Category Archives: British Columbia
Decision pending on whether police entrapped B.C. pair into committing terrorism
VANCOUVER - John Nuttall hangs his head and promises he'll do better next time. Covert video played in British Columbia Supreme Court from the spring of 2013 shows the man Nuttall calls his Muslim bro...
Jul 28, 2016
Triathlete strokes to marathon, 105-km, lengthwise swim of Okanagan Lake
VERNON, B.C. - A Detroit man is celebrating with friends and supporters after completing a gruelling, 41-hour endurance swim along the entire length of British Columbia's Okanagan Lake. Adam Ellenstei...
Jul 27, 2016
WestJet finds lost gecko, owner wants airline to change policy on cabin access
VANCOUVER - A pet gecko that disappeared after its owner put it on a WestJet flight from Toronto to Vancouver last Sunday has been found alive. Meryl Bishop, the owner of Nom the gecko, received a cal...
Jul 27, 2016
Homebuilders, real estate board says new B.C. property tax hurts province
VICTORIA - British Columbia's plans to dampen the influence of foreign investment in Metro Vancouver's scorching housing market with a new tax on foreign buyers is causing widespread panic and confusi...
Jul 27, 2016
B.C. parrot refuge transfer complete, hundreds of birds now up for adoption
COOMBS, B.C. - Hundreds of parrots are now up for adoption after the last of the birds was safely removed from Vancouver Island's World Parrot Refuge. Refuge supervisor Matthew Spate says between 450 ...
Jul 27, 2016
B.C. wants federal crackdown on fentanyl trafficking to fight health emergency
VANCOUVER - Overdose deaths have climbed to such an urgent level in British Columbia that the province needs help from the federal government to deal with a public health emergency, Premier Christy Cl...
Jul 27, 2016
Man gets 13 years, 6 months for arsons, shootings at B.C. family homes
VANCOUVER - Delusions drove a man to target 15 homes in British Columbia with arsons and gunfire, but Vincent Cheung was aware of his drug addiction and his behaviour requires strong denunciation, a j...
Jul 27, 2016
RCMP arrest suspect traced through uploaded selfie on stolen iPhone
NANAIMO, B.C. - RCMP have arrested a man suspected of taking a photo of himself with an iPhone they say was stolen in Nanaimo, B.C. Const. Gary O'Brien says in a news release that the 39-year-old was ...
Jul 27, 2016
Montreal homes greenest, Edmonton at bottom: new UBC emissions study
VANCOUVER - Households in Edmonton generate, on average, almost four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions as their counterparts in Montreal, according to a study released Wednesday by the Univ...
Jul 27, 2016
Body of missing Calgary boy recovered in Yoho National Park, officials say
FIELD, B.C. - The search for an 11-year-old Calgary boy who fell into the Yoho River in southeastern British Columbia last Friday has ended. Parks Canada says a search team recovered the body of the b...
Jul 27, 2016
