Category Archives: British Columbia

Nav Canada warns to expect flight delays at Vancouver International Airport
RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports is warning travellers at Vancouver's airport of flight delays over what it says are "resource constraints." Nav Canada say...
Apr 16, 2025

BC Health Coalition urges province to end contract with U.S. owner of LifeLabs
VICTORIA - A public health advocacy group is urging the British Columbia government to end a contract with an American company that owns LifeLabs, the province's main provider of outpatient lab servic...
Apr 16, 2025

Gas firm says a contractor is dead in a gas plant fire near Fort St. John, B.C.
FORT ST. JOHN - A contractor has been killed and another person hurt in a fire in a gas plant north of Fort St. John, B.C. Alberta-based Tourmaline Oil, which runs the Gundy oil and gas extraction fac...
Apr 15, 2025

B.C. changes law to stop employers from asking for 'unnecessary' doctor sick notes
VICTORIA - British Columbia is changing its employment standards legislation to stop employers from asking employees for what the labour minister says are "unnecessary" sick notes. Jennifer Whiteside ...
Apr 15, 2025

B.C. accepting only 1,100 new immigrant applications, nominations to focus on health
The British Columbia government says the odds of new applications from immigrants looking to be accepted into its nominee program this year have dropped to near zero for anyone other than health worke...
Apr 15, 2025

First Nation launches challenge of B.C.'s approval to raise Mount Polley mine dam
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia First Nation has filed a legal challenge over the plan to allow the Mount Polley mine to raise its tailings dam a decade after a similar storage site at the mine gave wa...
Apr 15, 2025

Man accused of three sexual assaults on transit faces charges: police
NEW WESTMINSTER - The British Columbia Prosecution Service has approved charges relating to three alleged sexual assaults on Metro Vancouver's transit system. A statement from the region's Transit Pol...
Apr 15, 2025

First Nations Health Authority backs harm reduction on B.C. overdose anniversary
WEST VANCOUVER - The top doctor at British Columbia's First Nations Health Authority says deaths from toxic drugs may have dipped, but now is not the time to pull back on life-saving measures, especia...
Apr 14, 2025

Loaded dump truck impounded in B.C. after driver found intoxicated, police say
CHILLIWACK - The British Columbia Highway Patrol says a loaded dump truck is sitting in an impound, while the driver faces allegations of impairment. Officers received a call about the truck being dri...
Apr 14, 2025

B.C. civil liberties group joins Supreme Court challenge of N.L. COVID restrictions
ST. JOHN'S - The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is intervening in a Supreme Court of Canada case this week examining the constitutionality of Newfoundland and Labrador's COVID-19 pandemi...
Apr 14, 2025