Category Archives: British Columbia

B.C. takes new approach to testing older drivers, some ask if ageism a factor
VICTORIA - Frank Harding is 98 years old and most days he drives his 1990 Volvo sedan to the Comox Recreation Centre where he works out. One summer, the resident of Courtenay, B.C., said he drove acro...
Apr 09, 2018

Indigenous women tell inquiry of abuse, call for systemic change
VANCOUVER - A longtime advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women told her own story of abuse on the last scheduled day of public hearings for a national inquiry Sunday. Bernie Williams, who h...
Apr 09, 2018

Private-clinic trial resumes as B.C. aims to take action against doctors
VANCOUVER - Excruciating pain had Tamara Parrales heading to the emergency department multiple times for nearly a year, and when a specialist brought up the possibility of ovarian cancer, she wasnR...
Apr 08, 2018

Residential school history centre to share survivors' accounts, educate public
VANCOUVER - Many university students don’t know the history of Indigenous people in Canada, let alone the implications of the residential school system, but a director at the University of Briti...
Apr 08, 2018

Chiefs join anti-pipeline protests in Burnaby, B.C., promise to return
BURNABY, B.C. - The leader of the Union of British Columbia Indians Chiefs says he will keep up the pressure against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in Burnaby, B.C. Grand Chief Stewart P...
Apr 07, 2018

Inquiry into missing, murdered women only scratching the surface: chair
RICHMOND, B.C. - The head of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says that without an extension, it will feel as though work remains undone. Marion Buller told Th...
Apr 07, 2018

Missing and murdered inquiry emboldens those to move forward: chairwoman
RICHMOND, B.C. - Some of those who have told their harrowing stories at the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls have since redoubled that courage by taking their comp...
Apr 06, 2018
Leading B.C. chefs send letter seeking termination of salmon farm tenures
VANCOUVER - More than 50 of British Columbia’s top chefs are calling on the province to end leases for open net-pen salmon farms dotting coastal waters. The group has sent a letter to the forest...
Apr 06, 2018

Trudeau travels to B.C. in support of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
VANCOUVER - Hundreds of protesters opposed to the expansion of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline demonstrated Thursday night outside a Vancouver hotel where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed a Lib...
Apr 06, 2018
B.C. review draws link between corrections system and some overdose deaths
VANCOUVER - Two-thirds of people who fatally overdosed in British Columbia during a 19-month period were involved with the corrections system, says a panel that reviewed a skyrocketing number of illic...
Apr 06, 2018