Category Archives: British Columbia
Microsoft president pushes Vancouver-Seattle tech corridor despite NAFTA doubt
VANCOUVER - The president of Microsoft is pushing to make a Vancouver-Seattle technology corridor a success, despite the uncertainty around cross-border trade posed by the administration of U.S. Presi...
Jun 28, 2017
B.C. man says he used Facebook to express concerns, not to support terrorists
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man accused of using his Facebook account to express support of "lone wolf" terrorists in the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant says he was on social medi...
Jun 28, 2017
Man had been drinking and speeding in crash that killed B.C. Mountie: Crown
COLWOOD, B.C. - A man who sped his truck through a red light and rammed a RCMP cruiser, killing the officer inside, had a blood-alcohol level more than three times the legal limit, the Crown said Wedn...
Jun 28, 2017
Moose calf still wanders southeast B.C., after deaths of mother, sibling
FERNIE, B.C. - A search is underway for an orphaned moose calf in southeastern British Columbia that has managed to evade predators, vehicles and capture. The roughly three-week-old calf was one of tw...
Jun 28, 2017
Man accused of wanting to 'destroy' ex-wife found guilty in online harassment
VANCOUVER - A man accused of trying to emotionally ruin the life of his ex-wife using online posts showed little emotion as a B.C. Supreme Court jury declared him guilty of criminal harassment on Wedn...
Jun 28, 2017
Horse drawn coach crashes en route to Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Six people were injured when the horse drawn coach they were in crashed yesterday en route from Alexis Creek to Williams Lake. The First Nations youth wagon trip was resting near...
Jun 28, 2017
B.C. Liberals tout $2.8B surplus, reduced debt on eve of expected defeat
VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister has painted a rosy picture of the province's finances a day before his government is expected to be defeated in a confidence vote, saying a $2.8-billion ...
Jun 28, 2017
Clark says if her government toppled, it shows B.C. legislature can't function
VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark says she ready to tell the lieutenant-governor British Columbia's legislature can't work if her Liberal minority government is defeated in a confidence vote on Thursda...
Jun 28, 2017
Canada 150: Chief Dan George’s powerful indigenous-rights speech, 50 years later
VANCOUVER - Leonard George remembers the first time he heard his father, Chief Dan George, deliver his moving and prophetic speech on indigenous rights, "A Lament for Confederation." It was 1967 and t...
Jun 28, 2017
Okanagan flood concerns recede
VERNON - Flooded lakes across the Okanagan are slowly receding, leaving muck and mess behind. Okanagan Lake fell two centimetres between Monday and yesterday but remains 60 centimetres above flood lev...
Jun 28, 2017
