Category Archives: British Columbia
Energy, trade investments 'imperative' in rocky times: Canada Infrastructure Bank CEO
The head of the Canada Infrastructure Bank says the power and export-enabling projects the Crown corporation backs are more crucial than ever as trade tumult intensifies with the United States. "In th...
Mar 04, 2025
Disrupting the Peace: On a B.C. ranch, fracking earthquakes rattle a way of life
Bo Hedges' parents have lived on their ranch north of Fort St. John, B.C., for close to 50 years, running the Dead Horse Creek Cattle Company on the property where a natural spring bubbles up near the...
Mar 04, 2025
B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey on track to deliver budget as Trump slaps tariffs
VICTORIA - One day before delivering her first budget, British Columbia's finance minister said she knows that everyone is wondering how it can be done in the face of unprecedented tariffs from the Un...
Mar 04, 2025
'All bets are off': B.C. pulls liquor, changes procurement after U.S. tariffs
British Columbia Premier David Eby says the province and the country is strong enough to weather the storm in the threat to Canada's sovereignty coming from a former friend. Eby took the unusual step ...
Mar 04, 2025
Vancouver home sales fall as market conditions more balanced in February: board
VANCOUVER - Home sales declined in the Vancouver area last month, as the city's real estate board says market conditions were in balanced territory amid a moderate increase in new listings. Greater Va...
Mar 04, 2025
B.C. budget to buffer province against Trump's 'uncertainty and disorder': minister
VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister is preparing to deliver a budget today that she says will brace the province against four years of "uncertainty and disorder" amid the U.S. presidency of...
Mar 04, 2025
B.C. ‘Dune: Part Two’ VFX supervisor Stephen James ‘in a daze’ after winning Oscar
For British Columbia visual effects supervisor Stephen James, winning an Oscar for his work on "Dune: Part Two" felt something like getting swept up in the swirling sandstorms of Arrakis. "It's one of...
Mar 03, 2025
One dead after Langley, B.C., explosion that may have been caused by drug lab: police
LANGLEY, B.C. - A spokesman for the RCMP in Langley, B.C., has confirmed that one person has been found dead inside a house destroyed in an explosion on Friday. Sgt. Zynal Sharoom says in a news relea...
Mar 03, 2025
U.S. plans to nearly triple anti-dumping duty on Canadian softwood as tariffs loom
VANCOUVER - The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced it's planning to almost triple the anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber, bringing total levies to almost 27 per cent even before th...
Mar 03, 2025
Another earthquake shakes awake some British Columbians
An earthquake has shaken awake some B.C. residents, the latest in a series of tremors for the province. Earthquakes Canada says the 4.1 magnitude earthquake was detected at 5:02 a.m. PST roughly 44 ki...
Mar 03, 2025