News/Canada/British Columbia
Can government incentives to private companies help solve B.C.’s wildfire crisis?
Verne Tom photographs a wildfire burning along a logging road approximately 20 kilometres southwest of Fort St. James, B.C., on Aug. 15, 2018....
Ship carrying Canadian trash arrives from the Philippines
The Anna Maersk, carrying 69 containers of Canadian garbage and e-waste, docked just after 7 a.m. (CBC) It’s a homecoming unlike any other:...
Trash and burn: Metro Vancouver will incinerate Canadian garbage returned by Philippines
Filipino environmental activists wear a mock shipping container filled with garbage to symbolize the 50 containers of waste that were shipped from Canada...
‘Climate leaders don’t build pipelines’: Indigenous advocate tells Trudeau
Will George, member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver and advocacy group Protect The Inlet, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not...
Girl, 6, and boy, 7, rescued after spending night alone on B.C. mountain
One of the children rescued from Burke Mountain in Coquitlam, B.C., is carried by a search and rescue team member after being long-lined...
Have you jumped on the bidet bandwagon yet? You should
Bidet attachments are connected under the toilet seat, and have a spray nozzle that shoots a vertical stream of water toward your privates....
Watch as orcas surround a Howe Sound sailboat and delight all on board
Bradford McArthur captured an impressive video of killer whales on the hunt in Howe Sound. (Bradford McArther) A Squamish, B.C., man has a...
Former polygamous leader found guilty in child-bride case
James Oler was acquitted in 2017, but the B.C. Court of Appeal ordered a new trial. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press) A former leader...
‘Were you at all turned on?’: RCMP’s handling of sexual assault interview denounced
A still from this 2012 interview shows a male RCMP officer interviewing an Indigenous teenager who was reporting a sexual assault. The officer...
‘Done with asking nicely’: B.C. announces public inquiry into money laundering
Premier John Horgan, along with Attorney General David Eby (L) and Finance Minister Carole James (R) announce an inquiry into money laundering. (Mike...
Wild pigs causing ‘ecological disaster’ as they spread rapidly across Canada, survey says
For the first time, researchers have mapped the range of wild pigs across Canada and found the numbers of invasive swine are rising...
Toddler dies after being left in hot car in Burnaby, B.C.
A toddler has died after being left alone in a car for hours in Burnaby, B.C., a city immediately east of Vancouver. Burnaby RCMP say...
Grey whales free after beaching in Delta, B.C.’s, Boundary Bay
It just might be the happiest whale tale since Free Willy: a pair of grey whales stranded on the low-tide mudflats of Boundary Bay...
Money laundering funded $5.3B in B.C. real estate purchases in 2018, report reveals
An estimated $5.3 billion worth of real estate transactions in B.C. last year were the result of money laundering, helping to fuel the...
Green Party wins federal byelection in Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Green Party candidate Paul Manly has won the federal byelection in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith. Manly is the second Green candidate elected...
Water polo coach banned after teens claim pattern of sexual harassment, abusive coaching
A B.C. water polo coach has been banned from the sport’s national association for life after teenage girls under his supervision claimed a pattern of harassment,...
