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RCMP officers face firing for ‘atrocious’ racist behaviour, harassment, documents say
VANCOUVER – Three RCMP members from a Metro Vancouver detachment could be fired over alleged…
‘Last hurrah’: Memorial service for Calgary children’s entertainer Buck Shot
CALGARY – It was the last show for longtime children’s TV star Ron (Buck Shot)…
RCMP ask for help in finding 7-year-old girl missing near Burns Lake, B.C.
BURNS LAKE, B.C. – Police are asking the public for help in finding a seven-year-old…
B.C. Premier touts involuntary care plans at convention, days before campaign begins
VANCOUVER – Current support services for severely mentally ill and drug addicted people aren’t working…
Canada’s physicians formally apologize for harm to Indigenous communities
In a haunting message from beyond the grave, Métis Elder Sonny James MacDonald recounted being…
Construction wraps on indoor supervised site for people who inhale drugs in Vancouver
VANCOUVER – Supervised injection sites are saving the lives of drug users everyday, but the…
Nurse-patient ratios at B.C. hospitals set to expand in fall, says health minister
VANCOUVER – British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says minimum nurse-to-patient ratios meant to improve…
Former cabinet minister appeals to Elections BC to register New Liberal Party of BC
VANCOUVER – The suspension of BC United’s election campaign left centrist voters in British Columbia…
B.C. mayors seek ‘immediate action’ from governments on mental health crisis
VANCOUVER – Mayors, First Nations leaders, and law enforcement officials are pleading with the federal…
26-year-old son is accused of his father’s murder on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast
RICHMOND, B.C. – The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the 26-year-old son of a man…
B.C. accepts change for psychiatric care after alleged attack by mentally ill man
VANCOUVER – A report into a triple stabbing at a festival in Vancouver’s Chinatown last…
B.C. to scrap consumer carbon tax if federal government drops legal requirement: Eby
VANCOUVER – A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia’s long-standing carbon tax and shift…
B.C. signs national pharmacare deal with Ottawa, promises to expand drug coverage
VANCOUVER – British Columbia has become the first province in Canada to sign a pharmacare…
Mounties say there’s no evidence Lytton, B.C., wildfire was arson; cause unknown
LYTTON, B.C. – Mounties in British Columbia have concluded there’s no evidence that the devastating…
B.C. family doctors call for sick days, pensions ahead of October election
VANCOUVER – Representatives of family doctors in British Columbia say giving physicians paid sick days,…
B.C.’s debt and deficit forecast to rise as the provincial election nears
VICTORIA – British Columbia is forecasting a record budget deficit and a rising debt of…
Weather aids B.C. fire fight amid evacuation order and alerts in southeast
The BC Wildfire Service says rain, light winds and cooler temperatures are expected to decrease…
BC United sources leak ‘extremism’ file on B.C. Conservatives’ executive Isidorou
VICTORIA – An opposition research file on the “extremism” of the Conservative Party of British…
Mark Carney to lead Liberal economic task force ahead of next election
NANAIMO, B.C. – Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney will chair a Liberal task…
BC United to run some candidates to keep party alive, despite halting campaign
VICTORIA – British Columbia’s Official Opposition BC United party says it will run some candidates…
B.C. Interior wildfires show increased activity, triggering evacuation alert
BURNS LAKE, B.C. – A growing cluster of out-of-control wildfires in the British Columbia Interior…
BC United MLA Dan Davies runs as Independent, eyeing possible ‘power broker’ status
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – Independent candidates in British Columbia’s upcoming fall election could be…
Union ‘devastated’ by B.C. mill closures, says Canfor should lose tenures
BURNABY, B.C. – The United Steelworkers union is calling Canfor Corp.’s decision to shutter two…
Suspect in deadly Vancouver stranger attacks was on probation: VPD chief
VANCOUVER – The suspect in a pair of “unprovoked stranger assaults” in downtown Vancouver that…