Category Archives: British Columbia
Softwood lumber exports to U.S. fall 20% in March amid railway woes
OTTAWA - The federal government says softwood lumber shipments from British Columbia to the United States plunged 20 per cent in March from a year ago amid railway transportation problems. Global Affa...
Apr 09, 2018
Timeline: Key dates in the history of the Trans Mountain pipeline
VANCOUVER - Here are some key dates in the history of the Trans Mountain pipeline and Kinder Morgan Canada’s efforts to expand its capacity: October 1953: The Trans Mountain pipeline begins ship...
Apr 09, 2018
Trans Mountain pipeline on hold as pressure mounts on B.C. to drop opposition
CALGARY - The future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion was cast in doubt on Sunday as Kinder Morgan Canada suspended all non-essential activities and related spending on the project in the face...
Apr 09, 2018
B.C. takes new approach to testing older drivers, some ask if ageism a factor
VICTORIA - Frank Harding is 98 years old and most days he drives his 1990 Volvo sedan to the Comox Recreation Centre where he works out. One summer, the resident of Courtenay, B.C., said he drove acro...
Apr 09, 2018
Indigenous women tell inquiry of abuse, call for systemic change
VANCOUVER - A longtime advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women told her own story of abuse on the last scheduled day of public hearings for a national inquiry Sunday. Bernie Williams, who h...
Apr 09, 2018
Private-clinic trial resumes as B.C. aims to take action against doctors
VANCOUVER - Excruciating pain had Tamara Parrales heading to the emergency department multiple times for nearly a year, and when a specialist brought up the possibility of ovarian cancer, she wasnR...
Apr 08, 2018
Residential school history centre to share survivors' accounts, educate public
VANCOUVER - Many university students don’t know the history of Indigenous people in Canada, let alone the implications of the residential school system, but a director at the University of Briti...
Apr 08, 2018
Chiefs join anti-pipeline protests in Burnaby, B.C., promise to return
BURNABY, B.C. - The leader of the Union of British Columbia Indians Chiefs says he will keep up the pressure against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, B.C. Grand Chief Stewart P...
Apr 07, 2018
Inquiry into missing, murdered women only scratching the surface: chair
RICHMOND, B.C. - The head of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says that without an extension, it will feel as though work remains undone. Marion Buller told Th...
Apr 07, 2018
Missing and murdered inquiry emboldens those to move forward: chairwoman
RICHMOND, B.C. - Some of those who have told their harrowing stories at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls have since redoubled that courage by taking their comp...
Apr 06, 2018