Category Archives: British Columbia
West Fraser Timber earnings decline due to inflation, supply chain pressures
VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. says its earnings declined to $216 million in the third quarter of 2022, as inflationary cost pressures and slowing demand for the company's products took a bite out...
Oct 26, 2022
Funeral march and service at Olympic Oval for Const. Shaelyn Yang: RCMP
VANCOUVER - Mounties say a regimental funeral will be held next Wednesday for British Columbia RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang. The 31-year-old officer was stabbed to death last week in a Metro Vancouver par...
Oct 26, 2022
Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after temperature records and drought
VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of d...
Oct 26, 2022
Lengthy pandemic closure ends for B.C. park straddling Washington state border
VANCOUVER - One of British Columbia's last remaining COVID-19 closures has finally been lifted. Peace Arch Provincial Park, the nine-hectare park that straddles the B.C.-Washington state border south ...
Oct 26, 2022
B.C. woman grateful for breast milk donations wants to give back
VANCOUVER - A smooth pregnancy had Cindy Li dreaming of motherhood. But when she suddenly started bleeding at 32 weeks, her baby boy arrived early and needed breast milk that she couldn't produce. Li ...
Oct 25, 2022
Vancouver council approves UN declaration on Indigenous rights strategy
Vancouver council has passed an Indigenous rights strategy that it says will make the city a national and world leader in implementing a plan towards reconciliation. The strategy is based on the Unite...
Oct 25, 2022
Police officer no-shows at B.C. Indigenous ceremony lead to tense moments, comments
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - An Indigenous ceremony dedicated to healing from traumatic events instead set off accusations against Vancouver's police department of systemic racism that threatens to stall the r...
Oct 25, 2022
Three new B.C. Supreme Court judges in Vancouver, another raised to appeal court
VANCOUVER - The federal government has appointed three new judges to the British Columbia Supreme Court and raised another to the B.C. Court of Appeal. A statement from the Department of Justice says ...
Oct 25, 2022
Eco-activist David Suzuki to retire from CBC’s ‘The Nature of Things’ in the spring
VANCOUVER - Eco-activist David Suzuki says it's time for him to pass the mantle to a new host of CBC's "The Nature of Things." The 86-year-old environmentalist and science broadcaster said Monday that...
Oct 24, 2022
Nurses being punched, grabbed, kicked to benefit from anti-violence program: union
VANCOUVER - The B.C. government has announced a program to help reduce violence against health-care workers at 26 hospitals and mental health facilities across the province. Health Minister Adrian Dix...
Oct 24, 2022