Category Archives: British Columbia
CPPIB investing $200 million for stake in specialty food company Premium Brands
VANCOUVER - The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has signed a deal to invest roughly $200 million in specialty food company Premium Brands Holdings Corp. Premium Brands intends to use the cash to ...
May 21, 2019
Money laundering report a wake-up call for Canada, but some provinces skeptical
VANCOUVER - The authors of a report that found $47 billion was laundered across Canada last year debated whether to include a graph that indicated Alberta, Ontario and the Prairies were hotspots for d...
May 20, 2019
Vancouver Aquarium files civil claim suing city and park board over cetacean ban
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Aquarium is suing the city and park board over the 2017 cetacean ban for breach of contract and claiming it lost millions of dollars in revenue. In May 2017 the Vancouve...
May 19, 2019
Major slides rip away north face of Joffre Peak near Pemberton, B.C.
PEMBERTON, B.C. - Two separate slides have carved large wedges out of Joffre Peak, east of Pemberton, B.C., raising safety concerns and devastating climbers and skiers who frequent...
May 19, 2019
New B.C. museum policy highlights return of Indigenous remains, artifacts
VANCOUVER - Letters to Scotland sent by a woman from the small settlement of Victoria around 1850 gave Dianne Hinkley more insight into why the bones of her ancestor...
May 19, 2019
Former B.C. polygamous leader guilty in taking child bride to United States
CRANBROOK, B.C. - There's "no room for doubt" that a former leader in a religious sect that practises polygamy in Bountiful, B.C., knew that an underage girl who he removed from Canada to be...
May 19, 2019
Carbon monoxide poisonings at Salmon Arm campground leave one dead, another hospitalized
SALMON ARM - Earlier today, a Salmon Arm campground was struck with tragedy at the start of the May long weekend. RCMP have confirmed one person is dead and a child has been hospitalized following car...
May 18, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
B.C. legislature clerk retires; report says benefits wrongly claimed
VICTORIA - A spending scandal that shook British Columbia's legislature came to a partial conclusion Thursday with the abrupt retirement of the clerk and the suspended sergeant-at-arms asking for...
May 18, 2019
Vernon golf resort launches tourism campaign to woo Albertans west
VERNON, B.C. - With the May long weekend just around the corner, Okanagan tourism operators are hoping to see the usual large contingent of visitors from Alberta.However, there is some concern that re...
May 17, 2019 Image Credit: Predator Ridge
Shuswap SAR recovers hiker's body near Sicamous
SICAMOUS, B.C. - Shuswap Search and Rescue recovered the body of a hiker who was found dead above the Sicamous Creek Falls.According to a news release sent by the Sicamous RCMP, search and rescue cond...
May 17, 2019 Image Credit: Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
