Category Archives: British Columbia

22-year-old woman dies in slack-line fall north of Vancouver
SQUAMISH - A 22-year-old woman is dead after a fatal slack-line incident at a recreation area north of Vancouver. Squamish RCMP say they received a report on Friday afternoon of a female falling from ...
May 22, 2025

Steve Rai appointed Vancouver's new police chief after filling job in interim role
VANCOUVER - Vancouver has a new police chief, with the appointment of Steve Rai to the role he has already been filling on an interim basis. Mayor Ken Sim says Rai brings more than three decades of ex...
May 22, 2025

B.C. First Nations fear protests and conflict over fast-track legislation
First Nations leaders in British Columbia say proposed legislation to fast-track resource projects will likely lead to protests and litigation should the provincial government push the law through. Ro...
May 22, 2025

Vancouver police say Downtown Eastside crime dropping after adoption of task force
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver have released new data they say depicts the success of a task force launched three months ago to curb crime in the city's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. The data corr...
May 22, 2025

Vancouver consolidating festival attack memorials, but advocates say it's too soon
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver has started work to consolidate temporary memorials near the site of the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack, but an advocacy group says it's too soon. Workers at one memor...
May 22, 2025

Vancouver Island land returned to Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes
VICTORIA - A stretch of culturally significant land in the Cowichan Valley has been returned to the Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes communities. The British Columbia government says the retu...
May 22, 2025

B.C. Crown counsel group files workload grievance, says staff shortages slow justice
VANCOUVER - The BC Crown Counsel Association says it has filed a formal workload grievance against the BC Prosecution Service over what it calls "inadequate staffing" in its Okanagan and Kootenay offi...
May 22, 2025

Western premiers to finish talks on trade, Arctic security in Yellowknife
YELLOWKNIFE - Premiers from Western Canada are scheduled to wrap up a two-day conference in Yellowknife. The annual meeting of leaders from British Columbia, the Prairie provinces and the northern ter...
May 22, 2025

B.C. seen as 'final frontier' for federal NDP as leadership question looms
VICTORIA - Kelowna resident and former federal NDP candidate Cade Desjarlais sees the party in "disarray." Desjarlais, who ran for the NDP in Kelowna-Lake Country in 2021 but voted for the successful ...
May 22, 2025

Most Canadians feel attached to their home, though only half trust governments: poll
OTTAWA - Most Canadians feel attached to their country, province and municipality but only about half of them trust their governments, a new poll suggests. The Leger survey, which polled 1,537 Canadia...
May 22, 2025