Residents of Sidney Island, off the coast of Victoria, told Global News the aerial gunning component of the deer eradication program has begun.

Visitors to St. James Parish in Okotoks, Alta., get a chance to step back in time. Volunteers transformed a prairie field into the town of Bethlehem, a living nativity.

'This proposed increase is substantial,' reads a West Kelowna report recommending a tax hike, noting there have been 'considerable mitigation efforts to bring it down.'

The former music director of the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra was fired from the position last week, Dec. 1.