Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C.’s health-care shortcomings violate patients’ constitutional rights: lawyers
VANCOUVER - British Columbia shouldn't be allowed to bar patients from taking action privately to meet their own medical needs if the government is failing them in the public health-care system, a cou...
Sep 06, 2016
Trial begins for man accused in mill shooting in Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - Jury selection will begin today in the trial of a man accused of killing two men and wounding two others during a shooting at a sawmill in Nanaimo, B.C. Michael Lunn and Fred McEachern...
Sep 06, 2016
Convicted rapist Larry Takahashi has not been seen in Vancouver, say police
Vancouver police say convicted rapist Larry Takahashi has not been seen in an east Vancouver neighbourhood. Someone has posted leaflets claiming to have seen the 63-year-old in the neighbourhood but A...
Sep 06, 2016
Government should rethink B.C. post-secondary funding: teachers
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's post-secondary system is in crisis and is failing students by forcing them into careers they may not be suited for, says a group of university and college teachers. The ...
Sep 06, 2016
Snake coaxed from Victoria drain pipe has a new home after being adopted
VICTORIA - An elusive corn snake that was coaxed from a storm drain below the streets of Victoria last week has been adopted. The City of Victoria says in a release that after the reptile was pulled f...
Sep 06, 2016
B.C. Liberals must pull off balancing act on real estate: observers
VANCOUVER - Public outcry over British Columbia's sizzling real estate market pushed the province's Liberal government to introduce a foreign-buyers' tax last month, but uncertainty around the policy ...
Sep 05, 2016
Sunshine Coast a year-round outdoor haven with plenty of ‘Beachcombers’ nods
GIBSONS, B.C. - Howe Sound is glass-still on the voyage from Gibsons Landing to Keats Island, save for the odd motorboat wake jostling the kayak. The peace is also broken momentarily as a seal bursts ...
Sep 05, 2016
Pilot dead following plane crash in downtown Powell River, B.C.
POWELL RIVER, B.C. - The pilot of a small plane is dead after the aircraft crashed in downtown Powell River, B.C. Cpl. Aubrey Hachey with the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre says the Piper twin-engi...
Sep 05, 2016
Family's stolen U-Haul located
VERNON, B.C. - It appears to be a happy ending in the case of a U-Haul truck stolen from Vernon. The truck was stolen from Ryan Prevost’s parent’s home on Okanagan Landing Road Wednesday n...
Sep 04, 2016
Researchers uncover genetic effects of prenatal alcohol exposure
VANCOUVER - Canadian researchers are one step closer to uncovering a biomarker associated with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder after identifying distinct patterns associated with the DNA of children w...
Sep 04, 2016
