Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. residents and emergency crews prepare for more flooding this week
GRAND FORKS, B.C. - Residents and emergency crews are bracing for another surge of floodwaters, after surveying damage in some of the worst-hit parts of British Columbia during a reprieve over the wee...
May 13, 2018
Crews survey, repair flood damage in B.C. Boundary area before next surge
GRAND FORKS, B.C. - Emergency crews are mapping damage and repairing failed dykes across the Boundary region of British Columbia during a break from surging waters that are expected to return this wee...
May 13, 2018
Five things to know about the Gladue decision
VANCOUVER - It’s been nearly two decades since Canada’s highest court handed down its landmark Gladue decision on sentencing Indigenous offenders. Here are five things to know about the ca...
May 13, 2018
Work still needed years after landmark ruling on Indigenous sentencing: lawyers
VANCOUVER - Nearly two decades after a landmark court decision on sentencing Indigenous offenders, lawyers say there are no national standards for implementing the ruling and too many Aboriginal peopl...
May 13, 2018
Dozens rescued from flooding in Grand Forks, B.C.; officials warn of second wave
GRAND FORKS, B.C. - Firefighters had rescued more than 30 people by boat in Grand Forks, B.C., sometimes swimming through muddy and debris-laden water, by the time floodwaters had receded Saturday aft...
May 12, 2018
Woman to be archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada for first time: diocese
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The Anglican Diocese of New Westminster says a woman has been elected an archbishop in the Anglican Church of Canada for the first time. Melissa Skelton will assume the highest...
May 12, 2018
Survivor of gun violence in Afghanistan says she wants to be 'voice of women'
VANCOUVER - When Shakila Zareen looked in the mirror for the first time after her worst attack, she didn’t recognize herself. A bullet from a rifle she said was fired by her husband shattered he...
May 12, 2018
Hot weather could cause more flood woes in parts of B.C. as damage assessed
VANCOUVER - An emergency operations official in southern British Columbia says a forecast of warm weather has residents bracing for the possibility of more flooding from melting snow while at least on...
May 11, 2018
Canadian pot growers say marijuana byproduct a wasted opportunity for industry
VANCOUVER - Licensed marijuana producers in Canada are throwing out thousands of kilograms of plant waste each year in what some of them say is a missed opportunity to find other uses for the byproduc...
May 11, 2018
Thousands ordered out as part of B.C.'s southern Interior affected by flooding
VANCOUVER - Nearly 2,700 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes in British Columbia’s southern Interior as officials warn of flooding due to extremely heavy snowpacks, sudden downpours...
May 11, 2018