Category Archives: British Columbia
RCMP officer breaks down at coroner's inquest recalling officer's last emails
BURNABY, B.C. - A supervisor of an RCMP officer who took his own life in 2013 broke down Wednesday as he read the last few emails exchanged between the two men to a coroner’s inquest. RCMP Supt....
Nov 28, 2018

Koi rescued at Chinese garden in Vancouver; otter not seen since Saturday
VANCOUVER - The last two remaining koi and hundreds of juvenile carp have been removed from a classical Chinese garden in downtown Vancouver in an effort to thwart a stealthy river otter that has devo...
Nov 28, 2018

Unions block trucks at Canada Post depot in B.C. to protest back-to-work bill
OTTAWA - Canada Post employees have been legislated back to work after more than five weeks of rotating strikes, but that isn’t stopping their brethren from picking up picket signs to support th...
Nov 28, 2018
RCMP officer felt betrayed by force after man's death: colleague tells inquest
BURNABY, B.C. - An RCMP officer who took his own life was betrayed by the force and “hung out to dry” by superiors who used him to tell a false story about the death of a Polish immigrant ...
Nov 27, 2018
Premier defends B.C. Speaker, says his 'impartiality not in question'
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says he has confidence in legislature Speaker Darryl Plecas even though he wishes the events of the last week at British Columbia’s legislature had unfolded differ...
Nov 27, 2018

B.C. First Nations carry huge debts after fighting to save homes from wildfires
VANCOUVER - Chief Larry Nooski remembers the deafening sound of a wildfire racing toward Nadleh Whut’en territory in August, like a “low-level jet plane.” The chief of the central Br...
Nov 27, 2018

B.C. intervenes in greenhouse gas fight between Ottawa, Ontario and Saskatchewan
VICTORIA - British Columbia is backing the federal government in its court battles with Saskatchewan and Ontario over Ottawa’s plan to put a minimum price on carbon pollution. Attorney General D...
Nov 27, 2018

Syrian man stranded for months at airport in Malaysia arrives in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A Syrian man who was stranded for seven months at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport arrived in Vancouver on Monday night. Hassan Al Kontar thanked his friends and his lawyer in a vide...
Nov 26, 2018

Elizabeth May says she's engaged: 'I had a crush on him, he had a crush on me'
VICTORIA - Green party Leader Elizabeth May is engaged and is making plans for a wedding next spring. May said Monday she and John Kidder will be married in Victoria on April 22 and are planning a tra...
Nov 26, 2018

B.C. chief tells pipeline hearings his people are responsible for their land
VICTORIA - Protection of salmon, animals and the land in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia is an eternal responsibility of First Nations and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline poses risk...
Nov 26, 2018