Category Archives: British Columbia

Vancouver Police release video showing suspect in synagogue arson
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver have released video showing a man who is believed to have set fire to the front entrance of a synagogue last month in the hope that someone may recognize the suspect. T...
Jun 26, 2024

Centuries of stories, from some of Canada's centenarians
The Canadian Press has spent the past month interviewing some of Canada's more than 11,000 centenarians and their families. These are some of their stories. 'EVERYONE LOOKS AT YOU AS IF YOU SHOULD HAV...
Jun 26, 2024

B.C. First Nation has draft treaty after 30 years of hard work: treaty commissioner
TERRACE - The head of British Columbia's Treaty Commission says the latest draft treaty signed in the province will allow the First Nation to "break free from the shackles of the Indian Act" and take ...
Jun 25, 2024

Green MLA Olsen not running in fall B.C. election, cites mental and physical health
VICTORIA - One of the two Green Party members in British Columbia's Legislature has announced he will not seek re-election in this fall's provincial vote. Adam Olsen, who represents Saanich North and ...
Jun 25, 2024

First Nations, Ottawa, B.C., announce $335M for protection off Great Bear coast
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is working with 17 First Nations in British Columbia as well as the provincial government to expand protection for marine ecosystems off t...
Jun 25, 2024

Meet the centenarians: Canada's oldest age group is also its fastest-growing
VANCOUVER - Vi Roden said she reads an average of 50 books a year, attends history lectures at her local seniors centre, and does yoga twice a week. She's 101, and still lives in her own condo in West...
Jun 25, 2024

Five Canadians, with more than 500 years of stories
The Canadian Press has spent the past month interviewing some of Canada's more than 11,000 centenarians and their families. These are some of their stories. 'THEY HAD TO FLY IN DOCTORS TO NAIROBI' Bil...
Jun 25, 2024

BC Wildfire crews respond to 30-hectare fire, north of Lillooet
LILLOOET - The British Columbia Wildfire Service says its crews are responding to a 30-hectare wildfire billowing smoke over Highway 99 north of Lillooet. The agency says on Facebook that the Tiffen C...
Jun 24, 2024

Cannabis edges out alcohol as the most common impairing substance: driver study
FREDERICTON - A six-year analysis of more than 10,000 Canadian drivers involved in motor vehicle collisions suggests cannabis has edged out alcohol as the most common impairing substance detected thro...
Jun 24, 2024

Self-government comes for northwest B.C. First Nation in proposed treaty
TERRACE - A British Columbia First Nation has agreed to a draft treaty with the federal and provincial governments that would give it more than 38,000 hectares of land in the province's northwest. The...
Jun 24, 2024