Top Stories – Nov 15 – Name Change

Voting is underway by members of the BC Liberal Party on a name change to BC United. Results are expected tomorrow. Party Leader Kevin Falcon pledged to make a name change one of his promises during his leadership campaign earlier this year.

Health Canada says it’s importing a foreign supply of children’s pain and fever medications that will be available on retail shelves in the coming weeks. The agency had previously announced it was importing children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen to be distributed to hospitals. Now it says it has also secured supply of acetaminophen (or Tylenol) to be distributed to pharmacies and drugstores.

Forget the old saying that ‘first comes love, then comes marriage’… at least during a pandemic. Stats Canada says COVID-19 restrictions are probably to blame for a historic drop in the number of marriages in 2020. Just over 98-thousand were registered that year, the lowest number since 1938.

An off-duty RCMP officer jumped into action when he noticed a potentially dangerous situation involving a fellow officer in Lake Country. Constable Nickel was out driving with his family when he noticed an officer trying to deal with a suspect who wasn’t cooperating. Police say he stopped, secured his family then ran up a hill to help in the take down. No further details were released.

The Emergencies Act inquiry has released documents showing the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service didn’t think convoy protesters in Ottawa posed a security threat. The director said it could further inflame extreme anti-government rhetoric. But then-deputy minister of public safety Rob Stewart told the inquiry that C-SIS used different criteria to define threats to national security.

Google has agreed to a $391.5 million settlement with 40 states to resolve an investigation into how the company tracked users’ locations. State attorneys general are calling it the largest multistate privacy settlement in U.S. history. They said Google continued to track people’s location data even after people opted out of the tracking.

The Kelowna Chamber of Commerce has named Brea Lake as its “Business Leader of the Year” for 2022. She is the CEO of Accelerate Okanagan, and has championed the growth of the local technology industry for over 10 years. Lake is an Okanagan College Alumnus of the Bachelor of Business Administration program.

Have you seen the price of lettuce lately, if you can find any? The cost of lettuce is spiking amid a shortage that’s leading some restaurants to temporarily stop offering leafy greens on their menus. Distributors say demand is exceeding supply of iceberg and romaine lettuce, and pricing pressures are expected to continue throughout the month.

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told CNN that he will give away the majority of his wealth during his lifetime. The billionaire didn’t specify how – or to whom – he will give away the money. Bezos has been criticized in the past for not pledging to donate the majority of his wealth through philanthropy.

Sports

The Vancouver Canucks wrap up their 5 game road trip today in Buffalo. So far they have 1 win and 3 losses and are 29th out of 32 teams in the NHL.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats traded for the rights to Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell. His final appearance with Calgary came in last week’s loss to the BC Lions in the West Division semifinal.

It was a Monday Night Football upset in Philadelphia as the now 5 & 5 Washington Commanders handed the Eagles their first loss of the season after 8 wins.