Category Archives: British Columbia

Direction For ICBC Regulations
BRITISH COLUMBIA – The B-C Government has released regulations on the auto insurance product changes announced earlier this year, increasing care for injured people while helping ICBC return to ...
Nov 10, 2018

Electoral Reform Referendum A Dead Heat: Poll
PRINCE GEORGE - A new poll suggests British Columbians are deeply divided on the question of changing our electoral system. The Mainstreet Research ultrapoll, a conglomeration of 10 provincial polls, ...
Nov 08, 2018

Canadian Economics After The Midterm Elections
PRINCE GEORGE - The polls for the US midterms closed last night with the Democrats winning a majority in the House of Representatives. While this will have some impacts on Canadian economics, Stan Mit...
Nov 07, 2018

B.C. government rolls back speed limits on routes with speed-related collisions
VICTORIA – The British Columbia government is rolling back speed limits on sections of more than a dozen highways where speed-related crashes have climbed since higher limits were approved in 20...
Nov 06, 2018

Rare Mandarin duck at park in Burnaby, B.C., could be an escaped pet
BURNABY, B.C. - A rare duck native to East Asia is making a splash in a lake east of Vancouver and experts believe he is an escaped pet. The Mandarin duck, with his vibrant golden, green and blue plum...
Nov 05, 2018
British Columbia faces lawsuit: Fracking dams exempted from environmental review
VANCOUVER - A conservation group is suing the British Columbia government for exempting two oilpatch dams from environmental rules years after the dams were built. “It seems like the government ...
Nov 05, 2018

Former Canadian Football League player Josh Boden is accused of murder
VANCOUVER - A former wide receiver with the Canadian Football League’s B.C. Lions has made his first court appearance following a charge of second-degree murder more than nine years after a woma...
Nov 05, 2018

Puppies stranded on cliff in B.C. find 'forever' homes with rescue crew members
MISSION, B.C. - Two St. Bernard-cross puppies who spent four days on a cliff in a rural area of British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have landed what the local SPCA branch manager says are their bes...
Nov 04, 2018

B.C. casino accused of 'profiling' Drake says it stands against racism
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver casino says it “categorically” stands against racism after Drake accused it of “profiling” him. In a post on Instagram, the Toronto rapper called Parq V...
Nov 03, 2018

Top court rejects group's attempt to stop B.C. referendum as campaign underway
VANCOUVER – British Columbia’s top court has dismissed an application by a group trying to halt the province’s referendum on electoral reform. The Independent Contractors and Busines...
Nov 02, 2018