Category Archives: British Columbia

Vernon Secondary School lock-down lifted after incident
VERNON - Emergency procedures were put in place at Vernon Secondary School this morning after a weapons related scare. The school was put in a “lockdown” at 9 am when a nearby resident rep...
Kayla Derkach Jan 27, 2016

Air India perjurer Inderjit Singh Reyat granted release to halfway house
VANCOUVER - The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings has been granted a statutory release from prison to a halfway house. Inderjit Singh Reyat was charged with perjury in 2006 for repe...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

Terry Fox’s dad approaches cancer diagnosis with ‘never give up’ attitude of son
VANCOUVER - Terry Fox devoted his life to raising money for cancer research and now his father has been diagnosed with the disease. The family announced Tuesday on the Terry Fox Foundation website tha...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

B.C. mines minister clarifies remarks on Trudeau over Davos comments
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's mines minister is clarifying his position on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's remarks about Canada's natural-resource economy. Bill Bennett said the meaning behind a comm...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

Clark battles B.C.’s ‘forces of No,’ on LNG, trade deal; says she’s no quitter
VANCOUVER - Premier Christy Clark had sharp words Monday for what she calls the "forces of No" in British Columbia who mount resistance efforts to government initiatives purely out of a fear of change...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

Honking Salmon Arm theft victim gets his ATV back
SALMON ARM, BC - A Salmon Arm man’s car horn helped him recover a bunch of stolen property yesterday, some of it his own. Just after midnight, the man saw someone leading his ATV onto a trailer ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

Simon Fraser University creates memorial for residential school students
BURNABY, B.C. - A memorial honouring First Nations, Metis and Inuit children who attended residential schools will be built at Simon Fraser University's Burnaby, B.C., campus. A release from the unive...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

Charge laid after dynamite prompts evacuation of Nakusp, B.C. trailer park
NAKUSP, B.C. - A southeastern B.C., man in his 30s remains behind bars while awaiting his next court date on explosives charges. RCMP in the West Kootenay community of Nakusp, about 150 kilometres nor...
Kayla Derkach Jan 26, 2016

New documents offer little insight on UBC president’s resignation
VANCOUVER - Hundreds of pages of documents relating to the resignation of a former University of British Columbia president have become public, but they don't reveal why Arvind Gupta relinquished his ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 25, 2016

Threatened seal, endangered sea turtle rescued off Vancouver Island
VANCOUVER - The head veterinarian at Vancouver's aquarium says the warm currents of El Nino may be behind the recent strandings of two animals rarely seen in Canadian waters. A green sea turtle was re...
Kayla Derkach Jan 25, 2016

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