Category Archives: British Columbia
Telus Q4 profit, revenue up but adjusted net income falls below estimates
VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. reports it had $379 million of net income in the fourth quarter, up three per cent from $368 million a year earlier, but its adjusted earnings were down and missed analyst esti...
Feb 13, 2020
'We're not giving in,' Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief says in wake of arrests
VANCOUVER - Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation are pledging to continue fighting a natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory, days after 28 of their supporters were arrested f...
Feb 12, 2020
A&W sees sales metric slip in Q4 after strong performance last year
VANCOUVER - A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund saw same-store sales grow for the year, even as they slipped in the most recent quarter. The fund says the key retail metric fell 1.9 per cent for the...
Feb 12, 2020
'People are starting to wake up': Pipeline protesters expect long-term change
VANCOUVER - Opponents of a natural gas pipeline in northwestern British Columbia say they believe protests across the country are sparking a growing awareness of Indigenous rights that will lead to lo...
Feb 12, 2020
NDP throne speech in B.C. highlights accomplishments at midway point of mandate
VICTORIA - British Columbia's NDP government is promising new funding supplements for children and youth in care, and the expansion of commuter service into the Fraser Valley in a throne speech&n...
Feb 11, 2020
Bridges, buildings, railways, streets focus of anti-pipeline protests
VICTORIA - Fourteen people arrested at pipeline protest sites are due in provincial court Monday in Smithers, B.C., a Wet'suwet'en Nation spokeswoman said as a movement opposing the pipeline...
Feb 11, 2020
Entrances to B.C. legislature blocked as pipeline protests flare across Canada
VICTORIA - Hundreds of protesters blocked the entrances to the British Columbia legislature on Tuesday as demonstrations in support of Indigenous hereditary chiefs who oppose a pipeline project contin...
Feb 11, 2020
B.C. mayor says forestry strike left some on brink of bankruptcy as deal reached
VICTORIA - A tentative agreement in a forest industry strike that kept 3,000 workers off the job since last July is being greeted with cautious optimism by a Vancouver Island mayor who says the d...
Feb 10, 2020
Contract awarded for Pattullo Bridge replacement in Metro Vancouver
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The British Columbia government has awarded a contract for the replacement of the Pattullo Bridge in Metro Vancouver. The $1.4-billion project will see a new four-lane bri...
Feb 10, 2020
A primer on the Coastal GasLink pipeline
VANCOUVER - Protests continue across the country as the RCMP enforce an injunction requiring opponents of the Coastal GasLink pipeline to clear the way for construction in northern British Columbia. H...
Feb 10, 2020