Category Archives: British Columbia
Canada must deal with harmful drugs for seniors with national strategy: study
VANCOUVER - Canada urgently needs a national strategy to ensure seniors are prescribed appropriate medications because the cost of giving them the wrong drugs has reached nearly $2 billion a year, a n...
Jun 22, 2016
Kootenay East politician Bill Bennett announces he won’t seek re-election
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A veteran Liberal politician in British Columbia has announced his retirement. Bill Bennett has represented the Kootenay East riding in the legislature since 2001 but says he wants t...
Jun 22, 2016
Winner of $12.8M lotto says he wants to build new home with 'gigantic' TV
VANCOUVER - After winning $12.8 million, Ian Hirsch says he plans to use some of the money to build a house around a gigantic new TV. Hirsch says he and his wife checked the ticket three times to make...
Jun 21, 2016
Clark seeks to bring back B.C. aboriginal remains, sacred belongings, artwork
VICTORIA - Aboriginal artwork, regalia and ancestral remains taken over centuries from British Columbia First Nations and placed in museums, universities and private collections must come home, Premie...
Jun 21, 2016
Harassment and weapons charges face ex-husband who created revenge website
VANCOUVER - The former wife of a Vancouver-area man accused of criminally harassing her says she hopes the legal process he's about to go through will give her enough time to change her identity and h...
Jun 21, 2016
Charge dropped against one Vernon murder suspect
VERNON, B.C. - Charges have been dropped against one of the suspects in a Vernon murder case. A stay of proceedings has been entered in Vernon provincial court against 19 year old Brandon Wellington. ...
Jun 21, 2016
Vancouver Island mom urges vaccination as her sick baby girl suffers in hospital
VICTORIA - A Vancouver Island mother whose baby is hospitalized with whooping cough says her sick daughter is proof that children who are not vaccinated can harm others. Annie Mae Braiden says her 10-...
Jun 21, 2016
Woman dies after fall in Wells Gray Park
KAMLOOPS - A woman has died after a climbing accident in Wells Gray Park. Volunteer Search Master Alan Hobler of Kamloops Search and Rescue says his group was called to assist counterparts in Wells Gr...
Jun 20, 2016
Finance ministers reach CPP agreement; premiums to increase in 2019
VANCOUVER - Most of Canada’s finance ministers reached an agreement in principle Monday to revamp the Canada Pension Plan, although Quebec and Manitoba have not signed on to the deal. Under the ...
Jun 20, 2016
Lillooet mayor pushes for relaunched passenger rail service
KAMLOOPS - The Mayor of Lillooet says her community is squarely behind a push to restart passenger rail service between North Vancouver and Prince George. The service was discontinued in 2002, with Pr...
Jun 20, 2016
