Category Archives: British Columbia

Crown says burden is on Meng's lawyers to prove device information was wrongly shared
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says there's no evidence that the RCMP shared the serial numbers with U.S. investigators of the devices of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. John Gibb-C...
Mar 25, 2021

Province to ease restrictions on long-term care visitation
VICTORIA - Changes are coming to long-term care visitation in British Columbia.Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says effective April 1, people in long-term care and their loved ones will hav...
Mar 25, 2021

B.C. raising fines for promoting, attending events that break COVID-19 rules
VICTORIA - The B.C. government is more than doubling the fines for those promoting and attending events against COVID-19 health rules in an effort to crack down on "selfish behaviour." The fine has in...
Mar 25, 2021

Romanian police protest cutbacks, poor conditions
BUCHAREST, Romania - Hundreds of police protested Thursday in the Romanian capital of Bucharest over cutbacks and poor working conditions. They converged in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs b...
Mar 25, 2021

People infected with COVID-19 may need just one dose of vaccine, studies say
VANCOUVER - Scientists at the National Advisory Committee on Immunization are reviewing research that suggests people who have been infected with COVID-19 can turbocharge their antibodies with just on...
Mar 25, 2021

21-year-old and 15-year-old charged with first-degree murder in death of B.C. woman
BURNABY, B.C. - Homicide investigators say a 15-year-old and a 21-year-old have been charged with first-degree murder after a woman's burned body was found in a park in Burnaby, B.C. Cpl. Frank Jang o...
Mar 24, 2021

B.C. records deadliest February yet for illicit drug overdose deaths
VICTORIA - British Columbia has recorded its deadliest February yet for illicit drug overdoses with 155 lives lost last month. The BC Coroners Service says it is the 11th consecutive month in which th...
Mar 24, 2021

Crown says it was reasonable for border screening to precede Meng's arrest
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says it was entirely reasonable for border officers to question Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou before her arrest in 2018. Diba Majzub told the B.C. Su...
Mar 24, 2021

New affordable housing projects announced for southern Vancouver Island
VICTORIA - More than 90 new, affordable homes are coming to southern Vancouver Island, after the B.C. and federal governments announced $13.1 million in funding for the initiative. The homes will be s...
Mar 24, 2021

30 years after Victoria's Michael Dunahee vanished, a new sketch is released
VICTORIA - It has been 30 years since Michael Dunahee disappeared from a playground in Victoria in a case that became one of the largest missing child investigations in Canada. The Victoria Police Dep...
Mar 24, 2021