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Grizzly foundation takes to the road to hunt for bear facts in B.C.
A new Vancouver-based foundation dedicated to preserving B.C.’s grizzly bear population had a friendly reception when it held hearings among those who live and work closest to the bears, philanthropist...
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Search-and-rescue aircraft training facility coming to Comox
The national training facility for Canada’s next generation of fixed-wing search-and-rescue aircraft will be located in Comox, the commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force told the editorial board of...
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Stardust roller rink employees get reward, a decade after rink closed
Bonnie Burnside was sad when the Stardust Roller Rink in Surrey closed in 2005. She had literally grown up at the Stardust, starting off selling popcorn when she was 18 and working her way into...
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UBC dominates list of highest-earning university, college employees
The University of B.C. again dominates the list of highest-paid post-secondary school employees, but for the first time in five years, the school’s president is not at the top of the list, according to...
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Naked man breaks into Vancouver home, starts cooking eggs (again)
Hey, at least he wasn’t frying bacon. Vancouver police hope the story of a man who broke into a home, stripped naked in the kitchen and started cooking eggs will encourage people to lock their doors....
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Artist's huge paintings raise awareness of Inuit suicide
An artist has created four monumental paintings about a boy who killed himself to draw attention to the epidemic of suicides among the Inuit. The drawings are by Elisapee Ishulutaq from Pangnirtung,...
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Parks Canada to tear down famous but derelict Glacier Park Lodge
To millions of travellers over half a century it was a roadside landmark, the teal-roofed lodge and restaurant and adjacent gas station offering the only services for 150 kilometres. But the Glacier...
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Vancouver Mayor promotes new electric buses for TransLink
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson talked clean transit Thursday with local representatives of an international electric vehicle company who were at City Hall to promote their electric alternatives to...
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'Your house is on fire, where are your children?' Neighbour saves family in...
A Terrace mother and her two young children survived a house fire thanks to a brave neighbour and an unplanned late-night skate. James Giles, still awake well past his normal bedtime Tuesday night...
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Judge upholds bylaws protecting Shaughnessy heritage homes from demolition
A judge has upheld Vancouver bylaws aimed at protecting heritage homes in Shaughnessy from the increasing threat of demolition in a heated real estate market. In a ruling released Friday, B.C. Supreme...
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Conversations that Matter: The Hillary Doctrine — Sex and American Foreign...
Conversations That Matter features International Communications Advisor Patricia Leidl, co-author of the Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy, a book that took shape following Hillary...
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Inside B.C. Politics – Childcare for $10 a day, VSB firing and more
This week on Inside the Ledge, Vaughn Palmer and Rob Shaw discuss the firing of the Vancouver School Board, the NDP’s gender equity policy sparking even more controversy, the NDP’s campaign promise for...
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Blue Bus talks planned this weekend to avoid strike
The District of West Vancouver and the union representing West Vancouver Blue Bus drivers and maintenance staff will spend the weekend in mediated talks in an effort to avoid a full strike on Monday....
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Premier expands cabinet to add focus on rural economic development
VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark added another MLA to her cabinet Friday, signalling she’s in no hurry to shuffle her ministers before the May provincial election. Clark promoted Donna Barnett, the...
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Ian Mulgrew: The face of major junior hockey's class-action wage lawsuit
Lukas Walter is an unlikely labour agitator — certainly no Ginger Goodwin, B.C.’s legendary advocate for workers’ rights murdered a century ago. Yet the 23-year-old from Langley is the proposed...
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Vaughn Palmer: Liberals 'save' hockey in B.C., but do so on the sly
VICTORIA — Every day my inbox overflows with generous helpings of good news press releases from the B.C. Liberal government. This is especially true where Premier Christy Clark herself is involved....
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Vancouver students call for reinstatement or byelection for school trustees
Student presidents from all 18 Vancouver secondary schools have signed a declaration calling on the province to rescind the firing of Vancouver school board trustees. Caitlin Wong, a 17-year-old...
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Douglas Todd: Is real estate foreign buyers tax the 15 per cent solution?
Kris Klaasen has been “gob-smacked” by Metro Vancouver’s housing turmoil. While many worry the city’s bubble might be bursting, the 61-year-old communications designer is conflicted over how his modest...
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Whistler seeks to shorten Sea to Sky Highway closures from accidents
Whistler wants to shorten lengthy road closures caused by serious accidents on the Sea to Sky Highway. Resort Municipality of Whistler mayor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden can’t put a dollar value on the cost of...
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B.C. man who killed 'defenceless' fiancée handed 12-year prison sentence
KELOWNA — A man who admitted to stabbing his fiancée 26 times after she told him to move out because of his crack cocaine habit has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. Ryan James Quigley, 37, was...
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