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It may be almost two weeks since British Columbia's election resulted in a landslide win for the B.C. Conservatives, but it's still a tense time for a handful of candidates.
The planned Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion, which is expected to add 2.4 million containers of capacity at the Port of Vancouver, the largest in the country, has officially been named a project of national interest. Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon said the move provides certainty for a project that's a key part of Ottawa's drive to expand and diversify trade...
DELTA -- The planned Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion, which is expected to add 2.4 million containers of capacity at the Port of Vancouver, the largest in the country, has officially been named a project of national interest.
The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting that CentreBC Leader Elenore Sturko has lost her bid to win back her former seat in Surrey South.
VANCOUVER -- The Canadian Press decision desk is projecting that OneBC interim leader Dallas Brodie has lost the riding of Vancouver-Quilchena.
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Five legislators who quit the B.C. Conservatives will be part of a new party that aims to offer a "stable, serious alternative" to the governing NDP, after weeks of upheaval in the official Opposition.
Five legislators who quit the B.C. Conservatives will be part of a new party that aims to offer a "stable, serious alternative" to the governing NDP, after weeks of upheaval in the official Opposition.
Five legislators who quit the B.C. Conservatives will be part of a new party that aims to offer a "stable, serious alternative" to the governing NDP, after weeks of upheaval in the official Opposition. Rosalyn Bird, Bruce Banman and A'a:liya Warbus said Friday in a joint statement that they're joining the yet-to-be-named party being formed by Peter Milobar and Ian...
Two more legislators have quit British Columbia's Opposition Conservatives, with Scott McInnes and Donegal Wilson both citing Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay's reported connections to Alberta separatists as part of a series of concerns. McInnes becomes the ninth MLA to defect in less than three weeks, announcing his departure a little over two hours after Wilson's.
When Bruce Banman crossed the floor to join John Rustad in the B.C. Conservatives in 2023, it was a key moment that both conferred official party status and set the Conservatives on a path that brought them to the verge of power the next year, their 44 MLAs filling official Opposition benches. Now he doubts whether new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay...
B.C. Conservative MLA A'a:liya Warbus, one of the Opposition's most prominent legislators, has joined the exodus from the party's caucus, saying she has lost confidence in it under new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay. Warbus said in a statement on Monday morning she would sit as an Independent, becoming the seventh Conservative MLA to quit the caucus this month, including five last...
B.C. Conservative MLA A'a:liya Warbus, one of the Opposition's most prominent legislators, has joined the exodus from the party's caucus, saying she has lost confidence in it under new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay.
Elections BC has granted in-principle approval for a petition to proceed seeking the repeal of British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced Thursday that her government has a route - and builders - for a new pipeline to the B.C. coast, just hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a deal with B.C. to make it possible. Smith and Carney stood together in Calgary to announce that Alberta has formally submitted a proposed route to Ottawa's major...
British Columbia's nurses have reached a "breaking point" with burnout, the rising threat of violence and constant staffing shortages, setting off 72-hour strike notice, union president Adriane Gear said Monday.
VANCOUVER -- The City of Vancouver has issued a human rights plan for the FIFA World Cup that begins next month, saying people who are homeless will still be able to shelter in parks overnight, but structures will have to be removed in the daytime under pre-existing rules.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Columbia Premier David Eby have agreed to enter negotiations on B.C.'s economic priorities and Ottawa's role in national development projects. Carney met with Eby in a closed-door meeting in Vancouver Wednesday, shortly after the prime minister spoke to B.C. business leaders at a separate event where he outlined prerequisites for a possible pipeline championed...
VANCOUVER -- An investigator has found that Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim "misused the influence of his office" and harassed a councillor in violation of the council's code of conduct.
VANCOUVER -- The lack of suicide-prevention barriers on Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge is "inexcusable," those pushing for the measures say, after a woman fell to her death in an incident that unfolded over more than nine hours.
VANCOUVER -- The lack of suicide-prevention barriers on Vancouver's Granville Street Bridge is "inexcusable" after a woman fell to her death Wednesday, those pushing for the measures say.
VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says he is "moving an urgent motion" to block the planned opening of a new downtown overdose prevention site.
VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says his false claim that Coun. Sean Orr distributed illegal drugs didn't damage his reputation, because Orr's own previous statements showed he "supported drug use."
Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping has received wide coverage from Chinese media, featuring on most state-owned outlets' front pages.
British Columbia's Forests Ministry has entered into a memorandum of understanding with China on modern wood construction, a development that the province hopes will bolster the provincial lumber sector as it seeks alternatives to the U.S. market. The five-year, non-binding agreement with the Chinese government also involves the Canadian federal Department of Natural Resources and is among the first reached...
British Columbia's Forests Ministry has entered into a memorandum of understanding with China on modern wood construction, a development that the province hopes will bolster the provincial lumber sector as it seeks alternatives to the U.S. market.
Former Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator Albert Chan Wai-yip is a longtime critic of China, who has accused its government of "crimes against humanity" after a crackdown on dissent in the Chinese special administrative region. But Chan said it is time for Canadians to look east again, as Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares for a trip to China where he will...
VANCOUVER -- Former Hong Kong pro-democracy legislator Albert Chan Wai-yip is a longtime critic of China, who has accused its government of "crimes against humanity" after a crackdown on dissent in the Chinese special administrative region.
VANCOUVER -- Flooding and rock slides have cut off British Columbia's Lower Mainland from the Interior as a series of atmospheric river weather systems drench the province, with emergency officials saying cross-border water flows rival those that triggered catastrophic floods in 2021.
VANCOUVER -- As rain pummeled the Fraser Valley on Wednesday, poultry farmer Corry Spitters and his family started to calculate their possible losses, with memories of the devastation from flooding four years ago still vivid.
VANCOUVER -- B.C. Emergency Management Minister Kelly Green says a state of local emergency has been declared in the Fraser Valley due to flood risks from a series of atmospheric river weather systems that are drenching the province.
The union representing striking public service workers across British Columbia has agreed to enter non-binding mediation with the province in their labour dispute.
VANCOUVER -- The head of a British Columbia restaurant industry association says businesses are in a state of "nervousness and anxiety" over possible liquor distribution disruptions as public service labour strife expands to several warehouses.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbians are being told to prepare themselves for the worsening of a dense shroud of wildfire smoke that has descended over the province, with health experts saying the dangerous impacts of the pollution might not be immediately apparent.
British Columbia is weighed down by rapidly growing debt despite a lower-than-forecasted deficit for 2024, something that Finance Minister Brenda Bailey said the government is working hard to address.
British Columbia's final deficit for the fiscal year has come in at $7.3 billion, $564 million lower than the original projected number in Budget 2024.
A Yukon First Nation says it will oppose any new mining claims on its traditional territory as it begins a regional land-use planning process with the territory's government.
The mayor of Nanaimo, B.C., says a deferred motion for the city to ask the local health authority to close an overdose prevention site near city hall will likely be settled in the fall.
A city councillor in Nanaimo, B.C., is expected to push the city to reach out to a B.C. health authority in a bid to close the overdose prevention site next to city hall.
British Columbia's independent wood product makers say hundreds of small- and medium-sized manufacturers may be forced to shut down in light of the latest decision from the United States to raise anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood. The province's Independent Wood Processors Association says in a release that the U.S. Commerce Department's decision this week to raise duties also includes a...
VANCOUVER -- A report on safety of festivals and other celebrations in British Columbia says all public events, regardless of size, should be supported by a risk assessment.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's government is forming a working group to tackle a number of safety issues in supportive housing, including concerns of drug trafficking, weapons and second-hand exposure to fentanyl.
British Columbia's public safety minister said police intelligence had linked many cases of extortion against the South Asian community to India's Lawrence Bishnoi gang, giving the government confidence to recently seek its listing as a terrorist organization.
British Columbia's public safety minister says police intelligence has linked many cases of extortion against the South Asian community to India's Lawrence Bishnoi gang, giving the government confidence to recently seek its listing as a terrorist organization.
The court-appointed receiver of a Yukon gold mine that suffered a catastrophic heap-leach facility failure last year says it plans to sell the mine and will be seeking approval within the week to start the process.
Rob Alexander's father wasn't supposed to be on Air India Flight 182 on June 23, 1985.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia's power utility wants to boost the province's baseload electricity generation capacity in a bid to meet the province's growing demand from residents and industries.
VANCOUVER -- A British Columbia researcher in South Asian affairs says concerns about the current India and Pakistan tensions are justified, given that the region has not seen a conflict this intense in more than 25 years.
VANCOUVER -- Politicians and business leaders in British Columbia say talk of separation in Alberta is an opening for better co-operation between Ottawa and Western provinces, but dividing the country is a step too far.
VANCOUVER -- People are "sick and tired" of inquiries and reviews into a recurring pattern of people in a mental health crisis becoming involved in violent incidents, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim said Wednesday.
VANCOUVER -- Questions are swirling around the fate of the federal New Democrats in British Columbia, including the matter of leadership, after devastating election losses in the former provincial stronghold.
VANCOUVER -- Police in Vancouver say nine people are dead after an SUV plowed through a Vancouver street festival being staged by the city's Filipino community Saturday night, leaving a trail of debris and victims in its wake.
VANCOUVER -- Several people are dead after an SUV plowed through a Vancouver street festival being staged by the city's Filipino community Saturday night, leaving a trail of debris and victims in its wake.
British Columbia Energy Minister Adrian Dix says the province will have to "make choices" on programs within its CleanBC initiative given the repeal of the consumer carbon tax.
VANCOUVER -- Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago.
British Columbia's premier says he is encouraged to see a shifting tone in U.S. President Donald Trump's talks with Canada, but concerns remain about how tariffs could devastate the province's softwood lumber sector.
British Columbia's Green Party says the NDP government needs to "explain why" its proposal for broad-reaching emergency cabinet powers is needed before its two members support the legislation.
VANCOUVER -- Immigration lawyers say the case of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States over a denied visa is a warning to other Canadians that it's no longer business as usual when crossing the border for work.
British Columbia Premier David Eby says he is standing firm behind the legislation granting the province the ability to levy new fees on U.S. commercial trucks heading to Alaska, despite political threats involving the cruise ship sector from an Alaskan senator. Eby says in response to comments made by U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan that the Canadian side knows "the consequences...