Category Archives: British Columbia

Eby makes plea to Green voters to support NDP to help keep Conservatives from office
SQUAMISH, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby is asking potential Green voters in British Columbia's Oct. 19 election to support his party instead to help keep John Rustad's B.C. Conservatives out of...
Oct 13, 2024

Familiar faces and angry voters: Will B.C. elect an Independent MLA?
Vicki Huntington says two things are critical to be elected as an Independent member of the legislature in British Columbia - trusted name recognition and an angry constituency. She would know. In 200...
Oct 13, 2024

Calgary's public libraries closed due to cybersecurity breach
CALGARY - All Calgary Public Library locations have been closed due to a cybersecurity breach. The library posted the news on its website, stating the closures took effect as of 5 p.m. Friday. The pos...
Oct 12, 2024

Police arrest suspect after stabbing at New Westminster, B.C., Skytrain station
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say they have arrested a person suspected of stabbing two people at a Skytrain station in the city. They say numerous people had called to repo...
Oct 12, 2024

Bill Vigars, campaign manager for Terry Fox Marathon of Hope, dies at 78
WHITE ROCK, B.C. - Bill Vigars, who led the promotion of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope in 1980, has died at the age of 78. His wife, Sherry MacDonald, confirmed the news in an interview, saying Vigars ...
Oct 12, 2024

Eby says no place for violence in politics as RCMP probe Campbell River bomb threat
LANGLEY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby says violence should have no place in politics after a party campaign office in Campbell River was evacuated following a bomb threat. Eby, who was campaig...
Oct 12, 2024

Four-metre-long Great White Shark washes up on B.C. beach
A four-metre-long Great White Shark has washed up on a British Columbia beach. The Fisheries Department says their scientists confirmed the species by analyzing its tooth shape and the shape of its ta...
Oct 11, 2024

Report clearing Vancouver police in Myles Gray beating death 'flawed,' lawyer says
VANCOUVER - The lawyer for the family of a man beaten to death by Vancouver police says a disciplinary report clearing the officers of wrongdoing was flawed and didn't consider key evidence. Ian Donal...
Oct 11, 2024

Report says at least 55 children died or disappeared at B.C. residential school
A British Columbia First Nation says at least 55 children died or disappeared while attending a residential school near Williams Lake, more than triple the number recorded for the institution in the N...
Oct 11, 2024

No jail time after fatal 2020 stabbing at Vancouver's former Biltmore Hotel
VANCOUVER - A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of a 72-year-old man in a Vancouver rooming house nearly four years ago will not serve time in prison. The sentencing decisio...
Oct 11, 2024