Category Archives: British Columbia
Vancouver-area train derails, believed to be on tracks servicing grain terminal
BURNABY, B.C. - A train has gone off the rails in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. Burnaby Fire Chief Joe Robertson says a train was running on a private spur line that services a grain terminal on ...
Jul 19, 2016
Sunny outlook for Shuswap businesses despite rainy weather
SCOTCH CREEK, B.C. - Tourism-related businesses in the Shuswap region say the rainy July is definitely taking a chunk out of their revenue, but it’s not disastrous. Barbara Rivest of Shuswap Uni...
Jul 19, 2016
B.C. based MEC announces plans to open two new Calgary stores in next three years
VANCOUVER - Mountain Equipment Co-op announced plans Tuesday to open two new stores in Calgary within the next three years. The company says it will open a 30,000-square foot location in the Seton Urb...
Jul 19, 2016
Feeling let down by universities, survivors meet to fight campus sex assaults
VANCOUVER - Mandi Gray has lost count of the messages she's received from women who say their universities failed them after they were sexually assaulted. The PhD student publicly alleged last year th...
Jul 19, 2016
Iranian-Canadian sculptor home in Vancouver after having passport confiscated
VANCOUVER - A celebrated Iranian-Canadian sculptor considered one of the greatest living artists of the Middle East says he still doesn't know what prompted Iranian authorities to confiscate his passp...
Jul 19, 2016
First Nation to use blockades if necessary to protect ancient B.C. burial site
VANCOUVER - Members of a British Columbia First Nation are remembering a warrior chief who was wrongfully hanged 151 years ago and say they won't allow another injustice to be done to their ancestor. ...
Jul 19, 2016
Former B.C. Premier out as High Commissioner to U.K.
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion has wiped the diplomatic slate clean of several high-profile appointments made by the previous Conservative government. More than two dozen ambassadors ...
Jul 19, 2016
American skier lauds new technique at Vancouver hospital for brain recovery
VANCOUVER - A competitive skier from Utah is crediting a new technique at Vancouver General Hospital for a swift recovery from a brain injury she suffered in Whistler, B.C. Jamie Crane-Mauzy was the f...
Jul 19, 2016
Calgary man, 21, identified after fatal fall in B.C. national park
FIELD, B.C. - The coroner's service in British Columbia has identified a 21-year-old Calgary man who died after a fall in Yoho National Park. It says Ryan James McIntosh was one of a group of four who...
Jul 18, 2016
Police say death of man pulled from water in Bella Bella appears suspicious
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - RCMP say a man who died after being pulled from the water near a dock in Bella Bella, B.C., may have been involved in an altercation. Cpl. Dave Tyreman says police were called abou...
Jul 18, 2016
