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Pemberton Music Festival cancelled, ticket holders and local firms fear cash...
The 2017 Pemberton Music Festival planned for mid-July was cancelled on Thursday, potentially leaving ticket holders and local firms high and dry. Pemberton Music Festival LP and 1115666 B.C. LTD,...
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Another ex-UN gangster testifies against alleged killer Cory Vallee
A former United Nations gangster who turned away from his criminal past years ago agreed to cooperate with police in 2016 because he feared going to prison for life. The man, who can only be identified...
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Canada 150: Durai Pal Pandia played a key role in getting the vote for...
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. In 1946, a major development occurred in the political fight to get the vote by...
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UBC Innocence Project marks a decade of investigating wrongful conviction claims
While wrongful conviction cases seem dramatic in Hollywood movies, the day-to-day reality is far from glamorous. It is more about inventorying “boxes upon boxes” of police documents, mounting court...
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Rob Shaw: Narrow window exists for John Horgan to become premier
VICTORIA — B.C.’s razor-thin election results could change dramatically next week, as officials start counting the absentee ballots that will determine which party gets the province’s next majority or...
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Indigenous families, without answers for so many years, frustrated by slow...
Along the Island Highway just outside Campbell River, 16-year-old Helena Howard and her sister Christine Thomas, 26, stood looking for a ride to Gold River, where their large Mowachaht First Nations...
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Vancouver Hyperlapse video is a stunning 'love letter' to the city
To capture all of Vancouver’s beauty, you’d have to take thousands of photos. Hundreds of thousands, even. That’s how many digital artist Etienne R. of 604 Scans snapped in creating Vancouver...
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First Nations search party will cover 118 km to find three missing B.C. women
A First Nations-led search party is hoping to find three missing women during a weekend walk in the B.C. Interior that will cover 118 kilometres from the Splatsin First Nation near Enderby to Sylix...
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New E. coli outbreak in British Columbia linked to Rogers flour
The B.C. Centre for Disease Control is warning the public of an outbreak of E. coli after six British Columbians were infected with the same strain of the bacterial infection between February and...
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Vancouver Island firefighter saves ducklings from storm drain
Oak Bay Fire often says there’s no call too small, and that was the case Friday morning when a firefighter rescued a brood of tiny ducklings trapped down a storm drain. Dr. Daisy Dulay was walking to...
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Arrest made after car thief ran over police bike in Richmond
An alleged car thief who police claim ran over a member of the Richmond Bike Unit’s patrol bicycle in April has been arrested. Jason Edward Keyes, 30, has been charged with several crimes, including...
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Pemberton Music Festival: Millions owed all over town
The bankrupt businesses behind the cancelled Pemberton Music Festival may owe ticket holders and other creditors more than $16.7 million, according to documents obtained by Postmedia. And among the...
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The Happenings: Things to do in Vancouver on Saturday, May 20
Looking for something to do in Metro Vancouver? Here are three suggestions for Saturday, May 20. VANCOUVER COMIC ARTS FESTIVAL Comics! Not the standup kind, mind you. The sit down and read kind. The...
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Canada 150: Len Norris, cartoonist of everyday complications
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. Len Norris didn’t become a full-time cartoonist until he joined The Vancouver Sun...
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Inquest rules Victoria police shooting of Rhett Mutch a suicide
VICTORIA — A coroner’s inquest jury that reviewed the case of a Victoria man who died during a confrontation with police has classified the death as a suicide. Twenty-year-old Rhett Mutch was shot in...
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Five things: New Westminster honours late TV star Raymond Burr on his 100th...
Raymond Burr, the New Westminster-born star of TV’s Perry Mason and Ironside, is being posthumously honoured by his hometown on what would have been his 100th birthday. The Raymond Burr Performing Arts...
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Victoria's downtown revival turns into full-fledged boom
VICTORIA — Mike and Kara Tkachuk, owners of Valhalla Pure, relocated the outdoor gear retailer from Langford to downtown Victoria. They say a revitalized core with thousands of new residents was behind...
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Ontario's WayHome Festival offers free trades for fans with cancelled...
Take Our PollOntario’s WayHome Music & Arts Festival is offering fans holding tickets for the cancelled Pemberton Festival a chance to salvage their summer. On Thursday, it was announced that...
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Muslims quietly pray in B.C. public schools, despite protests in Ontario
The thorny issue of whether Muslim students should be allowed to pray in Canadian secular schools aroused a storm of protests this year in a large school district in Toronto. But Muslim students have...
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Uvic researcher sees powerful future in waves
B.C. has some of the best wave-energy potential anywhere in the world and with better government support and jurisdictional clarity, this province could be a global leader in developing the industry....
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