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Take care of caregivers: Doctors of BC report
A report by the Doctors of BC released Tuesday calls on the provincial ministry of health to recognize the unpaid efforts of family, particularly in seniors’ care. ‘As technology has advanced and we’ve...
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REAL SCOOP: 856 member charged with killing Hells Angel Bob Green
Sources were telling me Monday that a young man involved in Langley’s 856 Gang had been arrested in the murder of Hells Angel Bob Green. Now Jason Francis Wallace, 27, has been charged with...
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Steve Nash goes to court to have name removed from 21 B.C. sports clubs
After a falling-out with his business partners, Steve Nash is going to court seeking an order preventing his name or image from being used in relation to 21 fitness facilities around B.C. In a notice...
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5 Things to know about the B.C. government's smart phone and tablet audit
VICTORIA — The B.C. government let lax rules on taxpayer-paid iPhones and tablets put it at risk for privacy breaches and lost data, according to joint reports Tuesday by the Auditor General and...
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Langley gang member charged with murder of Hells Angel
The man accused of killing Hells Angel Bob Green was out on bail at the time of the shooting. Jason Francis Wallace, 27, was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder for the slaying of Green on a...
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Mining watchdog files private action over Mount Polley spill
MiningWatch Canada has launched a private prosecution against the B.C. government and the Mount Polley Mining Corp., alleging violations of the federal Fisheries Act in connection with a catastrophic...
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Independent games developer shutters Yaletown studio, 150 employees out of work
An independent games developer based in Vancouver reportedly closed its Yaletown studio on Monday, a day after it was chatting up its latest game that was receiving good reviews from gamers during a...
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City will go it alone on 250 affordable housing units in South Vancouver
The city plans to forge ahead without help from its federal and provincial counterparts to build 250 affordable housing units in South Vancouver. The homes — mostly two- and three-bedroom units — are...
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Environment Canada report warns Roberts Bank port expansion could...
The Port of Vancouver’s planned $2-billion container expansion at Roberts Bank poses a “risk of significant adverse environmental effects” to the habitat of migratory shorebirds, especially western...
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Early snow at Whistler Blackcomb could mean earlier opening day
Early snow for Whistler Blackcomb is exactly what the B.C. ski industry hoped to see as it anticipates a promising season ahead due to heavier snowfall from La Niña. The mountain resort received a...
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NDP vows to raise taxes on the rich to pay for $10-a-day childcare if elected
The B.C. NDP says that if elected, it will make permanent a temporary tax on B.C.’s top earners to help fund $10-a-day childcare. Speaking to media Wednesday at the Terry Tayler Early Learning &...
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Housing conference to highlight changing definitions of home
The single-family home in Vancouver is becoming a thing of the past, according to a local housing expert. Nathanael Lauster, a sociology professor at the University of B.C. who specializes in housing,...
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B.C. criminal justice system on road to recovery, latest report says
B.C. is addressing its criminal legal system woes though it has not yet embraced performance standards or metrics, Vancouver lawyer Geoffrey Cowper says. On the fourth anniversary of his critical...
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TransLink top brass was among highest paid in local government
Former TransLink CEO Ian Jarvis topped the local government pay scale for the second consecutive year in 2014, according to The Sun’s exclusive public sector salary database. Jarvis, who was paid...
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Help us or we may leave Vancouver, Lululemon tells Ottawa
OTTAWA — One of Vancouver’s most successful companies is warning it may be forced to move its 1,200-employee head office outside the country because of problems with the federal government’s Temporary...
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Vaughn Palmer: Floating ferry removal options with pricey road-bridge links
VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberals are calling for public feedback on a proposal to replace the existing ferry links between the Lower Mainland, the Sunshine Coast and Powell River with a multibillion-dollar...
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Company being sued by Steve Nash says it has right to use his name
A company being sued by Steve Nash says they have the right to use the former NBA star’s name in the operation of 21 fitness facilities around B.C. Nash filed a lawsuit claiming that there had been a...
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Awaiting apocalypse in the Peace River Valley
It is not only Peace River environmentalists and aboriginals who fear ecological catastrophe. So does a radical religious commune. While secularists and others fear how the proposed Site C dam will...
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Maple Ridge trustees: Put overdose kits in every high school
The Maple Ridge school board is asking the provincial government to put anti-overdose kits in all B.C. high schools as part of a package of measures to combat the rising number of fentanyl deaths....
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Mountie testifies he saw blood on teens arrested after Whistler swarming death
An RCMP officer who helped arrest two teens in connection with last year’s swarming death of another teen in Whistler testified Thursday that blood was seen on both suspects. Const. Nathan Miller says...
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