British Columbia

BC Hydro asks for 2.3% rate increase to start spring 2024

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says the province's Crown power utility is applying for a 2.3-per-cent rate increase starting in April, adding about $2 a month to the average residential bi...

Oct 30, 2023

Fiscal and monetary policy rowing in opposite directions, Macklem says

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem says fiscal and monetary policy are rowing in opposite directions, making it harder to bring inflation down. Macklem is appearing before MPs on the House ...

Oct 30, 2023

B.C. raises pay $2 per hour for daycare workers at licensed facilities

VICTORIA - Daycare workers at British Columbia's licensed child-care facilities will receive a $2-per-hour pay increase starting Jan. 1. Grace Lore, B.C.'s minister of state for child care, says in a ...

Oct 30, 2023

Health professionals, not police should care for intoxicated prisoners: B.C. watchdog

SURREY, B.C. - The head of British Columbia's police watchdog says caring for intoxicated prisoners is a health-care issue and shouldn't be a police responsibility. A report released by Ronald J. MacD...

Oct 30, 2023

B.C. non-profits to receive $60 million from government to help with their work: Eby

VICTORIA - Certain non-profit organizations in British Columbia are getting $60 million from the government in grant funding to help them do their work. Premier David Eby says the help of non-profits ...

Oct 30, 2023

B.C. coalition seeks 'critical' crackdown on violent retail crime

VANCOUVER - A group of more than 30 British Columbia retailers, trade associations and other organizations is calling for a co-ordinated government response for repeat offenders they say are behind a ...

Oct 30, 2023

Teck Resources president and COO Harry Conger to retire Wednesday

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. says Harry (Red) Conger will retire as president and chief operating officer, effective Wednesday. He is also expected to step down from Teck's board of directors at th...

Oct 30, 2023

Disabled B.C. man forced to drag himself off flight says he's pushing for changes

PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - A disabled British Columbia man who dragged himself off an Air Canada flight in Las Vegas after the airline's ground assistance personnel were not available to help him says he d...

Oct 29, 2023

Sikh independence vote takes place in B.C. amid Canada-India tensions

SURREY, B.C. - Thousands of Sikh voters are expected to turn out today in the Metro Vancouver municipality of Surrey, to vote in an unofficial referendum at the centre of Canada's ongoing tensions wit...

Oct 29, 2023

Police watchdog asks Crown to consider charges against officers in B.C. shooting

SURREY, B.C. - Investigators with British Columbia's independent police watchdog probing the shooting death of a man more than two years ago are asking the province's prosecution service to consider c...

Oct 28, 2023