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...
CKPG News Apr 09, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 09, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 08, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 08, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 07, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 07, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 06, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 06, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 06, 2018
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...
CKPG News Apr 06, 2018