Category Archives: British Columbia
Grassroots video rants and Braveheart spoofs engage B.C. referendum voters
VICTORIA - Homemade videos by a Vancouver filmmaker featuring scenes of his toddler’s escapades and shots of a friend’s Pomeranian named Nacho are fast becoming the indie hit of British Co...
Nov 18, 2018
B.C. couple helps California wildfire evacuees in Walmart parking lot
CHICO, Calif. - A British Columbia couple’s getaway to northern California has turned into a mission to help people fleeing deadly and destructive wildfires. Destinee and Paul Klyne of Penticton...
Nov 16, 2018
B.C. government to bring lower transgender surgery to the province
VANCOUVER - Gwen Haworth says she always knew her gender identity, even when she was very young, but coming out about 18 years ago was a hard choice made even harder by a lack of services in her home ...
Nov 16, 2018
Climate Change Causing Storms To Grow: Report
PRINCE GEORGE – According to a new BC Hydro report, storm and extreme weather events are becoming worse and more frequent as a result of climate change. In the past five years, the severe storm ...
Nov 16, 2018
Mounties arrest two suspects after supermarket reports $1,400 butter caper
COQUITLAM, B.C. - Two Vancouver men are facing charges of theft after RCMP in Coquitlam, B.C., say they arrested the pair for allegedly stealing a shopping cart loaded with $1,400 worth of butter. Pol...
Nov 15, 2018
B.C. man trapped in truck for several days recovers in Victoria hospital
CAMPBELL RIVER, Canada - A 23-year-old Vancouver Island man is recovering in a Victoria hospital after his truck went off a cliff and he was pinned in the vehicle with a broken femur for several days....
Nov 15, 2018
Early data suggests no spike in pot-impaired driving after legalization: police
VANCOUVER - Canadian police have not seen a spike in cannabis-impaired driving one month since legalization, but there needs to be more awareness of laws around storing marijuana in vehicles and passe...
Nov 15, 2018
Toronto 'carding' activist Desmond Cole stopped by police in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A Toronto activist and writer who was stopped by Vancouver police a day after arriving in the city says his experience reveals what daily life is like for black and Indigenous residents. D...
Nov 14, 2018
Protesters wanting more for killer whales confront Environment Minister in B.C.
VICTORIA - Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was confronted with the passions many people in British Columbia have for the plight of the West Coast’s endangered killer whales while ...
Nov 14, 2018
New study sheds light on opioid victims in effort to create better interventions
VANCOUVER - The first snapshots from a project aimed at providing a better picture of people at greatest risk of illicit drug use reveal that an average of nearly 10 Canadians fatally overdosed each d...
Nov 13, 2018