British Columbia

Vancouver police ask for help over theft of high-end snake chairs

VANCOUVER - A pair of unusual armchairs valued at about $40,000 each were taken from a high-end furniture store and Vancouver police are asking for the public's help in finding them. Police say t...

Jun 25, 2019

Updates in the BC container truck driving sector aimed at benefiting BC drivers

BRITISH COLUMBIA- The BC government is moving ahead with two key actions to benefit the BC container truck drivers and trucking sector.Starting Monday, July 1, 2019 the container trucking commissioner...

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The world's Indigenous speakers gather in Victoria to revitalize languages

VANCOUVER - Sto:lo Nation educator Ethel Gardner is confident that the fate of the Coast Salish language Halq'emeylem is looking up, despite its classification as critically endangered by UNESCO. "The...

Jun 25, 2019

Engine shutdown forces Air Canada flight back to Vancouver; lands without issues

VANCOUVER - An engine shutdown is being blamed for an Air Canada flight to Alaska being forced to return to Vancouver on the weekend. The airline says the Airbus A320 had left Vancouver ...

Jun 24, 2019

Lawyers urge Canada to stop Chinese exec's extradition to U.S. on fraud charges

VANCOUVER - Defence lawyers for a senior Huawei executive have asked Canada's foreign affairs minister to stop the extradition process against their client, saying the request made by the Un...

Jun 24, 2019

Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria

VICTORIA - The government approval of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion won't stop efforts in British Columbia to halt the project, protesters gathered outside Victoria's city hall said Saturday. ...

Jun 24, 2019

Artists, politicians reflect on reconciliation as cedar poles unveiled in B.C.

VANCOUVER - Musqueam artist William Dan says a welcome figure he carved from centuries-old cedar represents a homecoming for him, after a childhood lost to residential school and decades spent aw...

Jun 23, 2019

Invasive goldfish found in B.C. lake, biologists act to stop spread to watershed

VICTORIA - Recreational fishing in a lake in northwestern British Columbia is being shut down after the discovery of invasive goldfish. The Ministry of Natural Resource Operations says ...

Jun 22, 2019

Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death

VICTORIA - Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was...

Jun 22, 2019

Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria

VICTORIA - Indigenous drummers in British Columbia are leading an anti-pipeline protest along a 22-kilometre route today that passes through Victoria and ends at a beach south of the city. Hundreds of...

Jun 22, 2019