Category Archives: British Columbia
Kinder Morgan Canada president doesn’t know if humans causing climate change
VANCOUVER - The president of the company that hopes to build the $6.8-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says he doesn't know whether humans are contributing to climate change. Kinder Morgan Ca...
Nov 03, 2016
Northeastern B.C. resource boom harms indigenous women, girls: Amnesty report
VANCOUVER - A new report from Amnesty International says the resource boom in northeastern British Columbia is harming indigenous women and girls, and lays part of the blame on transient resource work...
Nov 03, 2016
Homicide detectives release photo of suspect in Abbotsford, B.C., stabbing
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Homicide investigators have released a picture of the 21-year-old Alberta drifter charged with second-degree murder and aggravated assault following a deadly stabbing at a high scho...
Nov 03, 2016
UNBC North Dakota Protesters Back in Canada
PRINCE GEORGE - The two UNBC students arrested in the North Dakota pipeline protest are safely back in Canada. Nicole Schafenacker and Katriona Auerbach were allowed to return home after being taken i...
Nov 03, 2016
B.C. Liberals gather in Vancouver to build May 2017 election team
VICTORIA - It's still six months before British Columbians go to the polls, but the unofficial start of the election campaign is expected to get underway Friday as the Liberal party gathers in Vancouv...
Nov 03, 2016
NDP has first announced candidate in Shuswap riding
SALMON ARM - The NDP has its first candidate in the Shuswap riding for next May’s provincial election. Sylvia Lindgren is an educational assistant who works at Salmon Arm Secondary. She is also ...
Nov 03, 2016
Man charged in deadly B.C. school attack
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Grade 9 student Amsuman Nair will remember the screams for the rest of his life. The 14-year-old was in the middle of a math exam at his high school in Abbotsford, B.C., when two gi...
Nov 02, 2016
Bad weather delays efforts to clean up tug off British Columbia coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A barge has arrived to remove a sunken tug from waters off British Columbia's central coast, but blustery weather is hampering the efforts of crews cleaning up the fuel spill. The ...
Nov 02, 2016
Vancouver home sales plunge 38.8% last month, real estate board says
VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says home sales plunged 38.8 per cent last month compared with October 2015. The board says 2,233 properties were sold in October of this year, d...
Nov 02, 2016
RCMP in Port Alberni make quick arrest after man hurt in early-morning stabbing
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - One man has been seriously injured in a stabbing on Vancouver Island. RCMP say the 51-year-old Port Alberni man was in a fast food restaurant in that city at about 7:30 a.m. Wedne...
Nov 02, 2016
