British Columbia

Rapid response teams in place to support COVID-19 safety in B.C. schools

VICTORIA - Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside says six new rapid response teams will help schools in B.C. identify gaps in COVID-19 safety plans to help reduce exposure risk. The government says in...

Mar 02, 2021

$5.6M in funding for 'vending machines' that dispense safer drugs to prevent ODs

VANCOUVER - The federal government has provided nearly $5.6 million in funding for five vending machines that will dispense medical-grade opioids in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia, in order...

Mar 02, 2021

Ontario waits for national guidance as B.C. pushes ahead with delayed second dose

VANCOUVER - Ontario is waiting for a recommendation from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization before delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccine, while British Columbia is pushing ahead with ...

Mar 02, 2021

Homicide team joins probe into death of 11-year-old injured in his Fraser Valley home

AGASSIZ, B.C. - An autopsy is expected after the death of an 11-year-old boy severely injured several days ago at his family's home east of Vancouver. Agassiz RCMP said Monday that the Integrated Homi...

Mar 02, 2021

B.C. coroner says increased drug toxicity responsible for another OD death record

VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief coroner says deadlier street drugs are behind another grim milestone in the province's overdose crisis as a record was set for the number of deaths in January. The ...

Mar 02, 2021

Vancouver home sales up 73% year-over-year, market shifts in favour of sellers: REBGV

VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the market is heating up so fast that home sales in the region doubled between January and February and have climbed by more than 70 per cen...

Mar 02, 2021

Churches continue legal fight against British Columbia's COVID-19 rules

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a group of British Columbia churches that are challenging the province's COVID-19 rules is scheduled to resume his arguments today that the restrictions violate his clients' c...

Mar 02, 2021

Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 needs better promotion: experts

VANCOUVER - Essential workers who are more likely to contract and transmit COVID-19 should be prioritized for immunization with the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine now that a national panel is not recommen...

Mar 02, 2021

Victoria to extend rent freeze

The B-C government has introduced legislation to extend a rent freeze introduced due to the pandemic until the end of this year and cap future increases at the rate of inflation. If passed, it says th...

Mar 01, 2021

B.C. to extend rent freeze through 2021, increase protections against 'renovictions'

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it will introduce legislative changes to extend a rent freeze through the end of the year to stop illegal "renovictions" and improve the dispute resolut...

Mar 01, 2021