Category Archives: British Columbia

VANCOUVER - The BC Centre for Disease Control says mushroom poisonings are on the rise and it is urging foragers to use extreme caution. It says its drug and poison information centre r...

VICTORIA - Devastating wildfires and floods and the prospect of more to come has caused the B.C. government to look at updating its emergency management law. Public Safety Minister Mike...

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg says those in power need to realize what they are doing to future generations through climate change because if adults really loved children, they...

VANCOUVER - Fifteen young Canadians are suing the federal government over climate change. It's not the first climate change litigation. Here are five other cases: 1) An environmental group i...

VANCOUVER - A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease...

VANCOUVER - A Chinese grocery chain has plans to crack the highly competitive Canadian market with its first international location in Vancouver next month. Sungiven Food Canada Inc. hopes to gro...

VANCOUVER - Swedish activist Greta Thunberg attended a climate rally in Vancouver on Friday when 15 young people announced their plans to sue the federal government because of the impac...

VANCOUVER - In the early years of Confederation, there were members of Parliament known as "loose fish," who floated free from parties but swam back and forth between allegiances. In 1945, a cohort of...

BURNABY, B.C. - If there's any election that has highlighted how "broken" Canada's electoral system is, it's this one, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said in his morning-after assessment. Monday's...

VICTORIA - A Liberal member of the legislature has decided not to seek re-election after 28 years in British Columbia politics. Linda Reid says she is stepping aside because she wants t...