Category Archives: British Columbia
Theft of wigs for kids who have cancer is 'heartbreaking:' shop manager
VANCOUVER - The manager of a Vancouver store where wigs intended for kids with cancer were stolen says it’s been heartbreaking to call their families and break the news. Frances Rae, manager of ...
Sep 13, 2018
Impact of diluted bitumen on young sockeye salmon deadly, says Guelph study
VICTORIA - A spill of diluted bitumen puts the survival of young salmon at risk even if the fish end up in clean water following exposure to the oil product, says new research from the University of G...
Sep 12, 2018
Officials considering rescuing ailing killer whale for medical treatment
VANCOUER, B.C. - Capturing and treating an extremely sick killer whale off the West Coast may be the next step in an attempt to nurse her back to health, say officials leading the operation in Canada ...
Sep 12, 2018
Jagmeet Singh: First-past-the-post enables 'fringe' candidates like Doug Ford
SURREY, B.C. - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh took aim at conservative politicians Wednesday while lambasting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for abandoning a campaign promise to bring in electoral re...
Sep 12, 2018
Board finds man unfit for trial in fatal stabbing of B.C. high school student
COQUITLAM, B.C. - The British Columbia Review Board has again found Gabriel Klein unfit to stand trial on account of a mental disorder for the murder of an Abbotsford, B.C., high school student. The b...
Sep 12, 2018
Wigs for cancer patients at children's hospital stolen in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - A collection of wigs worth more than $350,000 that was intended for cancer patients at BC Children’s Hospital has been stolen from a store in Vancouver. Police say at least 150 wigs ...
Sep 11, 2018
Jagmeet Singh says he and NDP must do better at communicating with Canadians
SURREY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh acknowledged Tuesday he and his party must do better at reaching Canadians, an admission he made as the party launched a caucus retreat in British Colu...
Sep 11, 2018
Work underway to release fuel trapped in barge at Haida Gwaii
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. - The Canadian Coast Guard says crews are working carefully to release gas that accumulated inside a barge carrying a fishing lodge that beached after it broke away from its anch...
Sep 11, 2018
B.C. court orders bus company to rethink rejection of anti-abortion ads
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Appeal Court has overturned a decision by Metro Vancouver’s transit authority that refused advertising space to an anti-abortion education group on its buses. Th...
Sep 11, 2018
Immigration fuelling French-immersion demand as provinces vie for teachers
VANCOUVER - Back-to-school buzz only led to worry for a Vancouver father fretting about his daughter’s chances of getting into French immersion - a year before she starts kindergarten. Prokopi K...
Sep 11, 2018