Category Archives: British Columbia
First atmospheric river of fall season to bring heavy rains on B.C. election day
Environment Canada is ramping up rainfall warnings in British Columbia, where Vancouver Island, metro Vancouver and the coastal regions of the province are bracing for major downpours through the week...
Oct 19, 2024
Where will B.C.'s election be won or lost? Here are five bellwether ridings to watch
British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he's watching as indicators of ...
Oct 19, 2024
B.C. voters face a once-unthinkable election choice, after stunning rise of Rustad
VANCOUVER - The choice facing British Columbians in the provincial election today would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of t...
Oct 19, 2024
Lawyer for family members of Pickton's victims wants copy of killer's 'tell all book'
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver lawyer representing families of the victims of serial killer Robert Pickton says he'll be asking for a copy of a "tell all book" seized from Pickton's cell after he died follow...
Oct 18, 2024
Testy B.C. election campaign sees leaders attacking each other more than policy
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's election campaign enters its final day in what is viewed as a too-close-to-call contest where David Eby's New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives led by John Rustad deb...
Oct 18, 2024
Weather warnings issued as atmospheric river approaches B.C. coast
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued several rainfall warnings for British Columbia, covering much of Vancouver Island and the coastal regions as the first atmospheric river of the season approac...
Oct 18, 2024
Housing, health, and plastic straws: Here's how B.C. politicians are wooing voters
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's political party leaders have spent the 28-day provincial election campaign wooing voters with promises on critical issues including health care, housing, the cost of liv...
Oct 18, 2024
India again rejects Canada's claims it works with gangs targeting Sikh separatists
OTTAWA - India's foreign ministry says Canada is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims its government officials have worked with criminal gangs in the extortion, c...
Oct 17, 2024
Three teenage girls charged in violent B.C. transit attacks
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Three teenage girls have been charged with assault after two separate violent attacks took place on Metro Vancouver's transit system. Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the ass...
Oct 17, 2024
Supreme Court won't hear spy service analyst's appeal over discrimination case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case of a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency. It is the latest legal...
Oct 17, 2024