Category Archives: British Columbia
OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed
VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with 2018 but the death toll remains almost as high as when the province declared ...
Feb 26, 2020
Acceptance of cash deposits rare in real estate, money laundering inquiry hears
VANCOUVER - The organization representing real estate agents in British Columbia has told a provincial inquiry into money laundering that its members have only ever accepted modest cash deposits ...
Feb 26, 2020
B.C. tells inquiry money laundering has warped economy, fuelled opioid crisis
VANCOUVER - Money laundering has distorted British Columbia's economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market, the province argued at the start of an inquiry into the criminal...
Feb 26, 2020
Vancouver police looking for man accused of trying to steal seaplane
VANCOUVER - Police are looking for help in finding a man they accuse of breaking into Harbour Air's seaplane terminal on Vancouver's waterfront last Friday and trying to steal one of its air...
Feb 26, 2020
Alberta tourist dies after plunge from 70 metre cliff in Vancouver park
VANCOUVER - A man from Alberta has fallen to his death while visiting Stanley Park in Vancouver. Police confirm the 26-year-old hopped a chest-high fence at Prospect Point on Sunday and plunged about ...
Feb 26, 2020
Teck CEO says Frontier withdrawal a result of tensions over climate, reconciliation
VANCOUVER - Tensions over Indigenous rights, climate change and resource development that have escalated recently with the rail blockades helped push Teck Resources Ltd. to shelve ...
Feb 26, 2020
Private clinics would harm 'ordinary' people using public system in B.C.: lawyer
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the British Columbia government says private clinics would increase wait lists for "ordinary" people in the public system and especially harm those who are...
Feb 25, 2020
B.C. money laundering inquiry to begin amid hopes for answers, accountability
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's attorney general hopes an inquiry into money laundering will answer lingering questions about how the criminal activity flourished in the province and identify those who...
Feb 25, 2020
Chanting Wet'suwet'en supporters defy injunction; return to B.C. legislature
VICTORIA - Supporters of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and their bid to stop a pipeline across their traditional territories returned to the British Columbia legislature Monday night despite a court ...
Feb 24, 2020
OD deaths decrease in B.C. but officials say safer drug supply needed
VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with a year earlier, but the number of fatalities is about the same as when t...
Feb 24, 2020

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