Category Archives: British Columbia
80% of online pet ads may be fake says B.C. business bureau in holiday-scam warning
VANCOUVER - The Better Business Bureau is warning B.C. residents to be cautious about falling in love with a puppy for sale this holiday season - it may not be real. The bureau says up to 80 per cent ...
Dec 03, 2025
Mayor of Surrey, B.C., rejects 'extraordinarily excessive' police budget
SURREY - The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says she won't support a provisional budget request for the city's police force, calling a $91-million increase in funding "extraordinarily excessive." Brenda Locke...
Dec 03, 2025
BC Hydro takes ranchers to court, says they blocked 'nation-building' hydro line work
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Crown utility is taking a family of ranchers in Vanderhoof, B.C., to court for allegedly blocking access to properties that BC Hydro needs to enter as it prepares for wo...
Dec 03, 2025
NDP legislator Joan Phillip facing unspecified health issue, says party caucus
VICTORIA - The British Columbia NDP caucus says legislator Joan Phillip is dealing with an illness that requires additional testing. New Democrat caucus chair Garry Begg says in a news release that th...
Dec 03, 2025
Some B.C. Conservatives say 'incapacitated' Rustad out as leader. But others disagree
VICTORIA - An attempted coup against John Rustad's leadership of the Conservative Party of B.C. descended into chaos on Wednesday, with the party's legislators unable to agree who was in charge. The p...
Dec 03, 2025
What do snowboards and mountain goats have in common? Indigenous weaver knows
VANCOUVER - Meghann O'Brien used to feel connected to the mountain through her snowboard, but now she finds that link through the wool of a mountain goat used in her weaving for the last 15 years. O'B...
Dec 03, 2025
Vancouver Island mill latest to close in B.C., 350 jobs lost
CROFTON - A pulp mill on Vancouver Island is permanently ending operations, the latest mill to close in the province, affecting around 350 employees. Domtar says in a statement that continued poor pri...
Dec 02, 2025
Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against pipeline to B.C.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to meet with Coastal First Nations after chiefs voted unanimously Tuesday to press the government to uphold the oil tanker ban off the northern British Col...
Dec 02, 2025
Class-action lawsuit certified against CN and CP railways over Lytton, B.C., fire
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a class-action lawsuit against Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways can move ahead after a catastrophic fire in June 2021 burned most...
Dec 02, 2025
B.C. requires witness for those using supply drugs to stop diversion to streets
VICTORIA - Rules are being tightened for British Columbia's overdose-prevention safer supply program to require a witness when a user takes their drugs in an effort to stop the pills from being sold o...
Dec 02, 2025