Economy, Law & Politics

B.C. officials plan to vaccinate 70,000 residents and staff at long-term care facilities by the end of January — nearly half of all British Columbians who are expected to receive their first dose against COVID-19 by month’s end.

Province expects nearly 800,000 vaccine doses by end of March

Economists caution that ‘glitch’ in vaccine rollout could hamper big growth projections

Reported talks indicate U.S. impetus toward settling case out of court, analyst says

The following is a list of stock trades made by corporate executives, directors and other company insiders of B.C.’s public companies filed in the week ended Dec 23, 2020. The information comes from a compilation of required reports filed with the BC Securities Commission obtained from DisclosureNet.com.

B.C. has seen a small resurgence of new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours after seeing new infection numbers level off for much of the last week.

The BC Supreme court has approved an acquisition of Great Canadian Gaming Corp. (TSX:GC) by Raptor Acquisition Corp., an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE:APO).

Government also announces 485 new cases of the coronavirus in the last 24 hours, putting the provincial total of active cases at 7,551, with 379 people in hospital, including 77 in intensive care

The number of new COVID-19 infections in B.C. jumped over Christmas weekend but appear to be levelling off slightly, with confirmed new cases dropping below 400 in the last 24 hours.

A new, highly transmissible COVID-19 variant that has spread across the United Kingdom has been confirmed in B.C., involving a person who lives on Vancouver Island. It is the province’s first case of a person infected with the U.K. variant.