New Year's

Teacher Justin Lee stands beside his suited-up lion dancer students at practice before the Grand Parade in Chinatown. (Ella Matte/News Staff)

VIDEO: Lion dancers prep for B.C. Chinatown parade as Lunar New Year nears

Performers practice up to eight weeks in advance before the annual parade in Victoria

 

B.C.’s New Years baby Taylor Stutsky with her mother Julia Goryn and Travis Stutsky, her father. (Special to The News)

From Prague to Maple Ridge: Meet B.C.’s 2024 New Year baby

Taylor Stutsky was born seconds after midnight at Royal Columbian Hospital

 

2024 glasses are displayed ahead of New Year’s Eve in Times Square, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

To resolve is to be human, to break resolutions is human too

Personal accountability, reasonable expectations key to keeping your New Year’s promise

 

People run into the frigid water in the Northwest Arm off the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax on New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese

Canadians celebrate the New Year with polar bear swims across the country

‘I always refer to it as a reboot, you sort of reboot your system like a computer’

People run into the frigid water in the Northwest Arm off the Atlantic Ocean in Halifax on New Year’s Day, Monday, January 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
June 2 at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminister. (Photo: Anna Burns)

B.C.’s first baby of 2024 born at 12 a.m.

The baby was born at Royal Columbian Hospital

June 2 at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminister. (Photo: Anna Burns)
Tourists walk around New Year’s Eve sign ahead of New Year’s Eve in Times Square, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Sydney and Auckland ring in 2024 as war shadows celebrations elsewhere

Wars in Ukraine and Gaza hanging over celebrations in many cities

Tourists walk around New Year’s Eve sign ahead of New Year’s Eve in Times Square, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
It was so cold in Osoyoos on New Year’s Day 2023, that they had to break the ice to do the polar bear plunge. This year is at Gyro Park at noon. (Ron Hiller photo)

QUIZ: How much do you know about the New Year?

The coming year will have a lot going on

It was so cold in Osoyoos on New Year’s Day 2023, that they had to break the ice to do the polar bear plunge. This year is at Gyro Park at noon. (Ron Hiller photo)
PlayNow.com is offering bets on which B.C. hospital will welcome the first baby of 2024.

B.C. Women’s Hospital betting favourite for first baby of 2024

PlayNow.com is offering bets on which B.C. hospital will welcome the first baby of the New Year

PlayNow.com is offering bets on which B.C. hospital will welcome the first baby of 2024.
Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man, Mothering Heights was the top pick for kids, and Jurassic World was the top pick for moviegoers at the Fraser Valley Regional Library in 2022. (FVRL images)

Kids and teens reached for humour off Fraser Valley Regional Library shelves in 2022

Dog Man, Wimpy Kid, Baby-sitters Club series all top picks for young Fraser Valley readers

Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man, Mothering Heights was the top pick for kids, and Jurassic World was the top pick for moviegoers at the Fraser Valley Regional Library in 2022. (FVRL images)
B.C.’s first baby of the new year is Gabriella Louise Camayan, born at Abbotsford Regional Hospital at 12:02 a.m. The proud parents are Arben Camayan and Thea Villaneu. (Fraser Health photo)

B.C.’s New Year’s baby is a little girl born in the Fraser Valley

Wee one at 5 lbs, 10 oz born at 12:02 a.m. at Abbotsford Regional Hospital

B.C.’s first baby of the new year is Gabriella Louise Camayan, born at Abbotsford Regional Hospital at 12:02 a.m. The proud parents are Arben Camayan and Thea Villaneu. (Fraser Health photo)
Kamila Nowak, director and instructor at The Lab Westshore yoga studio, practices some poses Thursday, Dec. 15. The studio expects a busy new year as people make new year’s resolutions, but UVic psychology professor Frederick Grouzet cautions people to ensure they are finding personal motivation for a resolution, rather than an external motivation, if they want to succeed. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

Right motivations key for New Year’s resolutions, says University of Victoria professor

Wanting to start anew is natural for humans, but pressure to do so makes it harder to succeed

Kamila Nowak, director and instructor at The Lab Westshore yoga studio, practices some poses Thursday, Dec. 15. The studio expects a busy new year as people make new year’s resolutions, but UVic psychology professor Frederick Grouzet cautions people to ensure they are finding personal motivation for a resolution, rather than an external motivation, if they want to succeed. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
British Columbians can make bets on which hospital will deliver the first baby of 2023, up until Dec. 31 at 6 a.m. (Credit: Pixabay/christianabella)

Betting open on which B.C. hospital will deliver the first baby of 2023

B.C. Women’s Hospital holds the best odds, as usual

British Columbians can make bets on which hospital will deliver the first baby of 2023, up until Dec. 31 at 6 a.m. (Credit: Pixabay/christianabella)
A merchant, second from right, sells seafoods to yearend shoppers at a street in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Omicron’s New Year’s cocktail: Sorrow, fear, hope for 2022

New Year’s Eve, which used to be celebrated globally with a free-spirited wildness, felt instead like a case of deja vu

A merchant, second from right, sells seafoods to yearend shoppers at a street in Tokyo Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)