Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has rejected an application to exclude the father of a murdered 13-year-old girl fromlistening in remotely to post-trial proceedings. The girl was fo...

SURREY, B.C. - Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government will establish mandatory minimum prison sentences for people convicted of extortion. The opposition leader says extortion-related crime h...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's premier says Selina Robinson, who resigned as post-secondary education minister recently over Mideast comments, has received a death threat. David Eby called the action i...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada will be in no rush to cut interest rates after Statistics Canada reported a larger-than-expected employment gain last month, economists say. The federal agency's labour for...

VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. reported fourth-quarter net income attributable to common shares of $288 million, up from $248 million a year earlier. The company says the profit amounted to 20 cents per shar...

VANCOUVER - Progressive and LGBTQ+ groups say they've been excluded from Vancouver's Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown this weekend, with one of their representatives saying they were told it was bec...

COURTENAY, B.C. - The president of the company buying 21 B.C. radio stations from Bell Media says there won't be any closures or layoffs. Vista Radio president Bryan Edwards says the stations have a t...

VANCOUVER - Puberty blockers have been in the spotlight since Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced plans last week to ban the medications for children 15 and younger, unless they have already star...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - Premier David Eby says the first purchase using the government's Rental Protection Fund will save 290 affordable rental units in two housing co-ops that have expired leases and were ...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - B.C.'s average snowpack is almost 40 per cent lower than normal, raising concerns about what Premier David Eby says are "some of the most dramatic drought conditions that have been s...