A minor league hockey team from North Vancouver is about to make history in Quebec.

The 2024 Choices Lottery launched today. The annual lottery supports the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation and gives people a chance to win one of nine grand prize home packages or $2.3 million in tax-free cash.

The Ocean Legacy Foundation has made a breakthrough in cleaning up plastic from the ocean — by recycling it into usable plastic pellets, Inhabitat reports.

Mike Winterfield, the founder and managing partner of Active Impact Investments, a Vancouver-based venture capital firm, says that there’s another industry of the U.S. stock market for which the election is a big deal: clean energy.

Corke went from being on the soccer pitch helping promising young athletes, to being isolated in hospital away from everything he loved — his wife Vanessa and two teenage sons. But with the support, care and expertise from Dr. Maryse Power and the health care teams at VGH, he made it.

A one of a kind program at BC Children's Hospital is helping support patients throughout the province receive care at home. Pediatrician, Dr. Tom McLaughlin, shares details of the PIVOT program.

Mike Winterfield, founder and managing partner of Active Impact Investments, shares three portfolio examples of companies his $120M climate tech fund will invest in.

Lorne Warburton thought the illness he was battling after a vacation overseas was the flu. The Pemberton resident never expected the virus he was fighting to be much more deadly.

The 55-year-old father is sharing his experience of contracting the rare hantavirus in the hopes of helping keep others safe.

Emmett Willms was just five months old when his parents, Josh and Alisha, started noticing their first-born didn’t seem to be hitting typical physical development milestones other infants did, such as grasping adult fingers or holding his head up.

The Abbotsford family was referred to B.C. Children’s Hospital in Vancouver. He was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare genetic neurodegenerative disease that causes muscle weakness and wasting.

BC Children's Hospital will soon be able to run more clinical trials for drugs that could potentially save the lives of patients with hard-to-cure medical conditions – patients like Emmett Willms.

An Abbotsford, B.C., family is sharing the success of a clinical trial that helped save their child in the hopes that a new program from BC Children’s Hospital will give others better access to similar studies.

Lynda Blundell’s home is full of wonderful memories. The clock her son Phillip made for her hangs on her living room wall, as she dusts dozens of cannon figurines her husband Peter collected over the years.

Two years ago, Phillip was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. A few months after his diagnosis, in August 2021, Phillip died at the age of 49. Sadly, the grief didn’t end there for the family. Fifty-five days after her son's death, Blundell's husband died of the same disease.

This morning’s interview with Dr. Harris, Harmehar Samra and mom, Amanjot Kaur, in support of BC Children’s Hospital’s Dream Lottery. The 2023 Dream Lottery grand prize draw winner will be announced tomorrow, Nov 2 during the Global TV Noon News.

Phase three of North Saanich’s Jubilee Park upgrade project has been completed. North Saanich was selected to receive a $30,000 Tire Stewardship BC grant. Thanks to the grant program, 3,366 scrap tires were used in the fabrication of the rubberized surface.

Ocean Legacy Foundation (OLF), the Canadian non-profit organization that develops and implements worldwide plastic pollution response programs, announced that its Co-Founder and Executive Director Chloé Dubois was named to Canada’s Clean16 in the primary resources category. Chloé was selected from an initial pool of over 1,000 nominees and was chosen after screening and research by Delta Management, with advice from internal researchers and external advisors.

Harmehar Samra is an energetic five-year-old who loves swimming, skating and going to the park every day. Like most kids her age, it is a daily struggle to tear her away from the playground.

Looking at her, one would not know that the Surrey girl who started kindergarten in September has already had two open heart surgeries and four cardiac catheterizations.