Category Archives: British Columbia

Liberals could ask Bank of Canada to stop hiking interest rates: NDP
OTTAWA - The New Democrats say the federal government should follow the lead of British Columbia's premier and ask the Bank of Canada to stop raising interest rates. Premier David Eby wrote to Bank of...
Sep 06, 2023

A football coach who got job back after Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field has resigned
BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) - A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field resigned Wednesday after just one game back....
Sep 06, 2023

Rental of B.C. school for Sikh referendum vote is cancelled by district
SURREY, B.C. - Organizers of a Sikh community referendum on Punjabi independence say they've received a "slap in the face" from a British Columbia school district that cancelled their rental of a scho...
Sep 06, 2023

Children's Ministry refuses to compensate youth it misinformed: B.C. Ombudsperson
VICTORIA - British Columbia's government is refusing to pay a young woman for its own mistakes and the provincial ombudsperson says she may not be the only one harmed. Jay Chalke says the Ministry of ...
Sep 06, 2023

Honorary Oscars event celebrating Angela Bassett, Mel Brooks pushed back amid Hollywood strikes
Angela Bassett is going to have to wait a little bit longer to get her Oscar. The 14th Governors Awards has been delayed from November until January, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences sa...
Sep 06, 2023

Sofia Coppola's Priscilla Presley biopic to play Vancouver film festival
VANCOUVER - Sofia Coppola's buzzworthy biopic "Priscilla," about a young Priscilla Presley's budding romance with music superstar Elvis, is headed to this year's Vancouver International Film Festival....
Sep 06, 2023

Jeff Daniels looks back with stories and music in new Audible audio memoir 'Alive and Well Enough'
NEW YORK (AP) - Jeff Daniels tackles his life and career in an absorbing, unconventional way this month with a music- and skit-filled audio memoir from Audible that he calls "a little bit like a one-m...
Sep 06, 2023

Alberta's 'war room' is back with massive ad spend revealed in annual report
EDMONTON - New documents outline a massive increase in public funding for the Canadian Energy Centre's campaign to change attitudes toward Alberta's oil and gas. An agency founded by Alberta's United ...
Sep 06, 2023

Bank of Canada to announce interest rate decision this morning
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is set to announce its interest rate decision this morning as forecasters widely anticipate the central bank will hold its key lending rate steady. Canada's inflation rate ...
Sep 06, 2023

B.C. residents tour wildfire razing in area that has 'changed dramatically:' district
Some residents of one of the regions most devastated by wildfires in British Columbia will be touring the burned-out site today. The Columbia Shuswap Regional District says in a statement that "some a...
Sep 06, 2023