News/Canada/British Columbia
Court documents reveal just how complex and unusual a Meng Wanzhou trial could be
As Meng Wanzhou strolls the corridors of Vancouver’s downtown B.C. Supreme Court building flanked by advisers and security guards, she moves more like...
Scheer says he’d fast-track pipeline challenges straight to Supreme Court
A Conservative government would overcome legal objections to building new petroleum pipelines by fast-tracking any cases right to the Supreme Court of Canada,...
Vancouver mayor calls on federal leaders to act on overdose crisis
The mayor of Vancouver says the city that opened North America’s first supervised injection site following a surge in heroin-related deaths wants all...
Boy with a GoPro helps solve decades-old missing person’s case
Young Max Werenka wasn’t looking to solve the mystery of a decades-old disappearance of a 70-year-old Vancouver Island woman when he set out on a boat...
Public inquiry into gas prices in B.C. finds ‘unexplained difference’ of 13 cents per litre
A months-long inquiry into high gas prices in British Columbia has concluded that the province’s market is not truly competitive and that there’s a...
Police investigate racist rant in Richmond, B.C., parking lot captured on video
Police are investigating a confrontation caught on video in a Richmond, B.C., parking lot Friday afternoon that saw a woman yell racial slurs at...
Crown comes out swinging in cross-examination of B.C. man accused of killing his kids
If Andrew Berry didn’t stab his daughters to death on Christmas Day 2017, why didn’t he tell everyone he talked to in the...
‘We are being told that we’re 2nd-class citizens’: Sikh teacher says Quebec secularism law forced move to B.C.
Amrit Kaur, who recently graduated to become a teacher, has moved across the country from her Montreal-area home to B.C. so she can work...
RCMP say B.C. fugitives died in what appears to be suicides by gunfire
A casket is loaded by RCMP into a plane near Gillam, Man. on Aug. 7. RCMP confirmed Monday the two bodies found in...
Former B.C. Mountie settles sexual harassment lawsuit against RCMP
A 2013 file image of RCMP Const. Susan Gastaldo (CBC) A former B.C. Mountie has settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against the RCMP...
With suspects believed dead, answers about B.C. homicides may be hard to find
The bodies of tourists Chynna Deese and Lucas Fowler, left, were found near Liard Hot Springs, B.C., on July 15. University lecturer Leonard...
Transfixed by tragedy: mystery of alleged ‘team killers’ captures world’s attention
A surveillance camera at a gas station in Prince George, B.C., captured this last image of Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese hugging in...
4 dead, 5 in hospital after floatplane crash north of Vancouver Island
The plane crashed just after 11 a.m. PT on Addenbroke Island, about 100 kilometres north of Port Hardy, B.C., on Vancouver Island. Four...
‘The whole industry is shrinking’: Forestry contractors losing work amid mill closures
The entire supply chain that feeds the sawmills with logs has seen a reduction in work, says David Elston, executive director of the...
U.S. company to be sentenced for spilling diesel, oil in B.C. First Nation’s fishing territory
The Nathan E. Stewart spilled 110,000 litres of diesel and heavy oils into the Heiltsuk Nation’s fishing territory on B.C.’s Central Coast in...
B.C. man dies of rabies after coming into contact with bat
A B.C. man has died of rabies at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver after coming into contact with a bat. (Tina Lovgreen) A...
