Category Archives: British Columbia
BC Children's prepared to double-bunk patients during busy respiratory illness season
VANCOUVER - BC Children's Hospital has approved double-bunking patients in single-occupancy rooms as it tries to cope with an influx of patients with respiratory illnesses. A memo obtained by The Cana...
Dec 12, 2022
Climate change affecting Christmas trees in B.C. and beyond: expert
VANCOUVER - The effects of climate change are taking a toll on Christmas tree farms in British Columbia and beyond, with one forestry expert saying the sector that's already shrinking and shifting wil...
Dec 11, 2022
Speed up shift to family care, says B.C. coroner's jury in death of Cree teen
BURNABY, B.C. - British Columbia's representative for children and youth says one of the messages she hopes comes out of a coroner's inquest into the death of an Indigenous teenager is the importance ...
Dec 09, 2022
B.C.'s respiratory illness surge stabilizing after deaths of six kids: disease centre
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control says a deadly spike in acute respiratory illness is showing signs of stabilizing, after the flu-related deaths of at least six children and ...
Dec 09, 2022
Advocates seek funding for free contraception in next B.C. budget
VICTORIA - A B.C. advocacy group says it's going to push the government to fulfil a promise to cover the cost of prescription contraception, and for it to be included in the next provincial budget. Th...
Dec 08, 2022
Conroy brings rural perspective to B.C.'s bottom line, may expand speculation tax
VICTORIA - Katrine Conroy says she asked to keep her old job as British Columbia's forests minister, but Premier David Eby had other ideas and now she's in charge of managing the province's purse stri...
Dec 08, 2022
Safety board says maintenance problems, blade failure led to fatal crash in B.C.
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fatal helicopter crash near Campbell River, B.C., three years ago was caused by a failure in the main rotor blades. The lone pilot, who was also...
Dec 08, 2022
Children's deaths from influenza up in B.C., with five mortalities last month
VICTORIA - At least five children died in British Columbia from influenza last month alone, a rise that comes as an early season of respiratory illnesses adds strain to the beleaguered health-care sys...
Dec 08, 2022
Katrina Chen exits B.C. cabinet, citing 'long-standing trauma,' gender-based violence
VICTORIA - Former British Columbia cabinet member Katrina Chen says she took herself out of contention for a new ministerial position in order to deal with "long-standing trauma" suffered as a result ...
Dec 07, 2022
Former Kelowna mayor charged with sexual assault
The former mayor of Kelowna has been charged with one count of sexual assault.The decision to lay the charge against Colin Basran came after an investigation by Kelowna RCMP and a review of the eviden...
Dec 07, 2022