Category Archives: British Columbia

Prince George provides feedback for new accessibility legislation
B.C's Minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction visited Prince George on Saturday.Minister Shane Simpson made the trip to Northern B.C as part of his consultation tour around the province t...
Sep 29, 2019

Re-elected Liberals would still run big deficits, despite new taxes
OTTAWA - The Liberals are promising that a re-elected Justin Trudeau government would impose new taxes on the wealthy, large international corporations, foreign housing speculators and tech ...
Sep 29, 2019

Canada Post racking up close to $1 million a year in parking fines, data show
TORONTO - Canada Post is racking up close to $1 million annually in parking tickets as drivers struggle to navigate increasingly congested city streets, data show. The information, obtained by The Can...
Sep 29, 2019

Suspects confessed to B.C. murders in videos but showed no remorse: RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - Two suspects confessed to the murders of three people in northern British Columbia in several videos taken before they shot themselves in a suicide pact, the RCMP said Friday....
Sep 29, 2019

Groups test rescue, cleanup responses during major marine exercise in B.C.
PORT HARDY, B.C. - Nearly two dozen agencies were responding to an environmental emergency off Vancouver Island on Thursday, but fortunately it was only a drill. Vessels and members from the Cana...
Sep 28, 2019

Log truck convoy drives home message about dire state of B.C. forest industry
MERRITT, B.C. - A convoy of logging trucks gained some attention as protesting drivers blew their horns while winding their big rigs through Vancouver streets on Wednesday. As many as 2...
Sep 27, 2019

'No need' for lengthy border exam of Meng Wanzhou before her arrest: defence
VANCOUVER - The defence team for a Huawei executive whose arrest at Vancouver's airport sparked a diplomatic crisis between Canada and China says there was no good reason for border officials to ...
Sep 27, 2019

Vancouver Park Board rejects injunction to oust campers from downtown park
VANCOUVER - Park board commissioners in Vancouver have voted not to seek an injunction that would have cleared a tent encampment from a Downtown Eastside park. Commissioners heard from 22 sp...
Sep 27, 2019

RCMP to release report today on B.C. homicides that sparked massive manhunt
SURREY, B.C. - The investigative findings from the homicides of three people in British Columbia are being released today by the RCMP, more than seven weeks after the bodies of two teen...
Sep 27, 2019

B.C. father guilty of second-degree murder in slaying of two daughters
VANCOUVER - A jury has found a father guilty of killing his two young daughters in his apartment in a Victoria suburb on Christmas Day in 2017. Andrew Berry hung his head as the verdict was announced ...
Sep 26, 2019