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Outlet mall near Vancouver airport evacuated due to possible threat
A busy Vancouver-area mall was evacuated Sunday due to a possible threat. Droves of shoppers and mall employees were suddenly ushered out of the McArthurGlen outlet mall near Vancouver International...
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It's hot in Metro Vancouver. Really hot.
When the weather gets hot, the line-up outside Bella Gelateria gets long. The downtown Vancouver ice cream parlour did a brisk trade Sunday as a weekend heat wave shattered more than a dozen...
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B.C. government 'underfunding' of transit to blame for traffic congestion:...
The B.C. government’s “systematic underfunding” of transit projects is contributing to Metro Vancouver’s worsening traffic congestion, a new report by the David Suzuki Foundation suggests. The report...
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Richmond mayor shocked at murder of well-known developer
Richmond politicians expressed shock and concern Monday after the brazen fatal shooting of local developer Amar Singh Sandhu. Mayor Malcolm Brodie said Sandhu was an “active member of the community.”...
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Five things to know about medically assisted dying in B.C.
British Columbia has set up its own rules for medically assisted dying, after a deadline by the Supreme Court of Canada passed Monday without new federal legislation. Here are five things to know about...
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B.C. moves ahead on assisted-dying regulation
VICTORIA — British Columbia is moving ahead on helping terminally ill people seek a doctor’s assistance to end their life, even before the federal government completes new legislation on assisted...
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Aircraft that went missing north of Vancouver found, all three passengers safe
VANCOUVER — Rescue crews say a single-engine plane missing from British Columbia’s south coast has been found and all three passengers are safe. A spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue Co-Ordination Centre...
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Vancouver families sue fertility clinic over bogus claims by sperm donor
A sperm donor billed as a genius turned out to be a convicted felon with serious mental health issues. The man, who donated sperm to two Vancouver families so that they could have children through...
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How to get donated sperm in Canada
For most Canadians, shopping for sperm means sourcing them south of the border. Many Canadian fertility clinics work with large U.S. sperm banks, such as Xytex Cryo International in Atlanta, Fairfax...
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Ian Mulgrew: Jihadists or vulnerable dimwits? Police role in terror trial...
Huffing and puffing, out of breath pushing a veritable shopping cart full of transcripts and documents, Crown prosecutor Peter Eccles sighed in relief. “Whew!” he said with a smile heading into B.C....
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Persecuted Vietnamese refugee appointed a Canadian Catholic bishop
Bishop-elect Joseph Nguyen still has nightmares about being in prison in Vietnam. Dreams about the prison’s cramped conditions and malnutrition tend to strike when he’s tired and stressed, said Nguyen,...
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Port Alberni to be site of massive 9.0 earthquake, tsunami disaster drill
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s government is spending $1.2 million on a massive earthquake drill to prepare for the real thing, which forecasters say has one-in-three odds of hitting the West Coast in...
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Donated Second World War Japanese internment camp photos show slice of normal...
VANCOUVER — The black and white picture shows teenage girls posing for the camera with their clothes neatly pressed, their hair in perfect movie star pin curls, but the background of a dilapidated...
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Muhammad Ali's poetry over pugilism impressed PNE's Lee
Muhammad Ali’s fight with George Chuvalo at the Pacific Coliseum on May 1, 1972 is the stuff of legend, if only because Chuvalo remained on his feet through 12 rounds of pummelling. But it wasn’t the...
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Dog ordered euthanized after biting B.C. boy receives stay of execution
A dog that was declared dangerous and ordered euthanized after biting a four-year-old boy in the northern community of Mackenzie has had a stay of execution. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Ronald Tindale...
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Behaviour of mentally ill dad who killed kids doesn't stick out: psych nurse
NEW WESTMINSTER — A mentally ill British Columbia man who killed his three children behaves in similar ways to other patients in a Port Coquitlam, B.C., psychiatric hospital, a court heard as Crown...
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VSB seeks names for two schools
The Vancouver School Board is asking the public for help to come up with new names for two schools. The first school is Macdonald Elementary, an aboriginal focus school that is seeking a new name to...
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Metro Vancouver property taxes go through the roof
As homeowner Myles Lu faces a 20-per-cent hike to the property tax he pays on his house in Burnaby, just a few blocks north, condo owner Rick McGowan is getting a tax break. Such tax tales are common...
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Pete McMartin: As memory serves — D-Day's passing
As far as I could tell, the day went unremarked upon: nothing in the paper or on TV I could find, the news preoccupied with real estate, the public lulled by balmy weather. I played tennis and went out...
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B.C. finance minister changes FOI rules after media complaints
VICTORIA — B.C.’s finance minister is set to unveil changes to freedom of information rules on Wednesday in response to concerns from journalists. Mike de Jong will announce he’s allowing more time for...
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