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Members of Queer Shred Revelstoke. (Ryan Collins/VIMFF)

B.C. film examines queer identities affected by small mountain town life

People Like Us is set to premiere in Revelstoke tonight

Movember was originally launched in Australia and has since become a worldwide movement to help men’s health issues. (File contributed/ Benjamin Wilson, spangdahlem.af.mil)

‘Mustaches and mental health’ Movember wraps up around B.C.

217,0000 men in Canada have been diagnosed with prostate cancer

Mikala Wheeler (left) diligently prepares data sheets as Simon George converses with fellow team members just moments before the two suit up in their dry suits for a day of snorkelling to monitor the salmon population present in the Theodosia River. (Olivier Laurin / Comox Valley Record)

B.C. conservation team patrols remote salmon streams by foot and by snorkel

Comox Valley environmental consultant provides DFO with invaluable data

A simple ‘hello’ goes a long way in kicking off communication with someone whose sight is limited says Gina Martin who educates the region through her Diverse Abilities business. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)

‘Say hello’: B.C. advocate teaches etiquette of interacting with the blind

‘Losing my sight hasn’t changed me, but it’s changed the way I interact with the world’

A simple ‘hello’ goes a long way in kicking off communication with someone whose sight is limited says Gina Martin who educates the region through her Diverse Abilities business. (Christine van Reeuwyk/News Staff)
Giant panda Yang Guang sits as visitors have one final opportunity to say goodbye before zoo keepers get him ready to make his way back to China, at Edinburgh Zoo, in Edinburgh, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Yang Guang and Tian Tian have lived at Edinburgh Zoo since 2011 as part of a 10-year agreement between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and the China Wildlife Conservation Association. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

Pandas leaving Scotland to return home to China after 12-year stay

Visitor favourites slowly disappearing from Western zoos

Giant panda Yang Guang sits as visitors have one final opportunity to say goodbye before zoo keepers get him ready to make his way back to China, at Edinburgh Zoo, in Edinburgh, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023. Yang Guang and Tian Tian have lived at Edinburgh Zoo since 2011 as part of a 10-year agreement between the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) and the China Wildlife Conservation Association. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)
Thousands of bald eagles arrive in Harrison Mills to feast on pink salmon in the Harrison River. The Harrison River is among the most productive pink salmon areas in Canada. (Photo/Tourism Harrison)

PHOTOS: World’s biggest gathering of bald eagles feast in B.C.’s Fraser Valley

Thousands of eagles descend on Harrison River to eat salmon on migration route

Thousands of bald eagles arrive in Harrison Mills to feast on pink salmon in the Harrison River. The Harrison River is among the most productive pink salmon areas in Canada. (Photo/Tourism Harrison)
FILE - Hall of Fame Inductees, Hall & Oates, John Oates and Daryl Hall appear in the press room at the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on April, 10, 2014, in New York. Hall has sued his longtime music partner John Oates, arguing that his plan to sell off his share of a joint venture would violate a business agreement the duo had. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)

Hall says Oates Out of Touch as iconic pop duo embroiled in messy breakup

Hall suing his estranged partner in bid to stop Oates from selling off his share in their business

FILE - Hall of Fame Inductees, Hall & Oates, John Oates and Daryl Hall appear in the press room at the 2014 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on April, 10, 2014, in New York. Hall has sued his longtime music partner John Oates, arguing that his plan to sell off his share of a joint venture would violate a business agreement the duo had. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - A fan waits for former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to sign autographs before an NFL football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts, Nov. 20, 2016, in Indianapolis. Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories. The website Futurism reported that the once-grand magazine used articles with “authors” who apparently don’t exist, with photos generated by AI. The magazine denied claims that some articles themselves were AI-assisted, but has cut ties with a vendor it hired to produce the articles. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

AI raising questions about transparency as it creeps into media

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

FILE - A fan waits for former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to sign autographs before an NFL football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts, Nov. 20, 2016, in Indianapolis. Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories. The website Futurism reported that the once-grand magazine used articles with “authors” who apparently don’t exist, with photos generated by AI. The magazine denied claims that some articles themselves were AI-assisted, but has cut ties with a vendor it hired to produce the articles. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
Krystian Watts, a Ballenas Secondary School graduate, recently co-composed the music for the Vancouver Canucks home opener video. (Press photo)

B.C. composer, hockey fan makes music for Vancouver Canucks intro video

A.I.-themed ‘Protocol V: Activated’ will play at start of all Canucks home games

Krystian Watts, a Ballenas Secondary School graduate, recently co-composed the music for the Vancouver Canucks home opener video. (Press photo)
A witness to the UFO sighting at Cowichan District Hospital in 1970 said she thought it was real. (Royal Canadian Mint photo)

Witness to B.C. UFO doubts prank explanation surfacing in wake of coin

Joan Hieta was in the hospital room when UFO seen outside Cowichan District Hospital in 1970

A witness to the UFO sighting at Cowichan District Hospital in 1970 said she thought it was real. (Royal Canadian Mint photo)
While unlikely, a great horned owl could carry off a big rabbit or a small cat, but could do serious damage in a failed attempt. (Photo by Ann Nightingale)

‘Tuck in ponytails’ to avoid dangerous Greater Victoria owl encounters

Keep pets clear of known owl habitats, ‘they’re big birds carrying sharp knives’

While unlikely, a great horned owl could carry off a big rabbit or a small cat, but could do serious damage in a failed attempt. (Photo by Ann Nightingale)
Frank The Tank, a sulcata tortoise found wandering in a Richmond field, has left the Maple Ridge branch of the BC SPCA for his forever home. (Mark Vosper/Special to The News)

VIDEO: Wandering B.C. tortoise Frank the Tank finds his forever home

African tortoise found in Richmond field of bok choy gets backyard big enough for his personality

Frank The Tank, a sulcata tortoise found wandering in a Richmond field, has left the Maple Ridge branch of the BC SPCA for his forever home. (Mark Vosper/Special to The News)
Snow-covered cattle stand in a pasture near Didsbury, Alta. on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Many in Western Canada may not get a white Christmas this year as El Niño will bring warmer temperatures and below-normal snowfall to the region, according to The Weather Network’s forecast for the next three months. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

El Nino-fuelled warm start to winter could change: Weather Network

Brown Christmas appears likely for B.C. ,with drier weather puncuated by a few downpours

Snow-covered cattle stand in a pasture near Didsbury, Alta. on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Many in Western Canada may not get a white Christmas this year as El Niño will bring warmer temperatures and below-normal snowfall to the region, according to The Weather Network’s forecast for the next three months. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
FILE - A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 passenger airplane arrives following a flight from London to Seattle, March 27, 2017, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions diet flew Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 from London to New York in a step toward achieving what supporters dubbed as “jet zero." (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

‘Jet zero’: first fossil fuel-free trans-Atlantic commercial flight a success

High-fat low-emissions Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787 travels successfully from London to New York

FILE - A Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9 passenger airplane arrives following a flight from London to Seattle, March 27, 2017, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. The first commercial airliner to cross the Atlantic on a purely high-fat, low-emissions diet flew Tuesday Nov. 28, 2023 from London to New York in a step toward achieving what supporters dubbed as “jet zero." (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Always with a smile on his face, Miles St. Amand has been working at the gas station, now called Best Buy Propane, for 32 years. (Kim Kimberlin photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

Service with a smile: 32 years of pumping propane on the Cariboo Highway

Miles St. Amand, from Best Buy Propane, is just about one of the kindest people you’ll ever meet

Always with a smile on his face, Miles St. Amand has been working at the gas station, now called Best Buy Propane, for 32 years. (Kim Kimberlin photo - Williams Lake Tribune)
Raymond and Stacey Donison won the $5-million Classic Jackpot from the Nov. 18, 2023 Lotto 6/49 draw. (Courtesy of Lotto 6/49)

‘Beers, pizza, and champagne’: B.C. couple wins $5M lotto

Vancouver Island duo will celebrate with a Hawaii vacation

Raymond and Stacey Donison won the $5-million Classic Jackpot from the Nov. 18, 2023 Lotto 6/49 draw. (Courtesy of Lotto 6/49)
Water buffalo. ADOBE STOCK IMAGE

By the horns: B.C. farm one of Canada’s few specializing in buffalo dairy

It’s much richer’: Comox Valley’s McClintock’s Farm producing a unique product from a unique animal

Water buffalo. ADOBE STOCK IMAGE
This combination of photos shows SZA performing at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston on Nov. 5, 2021, center, and Morgan Wallen at the 57th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo)

Apple Music’s chart-topping song of the year is so ‘Last Night’

Country star Morgan Wallen’s hit wspent 52 day atop the music service’s Global Top 100 in 2023

This combination of photos shows SZA performing at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston on Nov. 5, 2021, center, and Morgan Wallen at the 57th Annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn., on Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Photo)
Klaus is an animated adventure comedy that explores how a simple act of kindness always sparks another. (Movie still)

Best Christmas movies to watch this holiday based on movie taste

From Hallmark heartfelt to a Silent Night of retribution, Christmas time brings noteworthy cinema

Klaus is an animated adventure comedy that explores how a simple act of kindness always sparks another. (Movie still)
FILE - Google logos are shown when searched on Google in New York, Sept. 11, 2023. Google will start deleting ‘inactive’ accounts in December. Under Google’s updated inactive account policy, which the tech giant announced back in May, accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years could be deleted. Accounts deemed inactive could be erased beginning Friday, Dec. 1. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Use or lose it begins for Google account holders at the end of this week

Google will start deleting ‘inactive’ accounts in December, here’s what you need to know

FILE - Google logos are shown when searched on Google in New York, Sept. 11, 2023. Google will start deleting ‘inactive’ accounts in December. Under Google’s updated inactive account policy, which the tech giant announced back in May, accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years could be deleted. Accounts deemed inactive could be erased beginning Friday, Dec. 1. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)