3 in serious condition after early morning Burnaby apartment fire, 15 taken to hospital
A stretch of Kingsway in Burnaby is still closed as crews remain on the scene after an early morning fire at an apartment building sent 15 people to hospital. Burnaby Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Ian Hetherington tells 1130 NewsRadio...
Spring has sprung: Metro Vancouver warming up into next week
Spring was officially ushered in at 2:01 a.m. Thursday morning, turning the page on winter and welcoming in longer and warmer days ahead. While Thursday will continue to look grey and wet, 1130 NewsRadio meteorologist Carl Lam says Metro Vancouver...
B.C.’s free IVF program start date pushed back
After the B.C. government announced a free publicly funded in vitro fertilization (IVF) program during last year’s budget, there appears to be a setback. Originally, the application process was set to get underway in April, but now, the B.C. government...
TSB preliminary report cites ‘high rate of descent’ in Delta plane crash in Toronto
A preliminary report into a Delta Airlines plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport last month says the aircraft’s alert system indicated a high rate of descent less than three seconds before touchdown. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB)...
B.C. housing program scrapped as NDP prepares for carbon tax losses
The BC NDP is starting to make cuts as it braces for looming financial losses from an unstable trade relationship with the U.S. and axing the provincial carbon tax, which is set to vanish within weeks. One of the first...
Lillooet ER closed until Friday; paramedics note troubling conditions
Patients needing emergency care in Lillooet are looking at a two-hour commute to the nearest hospital in Kamloops, with the town’s ER closed yet again for a two-day stretch until Friday morning. Ian Tait from the Ambulance Paramedics of BC...
Quebec to expand religious symbol ban, force students to uncover faces
The Quebec government has tabled a bill that would expand the province’s religious symbols ban to school staff beyond teachers. The bill would update Quebec’s Education Act to also require students and staff to have their faces uncovered at school. ...
B.C. book stores bracing for potentially devastating tariffs
Canadian booksellers are looking very closely to see if the federal government is going to go through with retaliatory tariffs against the United States on April 2. The Canadian book industry, and the supply chain that they are in, is...
‘Lessons learned’: Cypress off-path skier rescued after overnight search
North Shore Rescue (NSR) says a skier came close to death before an overnight rescue on Cypress Mountain. NSR says the skier had gone out of bounds off the ‘Glades’ run at the resort when he realized he was lost...
Protestors rally in Vancouver after Israel launches deadly airstrikes on Gaza
Protestors gathered outside the Vancouver Art Gallery Tuesday afternoon to voice their opposition to the actions of the Israeli government. Israeli Defense Forces launched airstrikes into Gaza Tuesday morning, subsequently ending a 2-month-long ceasefire. Palestinian community organizer Tamer Aburamadan, with...
