Category Archives: British Columbia

Parts of Christina Lake evacuated due to out-of-control wildfire
CHRISTINA LAKE, B.C. - Parts of a British Columbia Interior community is under tactical evacuation due to the threat of a nearby wildfire. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary says the evacuatio...
Sep 29, 2024

Eby says more than 90 per cent of British Columbians to benefit from tax cut promise
SURREY, B.C. - New Democrat Leader David Eby says he's making a tax relief election promise that will benefit more than 90 per cent of people in British Columbia. He says the NDP would implement an an...
Sep 29, 2024

One dead, large police presence at B.C. First Nation on Vancouver Island
LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - Police on Vancouver Island say emergency response officers had to be called in to make an arrest after a man was found dead at a British Columbia First Nations community. The RCM...
Sep 29, 2024

Rustad wants B.C. Indigenous rights law repealed. Chief sees that as 40-year setback
British Columbia saw a rare unanimous vote in its legislature in October 2019, when members passed a law adopting the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, setting out stand...
Sep 29, 2024

B.C.'s NDP, Conservatives nominate full slates of candidates for Oct. 19 election
VICTORIA - Elections BC says the New Democrats and Conservatives have nominated full slates of candidates for the upcoming Oct. 19 provincial election. Elections BC says in a statement the two main pa...
Sep 28, 2024

Tentative deal reached in Metro Vancouver grain strike, federal minister says
VANCOUVER - Canada's labour minister says striking grain terminal workers in Metro Vancouver and their employers have reached a tentative labour deal. Steven MacKinnon announced the agreement between ...
Sep 28, 2024

NDP uses BC United research to mount attacks on 'crackpot' B.C. Conservatives
VICTORIA - Almost 200 pages of research on the B.C. Conservative Party, which sources within BC United confirm were compiled before the party dropped out of the British Columbia election campaign to s...
Sep 28, 2024

Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization in B.C. election campaign
VANCOUVER - When NDP Leader David Eby announced this month that the province would open "secure facilities" to provide involuntary care for people with severe drug addiction or mental health problems,...
Sep 28, 2024

Counting the cost of British Columbia's toxic drug crisis
The toxic drug crisis is one of the most contentious and widely debated issues ahead of British Columbia's provincial election on Oct. 19. Here's a look at the provincial statistics on toxic drug deat...
Sep 28, 2024

Charge approved for Vancouver police officer in 2023 pedestrian crash
VANCOUVER - The BC Prosecution Service says it has approved a charge against a Vancouver police officer over a collision with a pedestrian in 2023. The service says Sgt. William Briscoe faces a charge...
Sep 27, 2024