Category Archives: British Columbia

VAVENBY, B.C. - Canfor has announced the closure of its mill in Vavenby. Employees received the news Monday afternoon.United Steelworkers Local 1-417 President Marty Gibbons confirms that 178 people w...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal carbon tax will help deal with extreme weather events such as fires in northern Alberta. Trudeau says Canadians are seeing the impact of...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he accepts the finding that Canada's treatment of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls amounts to genocide. Debate has erupted over the defini...

VANCOUVER - When Dr. Evan Adams walked into an emergency room in Vancouver with a cut finger, a clerk taking his information made a racist remark that stung. "She said, 'Oh, you're First Nations....

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says gender equality is under attack and, in the age of social media, it's never been easier to taunt with abhorrent views. Trudeau told the Women Deliver 201...

VANCOUVER - West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. says all mill activities will be curtailed temporarily for a week in June at five British Columbia sawmills due to weakening lumber prices and high log costs. T...

The release of a report from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls has sparked reaction in this province. A coalition of B.C. groups, including the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, says violen...

VICTORIA - The sign that welcomes anglers to Campbell River, B.C., "The Salmon Capital of the World," isn't going anywhere this summer despite tough, new federal catch restrictions protecting&nbs...

VANCOUVER - Canada's minister of gender equality has announced a new initiative aimed at creating a sustainable model to fund women's rights organizations in developing countr...

British Columbia's Invasive Mussel Defence Program has launched into its' fifth straight year and it is aimed at protecting B.C.'s waterways from invasive Zebra and Quagga mussels. The B.C Ministry of...