British Columbia

New steps taken to ensure mill is built in Fort St. James

FORT ST. JAMES - Forest Minister Doug Donaldson has taken steps to ensure a new lumber mill will be built in Fort St. James, where a recent mill closure devastated the community. Donaldson says he has...

Oct 28, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg says adults must protect kids from climate change

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says those in power need to realize what they are doing to future generations through climate change because if adults really loved children, they...

Oct 27, 2019

A list of actions being taken on climate change around the world

VANCOUVER - Fifteen young Canadians are suing the federal government over climate change. It's not the first climate change litigation. Here are five other cases: 1) An environmental group i...

Oct 25, 2019

Youths file lawsuit with Federal Court calling Ottawa to develop climate plan

VANCOUVER - A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease...

Oct 25, 2019

Chinese grocery chain Sungiven Foods to open Canadian location in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - A Chinese grocery chain has plans to crack the highly competitive Canadian market with its first international location in Vancouver next month. Sungiven Food Canada Inc. hopes to gro...

Oct 25, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg attends 'post-election climate strike' in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate rally in Vancouver on Friday when 15 young people announced their plans to sue the federal government because of the impac...

Oct 25, 2019

Jody Wilson-Raybould should use social media to amplify her voice: experts

VANCOUVER - In the early years of Confederation, there were members of Parliament known as "loose fish," who floated free from parties but swam back and forth between allegiances. In 1945, a cohort of...

Oct 25, 2019

Singh calls for reform of 'broken' voting system after NDP falls short in Quebec

BURNABY, B.C. - If there's any election that has highlighted how "broken" Canada's electoral system is, it's this one, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in his morning-after assessment. Monday's...

Oct 24, 2019

Longtime Liberal MLA Linda Reid won't run in next election B.C. election

VICTORIA - A Liberal member of the legislature has decided not to seek re-election after 28 years in British Columbia politics. Linda Reid says she is stepping aside because she wants t...

Oct 24, 2019

B.C. court tosses limit on medical expert reports in auto claim court cases

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court says Attorney General David Eby acted outside his authority by imposing restrictions on the number of medical expert reports that can be used in aut...

Oct 24, 2019