British Columbia

A look at the studies from Israel, U.K. that informed B.C.'s second-dose delay

VANCOUVER - Studies from Israel and the United Kingdom showed that a single dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine significantly reduced COVID-19 infections, helping to guide British Columbia's decision ...

Mar 03, 2021

Demonstrators block key access to Vancouver port over jail for pipeline protester

VANCOUVER - Indigenous youth calling themselves Braided Warriors have blocked a major Vancouver intersection to protest a 90-day jail sentence handed to an anti-pipeline protester.A police spokesman s...

Mar 03, 2021

Trump comments on trade negotiations with China take centre stage in Meng case

VANCOUVER - Public comments by former U.S. president Donald Trump will take centre stage at the British Columbia Supreme Court today in the case of a Huawei executive facing extradition to the United ...

Mar 03, 2021

Auditor general raises long-running concern with B.C. government's budget accounting

VICTORIA - Auditor general Michael Pickup says he has long-running concerns with the way the British Columbia government counts the money it receives from other levels of government. Pickup outlined T...

Mar 02, 2021

Rapid response teams in place to support COVID-19 safety in B.C. schools

VICTORIA - Education Minister Jennifer Whiteside says six new rapid response teams will help schools in B.C. identify gaps in COVID-19 safety plans to help reduce exposure risk. The government says in...

Mar 02, 2021

$5.6M in funding for 'vending machines' that dispense safer drugs to prevent ODs

VANCOUVER - The federal government has provided nearly $5.6 million in funding for five vending machines that will dispense medical-grade opioids in British Columbia, Ontario and Nova Scotia, in order...

Mar 02, 2021

Ontario waits for national guidance as B.C. pushes ahead with delayed second dose

VANCOUVER - Ontario is waiting for a recommendation from the National Advisory Committee on Immunization before delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccine, while British Columbia is pushing ahead with ...

Mar 02, 2021

Homicide team joins probe into death of 11-year-old injured in his Fraser Valley home

AGASSIZ, B.C. - An autopsy is expected after the death of an 11-year-old boy severely injured several days ago at his family's home east of Vancouver. Agassiz RCMP said Monday that the Integrated Homi...

Mar 02, 2021

B.C. coroner says increased drug toxicity responsible for another OD death record

VICTORIA - British Columbia's chief coroner says deadlier street drugs are behind another grim milestone in the province's overdose crisis as a record was set for the number of deaths in January. The ...

Mar 02, 2021

Vancouver home sales up 73% year-over-year, market shifts in favour of sellers: REBGV

VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the market is heating up so fast that home sales in the region doubled between January and February and have climbed by more than 70 per cen...

Mar 02, 2021