Category Archives: British Columbia
Canfor Corp. reports $117-million loss in fourth quarter after 'challenging' 2023
VANCOUVER - Canfor Corp. says it lost $117.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, a smaller loss than $207.9 million a year earlier. The Vancouver-based company says sales totalled $1.28 billion, do...
Mar 05, 2024
B.C. ombudsperson calls rules that allow private roads to be made public 'unjust'
VICTORIA - British Columbia's ombudsperson says a decades-old portion of the Transportation Act has holes big enough that a logging truck could drive through. Jay Chalke says it's "unjust" that a sect...
Mar 05, 2024
B.C. introduces legislation to reduce poverty rate by 60 per cent over next decade
VICTORIA - British Columbia's government says it is setting 10-year targets to substantially reduce poverty in the province, with a focus on lifting children and seniors above the poverty line. Sheila...
Mar 05, 2024
WorkSafeBC says no injuries in fourth crane accident in Metro Vancouver
VANCOUVER - There has been another crane accident in Metro Vancouver, in what B.C.'s workers' safety agency says is the fourth such incident this year. WorkSafeBC says the latest incident happened Mon...
Mar 05, 2024
Man arrested in Port Moody, B.C., after driving car into sea for video livestream
PORT MOODY, B.C. - Police in Port Moody, B.C., say a man may be charged after he allegedly drove his vehicle into the sea as part of a livestreamed video. Const. Sam Zacharias says in a release that o...
Mar 05, 2024
B.C.'s securities watchdog fined rule breakers $430M. Why can't it make them pay?
VANCOUVER - Ronald McHaffie said he had big plans to build a ski resort near Hope, 150 km east of Vancouver, ahead of the 2010 Olympics. He cut an unlikely figure, with a Grizzly Adams beard and no hi...
Mar 05, 2024
Longtime B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman won't seek re-election in fall vote
VICTORIA - British Columbia's longtime Environment Minister George Heyman says he's decided not to run in this fall's provincial election. Seventy-four-year-old Heyman says in a social media post that...
Mar 04, 2024
One killed in B.C. avalanche near Revelstoke as warning extended to Thursday
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - An avalanche in British Columbia's Interior has killed a snow biker near Revelstoke as warnings of persisting danger are extended by the forecaster. Avalanche Canada says the fatal ...
Mar 04, 2024
TSX ticks lower Monday, U.S. stock markets back off from last week's highs
TORONTO - Canada's main stock index ticked lower on Monday, weighed down by weakness in energy stocks, while U.S. markets also eased from the highs they hit last week. The S&P/TSX composite index ...
Mar 04, 2024
B.C. Supreme Court approves $14.4-million settlement of iPhone class-action lawsuit
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a group of iPhone owners says a British Columbia judge has approved a countrywide multimillion-dollar settlement with tech giant Apple over software updates that allegedly slo...
Mar 04, 2024