Category Archives: British Columbia
Mounties found kilos of fentanyl, $100,000 cash at home in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY, B.C. - A search warrant carried out by the Mounties in Surrey, B.C., has uncovered a large stash of drugs and cash. Police say officers picked up two people on suspicion of drug trafficking on...
Sep 03, 2020
Law centre at UVic to train generation of Indigenous legal scholars
VICTORIA - The University of Victoria is expanding its law school building to house the new National Centre for Indigenous Laws. The federal and B.C. governments and the Law Foundation of B.C. are con...
Sep 03, 2020
Contract for new inland ferry awarded to B.C. company
Work will begin later this year on a new electric-ready ferry for Kootenay Lake, providing passengers with a larger, cleaner and more accessible vessel.The $62.9-million contract to build the new ferr...
Sep 03, 2020
COVID-19 outbreak declared at nephrology unit of a B.C. hospital
VANCOUVER - A COVID-19 outbreak has been declared in the nephrology unit at a hospital in Surrey, B.C. Fraser Health's interim chief medical health officer says a patient tested positive for the virus...
Sep 02, 2020
B.C. government undermines information rights: privacy commissioner
VICTORIA - A report says the British Columbia government is routinely undermining its own citizens' rights by delaying requests for information. Information and privacy commissioner Michael McEvo...
Sep 02, 2020
B.C. schools receive $2-million cash boost to promote mental health
VICTORIA - Schools in British Columbia are getting an extra $2 million for mental health programs from the provincial government. Judy Darcy, the minister of mental health and addictions, says th...
Sep 02, 2020
Trudeau makes rounds in B.C.; says safe drug supply key to fighting overdoses
VANCOUER, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa is moving forward "aggressively" on ensuring a safe drug supply amid an ongoing overdose crisis that's claimed more than 900 lives in B....
Sep 02, 2020
Vancouver home prices rose in August amid above-average sales rate
VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver home sales hit 3,047 in August at a benchmark price of $1.04 million, as the housing market continued its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Real Estate Board of Grea...
Sep 02, 2020
Funeral and feast gatherings in northern B.C. lead to COVID warnings
VICTORIA - An outbreak of COVID-19 in British Columbia's Nass Valley has prompted an alert from the Northern and First Nations health authorities. The warning goes out to anyone who attended gath...
Sep 01, 2020
Salmon making good progress around Fraser slide site
Salmon are making good progress migrating past the site of a landslide on the Fraser River that decimated runs last year. "Crews have done everything they can to ensure fish face only minimal delays t...
Corey Fischer Sep 01, 2020

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