Report: MLS eyes Las Vegas if Whitecaps are relocated
A new report says Major League Soccer (MLS) is looking to move the Whitecaps out of Vancouver. The Athletic published a story on Monday saying MLS has told owners around the league that it is exploring relocating the team, with Las...
Authorities searching for man near Port Haney Wharf waters
The Maple Ridge RCMP responded to a marine incident near the Port Haney Wharf in Maple Ridge on Monday. It was reported that a man may have fallen into the Fraser River at this location and did not resurface. CLICK...
Langley RCMP locate two bodies after reports of ‘suspicious incident’
The Langley RCMP says that it has located two bodies on Monday near the intersection of 16 Avenue and 208th Street in Langley. In a written statement, Sgt. Zynal Sharoom says that officers received “a report of a suspicious incident”...
B.C.’s chief coroner calling on province to address intimate partner violence; critics not satisfied
In a new report on intimate partner violence (IPV), the chief coroner of B.C. says that the majority of deaths are avoidable and calls on the province to take serious action. Dr. Jatinder Baidwan says that authorities have counted at...
Trial of ex-Mountie charged with security offence concludes in B.C. court
The trial of a former Mountie accused of a security offence in relation to his work helping the Chinese government has concluded in the British Columbia Supreme Court, with his defence counsel saying prosecutors hadn’t proved their case, which was...
Governor General visiting Tumbler Ridge as community heals from mass shooting
Mary Simon, Canada’s Governor General, arrived in Tumbler Ridge on Monday, more than 10 weeks after a mass shooting killed nine people in the small town in northeastern B.C. She is scheduled to meet with officials, school staff, students, and...
B.C. wineries wary of wildfire risk
Wine growers in the Okanagan are growing concerned about wildfire as temperatures throughout the region rise. Former Kelowna MLA Ben Stewart says a dry winter and spring have made local forests highly susceptible to wildfire caused by lightning strikes and...
Canadian manufacturers call for tariffs on global imports of wood products
Canadian wood manufacturers are welcoming a trade inquiry into wood imports, but say the investigation needs to be followed by immediate provisional tariffs on foreign-made goods entering the country. Earlier this month, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne said the government had...
B.C. Supreme Court hearings begin for legal challenges to LNG pipeline project
The B.C. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on two legal challenges filed over the provincial government’s decision to allow a liquefied natural gas pipeline project to go ahead on a 12-year-old environmental review. Two petitions take aim at...
‘The way of the future’: Goodbye guns, hello avalanche-exploding drones at Whistler
Breadcrumb Trail Links ‘The way of the future’: Goodbye guns, hello avalanche-exploding drones at Whistler Whistler recently saw the test of a bomb-carrying drone for avalanche mitigation, believed to be the first at a Canadian ski resort. Author of the...
