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'You just can't win in Canada' when it comes to gas prices
While Americans have seen their cheapest summer at the gas pumps in more than a decade, Metro Vancouver drivers aren’t getting the same break north of the border. That situation is unlikely to change,...
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School funding increasing slower in B.C. than in rest of Canada, Fraser...
B.C.’s spending on public schools education is growing slower than in the rest Canada, says a report from the Fraser Institute, released today. The Fraser Institute Report says per-student funding has...
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B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake decides it's time to leave, seek new challenges
VICTORIA — B.C.’s Minister of Health is bowing out of provincial politics, but it’s unlikely to derail any of the major changes in the health care sector set in motion over the past several years....
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Meeting your meat: PNE agriculture fair breaches urban-rural divide
For 18 years, Christie Kerr has worked in the Pacific National Exhibition’s agricultural sector, trying to dissolve the urban-rural disconnect that separates city folk from the realities of farming....
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B.C. government fights Postmedia request for camera in health case courtroom
The B.C. government is opposing an application by the Pacific Newspaper Group to use a camera in the courtroom during a Vancouver trial that may have far-reaching implications for private medical care...
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Municipal permits for townhouses in Surrey cost the most: study
Surrey was the most expensive city in which to obtain permits for a mid-sized group of townhouses, while Vancouver was the slowest to grant approvals, according to builders’ experiences. The findings...
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Strike by West Vancouver Blue Bus drivers averted
A transit strike in West Vancouver has been averted just ahead of the long weekend as the two sides await talks with a mediator. “There is going to be no work stoppage in the near future,” said the...
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Party-drug users playing Russian roulette with fentanyl, police warn
Sometime in the early hours of Thursday, a group of nine friends met in Delta and scored some coke. They then went their separate ways to party at four different houses in South Delta. At some point,...
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Does size matter? Sushi chefs say not really
Is there a right and a wrong size for sushi? Most of us just devour it, but some sushi-philes have strong opinions, like the doctor who wrote to the Seattle Times this week, distraught that sushi and...
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B.C.'s first case of anaphylaxis from European fire ant stings confirmed
What Ralph Olson remembers the most is the itching. “I can’t describe the itch well enough,” Olson said. “I’ve never felt anything like it.” In late July, Olson was swarmed by invasive European fire...
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A year ago today: Syrian toddler's death had big effect on Canada
VANCOUVER — It’s been one year since the image of a drowned toddler lying face down on a Turkish beach turned the eyes of the world to the Syrian refugee crisis, but observers say the powerful portrait...
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Attempted scam involved Vancouver lawyer's website
Vancouver-based family lawyer Leena Yousefi was shocked this week to learn her website — or a near facsimile of it — was being used in an apparent attempted scam involving a Guinness record-holding...
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Police seek B.C. couple missing more than a month
Police in Williams Lake are hoping someone can tell them the whereabouts of Mihai Vornicu and Marie Olarte, a married couple last seen in July. The couple was reported missing to Williams Lake RCMP on...
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After reconciliation with himself, B.C. chief seeks reconciliation for the...
As a young man, Robert Joseph, one of the hereditary chiefs of the Gwawaenuk First Nation near Alert Bay, found himself in the depths of despair — until an epiphany changed his life. Today, he is a...
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Co-workers raise money, spirits, of cabbie stabbed in Kamloops
Kamloops — A taxi driver who was critically injured last month says he is overwhelmed by the generosity of his co-workers in Kamloops and is already looking forward to returning to the job he loves....
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Daphne Bramham: Arctic region must adapt to less ice, but can it happen fast...
POND INLET, Nunavut — The most-awaited ship here this season wasn’t the 1,000-passenger Crystal Serenity that’s scheduled to arrive Sunday. Nor was it any of the other nine smaller, expedition ships...
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Richmond townhouse strata meetings revert back to Chinese-language-only amid...
A Richmond homeowner who launched a human rights complaint over the controversial Mandarin-only strata meetings held at his townhouse complex says council has reverted back to Chinese after a brief...
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Collapsing or cooling? Vancouver real estate market data's mixed messages
House sales are down, but prices are still going up. That’s the latest message from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, but some analysts suggest the board is presenting an incomplete picture...
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Despite $135k Coquitlam cleanup, medical pot users' needs trump landlord...
OTTAWA — The federal government says it is under a legal obligation to put the rights of medicinal marijuana users ahead of the rights of property owners. Health Canada was responding to criticism from...
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IHIT investigating Chilliwack homicide
Details are few, but the Integrated Homicide Investigations Team has confirmed it’s looking into an apparent shooting in Chilliwack. IHIT is responding to a new homicide in Chilliwack. Details to...
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