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B.C. health services looks to reform ambulance service to meet increased...
B.C. paramedics are increasingly tied up in hospital wards because “low acuity” calls, such as fender benders or driving patients to hospital to refill prescriptions, making it harder for them to...
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Video: Tears on a visit to the doctor
Brice Royer visits Dr. Eric Cattoni to get the latest news about his stomach tumour.
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Butcher shutters shop front, will deliver meat to customers
A Vancouver butcher is shutting down his popular Mount Pleasant retail shop and going online, because of the rising costs of property taxes and meat. Patrick Harkness of Harkness and Co. Butchers said...
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Video: Real estate executives face the music
Off-shore buyers, fairness for sellers and standardized penalties for transgressors were all hot topics that executives from the Real Estate Board of BC and Real Estate Association responded to during...
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Criminals now getting their guns in Canada: police
Langley resident Christina Stover obtained a firearms acquisition licence just last year, which entitled her to buy weapons at any gun store in Canada. Within a matter of months, the 40-year-old former...
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Ian Mulgrew: Chief Judge hashes issues out on Twitter for first time
In an unprecedented, lively social media appearance, Provincial Court Chief Judge Thomas Crabtree hosted a Twitter Town Hall on Thursday, B.C. Law Day. Appropriately, the landmark session began at 1...
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Parents speak out against VSB budget proposal
Parents and students spoke out Thursday night — for the third evening in a row — in an attempt to save programs that could be lost because of Vancouver School Board’s planned $24-million budget...
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Vaughn Palmer: B.C. NDP needs credible economic and jobs plan, leaked memo says
VICTORIA — From inside the United Steelworkers comes a telling lament about the relationship with the B.C. New Democrats since the union backed John Horgan for the party leadership. “When the leader...
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Steelworkers sharply criticize B.C. NDP
VICTORIA — One of the B.C. New Democratic Party’s largest union allies is expressing deep frustration with the party’s lack of organization, and questioning if it can win next year’s provincial...
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Peschisolido: Port of Vancouver must adjust to changed government in Ottawa
The Port of Vancouver is facing scrutiny in Ottawa from Liberal MPs looking to change the way the Crown corporation does business. MP Joe Peschisolido (Steveston-East Richmond) said the port has become...
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B.C. cat perched for days on power pole rescued by Twitter and BC Hydro
PRINCETON — A social network campaign in southern British Columbia may have helped rescue a stubborn cat from a perilous perch. The orange and white cat named Miss Kitty climbed a BC Hydro power pole...
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Supreme Court decides in favour of Métis, non-status Indians
OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada decision Thursday declaring that Métis and non-status Indians are “Indians” under the Constitution Act of 1867 will have widespread implications for B.C., say...
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Homes sales hit record in B.C. in March: report
Home sales in B.C. hit a new record in March, as housing demand soars in most urban centres in the province, according to the British Columbia Real Estate Association. The association reported Friday...
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Video: B.C. Politics this week – BC Hydro debt and BC NDP complaints over jobs
This week on Inside the Ledge, Vaughn Palmer and Rob Shaw discuss BC Hydro’s debt and dividend problem, as well as complaints that are stacking up about the BC NDP over jobs and election readiness.
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Video: The forced migration of Syrian refugees
Conversations that Matter features Sarah Deardorff Miller of the American University in Washington, D.C. Miller discusses the horrifying circumstances that have forced 13.5 million Syrians from their...
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Vancouver police hunts suspect in local stabbing
Vancouver police have arrested one suspect in a random attack against a man in East Vancouver and have issued a Canada-wide warrant for a second man. Clifford Jackson, 32, was arrested and charged with...
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Annual 4/20 pot protest set to go ahead at Sunset Beach
Vancouver’s Sunset Beach is set to get a whole lot greener Wednesday with marijuana activists planning a smoke out at the park for the annual 4/20 pot protest. City staff told activists to find a new...
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While B.C. districts struggle to fill schools, in Alberta the rules are...
The B.C. ministry of education is forcing the province’s school districts to have their schools 95-per-cent full before they can get funding for seismic upgrades. But next door in Alberta, the Calgary...
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Ian Mulgrew: Attorney general under fire for bowing to ICBC concerns
B.C. Supreme Court justices and senior lawyers have quit an important advisory committee after Attorney General Suzanne Anton bowed to concerns from ICBC and rescinded cost and fee changes to civil...
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Pete McMartin: Running on empty — The Westside loses its garages
Living in the epicentre of the runaway real estate market, people in Vancouver Westside have complained loudly about what they’ve lost lately — heritage homes, trees, neighbours, a sense of community....
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