Category Archives: British Columbia
B.C. court cites Korean filial tradition in payout to parents over son's death
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has awarded more than $327,000 to the parents of a teenager killed in 2019 for the "likely hypothetical future" care their son would have provided un...
Sep 21, 2023
Four firefighters heading home die in vehicle crash on B.C. road: government
VICTORIA - Four firefighters travelling home after battling British Columbia's wildfires have died in a road crash. Premier David Eby and Forests Minister Bruce Ralston say in a joint statement the fi...
Sep 20, 2023
Vancouver police boost security at Indian Consulate since Trudeau remarks on killing
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Department says it's beefing up security outside India's Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential...
Sep 20, 2023
Truck driver runs from overheight crash in North Vancouver, as rig wedged by overpass
VANCOUVER - A transport truck hauling a large, square container slammed into an overpass in North Vancouver on Tuesday, snarling traffic on Highway 1 for hours, and B.C.'s latest case of overheight ma...
Sep 20, 2023
B.C. local governments to ask province for more support over drug decriminalization
VANCOUVER - Local politicians in British Columbia have passed all three resolutions asking the province to boost funding and regulation around the drug decriminalization pilot program, including expan...
Sep 20, 2023
Illegal tobacco growth costing three provinces $2.47 billion in taxes: retail report
VICTORIA - The governments of British Columbia, Ontario and Newfoundland and Labrador lost up to $2.47 billion in tax revenues over four years due to the growth in illegal tobacco sales, says a conven...
Sep 20, 2023
Bank of Canada watching its words to avoid spur rate cut speculation, summary reveals
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada was watching its words at its last interest rate announcement as it sought to avoid spurring speculation that rate cuts are on the table any time soon. That's according to ...
Sep 20, 2023
B.C. to introduce new disaster management laws to address preparedness, mitigation
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's emergency management minister says the province will soon introduce new laws to govern responses to increasingly frequent natural disasters such as wildfires and floodin...
Sep 19, 2023
Hardeep Nijjar met CSIS every week before killing that Trudeau links to India: son
VANCOUVER - The son of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar says his father was meeting regularly with Canadian intelligence officers in the months before he was shot dead in British Columbia, i...
Sep 19, 2023
Swings in inflation not ‘unusual,’ but underlying price pressures still high: BoC
OTTAWA - Bank of Canada deputy governor Sharon Kozicki says swings in the inflation rate are to be expected after the latest consumer price index report showed inflation climbed in August for the seco...
Sep 19, 2023