Category Archives: British Columbia
NDP promises climate rebate cheques for families in British Columbia
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's New Democrats are promising rebate cheques to offset increases in the cost of the province's carbon tax, if the party wins May's election. NDP Leader John Horgan did not...
Feb 02, 2017
Navy awards $55 million contract for demolition of Esquimalt, B.C., jetty
ESQUIMALT, B.C. - The Department of National Defence has awarded a $55.45 million contract for the demolition of an outdated jetty at the navy dockyard in Esquimalt, B.C. Pomerleau Inc. from Surrey, B...
Feb 02, 2017
Death of man on Vancouver seawall marks the city's second homicide of 2017
Vancouver has recorded its second homicide of 2017. Vancouver Police Const. Jason Doucette has issued a news release confirming a man's body was found on the Stanley Park seawall late Wednesday night....
Feb 02, 2017
Man with large collection of child pornography pleads guilty in B.C. court
VICTORIA - Police say a United States resident who investigators traced from Colorado to Alaska to Montana to the Northwest Territories and then to Victoria has pleaded guilty to possession of child p...
Feb 02, 2017
B.C. drug overdose crisis, deadliest of long career, says health officer
VICTORIA - Among the medical diplomas, certificates and degrees on Dr. Perry Kendall's office wall is a framed copy of a newspaper with a headline that screams, "City Doctors Give Okay to Socialized M...
Feb 02, 2017
Home sales plummet in previously red-hot Vancouver as market softens
VANCOUVER - Home sales in Metro Vancouver last month dropped by almost 40 per cent compared with January 2016 with the sale of detached houses falling hardest. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouv...
Feb 02, 2017
Police-involved shooting in Vancouver leads to charges against Coquitlam man
VANCOUVER - Charges have now been laid against a 37-year-old Coquitlam man who was shot by Vancouver Police during a confrontation in December. Const. Jason Doucette says Christopher Boyda is charged ...
Feb 02, 2017
Accused Sri Lankan Tamil gets bail while awaiting new human smuggling trial
VANCOUVER - A Sri Lankan man accused of bringing hundreds of Tamil migrants into Canada illegally has been granted bail after more than six years in jail. A B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that Kunarob...
Feb 02, 2017
Judge to rule in B.C. child bride case centred on sect’s polygamous beliefs
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A B.C. Supreme Court judge is expected to deliver his ruling Friday in the case of three people accused of removing girls from Canada so they could be placed in plural marriages. Evi...
Feb 02, 2017
Former RCMP officer tells husband poisoned case that wife offered to get gun
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A former RCMP officer told a court in Cranbrook, B.C., that she overheard the woman accused of pushing her husband to kill himself call the man a coward and offer to get him a gun. T...
Feb 02, 2017
