{"id":363188,"date":"2025-12-23T05:39:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T05:39:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T05:39:19","slug":"winds-force-cancellations-of-all-bc-ferries-between-mainland-and-vancouver-island-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363188\/","title":{"rendered":"Winds force cancellations of all BC Ferries between mainland and Vancouver Island &#8211; BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>There are some major issues for anyone wanting to use BC Ferries to get between the mainland and Vancouver Island on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765485674_689_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Starting at 10 a.m., all of the crossings between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay and Horseshoe Bay and Nanaimo and Tsawwassen and Duke Point were cancelled until at least 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Sailings were resuming for the evening sailings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to challenging sea conditions and high winds, service on some routes between the Mainland and Vancouver Island has been affected today, resulting in several sailing cancellations,\u201d Sheila Reynolds, a senior communications advisor with <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/bc-ferries\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BC Ferries<\/a>, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize this is a busy holiday period and know customers have important places to be. Travel disruptions can be frustrating, and we appreciate everyone\u2019s patience as our teams work through these conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Reynolds said that crews are \u201cclosely monitoring\u201d the conditions and consulting with marine experts and following Transport Canada safety regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765813388_386_national.jpg\" alt=\"For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet breaking National news<\/p>\n<p>For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen.<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Taal was travelling from Victoria to the mainland when he saw all the cancelled sailings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to fly out in the morning to Kelowna,\u201d he said. \u201cI thought, \u2018Well, we\u2019ll head up a little early today and make sure we get across\u2019. And we\u2019re not even sure of that, so a little nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11587991\/pillsbury-pizza-pops-pepperoni-bacon-recalled-canada\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766468357_173_pizza-pops3.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPillsbury Pizza Pops Pepperoni and Bacon products recalled across Canada\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11587853\/carney-mark-wiseman-canada-us-ambassador\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Canada-U.S.-flags-ambassador.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCarney names Mark Wiseman as Canada\u2019s new U.S. ambassador\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Any customers are encouraged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcferries.com\/current-conditions\/service-notices\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">check the status of their sailing<\/a> before heading to the terminal and customers with bookings on cancelled sailings will be contacted directly.<\/p>\n<p>For up-to-date sailing and departure information, customers can also follow @BCFerries on X or call 1-888-223-3779 for assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Horseshoe Bay ferry service changes'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/6P_HORSESHOE_BAY_TERMIN_OM01JINL.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t1:35<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHorseshoe Bay ferry service changes\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size There are some major issues for anyone wanting to use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23588,156016,45,49,48,1133],"class_list":{"0":"post-363188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bc-ferries","9":"tag-bc-ferries-cancellations","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-weather"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}