British Columbia

Vancouver council unanimously endorses drug decriminalization, seeks federal approval

VANCOUVER - Councillors in Vancouver have voted unanimously to ask the federal government to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Mayor Kennedy Stewart put forward the motion ea...

Nov 26, 2020

Fresh off majority government win, B.C.'s Horgan to introduce new NDP cabinet

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier John Horgan will announce his new cabinet today with the expectation that the pandemic will occupy the duties of many of his ministers. Horgan's cabinet unveiling comes after t...

Nov 26, 2020

B.C. working on vaccine rollout plan as province records 738 new COVID-19 cases

VICTORIA - Provincial health officials say they are working on British Columbia's plan to handle COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, says Dr. Ross Brown of Vancouver Co...

Nov 25, 2020

Vacancy taxes put more rental condos in Metro Vancouver market: CMHC study

VANCOUVER - The Canada Mortgage Housing Corp. says more than 11,000 condos were added to rental market in Metro Vancouver last year, spurred in part by taxes on empty homes. The CMHC report was ...

Nov 25, 2020

B.C. homework assignment asks for 'positive experiences with residential schools'

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A school superintendent in British Columbia is apologizing to an Indigenous mother who pointed out a homework assignment that asked students to find "positive experiences with resid...

Nov 25, 2020

Horgan's NDP cabinet built to tackle pandemic, economic recovery, says former premier

VICTORIA - Former B.C. premier Mike Harcourt says he understands the balancing act that John Horgan is facing as he is set to introduce his NDP government's new cabinet Thursday during a pandemic that...

Nov 25, 2020

Mountie says she doesn't believe the RCMP shared Meng's device information with FBI

VANCOUVER - An RCMP officer who oversaw the arrest of Meng Wanzhou two years ago says she is not aware of any Mounties sharing information from the Huawei executive's electronics with U.S. law enforce...

Nov 25, 2020

Five people dying every day from toxic illicit drugs in B.C.: Coroner

VICTORIA - The B.C. Coroners Service says its latest data on illicit drug deaths show an average of five people are dying every day in the province. Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe says 162 people died la...

Greg Fry Nov 25, 2020

Province backs mandatory mask rules with $230 fines for non-compliance

VICTORIA - The province has extended enforcement around a recently implemented mask mandate - with $230 fines for those who refuse to follow the rules. In a release yesterday(Nov.24), the province say...

Nov 25, 2020

No further charges related to investigation in Bountiful, B.C.: special prosecutor

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has declined to approve any further charges against people associated with the community of Bountiful where a fundamentalist Christian sect practise...

Nov 24, 2020