Category Archives: British Columbia
Trans Mountain pipeline work destroyed salmon habitat, scientist says
VANCOUVER - Work on a Trans Mountain pipeline crossing in a British Columbia stream has destroyed salmon habitat, raising concerns about the Crown corporation’s ability to build infrastructure t...
Jan 27, 2019
B.C. byelection tests NDP's slim minority as provincial focus on Nanaimo
VICTORIA - The slim hold on power Premier John Horgan’s minority NDP government has in British Columbia will be tested Wednesday in a byelection on Vancouver Island where a Liberal win would lea...
Jan 26, 2019
Mental health rated low in B.C. despite healthy lifestyles and long life: doctor
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s medical health officer says citizens have rated their mental health as nearly the lowest in the country despite being more physically active and having genera...
Jan 25, 2019
Indian Act to blame for pipeline gridlock in northern B.C.: federal minister
VANCOUVER - Canada’s minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is pointing her finger at the Indian Act for creating a gridlock in northern British Columbia where some hereditary clan chiefs say a ...
Jan 25, 2019
Man fit to stand trial in girl's death at B.C. high school: judge
VANCOUVER - A man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl in a British Columbia high school has been declared mentally fit to stand trial after a change in medication his lawyer described as a “mi...
Jan 24, 2019
Spending abuse claims expose failure by past Liberal government: B.C. premier
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says a call to clean up the British Columbia legislature should not absolve the Opposition Liberals from explaining allegations of spending abuses by two top officials d...
Jan 24, 2019
Mother and uncle sent to India to face conspiracy charges in B.C. woman's death
VANCOUVER - The federal government says two British Columbia residents have been extradited to India to face conspiracy charges after they allegedly hired men to kill a young woman and her new husband...
Jan 24, 2019
NDP question Liberal over expense allegations at B.C. legislature
VICTORIA - The New Democrats and Greens drew a long-serving member of the B.C. Liberal caucus into the controversy surrounding allegations of spending abuses at the legislature on Wednesday, calling o...
Jan 23, 2019
47 men arrested in police sting of those looking for sex with teenage girls
Vancouver police say they’ve arrested 47 men who were willing to pay for sexual services from teenage girls. Seven of those people have now been charged and police say they include a school teac...
Jan 23, 2019
B.C. minister fears money laundering involves billions of dollars, cites reports
VICTORIA - Documents that say money laundering in British Columbia now reaches into the billions of dollars are startling to the province’s attorney general who says the figures have finally dra...
Jan 18, 2019