British Columbia

Record amount of opium found in Vancouver marine containers: border services

DELTA, B.C. - What started as a probe into some oddities with shipping pallets in Vancouver has ended with a record seizure of opium by the Canada Border Services Agency. The agency says its investiga...

Dec 16, 2022

B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is extending its COVID-19 wage top-ups for staff at seniors facilities, but the restriction that limited those workers to one work site has been lifted. The ...

Dec 16, 2022

Ontario and British Columbia headed for a buyer's market, RBC says

TORONTO - A new report says high interest rates will continue to hold back homebuyers into the new year except in Ontario and British Columbia. The report by RBC says those purchasing real estate in O...

Dec 16, 2022

Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear

VICTORIA - At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed tobacco sales at his British Columbia convenience store started to drop. Holland said he recalle...

Dec 16, 2022

B.C. disease centre says flu shows signs of decline, with no new deaths of children

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Centre For Disease Control says there are signs influenza is on a "steady decline" in the province, although case numbers remain high and positive test rates for respiratory syncy...

Dec 15, 2022

Union critical of Ottawa's plan to buy back Pacific salmon licences

CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. - The union representing British Columbia fishermen says a plan by the federal government to buy back commercial salmon fishing licences is underfunded, lacks transparency and doe...

Dec 15, 2022

Arrest prompts Vancouver police to warn about package theft by 'porch pirates'

Vancouver police say they've recovered everything from Nike runners to golf clubs in a months-long investigation into so-called porch pirates. Police say officers used a warrant to search a home last ...

Dec 15, 2022

Escaped inmate sentenced to life for the 'cold-blooded' murder of a B.C. man

VANCOUVER - Friends and relatives of murder victim Martin Payne say they are haunted by the actions of "two selfish, reckless" people who chose their victim because his home was near the prison where ...

Greg Fry Dec 15, 2022

Personal health information 'disturbingly' vulnerable: B.C. privacy commissioner

VICTORIA - British Columbia's privacy watchdog says sensitive personal health records, from mental health to sexually transmitted disease histories, are "disturbingly" vulnerable to leaks. Information...

Dec 15, 2022

Jury finds escaped inmate guilty of the first-degree murder of a B.C. man

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Supreme Court jury in the trial of an escaped inmate accused of first-degree murder has found James Lee Busch guiltyin the death of a Vancouver Island man. However, wh...

Dec 14, 2022