Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. announces $19 million in funding to Forests Ministry to fight climate change
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's forests minister says both sides on the issue of old-growth logging in the province are so polarized they "can't see the forest for the trees." Katrine Conroy told those...
Apr 28, 2022
Province funding new child care facility at Kelowna Airport
A new child care facility is ready to take off at Kelowna International Airport.The province has announced $3 million for the Kelowna Airport YMCA Child Care facility from the ChildCare BC New Spaces ...
Apr 28, 2022
Vancouver council hiking empty homes tax to 5 per cent of assessed value in 2023
Vancouver is raising the tax that prods owners of empty homes to rent their vacant properties in order to help ease the city's low vacancy rate. Councillors have unanimously backed a motion from Mayor...
Apr 28, 2022
B.C. raises forest revenue sharing amounts for First Nations in reconciliation move
VICTORIA - First Nations in British Columbia will receive a $63 million increase in forestry income this year as part of a new revenue-sharing model that Indigenous leaders say is an encouraging step ...
Apr 27, 2022
Census shows apartment growth, but supply remains the main issue in B.C.: experts
VANCOUVER - Demand for housing in British Columbia still far outstrips supply, experts say, even as the latest census figures show growth in the number of homes was higher than the increase in populat...
Apr 27, 2022
Teck Resources reports record first-quarter profit, boosted by commodity prices
VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. beat expectations as it reported a record first-quarter profit attributable to shareholders of $1.57 billion, up from $305 million a year ago, boosted by high commodity...
Apr 27, 2022
Canada Post temporarily resumes mail delivery in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER - Canada Post has temporarily resumed delivery to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, more than a month after it stopped bringing mail to a two-block area where it says workers had safety concern...
Apr 26, 2022
Singer-songwriter remembered as selfless, dies at age 73 in B.C. hospital
VANCOUVER - Canadian singer-songwriter Susan Jacks, who lit up the airwaves with her band's 1969 smash hit "Which Way You Goin' Billy?" has died at age 73 while awaiting a second kidney transplant. Ja...
Apr 26, 2022
Fraud risk management at B.C.'s $16-billion Site C dam project can improved: auditor
VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says Crown-owned BC Hydro can improve its management of potential fraud risks at the $16 billion Site C dam project. Michael Pickup says an audit found th...
Apr 26, 2022
Lack of fairness, reasons prompts Federal Court to set aside B.C. fish farm phase-out
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has set aside a Department of Fisheries order that would have phased out fish farming in British Columbia's Discovery Islands. Federal Court Judge Elizabeth Heneghan ...
Apr 26, 2022