Category Archives: British Columbia
Regulator rejects B.C. government's promised hydro rate freeze
VICTORIA – Hydro rates in British Columbia will increase three percent in April after the province’s independent energy regulator overruled a government promise to freeze rates for one yea...
Mar 01, 2018
B.C. bride's online malice against photographer ends with order to pay $115,000
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia bride has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 to a wedding photographer for unleashing an online torrent of defamatory comments that eventually destroyed the business...
Mar 01, 2018
Delays slow B.C. government's promised poverty reduction plan, says minister
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s promised plan to fight poverty is taking longer to introduce than originally forecast, says the minister in charge of poverty reduction. Shane Simpson announced pla...
Mar 01, 2018
Retailer MEC to stop ordering from Vista Outdoor in response to Florida shooting
VANCOUVER - By stopping the sale of brands tied to gun manufacturing, the chief executive of Mountain Equipment Co-op says the company can play a role in advancing discussions around gun control. Davi...
Mar 01, 2018
Prison sentence for Indigenous woman doesn't seem right: B.C. judge
VANCOUVER - A judge in British Columbia has sentenced an Indigenous woman to four years in prison for manslaughter, but says it doesn’t seem right that incarceration was the best available optio...
Mar 01, 2018
Judge denies bail for B.C. man charged with alleged assaults of sex workers
VERNON, B.C. - A judge in British Columbia has denied bail for a man charged with a number of offences, including the alleged assaults of sex workers. Curtis Sagmoen appeared in provincial court in Ve...
Feb 28, 2018
B.C. college of midwives takes court action to ban use of term 'death midwife'
VANCOUVER - Two British Columbia women who call themselves death midwives are facing legal action for using a term that the province’s regulator of midwives says applies exclusively to health pr...
Feb 28, 2018
B.C. government asks residents for feedback on oil spill prevention plans
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s government says it is moving to the next steps in defending provincial land and water from oil spills by getting public feedback on potential policies, even as one ...
Feb 28, 2018
Amanda Todd's mother back B.C. schools plan to help parents fight cyberbullying
VICTORIA - The mother of a British Columbia girl whose story of cyberbullying went around the world after she took her own life says offering social media education to parents is a good investment. Ed...
Feb 28, 2018
Loud, loving parrots at Vancouver sanctuary can stay for now, but need new homes
VANCOUVER - A group of parrots awaiting adoption in Vancouver can stay put for now, after a lease on a warehouse full of the chattering birds was extended. Jan Robson, spokeswoman for the Greyhaven Ex...
Feb 28, 2018