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Mom's warning after daughter's concussion: "We all failed that day"
An elite gym in Burnaby has been host to the Canadian women’s soccer team, the Toronto Raptors — and 11-year-old Dylan Uzelac of North Vancouver. Dylan was a top soccer player on a gold medal-winning...
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Ian Mulgrew: Terrorism debate shifts due to RCMP misconduct in 2013 Canada...
Following the 18-months of B.C. Supreme Court proceedings that led to the freeing of the 2013 Canada Day “terrorists,” I am struck by the sea-change in public mood over what national security measures...
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Wanting Qu facing criticism from Chinese netizens over support of her mother
Vancouver-based Chinese pop-singer Wanting Qu — once a darling on Chinese social media such as Weibo and WeChat — is facing a wave of criticism from the country’s netizens stemming from her support of...
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How 'entrepreneurial philanthropy' is easing the Syrian migrant crisis
With such tremendous suffering and hardship in the world — from victims of natural disasters to those fleeing wars — it often seems no one is able to do enough, quickly enough. Sometimes there are...
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Vancouver police probe alleged hate crime after man beaten at Starbucks
Vancouver police are investigating whether a hate crime was committed after a Turkish-speaking man said he was punched in the face after his assailant told him he was talking in a “f—ing foreign...
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B.C. wildfire risk high due to abandoned campfires
Fire wardens were busy putting out fires over the B.C. Day long weekend, including 21 abandoned campfires. The B.C. Wildfire Service urged the public to be more vigilant with fire use and backcountry...
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Sunday shooting in Surrey leaves one man dead
Another man has died in a fatal shooting in Surrey on Sunday — the second such incident in just over a week. Surrey Mounties, responding to a call about an injured man, found the victim suffering from...
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Vancouver police looking for van in hit-and-run accident
Vancouver police are searching for a van involved in a hit-and-run accident on July 24 that left a pedestrian with significant, but non-life-threatening, injuries. Police said Tuesday that around 4...
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Railway tracks removed from Vancouver's Arbutus corridor
Vancouver’s Arbutus greenway is finally free of the railway track that for decades ran down the centre of the city like a nasty scar. The ties and rails have been pulled up, clearing a path for...
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Vaughn Palmer: Christy Clark says changing 'old, unfair' MSP is complicated
VICTORIA — After a disappointing stab at curbing Medical Services Plan premiums in this year’s budget, Premier Christy Clark nevertheless insists she’s bent on reforming the controversial tax...
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High-risk offender arrested in Maple Ridge
William James Brookshaw, 42, has been arrested in Maple Ridge after Vancouver police issued a warning earlier Tuesday about the high-risk offender being unlawfully at large. Police said Brookshaw,...
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Vancouver hires former Portland city planner
The City of Vancouver has appointed a successor to fill the crucial position left vacant when Brian Jackson, its last head of planning, retired last winter. Gil Kelley is slated to start Sept. 15 as...
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Five things: Other B.C. tent cities that have popped up in recent years
On Tuesday, Mayor Gregor Robertson met up with advocates and Downtown Eastside community members to discuss what the city can do about the need for social housing, as demonstrated by the tent city of...
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B.C. farmers can now host agritourism events without ALC permit
British Columbia farmers will no longer need a permit from the Agricultural Land Commission to host agritourism events such as weddings and concerts on their farms, it was announced Tuesday. The new...
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SFU becomes first accredited Canadian research university in U.S.
Simon Fraser University just became the first Canadian research university with U.S. accreditation. The announcement came Tuesday that SFU had in recent weeks been granted accreditation by the...
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Foreign Buyers Tax: Realtors begin to report sales deals collapse
Realtors and lawyers desperate to get in under the deadline filed a record-setting 15,000 property transfer applications on Thursday and Friday, the last business days before B.C.’s punishing new...
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Vancouver mayor vows to expedite social housing for Hastings tent city site
Standing on the steps of the Downtown Eastside’s Carnegie Centre, Mayor Gregor Robertson vowed Tuesday to expedite the rezoning and development process for a lot at 58 West Hastings, in a bid to bring...
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B.C. families of missing, murdered women urge national inquiry to get it right
VANCOUVER — There’s no room for mistakes in the newly announced national inquiry into murdered and missing women, says a coalition of British Columbia families and support groups. Mary Teegee, with the...
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Families of murdered, missing women worried inquiry won't target police
Lorelei Williams still feels immense pain when she thinks about how police handled the missing persons file for her cousin, whose DNA was eventually found on serial killer Robert Pickton’s Port...
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"Anti-immigrant?" Or "Immigration skeptic?"
The short-hand term, “anti-immigrant,” has been used a great deal by journalists these days to describe political parties or people who question or criticize their country’s standing immigration...
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