Category Archives: British Columbia

Condos, townhomes hottest sellers in Metro Vancouver: real estate board
VANCOUVER - Home sales across Metro Vancouver rebounded to near record levels in May but demand is now being driven by condominiums and townhomes, a real estate expert says. That's a shift from boomin...
Kayla Derkach Jun 02, 2017
Police seek missing 34 year old woman
VERNON, B.C. - This missing person has now been located.
Kayla Derkach Jun 02, 2017
Vancouver orders hotel owners to repair building unsafe for people
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says a hotel that is rented monthly by low-income residents is so unsafe that it's evacuating the building at risk of collapsing. A news release from the city says it...
Kayla Derkach Jun 02, 2017
Doctors providing medically assisted death gather for first national meeting
VANCOUVER - Doctors who provide assisted death are meeting for the first time since the service became legal in Canada to discuss how some eligible patients are not getting the help they need to end t...
Kayla Derkach Jun 02, 2017

Police name victim of latest targeted slaying in Abbotsford, B.C.
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has identified the 41-year-old man found dead in an Abbotsford, B.C., home on Wednesday. Forty-one-year-old Nektarios Pardalis could not b...
Kayla Derkach Jun 02, 2017

NDP Leader John Horgan calls on BC Hydro not to finalize Site C contracts
VANCOUVER - NDP Leader John Horgan has advised BC Hydro not to sign any new contracts on the divisive Site C hydroelectric dam project. The $8.8 billion dam will be the third on the Peace River, flood...
Kayla Derkach Jun 02, 2017

Body of 76-year-old B.C. man swept away in mudslide is recovered, police say
SALMON ARM , B.C. - RCMP say the body of a missing British Columbia man whose house was engulfed by a mudslide last month has been recovered. Roy Sharp was last known to be at his home in Tappen, abou...
Kayla Derkach Jun 01, 2017

B.C. political leaders welcome feds $876M to help lumber sector weather tariffs
VANCOUVER - The federal government's financial aide for Canada's forestry sector over the softwood trade dispute is getting support across party lines in British Columbia. Premier Christy Clark says t...
Kayla Derkach Jun 01, 2017

Senate report urges more support, schools for French education in B.C.
VICTORIA - British Columbia needs to build more French-only schools and increase access to French language education to support the province's Francophone community and prevent children from losing th...
Kayla Derkach Jun 01, 2017

Experts plumb depths of quake-causing cracks on the Pacific sea floor
VANCOUVER - New research focused off the west coast of North America is giving seismologists a better understanding of what one scientist describes as "the single greatest geophysical hazard to the co...
Kayla Derkach Jun 01, 2017

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