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New B.C. Hydro devices saves millions of dollars from cannabis-growing power...
Smart meters and high-tech devices on hydro poles have left cannabis-growing power thieves little choice but to pay their electricity bills. In 2011, field inspections found that 62 per cent of...
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Photographer captures bobcat salmon fishing in Burnaby
The experience lasted only a couple of minutes, but photographer Mark Bates of North Vancouver will remember it for a lifetime. Bates was out photographing nature recently on a rainy afternoon with his...
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Plan calls for three towers to rise above old Vancouver post office
The plan for the old Vancouver Post Office has been unveiled, and it’s a shocker. The design by Musson Cattell Mackey Partnership calls for three new glass-faced towers to be added on top of the...
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Retention of son's umbilical cord in Canada used as 'proof' of residence
It is important when applying for citizenship to prove that one has been a multi-year resident of Canada. Some applicants go to great lengths to try to make such a case, as we’ve seen in the Metro...
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New-style McDonald's offering custom burgers with table service
I confess to some hungover days in my youth, when the lack of choice at McDonald’s was part of the chain’s appeal — a go-to cure of a Big Mac meal, fries and large Coke. Ordering that required no...
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Daphne Bramham: Are there lessons for Canada in America's deplorable election?
The American presidential election has laid bare deep divisions, anger and a sinkhole of mistrust. It’s revealed every blemish, wart, wrinkle and weakness. Slowly and painfully, it’s unveiled a...
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Boyfriend of pregnant killer a 'person of interest' in drug dealer disappearance
The boyfriend of pregnant killer Kelly Ellard is a “person of interest” in the May 2016 disappearance of a low-level drug dealer, according to Parole Board of Canada documents. Darwin Dorozan, 42, had...
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Spending figures suggest Liberals are playing old-fashioned blacktop politics
VICTORIA – B.C. communities represented by Liberal MLAs are more likely to get lucrative transportation projects such as highway repaving, road widening and bridge work, according to a Postmedia News...
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A Community Struggles to Cope With a Senseless Slaying
Trying to make sense of the stabbing of a teenage girl by a complete stranger inside her school is hard enough. But add into it the raw, unfiltered and out of context video of Letisha Reimer being...
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Amber Alert cancelled for abducted children in Port Coquitlam
Coquitlam RCMP has cancelled an earlier amber alert for two children they said were abducted, likely by their mother. The cancellation notice was sent out just after 9 p.m. Friday evening, but didn’t...
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REAL SCOOP: Ellard boyfriend "person of interest" in drug dealer disappearance
I just got a recent parole decision in the case of Darwin Duane Dorozan, the 42-year-old long-time criminal who is the boyfriend of pregnant killer Kelly Ellard. When I broke the story of Ellard’s...
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Feds send 'positive' signal on B.C.-Alberta power line: Energy minister
OTTAWA — The Trudeau government has sent a “quite positive” signal that it is prepared to help finance a new transmission link to ship clean B.C. hydroelectric power to Alberta, according to provincial...
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Family donates Emily Carr work to Lions Gate Hospital Foundation
A wall at Lions Gate Hospital is now far more colourful thanks to the donation of an art collection, including Emily Carr’s Wind in the Wood, by a longtime North Shore family to the hospital’s...
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Strike notice Issued by Central Okanagan bus drivers
KELOWNA — People who rely on public transit to get around the Central Okanagan could soon be forced to look for alternatives. Unionized bus drivers issued 72-hour strike notice on Thursday, raising the...
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Douglas Todd: Foreign money poses threat to B.C. democracy
The storm over foreign political donations is peaking in Australia. Australian voters are outraged by recent exposes, including an Australian Broadcast Corporation investigation that revealed...
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In Tofino, addition of ramp makes a beach for everyone
Word spread quickly about the District of Tofino’s new accessible ramp at Mackenzie Beach. A crew of athletes with disabilities — including a Paralympian —pulled up just as the district was putting on...
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Aquarium welcomes back super-volunteer for 77th birthday with belugas
The last time Ann Northrup visited the Vancouver Aquarium, Rita Johnston was just beginning her short run as premier of B.C. That was 1991 and that was when Northrup, who had spent more than 10,000...
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B.C. SPCA investigation of mall sturgeon death opens door to other stressed...
A B.C. SPCA decision to open a file on a sick sturgeon that was eventually euthanized at Bass Pro Shops in Tsawwassen is raising questions about the state of fish in other commercial live tanks and the...
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Not shook up: Elvis impersonator belting out classics with new lungs
His hands were shaking, his knees were weak and he couldn’t seem to stand on his own two feet. Five years ago, Vancouver singer Darcy Murdoch, who has an Elvis act in his repertoire, was diagnosed with...
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Two years after son fatally shot by police, Victoria mother sues for wrongful...
VICTORIA — On the second anniversary of her son being shot and killed by a Victoria police officer, Marney Mutch hand-delivered a notice of a wrongful death lawsuit to the police department and the...
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