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Rob Shaw: Parties push for crucial advance votes
VICTORIA — If you’ve ever typed in your email address on a political party website, talked to a candidate on the phone, or mumbled to a canvasser on your doorstep that you might be willing to at least...
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'We're going to have to turn people away soon': Vancouver homeless camp...
The latest homeless camp to spring up in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside was quickly filling up with campers Sunday, a day after the city ordered the camp dismantled. “We’re building up the camp. More...
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A lost World re-emerges on Pender Street
Michael Broadbent is opening up a new boutique grocery store at 343 W. Pender St. He started to take the tile off the floor to expose the original wood, and then decided to redo the east wall. The...
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Changing gears: Program aims to increase women in B.C. trucking industry
LANGLEY — The semi-truck rumbles forward as Sophia Athanas smoothly shifts through several gears in quick succession. Taking advantage of a gap in traffic, she makes a right turn onto 56th Avenue,...
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Hundreds crush it under the Fort Langley sun before designation spotlight...
The good folks with RUNVAN — and trust me they are first-rate people — expect to draw 17,000 runners from more than 60 countries to the Left Coast this weekend for the annual BMO Vancouver Marathon....
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Parties face minefield with jobs plan that protects rural B.C.
Projects that a couple of years ago created a construction mini boom in the Skeena riding in northwest B.C. are complete, including a $4.8-billion aluminum smelter upgrade and a $736-million power...
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Private treatment centre to offer free therapy for opioid addicts
Moe Elewonibi was playing for the Philadelphia Eagles when he suffered a nasty knee injury. Already dabbling in alcohol and street drugs, he soon began to abuse prescription medications as well, and...
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Christy Clark: B.C.'s modern-day W.A.C. Bennett?
First in a three-part series; John Horgan profile on May 3, Andrew Weaver on May 4. Flanked by an excavator, surrounded by two dozen workers and wearing her trademark blue hard hat, B.C. Liberal Leader...
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City on hook for $10-million damage costs in Vancouver aquifer breach
The City of Vancouver will try to collect on a repair bill of at least $9.9 million after un-permitted drilling on a city residential lot caused a massive aquifer flood that has yet to be contained,...
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Mayor of Maple Ridge cuts appearances after threats: city officials
MAPLE RIDGE — Officials say the mayor of Maple Ridge has cut her public appearances following a series of online harassment. Ted Swabey, chief administrative officer with the City of Maple Ridge, says...
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Greens apologize over unsavoury social media posts
A trio of B.C. Green party candidates have apologized to their party over unsavoury or offensive posts found on their Twitter or Facebook accounts. Over the past several weeks, James Marshall, Arthur...
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Christy Clark shuts down speculation about tax changes
B.C. Liberal party Leader Christy Clark shut the door on the business community’s request for a value added tax Monday, ending several days of speculation her party would consider major tax reforms...
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Vaughn Palmer: Leaders try to inspire non-voters to become X-factors
VICTORIA — When British Columbians voted in the 2015 federal election, they did so in larger numbers than ever before, boosting turnout to 70 per cent, a 10-point gain over the federal election just...
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B.C. polygamy trial turns into charter battle
CRANBROOK — The B.C. Supreme Court on Monday heard an application for a charter argument for abuse of process in the trial of two polygamous leaders connected to Bountiful, a small community near...
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Man gets life in prison for fatal shooting near Metrotown 22 years ago
A Vancouver man who was convicted in connection with a fatal shooting 22 years ago was on Monday sentenced to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 25 years. On April 2, a B.C. Supreme Court...
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Cold case: Man charged with sexual assault of 79-year-old in her New West...
Dorothy Darnel lived almost long enough to see her violent assailant charged. “There may have been some profanities, but I think there would be a big smile on her face,” Darnel’s son Wayne Harris said...
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Columbia River-Revelstoke NDP candidate in tough against B.C. Liberals
Columbia River-Revelstoke voters have gone NDP in all but one provincial election since 2001. So, it would seem to be an easy riding for Gerry Taft to win. The mayor of Invermere has a swell resume....
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Aftershocks still rumbling following 6.2 quake that jolted parts of B.C.,...
WHITEHORSE — More than 100 aftershocks had shivered across the Alaska Panhandle, southern Yukon and parts of northwestern British Columbia by early Tuesday following two powerful earthquakes a day...
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B.C. was home to notorious First World War internment camp for Europeans
Bill Doskoch was looking for work in Vancouver when he was arrested, for being Ukrainian. At the dawn of the First World War, the Canadian government rounded up more than 8,000 mostly single men of...
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Rental rules close down much needed daycare in Vancouver's West End
Paul and Melissa Donnett felt fortunate to find daycare for their young son Leo in Vancouver’s West End after hearing stories about wait-lists stretching up to two years. Paul Donnett with his son Leo....
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