CAIRO, EGYPT — The streets exploded with excitement, as drivers blew their horns, the pedestrians yelled and waved their national flag. The president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, had finally announced that he was stepping down.

ICBC technology flags more than 600 suspected ID thieves

VICTORIA – An Abbotsford doctor has pleaded guilty to two charges related to influencing B.C. government officials who were in charge of his contracts to provide electronic health systems.

The provincial government is projecting that Vancouver Island will need 6,850 skilled carpenters and cabinetmakers by 2019. And North Island College (NIC) is in a position to help meet that demand with its brand-new Trades Training Centre at the Comox Valley campus.

Angry fishermen rallied Monday outside the Courtenay office of Vancouver Island North MP John Duncan, in response to the allowable catch for halibut recently announced by the department of Fisheries and Oceans. Their message was two-fold: the 88/12 per cent halibut allocation is a joke and they will never buy quota off the commercial sector.

A Comox woman who lived with cancer for a year after the radiologist reading her mammogram said she was cancer-free is hoping the provincial investigation into CT scans will include mammograms as well. Florence Smith of Comox was misdiagnosed in 2004 after a mammogram at St. Joseph's Hospital in Comox.

It's all in Ottawa's hands now. L'Arche Comox Valley has submitted a grant to the federal government, which it hopes will help create more housing and more economic opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities.