Category Archives: British Columbia
Drivers warned as temperatures set to plummet from Vancouver to Yukon
SURREY, B.C. - British Columbia is warning drivers to prepare winter survival kits as a blast of frigid cold hits over the next week and the mercury plummets across the province. Temperatures over the...
Dec 16, 2022
B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway reopens to four lanes as repairs continue after 2021 floods
HOPE, B.C. - A stretch along a key highway that sustained severe damage from landslides and flooding across southwestern British Columbia last year is back to four lanes after temporary repairs at thr...
Dec 16, 2022
Canada border guards, RCMP intercept highest amount of opium in CBSA history
VANCOUVER - The Canada Border Services Agency and its law enforcement partners act as the last line of defence before toxic, illegal drugs hit the streets of B.C. and the rest of Canada. On Friday (De...
Dec 16, 2022
Record amount of opium found in Vancouver marine containers: border services
DELTA, B.C. - What started as a probe into some oddities with shipping pallets in Vancouver has ended with a record seizure of opium by the Canada Border Services Agency. The agency says its investiga...
Dec 16, 2022
B.C. government continues the pandemic wage top-up for care home workers
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is extending its COVID-19 wage top-ups for staff at seniors facilities, but the restriction that limited those workers to one work site has been lifted. The ...
Dec 16, 2022
Ontario and British Columbia headed for a buyer's market, RBC says
TORONTO - A new report says high interest rates will continue to hold back homebuyers into the new year except in Ontario and British Columbia. The report by RBC says those purchasing real estate in O...
Dec 16, 2022
Contraband tobacco inhales 30 to 50 per cent of B.C. market, retailers, industry fear
VICTORIA - At first, Cory Holland thought government anti-smoking measures were working when he noticed tobacco sales at his British Columbia convenience store started to drop. Holland said he recalle...
Dec 16, 2022
B.C. disease centre says flu shows signs of decline, with no new deaths of children
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Centre For Disease Control says there are signs influenza is on a "steady decline" in the province, although case numbers remain high and positive test rates for respiratory syncy...
Dec 15, 2022
Union critical of Ottawa's plan to buy back Pacific salmon licences
CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. - The union representing British Columbia fishermen says a plan by the federal government to buy back commercial salmon fishing licences is underfunded, lacks transparency and doe...
Dec 15, 2022
Arrest prompts Vancouver police to warn about package theft by 'porch pirates'
Vancouver police say they've recovered everything from Nike runners to golf clubs in a months-long investigation into so-called porch pirates. Police say officers used a warrant to search a home last ...
Dec 15, 2022