Category Archives: British Columbia

Pandemic dog boom ends, SPCA shelters seeing impacts
VERNON - The spike in dog ownership during the pandemic has reached the end of its leash, leaving breeders with more puppies than they can find homes for.It is a sad, but predictable development with ...
Feb 09, 2023

Telus reports fourth-quarter profit down from year ago, revenue up
VANCOUVER - Telus Corp. reported its fourth-quarter profit fell compared with a year ago as its revenue climbed higher. The company says its net income attributable to common shares totalled $248 mill...
Feb 09, 2023

Urban search and rescue team from Burnaby, B.C., deploys to quake zone in Turkey
VANCOUVER - A team of urban search and rescue specialists from British Columbia has deployed to Turkey's earthquake zone after independently offering to help with what one Turkish official described a...
Feb 08, 2023

Devastation in Turkey echoes past quakes and offers B.C. lessons: profs
VANCOUVER - The earthquake that ravaged Turkey and Syria this week offers both lessons and warnings for people in British Columbia as images emerge of the human devastation and costly damage, Canadian...
Feb 08, 2023

B.C. forecasts more than one million jobs over next decade, health, tech key areas
VICTORIA - More than one million jobs will need to be filled in British Columbia in the next decade, and a labour outlook says about two-thirds of them will be needed to replace workers retiring. The ...
Feb 08, 2023

Tug company, senior official charged in fatal 2021 sinking off northwest B.C. coast
PRINCE RUPERT, B.C. - Charges have now been laid against a tug and barge company and one of its senior officials two years after a tug sank off British Columbia's coasts south of Kitimat, killing the ...
Feb 08, 2023

Vancouver's Turkish community unites to collect donations for quake survivors
VANCOUVER - Donations are pouring into a Vancouver warehouse for those affected by Monday's devastating earthquake in Turkey, but a volunteer organizer says the country could most benefit from profess...
Feb 08, 2023

B.C. minister says her cancer has returned, but she's 'confident' in treatment
VICTORIA - British Columbia's minister of post-secondary education says she is undergoing chemotherapy after a scan revealed cancer had returned. Selina Robinson told the B.C. legislature that she got...
Feb 07, 2023

Turpel-Lafond returns second honorary degree after being told of identity review
VICTORIA - Royal Roads University says it has accepted the return of an honorary doctorate from retired judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, who was the subject of a CBC investigation about her claims of I...
Feb 07, 2023

West Fraser Timber Co. to temporarily curtail operations at Quesnel, B.C., mill
VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. says it's curtailing operations at Cariboo Pulp & Paper in Quesnel, B.C., beginning in mid-April for one month and then for another month in the third quarter. T...
Feb 07, 2023