Who are the party leaders as British Columbia goes to the polls?
British Columbians are going to the polls about two years ahead of schedule, after Premier David Eby called an early election to be held on Oct. 24. Here’s a look at the party leaders in a political landscape that is...
B.C. Premier Eby calls early election for Oct. 24, says Trump is ‘existential’ threat
British Columbia Premier David Eby has called an election less than two years into his mandate and amid chaos within the B.C. Conservative Opposition whose leader quit days ago. The NDP Leader went to Government House in Victoria to ask...
Broken rotor blade caused WestJet fire, forced landing in Kelowna: safety board
The Transportation Safety Board says a broken rotor blade caused an engine fire that forced a WestJet aircraft to make an emergency landing at the airport in Kelowna, B.C. A safety board report released Tuesday describes the incident involving a...
Calm or chaos? East Vancouver residents sick of traffic barriers
For anyone driving in the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood, it doesn’t take long to come across a concrete barrier blocking a road. Traffic calming measures such as those were installed as part of the City of Vancouver’s neighbourhood traffic management program, intended...
Elections BC’s request for $50M in supplemental funding remains unapproved
The prospect of Premier David Eby calling a snap election continues to loom over B.C., but is the province’s election authority prepared to handle it, one to two whole years before it was scheduled to take place? Elections BC is...
Five people fined for illegal shellfish harvesting on Vancouver Island
Five people have been fined a combined $19,000 after harvesting shellfish from a contaminated area on Vancouver Island. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says officers were patrolling in late June when they came across people harvesting shellfish from an area in...
Origin of destructive B.C. wildfire remains under investigation: police
Police say they are continuing to work with wildfire personnel and others on a multi-agency investigation into the origin of the Bald Range fire, which destroyed or damaged about 150 properties in British Columbia’s south Okanagan last month. RCMP in...
Feds approve FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG expansion under ‘one project, one review’
The federal government has approved expansion of the Tilbury LNG facility in Delta., saying potential adverse effects are justified by the project’s benefits. Monday’s approval under the “one project, one review” principle came immediately after the B.C. government issued an...
B.C. Conservative leader scraps appearance, cites looming election call
The Opposition British Columbia Conservatives have scrapped an appearance by new interim leader Lorne Doerkson and his caucus, citing a possible snap election call today. Lorne Doerkson, who was appointed after Sunday’s resignation of Kerry-Lynne Findlay, was scheduled to appear...
New website helping shoppers buy Canadian
It’s no secret Canadians have been trying to buy Canadian, given the rhetoric coming from our neighbours to the south. So when Vancouver’s Tomáš Švec saw a need to help Canadians find Canadian, he got right to work. That’s when...
