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The Regional District of Central Kootenay says it will ask the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to conduct further testing for avian flu on a flock of ostriches facing a cull, before the region's landfill accepts the carcasses.
Conservative MP Scott Anderson says he's trying to stop the Canadian Food Inspection Agency from killing a flock of hundreds of ostriches on a farm in his riding, after a Federal Court ruling this week that the cull could proceed.
VANCOUVER -- A group of professors at the University of British Columbia say the school is wrongfully engaging in "political activity" by using Indigenous land acknowledgments, promoting equity and inclusion initiatives and by taking positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government is walking back a key portion of its controversial tariff response law, admitting the proposed legislation "didn't get the balance right."
A B.C. union says the federal government should put an "immediate end" to Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program in the face of U.S. tariffs and "uncertainty" caused by the Trump administration.
VANCOUVER -- Former B.C. finance minister Mike de Jong has been campaigning for nearly a year to clinch the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in the riding of Abbotsford-South Langley, but he's now been told he's not qualified to be a member of Parliament.
The federal government is going to court to force a Toronto company to sell a $34-million stake in a Calgary-based lithium firm that it bought off a Chinese company.
The details of a private chat group among current and former members of the police department in Nelson, B.C., haven't been made public.
VANCOUVER -- In August 2021, a Toronto drug case took a dramatic turn when a prosecutor made what the judge called a "highly unusual" request, asking the court to throw out evidence by a key police witness.
VANCOUVER -- When Tumbler Ridge Mayor Darryl Krakowka noticed an annual $1,225 donation to BC United had been charged to his credit card weeks after the party suspended its provincial election campaign last year, he "immediately" sought a refund from the party.
Political financing reports show that the collapsed BC United party collected more than $223,000 in donations after it suspended campaigning in last year's provincial election, including tens of thousands received after the Oct. 19 vote.
VANCOUVER -- A private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada's public health care system must pay the B.C. government's legal costs, after what a judge calls a "gruelling marathon" of a case.
A British Columbia-based climate change activist says he's looking forward to seeing his family and eating the food when he returns to his native Pakistan, as he was being deported from Canada on Sunday.
A Federal Court judge has thrown out a legal challenge by environmental groups that claimed allowing the expansion of a massive container facility on British Columbia's waterfront would threaten the survival of southern resident killer whales and salmon.
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. government is seeking the forfeiture of an eclectic haul of sports memorabilia, supersized luxury clothing, cash, jewelry and a gold tooth that were seized by Vancouver police in a criminal probe in March.
When the organizer of the We Unify Reclaiming Canada event contacted officials about booking the Victoria Conference Centre, he touted invitees from across the political spectrum, including liberal luminaries such as Amal Clooney, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, B.C.'s NDP Premier David Eby, movie stars and more.
VANCOUVER -- A Russian woman who has been living and working in Canada for the last eight years says her money is locked in limbo due to sanctions against Russia's largest bank, so she's taking Scotiabank and the Canadian government to court.
VANCOUVER -- A Federal Court judge has dismissed an appeal by a "deeply religious" British Columbia health executive who said he was wrongfully denied employment insurance after being fired three years ago for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Doctors on Vancouver Island say they're setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds of Nanaimo General and Royal Jubilee hospitals this week because the B.C. government hasn't lived up to its promise to set aside space for the sites.
Premier David Eby is proposing an all-party committee investigate mistakes made during the British Columbia election vote tally, including an uncounted ballot box and unreported votes in three-quarters of the province's 93 ridings.
British Columbia's chief electoral officer says "extremely challenging weather conditions" and a new voting system factored into human errors that saw ballots go uncounted in the provincial election -- though none were large enough to change results.
A Quebec-based religion is taking the minister of mental health and addictions to court, claiming Health Canada is dragging its feet on a decision whether to allow its members to use magic mushrooms in their ceremonies.
VANCOUVER -- There was no holiday for British Columbia's party leaders as the Oct. 19 election draws near with talk of foreign interference and vehicle insurance rates from the NDP and a promise of a new Children's Hospital in Surrey.
VANCOUVER -- B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has changed his story about seeing a man die of a drug overdose on his way to a televised election debate, after the BC Coroners Service said it had no record of such a death where he said it occurred.
VANCOUVER -- The BC Coroners Service says it has no record of any recent drug toxicity death at a Vancouver intersection where B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad said he saw a man die on his way to a televised election debate.
Convenience store firms that operate thousands of outlets across Canada are taking the federal government to court to overturn regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches to pharmacies.
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad says the federal government has been "absent" and failing to live up to commitments to First Nations on housing and clean water issues, and his government would step in and then send Ottawa the bill.
VANCOUVER -- A chemical firm based in Port Coquitlam, B.C., claims Health Canada wrongfully cancelled its licences to make natural health products after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for alleged involvement in importing precursor chemicals that could be used in illicit drug production.
VANCOUVER -- Mayors, First Nations leaders, and law enforcement officials are pleading with the federal and provincial governments to take "immediate action" to address what they call dual "crises" of public safety and mental health issues in communities across British Columbia.
VANCOUVER -- When Canada's spy chief wrote a secret letter to the public safety minister last December -- the week after a report emerged that two young women in the service had been sexually assaulted by a senior colleague -- it came with a warning.
VANCOUVER -- Canadian police forces have been using drones for many years, but scrutiny of their use is lacking, especially as the technology has evolved, privacy and surveillance researchers say.
A subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned mining firm says Canada is wrongly considering a national security review in its agreement to purchase a gold and copper mine in Peru.
VANCOUVER -- Canada and Australia's defence ministers say their countries are dealing with similar challenges in an era of global volatility not seen since the Second World War, and strengthening co-operation is essential to avoiding conflict.
NEMAIAH VALLEY, B.C. -- Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation says the 2014 court ruling that resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canadian history triggered a decade of "huge" shifts.
NEMAIAH VALLEY, B.C. -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid tribute to a landmark court ruling that resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canadian history, visiting the territory of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation in British Columbia's Interior on the 10th anniversary of what he called a "pivotal moment" for the country.
VANCOUVER -- In November last year, American border agents ordered that a freight train crossing into the U.S. be halted.