British Columbia

Lululemon surpasses US$6B annual sales; Q4 profits up 32 per cent to US$434.5 million

VANCOUVER - Lululemon Athletica Inc. capped an exceptional year in which it surpassed US$6 billion in revenues for the first time, with net profits growing nearly 32 per cent in the fourth quarter. Th...

Mar 29, 2022

B.C. manages cybersecurity risks posed by staff working from home: audit

VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says the government has effective tools in place to manage cybersecurity risks that could arise from an increase in public service employees working from ...

Mar 29, 2022

Trudeau to visit B.C. First Nation in 'path to healing' after graves discovery

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the discovery of unmarked graves at residential school sites has highlighted for all Canadians the horrors of our past for which we all bear some respons...

Mar 29, 2022

B.C.'s children's rep says funding practices for Indigenous child welfare are flawed

VICTORIA - British Columbia's representative for children and youth says the system of funding child welfare services for Indigenous kids is "deeply flawed" and there's an urgent need to overhaul prac...

Mar 29, 2022

B.C. doctor alleged to be opposed to COVID-19 regulations suspended during probe

VANCOUVER - The College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia says it has suspended a doctor from practising while it completes an investigation into allegations that he circumvented COVID-19...

Mar 29, 2022

Man jailed for pointing handgun at teens near Departure Bay Beach

NANAIMO - Four teens planning to film a TikTok video flipped the script by instead phoning police, resulting in an 18-month jail sentence against the accused.Darian Scott Rogers, 27, pleaded guilty to...

Mar 29, 2022

Man charged with attempted murder after officer in Kelowna, B.C., was stabbed

KELOWNA, B.C. - A 39-year-old man faces numerous charges, including attempted murder, for allegations he stabbed an RCMP officer from Kelowna, B.C. Richard McCrea is also accused of aggravated assault...

Mar 28, 2022

No new health-care facility outbreaks declared in B.C.

VICTORIA - Six more people have died of COVID-19 in British Columbia, bringing the death toll to 2,989 since the pandemic began. The Health Ministry says hospitalizations due to the virus have increas...

Mar 28, 2022

Attempted murder charge laid after attack on Kelowna Mountie

An attempted murder charge has been laid after the stabbing of a Mountie in Kelowna over the weekend.Police say the officer received a serious stab wound above the eye during the incident Saturday, Ma...

Mar 28, 2022

Cooling-off period won't ease B.C.'s real estate affordability crunch, says expert

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says people buying homes in the province's hot real estate market could soon be protected by a cooling-off period that gives them time to back out of an agre...

Mar 28, 2022