Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. strike escalates to include about 26,000 public service workers, professionals
Two unions representing British Columbia professionals and public service workers escalated their weeks-long job action on Thursday to include about 26,000 staff across more than 20 ministries and pro...
Oct 09, 2025
City councillor, social worker Tanille Johnston running for NDP leadership
OTTAWA - Tanille Johnston, a social worker and city councillor for Campbell River, B.C., has launched her bid for the federal NDP leadership. A news release says Johnston is the first Indigenous woman...
Oct 08, 2025
Local state of emergency declared over risk of dam in B.C. Interior bursting
KAMLOOPS - A regional district in the British Columbia Interior has declared a state of local emergency as an illegal dam threatens to burst. The Thompson-Nicola Regional District has already issued a...
Oct 08, 2025
B.C. bill that would have stopped doctors from providing puberty blockers defeated
VICTORIA - A British Columbia private member's bill that would have given parents the right to sue doctors up to 25 years after they provided care for transgender children has been voted down in the l...
Oct 08, 2025
Nearly 25,000 BCGEU members are now on strike across 431 overnment sites in B.C.
g PRINCE GEORGE - The ongoing conflict with the British Columbia General Employees Union (BCGEU) has intensified, leading to a surge in strike actions against the provincial government. Wednesday morn...
Oct 08, 2025
British Columbia has tabled historic legislation to smoke out vaping advertising
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government has tabled what it says is the first law in Canada to recover health care costs from companies that use "deceptive practices" to sell vaping products. Attorn...
Oct 08, 2025
Murder was 'unexpected' by accused, trial of former B.C. lawyer hears
VANCOUVER - A former Kamloops, B.C., lawyer admits to killing his client, but his defence counsel says it wasn't planned and that evidence at the trial doesn't support a first-degree murder conviction...
Oct 08, 2025
Thieves rip ATM from West Kelowna, B.C., bank wall via machinery in attempted theft
WEST KELOWNA - Police in West Kelowna, B.C., are investigating after unknown suspects tried to steal an automated teller machine from a bank by ripping it out of the wall at a bank. RCMP say the theft...
Oct 08, 2025
Chip Wilson fined over signs posted outside mansion during B.C. election period
VANCOUVER - Elections BC has found billionaire Chip Wilson contravened election advertising rules when he put up signs in front of his Vancouver mansion ahead of the provincial election last year, one...
Oct 08, 2025
All B.C. government liquor, cannabis stores now behind workers' pickets in escalation
Job action by British Columbia public service workers is putting pressure on craft brewers, with the head of one industry group saying major players are facing a cash flow crunch, while smaller brewer...
Oct 08, 2025