Category Archives: British Columbia
Supreme Court upholds dangerous offender provisions in Criminal Code
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has affirmed the constitutionality of Criminal Code provisions for declaring someone a dangerous offender who can be held indefinitely. The 8-1 high court ruling c...
Dec 21, 2017
B.C. engineer develops scanner to diagnose eye diseases early and save vision
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia engineering science professor has developed a high-resolution scanner that he says will revolutionize how eye diseases are diagnosed to prevent vision loss. Prof. Marink...
Dec 21, 2017
Price-fixing cases 'common' as rewards outweigh risks, experts say
VANCOUVER - The recently revealed 14-year industry-wide arrangement to co-ordinate bread prices in Canada doesn’t seem to shock experts, who say price fixing is a common and tempting practice in...
Dec 21, 2017
Animal cruelty charges laid in major puppy mill seizure in Langley, B.C.
LANGLEY, B.C. - The British Columbia SPCA says charges have been laid following one of the largest puppy mill seizures in the province’s history. The society says 66 sick and neglected dogs were...
Dec 20, 2017
RCMP investigating suspicious death of three people found in B.C. home
KELOWNA, B.C. - The RCMP is investigating the deaths of three people whose bodies were found in a Kelowna, B.C., residence. Officers were called to the home in the neighbourhood of Rutland on Tuesday ...
Dec 20, 2017
Ottawa studies risk of pathogen transfers to wild sockeye from fish farms
VICTORIA - New research released by the federal government says there are minimal risks of farmed Atlantic salmon from British Columbia’s Discovery Islands transferring a deadly viral disease to...
Dec 20, 2017
B.C. pharmacies handing out free naloxone kits to combat overdose crisis
British Columbia is expanding efforts to slow the death toll in the opioid overdose crisis by handing out free kits containing the overdose-reversing drug naloxone from pharmacies across the province....
Dec 20, 2017
B.C. Mountie fired after sending texts, photos to teen in sex-assault case
RICHMOND, B.C. - An RCMP officer in Richmond, B.C., has been fired after a conduct review board found he used a police database to track down and send “flirty” text messages and suggestive...
Dec 20, 2017
B.C. judge finds former RCMP officer not guilty of sexual assault
VANCOUVER - A former RCMP inspector was found not guilty Wednesday of sexually assaulting a civilian employee in a washroom at the force’s British Columbia headquarters. Tim Shields, who was a h...
Dec 20, 2017
Advocates, families speak out in defence of B.C.'s Mental Health Act
VANCOUVER - Frederick Dawe remembers the night about 30 years ago that his six-foot-eight son experienced a psychotic break in the emergency room of a Vancouver-area hospital. “He just lost it. ...
Dec 20, 2017