Category Archives: British Columbia
Spending abuse claims expose failure by past Liberal government: B.C. premier
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says a call to clean up the British Columbia legislature should not absolve the Opposition Liberals from explaining allegations of spending abuses by two top officials d...
Jan 24, 2019
Mother and uncle sent to India to face conspiracy charges in B.C. woman's death
VANCOUVER - The federal government says two British Columbia residents have been extradited to India to face conspiracy charges after they allegedly hired men to kill a young woman and her new husband...
Jan 24, 2019
NDP question Liberal over expense allegations at B.C. legislature
VICTORIA - The New Democrats and Greens drew a long-serving member of the B.C. Liberal caucus into the controversy surrounding allegations of spending abuses at the legislature on Wednesday, calling o...
Jan 23, 2019
47 men arrested in police sting of those looking for sex with teenage girls
Vancouver police say they’ve arrested 47 men who were willing to pay for sexual services from teenage girls. Seven of those people have now been charged and police say they include a school teac...
Jan 23, 2019
B.C. minister fears money laundering involves billions of dollars, cites reports
VICTORIA - Documents that say money laundering in British Columbia now reaches into the billions of dollars are startling to the province’s attorney general who says the figures have finally dra...
Jan 18, 2019
Man charged with killing 12-year-old B.C. girl in 1978 found guilty
VANCOUVER - Family members of a 12-year-old British Columbia girl murdered in 1978 cried, hugged and thanked jurors who found a man guilty of first-degree murder Thursday. Garry Handlen, 71, told unde...
Jan 17, 2019
Ex-Liberal candidate in Burnaby, B.C., says volunteer wrote controversial post
VANCOUVER - A former Liberal byelection candidate says her political career is “probably” over after an online post singled out NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s ethnicity, but she’s ...
Jan 17, 2019
Sentence issued by B.C. judge who refused recusal after crying during statement
KELOWNA, B.C. - A British Columbia provincial court judge who teared up over a victim impact statement in a sex crimes trial has sentenced the accused to 14 months in jail. Jeremy Carlson, also known ...
Jan 16, 2019
Board finds man fit to stand trial in girl's death at B.C. high school
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - The British Columbia Review Board has found a man mentally fit to stand trial in the death of a 13-year-old girl at a high school in Abbotsford more than two years ago. The boar...
Jan 15, 2019
Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson wants to return to politics
BURNABY, B.C. - Former New Democrat MP Svend Robinson is attempting a political comeback, nearly 15 years after his theft of an expensive diamond ring brought an end to his decades-long career. Standi...
Jan 15, 2019