Category Archives: British Columbia

USMA under pressure
Pressure is mounting on the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council to speak publicly about the deaths of children in care. Both 6-year old Dontay Lucas and 19 month old Sherry Charlie were in the care of NTC's...
Jan 22, 2024

Weekend mediation fails to avert transit strike, paralyzing bus and SeaBus service
Vancouverites who rely on the bus or the SeaBus for their morning commute are set to be met with picket lines Monday morning after weekend negotiations between transit supervisors and the Coast Mounta...
Jan 22, 2024

Union warns SkyTrain could shut down too as deadline for Vancouver bus strike looms
VANCOUVER - The union representing SkyTrain employees in Metro Vancouver says it's prepared to shut down all services Monday in solidarity with bus supervisors as a deadline to resolve a dispute with ...
Jan 21, 2024

Burnaby, B.C., fire crews responded to 'industrial incident' Sunday at refinery
VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver says it received about a 100 complaints about a noxious smell wafting across the Lower Mainland on Sunday, prompting the regional federation of municipalities to issue an a...
Jan 21, 2024

Ottawa's Rideau Canal Skateway opening scaled back and delayed to Sunday afternoon
OTTAWA - Skaters eager to hit the ice on Ottawa's iconic Rideau Canal will have to wait a few hours longer and will have a shorter stretch to glide on than previously expected. The National Capital Co...
Jan 21, 2024

Vancouver's Bar Haifa is a 'love letter' to co-owners' Jewish and Palestinian roots
VANCOUVER - The collaborators behind restaurants in Vancouver and Toronto have Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli roots, and acknowledge they don't always agree. "Imagine 38 tastings for a falafel, and t...
Jan 21, 2024

All eyes on the BoC this week for any hints on when it plans to cut interest rates
OTTAWA - As the Bank of Canada gears up to announce its next interest rate decision Wednesday, economists will be on the lookout for any clues on when it plans to start cutting interest rates. Overall...
Jan 21, 2024

That tune coming from an old mine in B. C.? It's probably a bat, singing a love song
VANCOUVER - The high-pitched tweets, trills and chirps sound like the chorus of birds in the treetops. But the songs documented in new research emanate from sites including abandoned mines in British ...
Jan 20, 2024

Human remains found after Osoyoos, B.C., mobile home fire, RCMP say
OSOYOOS, B.C. - Mounties in Osoyoos say first responders have found human remains at the scene of a mobile home fire in the British Columbia Interior city. They say Osoyoos Fire Rescue and the RCMP we...
Jan 19, 2024

B.C. trawlers dump thousands of salmon, depleting orcas' food source: wildlife group
VICTORIA - A British Columbia wildlife protection group says tens of thousands of chinook salmon are being dumped overboard or turned into compost by a commercial fishery that is threatening a primary...
Jan 19, 2024