Category Archives: British Columbia
Two Kitimat residents hope to save birds by clawing back house-cat freedom
KITIMAT, B.C. - A proposal by two residents of Kitimat, B.C., could send fur flying as they seek civic regulations on house cats. Laurel Woodhill and Hilda Littman are appealing to Kitimat council to ...
Sep 09, 2016
B.C. Unemployment rate drops
VANCOUVER - Canada added 26,200 jobs in August _ far more than analysts expected _ but the unemployment rate rose to 7.0 per cent. Economists had estimated the August jobs report from Statistics Canad...
Sep 09, 2016
Security guard testifies Nanaimo, B.C., mill shooter ‘like a God-damned zombie’
NANAIMO, B.C. - A veteran security guard testified he watched a zombie-like man walking towards another man in the parking lot of a Vancouver Island sawmill with his right arm outstretched before hear...
Sep 08, 2016
Pre-Christmas opening predicted for Evergreen Line rapid transit project
VANCOUVER - A long-awaited rapid transit project in Metro Vancouver should be carrying its first passengers before Christmas. The British Columbia government says in a news release that the $1.43-bill...
Sep 08, 2016
B.C. schools told to include sex orientation and gender ID in anti-bully plans
VANCOUVER - British Columbia will soon require all schools to include specific protections for gay, lesbian and transgender students in their anti-bullying policies, the province announced Thursday in...
Sep 08, 2016
Woman and young child sought following brazen robbery in Invermere, B.C.
INVERMERE, B.C. - RCMP in southeastern British Columbia are trying to track a woman who used a young child, possibly her daughter, to help stage a robbery. Cpl. Grant Simpson says police are always co...
Sep 08, 2016
B.C. youth still waiting too long for help three years after boy’s suicide: rep
VICTORIA - The lack of timely mental health services contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old boy who wasn't eating, had threatened to kill himself and was left to roam in and out of school, Britis...
Sep 08, 2016
Canada now allows prescription heroin in severe opioid addiction cases
VANCOUVER - Health Canada has amended regulations allowing doctors to prescribe heroin to people who are severely addicted to opioids. The government says the country is facing an opioid overdose cris...
Sep 07, 2016
Wilson-Raybould lays out vision for UN indigenous rights declaration
VANCOUVER - Canada must adopt the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in a way that translates into real change for its aboriginal citizens, federal Justice Minister Jody Wi...
Sep 07, 2016
Crown lawyer relays chilling account of workplace shooting in Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - A Crown lawyer says a man accused of killing two employees and attempting to kill two others yelled expletives and said, "You know who I am" during a shooting rampage at his former wor...
Sep 07, 2016
