Kevin Charach

6 days ago | ctvnews.ca | Kevin Charach

Tristan Jass is well known in the online basketball community. The 25-year-old from Wisconsin started a YouTube channel as a teenager and has amassed more than 5 million subscribers worldwide. Although he’s never played pro or college basketball, Jass was recently signed by the Vancouver Bandits of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL). “I mean, this is the world we live in, right?” said Kyle Julius, Bandits head coach and general manager. “This is a business. This is a results-based business.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Kevin Charach

Antoine Vergara worked as a vendor at the Lapu Lapu Day festival, enjoying a celebration of Filipino heritage in Vancouver. “We were happy and we were having fun as a community,” said Vergara, who moved to Canada from the Philippines when he was eight years old. Vergara was wrapping up for the night when the horror began. “He revved up even more after he hit someone,” said Vergara.

2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Kevin Charach

Conservative candidate Zach Segal was out door-knocking Friday with his wife and newborn daughter, part of his routine for the better part of the year. “There’s a desire for change in Richmond,” said Segal, who ran and lost in the 2019 election. Segal, born and raised in Richmond, was inspired to become a politician after working for former prime minister Stephen Harper’s government.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Kevin Charach

Ahead of the highly anticipated second season premiere of HBO’s The Last of Us, UBC researchers are studying the impacts of global warming on certain species of fungi. “Part of that paper has to do with climate change and warming,” said James Kronstad, professor and microbiologist at UBC’s Michael Smith Laboratories.

1 month ago | ctvnews.ca | Kevin Charach

Vitaly Beckman has once again mystified Penn & Teller with his magic. Beckman, who lives in New Westminster, recently appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. The show puts up-and-coming magicians and illusionists on stage with their goal to pull off a trick so impressive that Penn & Teller are unable to duplicate. “This is so complicated and so original, we don’t have any experience with it,” said Penn, speaking to Beckman after his performance. “They watch you like a hawk,” Beckman told CTV News.