British Columbia

Car-sharing firm leaves Canada with valuable data in changing market: expert

VANCOUVER - The car-sharing company formerly known as Car2Go is closing up shop in North America on Saturday, taking with it valuable data for automakers looking to the future, says one expe...

Feb 27, 2020

Indigenous youth in B.C. pledge to continue fight against pipeline

VICTORIA - Traffic was moving Wednesday night on a major highway in the Victoria area after a protest blocked the road earlier in the day. About 100 people were blocking the Patricia Bay Highway Wedne...

Feb 26, 2020

B.C. hospice looking at legal and other options after funding cut by province

VANCOUVER - A hospice society in British Columbia says it is outraged by the province's decision to stop its funding because it refuses to provide medically assisted death. Angelina Ire...

Feb 26, 2020

OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed

VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with 2018 but the death toll remains almost as high as when the province declared ...

Feb 26, 2020

Acceptance of cash deposits rare in real estate, money laundering inquiry hears

VANCOUVER - The organization representing real estate agents in British Columbia has told a provincial inquiry into money laundering that its members have only ever accepted modest cash deposits ...

Feb 26, 2020

B.C. tells inquiry money laundering has warped economy, fuelled opioid crisis

VANCOUVER - Money laundering has distorted British Columbia's economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market, the province argued at the start of an inquiry into the criminal...

Feb 26, 2020

Vancouver police looking for man accused of trying to steal seaplane

VANCOUVER - Police are looking for help in finding a man they accuse of breaking into Harbour Air's seaplane terminal on Vancouver's waterfront last Friday and trying to steal one of its air...

Feb 26, 2020

Alberta tourist dies after plunge from 70 metre cliff in Vancouver park

VANCOUVER - A man from Alberta has fallen to his death while visiting Stanley Park in Vancouver. Police confirm the 26-year-old hopped a chest-high fence at Prospect Point on Sunday and plunged about ...

Feb 26, 2020

Teck CEO says Frontier withdrawal a result of tensions over climate, reconciliation

VANCOUVER - Tensions over Indigenous rights, climate change and resource development that have escalated recently with the rail blockades helped push Teck Resources Ltd. to shelve ...

Feb 26, 2020

Private clinics would harm 'ordinary' people using public system in B.C.: lawyer

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the British Columbia government says private clinics would increase wait lists for "ordinary" people in the public system and especially harm those who are...

Feb 25, 2020