B.C.

VANCOUVER – A 23-year-old Burnaby man spent the weekend in jail as he began serving a seven month jail term for his part in last year’s Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver.

VANCOUVER – First Nations, environmentalists, British Columbia’s Opposition party — even the province’s newly revived Conservative Party — have weighed in, now the Liberal government is finally announcing its stand on oil pipelines.

WHISTLER, B.C. – With the opening of a new trail for mountain bikers slated for July 28, Whistler will have “the largest and highest bike park in North America,” says the resort.

GRAND FORKS, B.C. – The B-C Coroners Service has identified an 11-year-old boy who was crushed to death by a falling tree at a summer camp.

VANCOUVER – Telecom Telus (TSX:T) says it is 32.59 per cent foreign-owned and under the federal limit of 33.3 per cent as of June 29. Telus says the release of its foreign ownership percentage is a response to new wireless player Globaliave, which had accused it of being 48 per cent foreign owned and had asked the CRTC to look into the matter.

AGASSIZ, B.C. – A former Mountie who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy while the man was infected with HIV has died in a B.C. prison.

VANCOUVER – Police in British Columbia say one of two men charged with cocaine-related offences is an associate of the Hells Angels.

VANCOUVER – The $6.7 billion in tax revenues that British Columbia is expected to receive from the Northern Gateway pipeline is just not enough when compared to the project’s risk, says the province’s Minister of Environment.

VANCOUVER – British Columbia Premier Christy Clark says if Alberta won’t give B.C. a bigger share of the benefits from the proposed Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline, the project will not go ahead.

VANCOUVER – A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund says second-quarter royalty income was $5.7 million, up slightly from the $5.6 million reported during the same quarter of 2011. Sales increased 0.9 per cent to $189.4 million from $187.8 million in the year-earlier period.

VANCOUVER – Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has thanked the city’s rescue team members for recovering two bodies from southeastern B.C., where the search for another victim of a massive landslide is set to resume this week.

VANCOUVER – Pure Multi-Family REIT LP (TSXV: RUF.U) says it plans to buy two apartment properties in Texas for a total of US$24.6 million.

VICTORIA – B.C.’s auditor general is disputing the province’s annual deficit report by arguing the books should be in the red by another $520 million.

VANCOUVER – Methanex Corporation (TSX:MX), the world’s largest supplier of methanol, says its second-quarter net income rose 27 per cent as demand and pricing for the industrial product grew.

VANCOUVER – Canfor Pulp Products Inc. (TSX:CFX) says its second-quarter net income slipped 93 per cent to $3.3 million as the company was hit by outages and shutdowns.

VANCOUVER – Transit police in Metro Vancouver say they have arrested a second man wanted over the robbery of an iPad from a disabled woman at a SkyTrain station.

VANCOUVER – Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G) is reporting second-quarter net earnings of $268 million, or 26 cents per diluted share, compared to $489 million, or 52 cents per diluted share, in same period last year. Revenue came in at $1.1 billion for the quarter compared to $1.3 billion year over year. The Vancouver-based company says gold prices remained under pressure for much of second quarter.

INVERMERE, B.C. – Charges have been laid in connection with the death of a man in the southeastern B.C. community of Invermere.

VANCOUVER – First Quantum Minerals Ltd. says workers at its mine in Mauritania are back to work after a 12-day strike.

JOHNSONS LANDING, B.C. – Rescuers have recovered the body of a third victim who was killed after her family’s home was levelled by a huge landslide in a southeastern British Columbia community.

SURREY, B.C. – A former Global TV reporter in Vancouver has pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault involving a minor.

VANCOUVER – A Crown prosecutor has asked for a one-year jail sentence for a former BC Lions football player player convicted of sex crimes.