Category Archives: British Columbia
Decision expected today in legal battle over accrediting Christian law school
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal is expected to rule today on whether graduates of a proposed law school at a Christian university would be allowed to work in B.C. The decision marks t...
Oct 31, 2016
Vancouver’s health authority applies for two more supervised-injection sites
Vancouver's health authority has applied for two new supervised-injection sites to combat a drug overdose crisis that has taken more than 100 lives in the city this year. While announcing the applicat...
Oct 31, 2016
More passing lanes coming to the Yellowhead Highway
KAMLOOPS - More passing lanes are coming to the Yellowhead Highway up the North Thompson Valley. The lanes will be added near Darfield, and include a three-kilometre stretch southbound and a 2.7-kilom...
Oct 31, 2016
Charges laid against Hope, B.C., man after hate-filled rant caught on video
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A 47-year-old man has been charged with multiple offences after a racist rant was caught on video in an Abbotsford, B.C., parking lot. A warrant has been issued for Karry Corbett of...
Oct 31, 2016
Focus on innovation, not more cash, to improve health care in Canada: doctor
VANCOUVER - Squabbling by provinces in the run-up to a new health accord points to the need for an agency that would share regional health-care innovations with the rest of the country, says an editor...
Oct 31, 2016
Fisheries, justice minister visit diesel spill site on B.C. coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Two federal ministers have visited a community on British Columbia's central coast where residents are concerned diesel fuel from a sunken tug could have devastating long-term effe...
Oct 31, 2016
Video shows missing young mom hours after she left her New Westminster home
VANCOUVER - The family of a missing 32-year-old woman from New Westminster, B.C., hopes surveillance video found over the weekend offers new leads. It shows Florence Leung buying several items at a co...
Oct 31, 2016
Conjugal visits increase public safety, help offenders reintegrate, experts say
VANCOUVER - Lee Chapelle has fond memories of spending afternoons with his wife in the mid-1990s, barbecuing in a small yard while his young children played in the grass and mimicked the cows' moos as...
Oct 30, 2016
First Nations fear wildlife effected by diesel spill on B.C. coast
VANCOUVER - First Nations say they're afraid that diesel fuel spilled from a sunken tug off British Columbia's central coast is affecting their food supply and other wildlife. They point to the discov...
Oct 30, 2016
Adults shamed from speaking indigenous languages hold key to revival, survival
VICTORIA - There's a generation of indigenous people across Canada who were once shamed for speaking their own language. Now, people who didn't learn their mother tongue from their parents are key to ...
Oct 30, 2016
