Clik here to view.
ART SEEN: Saying goodbye to Beau Dick
A Celebration of Life for Beau Dick, one of the great artists of the Northwest Coast, is taking place Sunday at the Museum of Anthropology. Speakers include Larry Grant, Chief Robert Joseph, Linea...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canada 150: Okanagan writer focuses on First Nations education
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. If anyone is deserving of the scholarly term “autochthonous” (something springing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Douglas Todd: 'Techno-immigrants' fuel Vancouver’s high-tech sector
Major corporations rely on international students, temporary foreign workers and immigrants to feed Metro Vancouver’s growing high-tech sector, says a study. In an article titled “Chinese...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C.'s three main parties agree more needs to be spent on home care
The B.C. Green party wants to create three different health ministries, the B.C. NDP says it will boost hospital operating room times to reduce surgical wait times, while the B.C. Liberals plan to keep...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tent city takes over Vancouver lot as activists seek to make homelessness an...
Yet another tent city has taken over an empty Vancouver lot as activists continue pleas for government to act on the homelessness crisis. Around 9 a.m. on Friday, organizers with the Alliance Against...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Longtime Independent Soldier gangster Donnie Lyons back behind bars
A longtime member of the Independent Soldiers gang is behind bars after allegedly carrying a firearm contrary to a court order. Donald Bryce Lyons, 45, was arrested in Revelstoke on April 14 by B.C.’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weaver says he will retire if Greens fail to pick up another seat
Andrew Weaver said Friday he is done with provincial politics unless the Green party can gain at least one more seat in the legislature. Appearing at a Postmedia News editorial board in Vancouver,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Man in hospital after early morning Wreck Beach rescue
A man was taken to hospital early Saturday after falling about 30 metres from a trail near Wreck Beach. Vancouver Fire assistant chief Peter Bridge said the man, who was in his early 20s, was walking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Doctor says suspension over using pen and paper ‘a moment of pride’
A Nanaimo doctor suspended for defying an Island Health order to use a new software, says he was acting to protect his patients’ safety. Dr. Paul Mitenko is one of seven internal medicine specialists...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. election 2017: Non-resident patients skip out on $75 million in hospital...
Non-resident patients have stuck B.C. health authorities with $75 million in unpaid hospital and ambulance bills over the last five years, according to figures given to Postmedia News by the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Three dead, including children, in Coquitlam crash
Two young girls and a 30-year-old woman are dead after a devastating three-car crash in Coquitlam on Friday evening. Police said impairment was not a factor in the accident, which happened just before...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. election 2017: Early bird voters cast ballots at advance polls
Five minutes after the first advance polls opened at 8 a.m. on Saturday, there was a lineup of more than a dozen people waiting to cast their ballots at an Abbotsford church. Elections B.C. spokesman...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. responds to suit over fees to welfare recipients for methadone treatment
The B.C. government says it has done nothing wrong by redirecting money from the income-assistance cheques of recovering heroin addicts to pay private methadone-dispensing clinics for treatment. In...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. Election 2017: Liberals promise to halt Vancouver's natural gas ban
The B.C. Liberals used the election campaign Saturday to pick a new fight with the City of Vancouver, saying if re-elected they’ll strip the city of its powers to restrict natural-gas use in new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cannabis conference is like 4/20, but with more ties and lab coats
The third annual Cannabis Hemp Conference and Expo promises something for everyone. For the lab-coat set, a keynote address by neurologist Dr. Ethan Russo promises to illuminate the pharmacology of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
'Lab in a cell' helps crack code on chlamydia
Scientists in the U.K. and B.C. have created a “lab in a cell” to study one of the world’s most-widespread, sexually transmitted diseases. Using a gene-editing tool called CRISPR/Cas9, the researchers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meals wheeled to your door: Metro startups take care of the shopping, cooking
Jacqueline Tupper has a busy life and little time to cook healthy meals. The challenge of eating well is made that much harder when her dietary requirements differ from those of her children, ages four...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Threat of economic turmoil over softwood becomes B.C. election issue
VICTORIA — A hefty American tariff on Canadian softwood could be devastating for British Columbia’s economy, but it may also be advantageous for political leaders on the campaign trail who are looking...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Coquitlam parents desperate for daycare due to imminent closures
Scores of working parents with children in daycare will be on their own at the end of June after the Coquitlam school district ended leases for classrooms used by six private daycares. Michael Gerson...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Daphne Bramham: Kootenay Bill's riding up for grabs on election night
CRANBROOK — For four decades, Kootenay East voters have gone with the provincial majority. When the province went NDP, so did they. When it switched to the B.C. Liberals, they did, too. Since 2001,...
View Article