British Columbia

Canada Jetlines postpones launch over financing challenges, lays off staff

VANCOUVER - Canada Jetlines Ltd. is postponing its planned December launch and laying off most employees after failing to secure $40 million in required financing and losing investment partners. ...

Oct 28, 2019

Reports of mushroom poisonings on the rise: BC Centre for Disease Control

VANCOUVER - The BC Centre for Disease Control says mushroom poisonings are on the rise and it is urging foragers to use extreme caution. It says its drug and poison information centre r...

Oct 28, 2019

B.C. to update emergency program law to improve disaster responses, supports

VICTORIA - Devastating wildfires and floods and the prospect of more to come has caused the B.C. government to look at updating its emergency management law. Public Safety Minister Mike...

Oct 28, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg says adults must protect kids from climate change

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says those in power need to realize what they are doing to future generations through climate change because if adults really loved children, they...

Oct 27, 2019

A list of actions being taken on climate change around the world

VANCOUVER - Fifteen young Canadians are suing the federal government over climate change. It's not the first climate change litigation. Here are five other cases: 1) An environmental group i...

Oct 25, 2019

Youths file lawsuit with Federal Court calling Ottawa to develop climate plan

VANCOUVER - A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease...

Oct 25, 2019

Chinese grocery chain Sungiven Foods to open Canadian location in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - A Chinese grocery chain has plans to crack the highly competitive Canadian market with its first international location in Vancouver next month. Sungiven Food Canada Inc. hopes to gro...

Oct 25, 2019

Activist Greta Thunberg attends 'post-election climate strike' in Vancouver

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate rally in Vancouver on Friday when 15 young people announced their plans to sue the federal government because of the impac...

Oct 25, 2019

Jody Wilson-Raybould should use social media to amplify her voice: experts

VANCOUVER - In the early years of Confederation, there were members of Parliament known as "loose fish," who floated free from parties but swam back and forth between allegiances. In 1945, a cohort of...

Oct 25, 2019

Singh calls for reform of 'broken' voting system after NDP falls short in Quebec

BURNABY, B.C. - If there's any election that has highlighted how "broken" Canada's electoral system is, it's this one, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in his morning-after assessment. Monday's...

Oct 24, 2019