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A B.C. provincial court judge has ordered a father not to talk with his 11-year-old son about COVID-19 vaccination or to share any social media or other information about the vaccine and the disease with his child. In a decision released this week, Kelowna provincial court Judge Cathaline Heinrichs sided with a mother who wanted to have her son vaccinated over the objections of her ex-husband. B.C. judge orders vaccinations for 2 boys over their mother's objections Heinrichs followed the lead of other provincial court judges across the country in concluding that getting the vaccine is in the child's best...

Hells Angel Busted A member of the Hells Angels wanted for two murders is on his way back to Montreal to face the charges. Louis Cartier, 39, was arrested last Thursday at the Kelowna courthouse while visiting his probation officer. He's wanted for two murders in the Montreal area linked to the biker war that rocked Quebec between 1994 and 2001. Cartier is charged with two counts of first degree murder. The first murder was a case of mistaken identity. A 39-year-old Montreal man was killed in 1999 after being mistaken for a drug trafficker with links to the Dark...

VICTORIA (CP) - Residents of a Kelowna, B.C., neighbourhood whose homes were levelled by a raging forest fire may try to take the B.C. government to court, a lawyer said Wednesday. Denis Berntsen, a lawyer in the Vancouver Island community of Sidney, said he has been approached by one family and talked to several others. There could be grounds for a class-action lawsuit against the government, he said. "The allegation is that the fire could have been prevented or at least the severity of it could have been prevented had the government followed the expert reports it had available to...