Author Archives: James Peters

VANCOUVER - Health Minister Adrian Dix says the number of family doctors in British Columbia is increasing, but there are still almost 900,000 people without a primary care provider. He says the New D...

VANCOUVER - Views of Metro Vancouver's ski hills looming over the city are a sea of green after a winter of record-breaking warmth, sparse snow and torrential rain. Skiers and snowboarders have faced ...

TORONTO - A surge in home sales across Canada's largest markets to kick off 2024 is unlikely to prompt the Bank of Canada to delay its probable interest rate cuts later this year. The start of the yea...

VICTORIA - A national advocacy group says the Jewish community is offended and hurt by the exit of Selina Robinson from the B.C. cabinet over remarks that Israel was founded on "a crappy piece of land...

VANCOUVER - A review of prescribed safer supply programs in B.C. says the province should increase the range of drugs available to include smokable fentanyl and other substances. B.C. Provincial Healt...

SALMON ARM, B.C. - A person has died after being struck by a train in Salmon Arm. The Salmon Arm RCMP and Fire Department, Canadian Pacific Police, and B.C. Coroners Service attended an incident on th...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is spending $32 million in advancement of nuclear medicine, to operate imaging equipment for cancer diagnosis and to expand research. The announcement comes...