Category Archives: British Columbia
Vancouver’s Chinatown grapples with growing pains of affordability, development
VANCOUVER - The transformation of Vancouver's Chinatown, fuelled by a changing population, crisis of affordability and ripe potential for new development, has left some locals calling it either a dyin...
Aug 21, 2016
B.C. opts not to hike carbon tax in new climate plan, won’t adjust target dates
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government will maintain a freeze on its carbon tax, rejecting a recommendation from a group of advisers to increase the levy to fight climate change. The province rel...
Aug 19, 2016
VIA Rail in talks to offer $5 fares to ‘at risk’ groups along B.C. ‘highway of tears’
VANCOUVER - Via Rail has joined discussions with the British Columbia government, First Nations and social service agencies to offer rock-bottom fares to "vulnerable" people who can't afford to travel...
Aug 19, 2016
Mural festival brings bright, massive paintings to Vancouver streets
VANCOUVER - An east Vancouver neighbourhood has gotten increasingly colourful lately, but the people behind dozens of new murals in the area say the art is about more than beautifying empty walls. Mor...
Aug 19, 2016
Vancouver's Insite safe injection clinic adds hours to help cut deadly overdoses
Vancouver's supervised injection site is expanding its hours to deal with the crisis of overdose deaths. Vancouver Coastal Health, which operates Insite, says a pilot project begins next Wednesday and...
Aug 19, 2016
Kurdi says haunting photo of Syrian boy risks prolonging Middle Eastern conflict
VANCOUVER - The aunt of a Syrian toddler who was shown in a haunting photo lying lifeless on a beach says the photograph this week of a bloody boy pulled from a collapsed building in Aleppo is heartbr...
Aug 19, 2016
B.C. RCMP search rural property after tip about 1993 disappearance of teen girl
COMOX VALLEY, B.C. - Mounties in Comox Valley have searched and excavated a rural property after receiving a tip from the public about a 23-year-old missing person's case. Fourteen-year-old Lindsey Ni...
Aug 19, 2016
Victoria workers try to coax shy snake from drain with heat, food
VICTORIA - Work crews in Victoria hope a lot of warmth and a morsel of mouse will charm a snake into slithering out of a city storm drain. The creature, believed to be a corn snake up to 1.8 metres in...
Aug 19, 2016
B.C. climate plan needs carbon tax hikes, major policy changes, experts say
VANCOUVER - Experts say they're not sure British Columbia's overdue climate change plan will go far enough in increasing carbon taxes and tightening environmental policies to reach the province's long...
Aug 18, 2016
Okanagan wildfire now in mop-up stage after ‘excellent’ progress
KELOWNA, B.C. - A wildfire burning on the west side of Okanagan Lake near Kelowna, B.C, is now in the mop-up stage. The Central Okanagan Regional District says an emergency operation centre has been c...
Aug 18, 2016
