58A Tale of Two Metlakatlas: My Matriarchs, the Missionaries and Me As a longtime journalist, I have spent years covering Indigenous issues. I knew about the erasure of Indigenous women from my reporting on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Two Spirit and Transgender people’s epidemic and from the many Indigenous women who had … Read more
Good health depends on more than daily exercise and a healthy diet. Access to safe housing, good schools and a decent job are important too. Si-Gal/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Si-Gal/Getty Images Good health depends on more than daily exercise and a healthy diet. Access to safe housing, good schools and a decent job … Read more
Brandon Wilson had his first heart attack at 29. “One day I just woke up and said, ‘I don’t feel right.’” He’d had chest pain before, but not like this. “It was on a level that I can only describe as some of the worst pain I’ve ever had in my life.” In the emergency … Read more
Ministers are considering further new vaping laws such as a ban on colourful branding or flavours to deter their sale to children, amid calls for plain packaging to be extended. No 10 said the government was considering “further steps” on vaping, with a call for evidence due to close next week. The government announced on … Read more
1/5 Robert Englund speaks in “Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story.” Photo courtesy of Cinedigm LOS ANGELES, May 30 (UPI) — Robert Englund, who played Freddy Krueger in eight movies and the TV series Freddy’s Nightmares, has an idea for a remake of Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. Englund, 75, shared … Read more
A 15-year-old boy drowned and five other people had to be pulled from the water at New Jersey’s Sandy Hook Beach where signs were posted Memorial Day to stay out of the ocean. File photo courtesy of Steven L. Markos/National Park Service May 29 (UPI) — A 15-year-old boy drowned and five other people had … Read more
Illeanna Knott is preparing to graduate from high school next month. The 17-year-old loves to draw and hopes to pursue a career in the arts after she finishes at her school in Brandon. For the first half of the school year, the teen juggled extracurricular activities and the challenges of classwork in the digital era. While … Read more