Category Archives: British Columbia
Government launches time change survey
KAMLOOPS - You can have a say in determining the fate of Daylight Saving Time (DST) in British Columbia. The provincial government is asking residents to participate in an online survey on how time is...
Jun 24, 2019 Image Credit: Creativeimpression / Dreamstime.com
Engine shutdown forces Air Canada flight back to Vancouver; lands without issues
VANCOUVER - An engine shutdown is being blamed for an Air Canada flight to Alaska being forced to return to Vancouver on the weekend. The airline says the Airbus A320 had left Vancouver ...
Jun 24, 2019
Lawyers urge Canada to stop Chinese exec's extradition to U.S. on fraud charges
VANCOUVER - Defence lawyers for a senior Huawei executive have asked Canada's foreign affairs minister to stop the extradition process against their client, saying the request made by the Un...
Jun 24, 2019
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
VICTORIA - The government approval of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion won't stop efforts in British Columbia to halt the project, protesters gathered outside Victoria's city hall said Saturday. ...
Jun 24, 2019
Artists, politicians reflect on reconciliation as cedar poles unveiled in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Musqueam artist William Dan says a welcome figure he carved from centuries-old cedar represents a homecoming for him, after a childhood lost to residential school and decades spent aw...
Jun 23, 2019
Rock climber suffers fatal fall near Squamish
SQUAMISH, B.C. - Police say a rock climber fell to his death yesterday while scaling the Stawamus Chief mountain that towers over Squamish, B.C.Mounties in the town north of Vancouver say they receive...
Jun 23, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Invasive goldfish found in B.C. lake, biologists act to stop spread to watershed
VICTORIA - Recreational fishing in a lake in northwestern British Columbia is being shut down after the discovery of invasive goldfish. The Ministry of Natural Resource Operations says ...
Jun 22, 2019
Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death
VICTORIA - Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest Thursday about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was...
Jun 22, 2019
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
VICTORIA - Indigenous drummers in British Columbia are leading an anti-pipeline protest along a 22-kilometre route today that passes through Victoria and ends at a beach south of the city. Hundreds of...
Jun 22, 2019
B.C. imposes interim moratorium on resource development to protect caribou
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government announced an interim moratorium on resource development in parts of the south Peace region on Thursday, giving itself more time to sign a long-ter...
Jun 22, 2019
