Category Archives: British Columbia

Impact of Trump tariffs on Metro Vancouver real estate likely short-lived: report
VANCOUVER - A residential market sales forecast by Greater Vancouver Realtors says the impact of possible tariffs from the United States would likely be short-lived. The annual report from the associa...
Jan 17, 2025

Below-seasonal temperatures coming to B.C., but warmer than 2024 cold snap
VANCOUVER - Below-seasonal temperatures are expected in parts of British Columbia this weekend, a year after a bitter cold snap that sent wind-chill temperatures plummeting to -20 C in Metro Vancouver...
Jan 17, 2025

Mother orca still pushing body of dead calf off Vancouver Island, 10 days after death
VICTORIA - A mother killer whale whose calf died more than two weeks ago has recently been spotted still carrying the newborn's carcass in waters off Victoria. The Center for Whale Research says in a ...
Jan 16, 2025

George Pearson long-term care home gets new name over his anti-Japanese views
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Coastal Health authority says it has changed the name of a long-term care home that was named after George Pearson, a B.C. politician who stoked anti-Japanese sentiment durin...
Jan 16, 2025

Ottawa provides $117M for drought resilience on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast
SECHELT, B.C. - The federal government is providing $117 million to help solve what it describes as the "heightening water crisis" due to drought on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, where the Sechel...
Jan 16, 2025

Three Port Alberni, B.C. men face charges of sex offences, trafficking of minors
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - Three men from Port Alberni, B.C., have been charged with sexual offences on minors, including trafficking of youth under 18 years old. RCMP say its general investigations unit st...
Jan 16, 2025

Inquest told interactions with caretaker in B.C. woman's death challenging at times
BURNABY, B.C. - A former co-ordinator at the homecare organization overseeing Florence Girard's care says interactions with the woman's caretaker grew more challenging before Girard's starvation death...
Jan 16, 2025

Eby calls Trump tariffs 'economic war' that would cost B.C. $69 billion
British Columbia Premier David Eby says U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has made a "declaration of economic war" on Canada and B.C. with his proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods. Eby and F...
Jan 16, 2025

Vancouver backyard chickens practise social distancing from wild birds amid H5N1 risk
VANCOUVER - Lumpy Eye the chicken has made plenty of friends in her East Vancouver neighbourhood over the years, said owner Duncan Martin, with passersby regularly greeting her in the yard outside the...
Jan 16, 2025

Victoria police use-of-force data show Indigenous 'overrepresentation'
The Victoria Police Department has released race-based data showing an "overrepresentation" of Indigenous people in cases involving police use of force over a six-year period. But the force says the o...
Jan 15, 2025