Category Archives: British Columbia
Protesters knock politicians off message at B.C. bridge announcement
DELTA, B.C. - A noisy group of placard-carrying protesters greeted politicians for what was supposed to be a celebration at the start of construction for the George Massey Tunnel replacement project. ...
Apr 05, 2017
Transit upgrades, funding, should be focus of B.C. election, say Metro mayors
SURREY, B.C. - Metro Vancouver mayors have launched a campaign aimed at putting transit at the centre of the upcoming election in British Columbia. Members of the Mayors' Council on transit have held ...
Apr 05, 2017
Memorial marks one year death of Victoria mountie
VICTORIA - A memorial will be held today to mark one year since an R-C-M-P officer was killed when her police cruiser was hit in an intersection near Victoria. Mounties will remember Constable Sarah B...
Apr 05, 2017
Metro Vancouver calls for changes to ‘antiquated’ taxation system
BURNABY, B.C. - Vancouver-area politicians in a region hit hard by sky-rocketing property prices are urging their provincial counterparts to commit to changing the tax system during the election campa...
Apr 04, 2017
President of Surrey Creep Catchers says he was arrested by the RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - The president of the vigilante group Surrey Creep Catchers says he was arrested Monday night following a confrontation with a man the organization's members accused of being a pedophile...
Apr 04, 2017
Company charged in English Bay fuel spill must challenge summons in B.C. court
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has rejected an application for judicial review filed by a Greece-based company facing charges in a 2015 fuel spill in Vancouver's English Bay, saying it must make it...
Apr 04, 2017
B.C. ultramarathoner finishes six seconds late of 60-hour cutoff in 160-km race
VANCOUVER - A last-minute mistake that put Gary Robbins six seconds short of becoming the 16th person to ever finish a torturous 160-kilometre ultramarathon is haunting the North Vancouver man. In a b...
Apr 04, 2017
Nanaimo boy OK after man threatens to punch him, then steals his bike
NANAIMO, B.C. - RCMP in Nanaimo, B.C., are searching for a bully who threatened to punch a nine-year-old boy and then stole the youngster's bicycle. Const. Gary O'Brien says it happened outside the Na...
Apr 04, 2017
Fewer listings, strong demand helps Vancouver-area real estate rally
VANCOUVER - Home sales in Metro Vancouver are bouncing back after a dismal February, but the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says transactions are still almost 31 per cent below the March 2016 ...
Apr 04, 2017
Dutch court approves extradition for man accused in Amanda Todd cyberbully case
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - The mother of a British Columbia teenager who took her own life after enduring cyberbullying says it's "just surreal" that the Dutch man charged in her daughter's case has been ...
Apr 04, 2017
