Category Archives: British Columbia
Aging Haida totem comes down during ceremony outside Royal B.C. Museum
VICTORIA - Dancers circled an aging totem pole that tells the story of a murdered Haida woman before it was hooked to a crane and gently lowered to the ground on Wednesday. The replica Haida mortuary ...
Jun 07, 2019
Victoria council debates asking Ottawa to help fund Remembrance Day
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps says a move to seek federal funding for the city's annual Remembrance Day events may have backfired. She says reaction to a council committee's plan to approach the Defe...
Jun 07, 2019
RCMP, border agency deny searching Huawei executive's phones, electronic devices
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency deny allegations that their officers searched Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's phones and electronic devices after a bo...
Jun 07, 2019
West Coast voyage explores remote sites visited by Spanish explorers in 1770s
VICTORIA - Two British Columbia kayakers are set to depart from a remote Vancouver Island beach known as Rugged Point on Sunday for a month-long voyage retracing the passage Spanish explorers took in ...
Jun 07, 2019
Recreational property sales down in BC
KAMLOOPS - Sales of recreational properties in B.C. have decreased more than 20 per cent in some regions over the past year.According to a report by Royal LePage, recreational property experts have sa...
Jun 06, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Extradition hearing for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou set for early next year
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Supreme Court has accepted a plan by the defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou that would see her extradition hearing begin Jan. 20, more than a year after she ...
Jun 06, 2019
Winter weather expected on Coquihalla overnight
KAMLOOPS - Highway passes in the Southern Interior will be hit with some overnight snow.Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for several highways across the province, including th...
Jun 06, 2019 Image Credit: Drive BC
Trudeau says carbon tax can help deal with extreme weather, Alberta fires
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with weather disasters such as fires in northern Alberta. Speaking in Vancouver, Trudeau said Canadians are seeing ...
Jun 06, 2019
Trudeau accepts inquiry finding of genocide, but says focus must be on response
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he accepts the finding that Canada's treatment of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. Debate has erupted over th...
Jun 06, 2019
Victoria officials confirm kitten tossed in trash ingested methamphetamine
VICTORIA - Animal control officers in Victoria now know why a kitten had balance and other issues after being found zipped in a small bag and tossed in the trash at a mall. Ian Fraser, senior animal c...
Jun 06, 2019
