Category Archives: British Columbia

B.C. expands Foundry mental health, substance use services to 8 communities
VICTORIA - The B.C. government is expanding its mental health and substance use services for youth and their families to eight more communities. Judy Darcy, the minister of mental health and addiction...
Jun 15, 2020

Trans Mountain pipeline restarts after light crude spills in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Trans Mountain says oil is flowing again through its pipeline after as much 190,000 litres of light crude spilled from a pumping facility in Abbotsford, B.C...
Jun 15, 2020

Homicide team probes suspicious fire where three bodies found in Langley, B.C.
LANGLEY, B.C. - Homicide investigators say three bodies have been found in the wreckage of a burned out home in Langley, B.C. Fire crews were called to the scene late Saturday afternoon and found the ...
Jun 14, 2020

Trans Mountain said pipeline will restart after spill in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Trans Mountain estimates as much as 1,195 barrels of light crude spilled from its pipeline pumping station in Abbotsford, B.C. While an investigation is ongoing, the Crown-owne...
Jun 14, 2020

Court tells hospice society that refuses to allow assisted death to stop meeting
DELTA, B.C. - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has cancelled a pivotal meeting on Monday for a hospice society in Delta, B.C., that won't allow medical assistance in dying. One of thre...
Jun 14, 2020

Politics as normal suspended in B.C., but will that change when house returns?
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Opposition leader says fighting the pandemic produced a unified health front among traditional adversaries, but with the province facing its darkest economic cr...
Jun 14, 2020

Lawsuit filed by family of a B.C. man who died in a police confrontation
KAMLOOPS, , B.C. - A civil lawsuit has been filed in B.C. Supreme Court over the death of a man in Whistler, B.C., alleging four RCMP officers used excessive force when they tried to ta...
Jun 13, 2020

CSIS knowledge of multi-hour delay in Meng's arrest 'troubling': lawyers
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Meng Wanzhou allege Canada's national spy agency was in on a plan for border officers to detain the Huawei executive for hours before her arrest and was mindful ...
Jun 12, 2020

Businessman David Sidoo loses Order of B.C. following wire fraud guilty plea
VICTORIA - A former Canadian Football League player has lost his membership in the Order of British Columbia after pleading guilty to charges in the United States. A B.C. government says the process t...
Jun 12, 2020

Premier says defunding police 'simplistic' but B.C. will review Police Act
SOOKE, B.C. - British Columbia's premier says calls for defunding police are a simplistic approach to a complex problem. John Horgan says police are increasingly burdened with a range of challeng...
Jun 12, 2020