Category Archives: British Columbia
Angelina Jolie expected to give keynote address at Vancouver peacekeeping summit
OTTAWA - Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is expected to lend her star power to next week’s peacekeeping summit in Vancouver. A draft program for the two-day meeting leaked to The Ca...
Nov 08, 2017
Body cameras on chicken catchers not reasonable: B.C. privacy commissioner
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s privacy commissioner says a chicken-catching company was not authorized to use video surveillance on staff in response to an animal cruelty investigation. Elite Ser...
Nov 08, 2017
New Monitoring App for Sex Workers
Angie Lohr, co-founder of Hope Outreach in Kelowna, is teaming up with a tech company to create a monitoring app for sex workers. Yodel me will send out an alert message when a user misses their check...
Nov 08, 2017
B.C. outreach group partners with app developer to improve safety of sex workers
VANCOUVER - An outreach group supporting vulnerable women in British Columbia is hoping a cellphone app designed to monitor remote workers in resource industries will help keep sex workers safe. Hope ...
Nov 08, 2017
Okanagan Icewine Harvest Set To Be Earliest On Record
This year’s icewine harvest is on track to be the earliest in the central Okanagan region. Most of the grapes are needing to be picked in two nights, making it one of the shortest harvests. With...
Nov 07, 2017
Low Health Spending Projected For This Year
British Columbians are expected to spend the lowest on healthcare this year. Health spending is expected to be $6,321 per capita in the province, a two percent increase from last year. That’s th...
Nov 07, 2017
Experts see some relief for Vancouver's tight housing market by late 2018
VANCOUVER - A real estate association watching Metro Vancouver’s tight and costly housing market predicts conditions should begin to ease by the third quarter of 2018. The British Columbia Real ...
Nov 07, 2017
Police officer dies after shooting in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A British Columbia police officer is being remembered as a “hero” after he died Monday in an exchange of gunfire with a man accused of shooting at people in a parking lo...
Nov 07, 2017
Constitutional debate over Canada's polygamy law heads back to court
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A decades-long constitutional debate over Canada’s polygamy law is set to flare up again Tuesday, six years after a British Columbia Supreme Court ruled plural marriage is a cr...
Nov 07, 2017
Saskatchewan rejects Burnaby request over Trans Mountain pipeline
BURNABY, B.C. - A city in British Columbia wants Saskatchewan’s justice minister to withdraw comments suggesting it “is deliberately slowing down” the Trans Mountain pipeline expansi...
Nov 07, 2017