Vancouver to create pedestrian zone along Granville Street during FIFA World Cup
The City of Vancouver will convert part of Granville Street in the city’s downtown core to a pedestrian zone during this summer’s FIFA World Cup between June 11 and July 20. Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim made the announcement at a press conference...
Solomon tells OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that Tumbler Ridge deserves apology
Federal Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says he met with the CEO of OpenAI and told him the people of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., deserve an apology for the tech firm’s role in events leading up to the mass shooting there...
Maya, 12-year-old Tumbler Ridge shooting victim, showing small signs of improvement: parents
The parents of twelve-year-old Maya Gebala, who was shot in the head and neck during the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, say that their daughter is showing small but steady signs of improvement. David Gebala, Maya’s father, says in a...
RCMP roundup: Breaking Bad-esque drug RV busted in New Westminster | Good Samaritan bitten in...
Breadcrumb Trail Links RCMP roundup: Breaking Bad-esque drug RV busted in New Westminster | Good Samaritan bitten in Surrey assault A roundup of emergency incidents around B.C. this week. Author of the article: By J.J. Adams Published Mar 04, 2026...
Douglas Todd: ‘Trying to be a voice for the scared’: China researchers under fire in...
Breadcrumb Trail Links Douglas Todd: ‘Trying to be a voice for the scared’: China researchers under fire in B.C. The work of independent Chinese-language researchers investigating the Chinese Communist Party’s influence in Canada has prompted a high-profile complaint and a...
B.C. judge certifies class-action lawsuit alleging prison guard sexually assaulted inmates
Breadcrumb Trail Links B.C. judge certifies class-action lawsuit alleging prison guard sexually assaulted inmates Court ruled this week lawsuit likely representing at least 200 inmates in one of four B.C. prisons Roderic MacDougall worked at between 1976 and 1996 can...
This stretch of Granville Street will be car-free during the World Cup
Breadcrumb Trail Links This stretch of Granville Street will be car-free during the World Cup The stretch of Granville Street between Georgia and Davie streets in downtown Vancouver will be turned into a traffic-free, pedestrian only zone during the World...
Surrey will host free public watch parties for FIFA matches
With 100 days to go until the FIFA World Cup arrives in Vancouver, the City of Surrey announced on Tuesday that it will organize live public screenings of the matches this summer. Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke says that these screenings...
B.C.’s move to end clock changes won’t be without complications
The mayor of Prince George in northern British Columbia is the father of six adult children, who got used to the struggle of getting his kids out of bed on dark winter mornings as they were growing up. Those days...
Carney won’t say whether India is engaged in interference, transnational repression
Prime Minister Mark Carney is refusing to say whether he believes India is still behind acts of foreign interference and transnational repression in Canada. Six days after a senior official told Canadian journalists that India had stopped such behaviour, the...
