Vancouver firefighters bending under pressure of city’s overdose crisis
Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services is limiting the number of shifts firefighters take at its Downtown Eastside firehall due to the overwhelming number of overdose calls that hall must attend. According to a recent agency post on social media, on...
SFU shuttle driver fired after calling traffic control worker ‘unbelievably beautiful’
A Simon Fraser University shuttle bus driver has lost a frededom-of-speach appeal in court after he was fired for stopping on the job to tell a construction flagperson she was beautiful. In April 2024, Robert Glen Harrison, who was employed...
Cleanup underway after CPKC train carrying propane tanker cars derails near Cranbrook
The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is investigating a weekend train derailment near Cranbrook. Rail carrier CPKC said several cars, including some containing propane, left the tracks on Saturday. The company said repairs to the track were finished early Sunday,...
Fire causes Rogers outage for some Metro Vancouver customers
A Rogers outage left customers in parts of Vancouver, Burnaby and Surrey without TV, internet and home phone service on Saturday night. According to an update from the Rogers support page at 11 a.m. Sunday, a fire causing technical issues...
Proposed Kelowna land deal would trade city industrial lot for nine-hole golf course
City of Kelowna staff want to swap land with a B.C. developer, trading a city-owned industrial lot to get half of the Kelowna Springs Golf Course. Under the proposed deal, developer Denciti would be allowed to turn its remaining half...
Vancouver Police urge South Asian community not to pay extortion demands
While Vancouver has not had any reported extortions so far, some business owners victimized in other Lower Mainland cities live here, Vancouver Police Supt. Dale Weidman said Wednesday. Weidman was one of several senior Vancouver police officers who addressed a...
Poll shows split support for creation of Metro Vancouver megacity
Debate on the creation of a Metro Vancouver megacity would likely be contentious, according to the results of a new poll. Mario Canseco, president of Research Co., said a poll conducted Nov. 14-16 found 42 per cent of Metro Vancouver...
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new forestry sector aid helps, shy of new softwood lumber deal
B.C.’s forest sector counted Prime Minister Mark Carney’s latest round of support for their industry that was unveiled Wednesday, including $500 million in new funding for loans, as helpful. After eight years of this round of the Canada/U.S. softwood lumber...
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad dares Premier David Eby to call an election
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has taken the bold step of daring Premier David Eby to call an election amid what he calls the premier’s “ever-shifting positions” on a North Coast pipeline running from the Alberta oilsands to the Port...
2025 Christmas lights list/map: Help us compile a list of Metro Vancouver’s brightest displays!
Shine on, you crazy diamond. It’s that time of year again when your drive home gets a bit more colourful, thanks to the hundreds of homes across the Metro Vancouver area that are decked out in sparkling, twinkling lights. The...
