Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. All-Native Basketball Tournament drops 'blood' rules for players
VICTORIA - A First Nations basketball tournament in British Columbia's northwest has dropped a strict blood-relation player policy that prevented a Haitian-born man from competing with his village tea...
Mar 07, 2017
Seizure of Japanese-Canadian boats resonates today, maritime museum says
VANCOUVER - During the Second World War nearly 1,200 fishing boats owned by Japanese-Canadians were seized by Canadian officials on the B.C. coast - an action that followed Japan's bombing of Pearl Ha...
Mar 07, 2017
B.C.’s grizzly bear trophy hunt ‘just doesn’t make sense’: report
VANCOUVER - There is more money to be made encouraging people to hunt grizzly bears with a camera instead of a gun, says the lead author of a new report that calls on British Columbia to end its annua...
Mar 07, 2017
Minister says ride-hailing service Uber will operate in B.C. by end of 2017
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Liberal government will allow ride-hailing services such as Uber to operate in the province by the end of this year, while introducing initiatives that it says will help...
Mar 07, 2017
Man convicted of murdering Armstrong teen granted new trial
VANCOUVER - A new trial has been ordered for a British Columbia man convicted of first-degree murder in the death of an 18-year-old woman on Halloween night in 2011. A panel of B.C. Court of Appeal ju...
Mar 07, 2017
Organization that protects unique B.C. properties declared debt-free
VICTORIA - The B.C. Supreme Court has declared the Land Conservancy of British Columbia debt-free, more than three years after the non-profit, charitable trust sought protection from its creditors. Th...
Mar 07, 2017
Austrian man killed in avalanche while heli-skiing in east-central B.C.
REVELSTOKE, B.C. - A 52-year-old visitor from Austria has been killed in an avalanche north of Revelstoke, B.C. The man was with a heli-skiing outfit about 100 kilometres north of Revelstoke in the No...
Mar 07, 2017
Elections BC to review Liberal donations; party will co-operate
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s Liberals say their fundraising practices are transparent and the party will co-operate fully with an Elections BC review of potential Election Act violations involv...
Mar 07, 2017
Oyama councillor succumbs to cancer
OYAMA, B.C. - The Lake Country councillor for Oyama has died. 61-year old Owen Dickie passed away Monday after a battle with cancer. Dickie, who moved to Oyama in 1989, was elected in Oyama in 2011. H...
Mar 07, 2017
Fire ravages Vernon home
VERNON, B.C. - A family in Vernon is homeless this morning after fire destroyed their house. First responders say the home and attached shop was engulfed in barely 15 minutes, also burning the family&...
Mar 07, 2017
