Category Archives: British Columbia
Doctors billing patients for private services to face fines in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Doctors who bill patients for health-care services outside the public system could face criminal charges and fines in British Columbia as the NDP government enforces a law introduced by th...
Apr 04, 2018
Straws, coffee cups targets of Vancouver strategy to cut down on plastic garbage
Vancouver is the latest city in Canada to stir up opposition to plastic drinking straws, but it’s not calling for an outright ban. Instead, they would be optional under the city’s proposal...
Apr 04, 2018
Jackhammers, fumes turn B.C. family's Panama Canal cruise into construction zone
VICTORIA - The noise of pounding jackhammers and the smell of fumes are the unwanted memories of a spring-break cruise through the Panama Canal for a woman and her family from the Victoria area. Cecil...
Apr 04, 2018
B.C. researcher's identification of scorpionfly shows Canada-Russia connection
VANCOUVER - It seems Canada and Russia have a prehistoric connection of the “beautiful” but “cockroachy” kind involving a 53-million-year-old insect fossil called a scorpionfly...
Apr 03, 2018
Better safeguards, compensation coming for residents of B.C. trailer parks
PENTICTON, B.C. - British Columbia wants to make it harder to evict trailer park residents and give them more protection from redevelopment under proposed legislative changes. The government also want...
Apr 03, 2018
Vancouver's Rio Theatre wins month-long reprieve to raise mortgage down payment
VANCOUVER - The operator of one of Vancouver’s last independent movie theatres says fundraising efforts will continue after the landlord extended a deadline to save the Rio Theatre from develope...
Apr 03, 2018
Federal government promises $4.1 billion for B.C. infrastructure
VANCOUVER - Ottawa has announced a new multibillion-dollar infrastructure deal with British Columbia, just a week after a report found the federal government was falling behind on the spending program...
Apr 03, 2018
Man can return to Victoria's Empress hotel years after seagull, pepperoni uproar
VICTORIA - A Nova Scotia man banned from Victoria’s stately Fairmont Empress hotel is welcome back after apologizing for an incident more than 17 years ago in which seagulls hungry for pepperoni...
Apr 03, 2018
B.C. zoo quarantines bunnies to protect them from deadly virus
VANCOUVER - A disease that’s killed hundreds of feral rabbits in British Columbia has prompted a Metro Vancouver zoo to take precautions to protect its bunnies and those of the public. Menita Pr...
Apr 02, 2018
B.C. boy fights for life after flu-like illness turns to blood poisoning
VANCOUVER - A four-year-old British Columbia boy is fighting for his life, just days after coming down with what appeared to be a flu that developed into a rare and potentially deadly blood infection....
Apr 02, 2018