Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. policewomen want lawsuit, not labour arbitration, over alleged discrimination
VANCOUVER - A group of female police officers pursuing a class-action lawsuit against municipal police forces in B.C. over alleged harassment, bullying and discrimination say it is not a labour disput...
May 11, 2026
Trans Mountain and its federal parent see case for Ottawa owning pipeline for good
There's a case to indefinitely keep the Trans Mountain pipeline in government hands, possibly alongside Indigenous partners, say the leaders of its operator and financial overseer. "It is a sovereign ...
May 11, 2026
Forests Minister Parmar says B.C. has flagged Middle East as emerging export market
VICTORIA - British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province could be selling more wood in the Middle East among other emerging markets to curtail its dependence on the United States. Pa...
May 11, 2026
Telus and feds announce AI data cluster in B.C. to boost 'sovereign' computing power
VANCOUVER - Canada's artificial intelligence minister says the Liberal government is aware of risks involved in a major investment in AI data centres in British Columbia, but taking such chances are n...
May 11, 2026
Victims of fatal double shooting in Surrey, B.C., were 16 and 18 years old: police
SURREY - Police say two teenagers from Surrey, B.C., are dead in an apparent targeted shooting related to an ongoing gang conflict. A statement from Sgt. Freda Fong with the Integrated Homicide Invest...
May 11, 2026
Economic growth now tops environment as priority in energy policy, poll suggests
OTTAWA - More Canadians now say economic growth should be a bigger priority in Canada's energy policy than protecting the environment, a new Angus Reid Institute report suggests. The pollster released...
May 11, 2026
B.C. Mounties cancel Amber Alert for twin siblings
PRINCE RUPERT - Mounties in northwestern British Columbia have cancelled a provincewide Amber Alert for two children. RCMP did not provide further details but thanked the public for their assistance. ...
May 11, 2026
Crash in Delta, B.C., leaves motorcycle hanging from traffic light
DELTA - Police in Delta, B.C., say a motorcyclist is in hospital after a crash that left the bike suspended from a traffic light. They say in a news release that members from the department responded ...
May 10, 2026
Canadians on ship at centre of hantavirus outbreak land in Canada
VANCOUVER - Four Canadians who disembarked the cruise ship at the centre of a deadly hantavirus outbreak landed Sunday in B.C., where they will continue their quarantine. Online plane tracking platfor...
May 10, 2026
Mounties search for snowmobiler missing in northwestern B.C.
ATLIN - Mounties are searching for a snowmobiler from Whitehorse who went missing near the British Columbia-Yukon boundary. Police say in a news release that three snowmobilers set out to retrieve a b...
May 10, 2026