Category Archives: British Columbia

Indigenous candidates 'hurt,' 'frustrated' by Trudeau blackface photos
VANCOUVER - Indigenous candidates from multiple parties say they felt shock, pain and frustration when they saw newly surfaced photos of Justin Trudeau made up in brownface and blackface. Candida...
Sep 19, 2019

B.C. won't use court ruling as tactic in pipeline battle: environment minister
VANCOUVER - Environment Minister George Heyman says British Columbia can't stop the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project but will use a court-ordered review of its environmental assessment certif...
Sep 19, 2019

Some facts on West Point Grey academy, where Justin Trudeau once was a teacher
VANCOUVER - Here's a look at West Point Grey Academy, the school in Vancouver where Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau taught and was photographed as a 29-year-old wearing dark paint on his hands...
Sep 19, 2019

Students who died in Vancouver Island bus crash remembered for love of learning
VICTORIA - Two first-year biology students at the University of Victoria are being remembered for their love of learning and nature. Emma Machado of Winnipeg and John Geerdes from Iowa have been ...
Sep 19, 2019

Canfor investor vows to vote against Pattison proposal to take company private
VANCOUVER - An investment management company that controls about 4.8 per cent of the shares of Canfor Corp. says it will vote against the proposal by a Jim Pattison Group company to take the lumb...
Sep 18, 2019

CP NewsAlert: B.C. woman wins right to doctor-assisted death; lawsuit adjourned
VANCOUVER - A woman with a degenerative and chronic illness has been told she qualifies for a medically assisted death, causing the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association to adjourn a lawsu...
Sep 18, 2019

Iowa City student killed in B.C. bus crash remembered as kind soccer talent
VICTORIA - One of two 18-year-old students who died when a tour bus crashed on Vancouver Island is being remembered by his former principal as a friend to everyone at the Iowa high school wh...
Sep 18, 2019

Court allows appeal on pipeline certificate, says B.C. needs to reconsider
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has been ordered by the province's highest court to reconsider its environmental assessment certificate allowing the expansion of the Trans M...
Sep 17, 2019

UVic opens counselling services after deadly bus crash kills two students
VICTORIA - University of Victoria students are grappling with the sudden deaths of two of their peers in a bus crash Friday evening en route to a marine research centre. Forty-five students and two te...
Sep 17, 2019

Gathering of support and reflection at UVic following fatal bus crash
VICTORIA - Students, faculty and staff at the University of Victoria were to gather for an hour of reflection and support Tuesday as they cope with the aftermath of last Friday's bus cr...
Sep 17, 2019