VICTORIA - BC Hydro says its customers are largely unprepared for power outages despite increasingly severe winter storms. The Crown utility says in a report that it's seeing increasing...
Nov 22, 2019
VANCOUVER - The union representing almost 5,000 Metro Vancouver transit employees has announced a three-day shutdown of bus service next week as British Columbia's labour minister urges both side...
Nov 22, 2019
VANCOUVER - A pioneering study of seven belugas in Canada's remote Arctic waters has found microplastics in the innards of every single whale. Researchers from Ocean Wise worked with hunters...
Nov 22, 2019
VANCOUVER - Being told he was too young to have Alzheimer's disease would always catch Jim Mann off guard, but it was a nurse's comment dismissing his condition that really stung. "She looked me up an...
Nov 22, 2019
VANCOUVER - A receiver appointed to save the assets of the crypto trading platform Einstein Exchange has completed its work and asked to be released by a B.C. Supreme Court judge. The B.C. Securities ...
Nov 21, 2019
VANCOUVER- ICBC is urging drivers to get ready for winter before crashes increase . Stats show casualty crashes increase by a staggering 87 per cent across the province in December compared to October...
Nov 21, 2019 Courtesy ICBC
VANCOUVER - When Ravi Jain heard about the experience of an actor in Victoria who alleges she was denied an opportunity to audition for a role in "Les Belles-soeurs" (The Sisters-in-Law) because ...
Nov 21, 2019
VANCOUVER - The Trans Mountain pipeline received $320 million in subsidies from the Canadian and Alberta governments in the first half of 2019, says a new report by an economic institute that analyzes...
Nov 21, 2019
VANCOUVER - John Mann, lead singer and songwriter for Vancouver's beloved Celtic-inflected rock band Spirit of the West, has died. He was 57. Eric Alper, the band's publicist, says Mann died peacefull...
Nov 20, 2019
VICTORIA - Members of British Columbia's legislature marked Canada's Transgender Day of Remembrance by viewing a documentary that follows a depressed, suicidal female teenager's three-year surgic...
Nov 20, 2019