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VICTORIA -- The agency overseeing British Columbia elections says it will issue a recall petition against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie -- and she says she's fine with that.
VICTORIA -- The agency overseeing British Columbia elections says it will issue a recall petition against OneBC legislator Dallas Brodie.
VICTORIA -- The minister responsible for energy and climate change solutions in British Columbia says four new wind farms will strengthen the province's energy sovereignty at a time of rising costs and uncertainty.
VICTORIA -- The minister responsible for energy and climate change solutions in British Columbia says four new windfarms will strengthen the province's energy sovereignty at a time of rising costs and uncertainty.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province could be selling more wood in the Middle East among other emerging markets to curtail its dependence on the United States.
VICTORIA -- Two former B.C. Conservatives now sitting as Independents say they voted with their consciences when they helped the governing NDP shut down debate on changes to Freedom of Information rules in a 3 a.m. vote.
VICTORIA -- Premier David Eby says neither the RCMP nor Canada's spy agency have ever raised concerns about his cabinet or caucus, after Vancouver's ex-mayor said a minister was being investigated for collaborating with China's government.
VICTORIA -- Former Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart says federal lawyers have interviewed him about a B.C. cabinet minister who he says is under investigation for collaborating with China's government.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby said he doesn't understand why the federal government continues to push a new oil pipeline from Alberta, while it fails to include B.C.'s softwood lumber industry in its latest round of tariff relief.
VICTORIA -- Politicians in B.C.'s legislature say they are looking into whether they can close a loophole that has allowed a member to avoid a censure motion after she used a slogan associated with Nazi Germany.
VICTORIA -- The B.C. government says construction contracts for five health-care projects have been cancelled, after depicting them as being "re-paced" in the February budget.
VICTORIA -- Construction contracts for two health-care projects that the B.C. government said were being "re-paced" when it tightened the budget in February have now been cancelled.
VICTORIA -- B.C. will receive $100 million from the federal government for World Cup security, but the provincial public safety minister says the final price tag won't be known for weeks as security arrangements are still being worked out.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia's government says it is working with the Vancouver Whitecaps to help the team lower costs and generate more revenue at BC Place -- but it won't be buying the Major League Soccer team to prevent it from moving cities.
VICTORIA -- Provincial gun regulations that have been nine years in the making will come into effect in British Columbia this fall, shutting down what the province call loopholes in federal laws that have helped allow extortion crimes to proliferate.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby says his province will keep U.S. liquor off store shelves because British Columbians are still angry over tariffs on various industries, including softwood lumber.
VICTORIA -- B.C.'s Indigenous Relations minister says two First Nations nearing the end of their treaty process have developed "accommodation packages" with some neighbouring nations, but there's still more work to do.
VICTORIA -- The B.C. Conservative Party has confirmed a final list of five candidates vying for its leadership, in a contest that has swollen the party's membership to more than 42,000.
VICTORIA -- Premier David Eby says the police investigation into the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting is in its final stages.
VICTORIA -- A coalition of First Nations say they are prepared to block major projects and take legal actions if British Columbia does not pause two treaties to resolve overlapping territorial claims.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby says that "moving forward together" with First Nations leaders is now his top priority, explaining why he withdrew plans to table legislation to suspend key parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act on Monday.
Scientists and police in British Columbia are working together on what they hope will be a game-changing "chemical fingerprinting" program for illicit drugs, that one senior officer likened to DNA testing.
Scientists and police in British Columbia are working together on what they hope will be a game-changing "chemical fingerprinting" program to track the source and destination of individual batches of illicit drugs.
VICTORIA -- The lead forecaster for the BC Wildfire Service says a relatively wet and mild winter across much of British Columbia is "really good news" for the upcoming wildfire season.
VICTORIA -- The Kitselas First Nation in northwestern B.C. has reached a major milestone in its treaty process as the province tabled legislation to ratify the agreement, in the second such achievement for a First Nation in as many days.
VICTORIA -- The Kitselas First Nation in northwestern B.C. has reached a major milestone in its treaty process as the province tabled legislation to ratify the agreement.
VICTORIA -- An international group that sets the compensation formula for maritime oil spills doesn't factor in the devastating cultural losses to First Nations, says an Indigenous leader whose Coastal B.C. nation has experienced a disastrous fuel spill.
VICTORIA -- The prospect of an early election in British Columbia is receding after the government announced that legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will no longer be a confidence vote.
VICTORIA -- The prospect of an early election in British Columbia is receding after the government announced that legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will no longer be a confidence vote.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia's public health officer says the decision to roll back the decriminalization trial because of political pressure was "disappointing."
VICTORIA -- Peter Milobar will be without his longtime campaign manager during the final stretch of the race to become the new leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. amid controversy stemming from a 2024 website and mail-out.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby has sent a letter to Indigenous leaders, saying he regrets not having more time in the legislative calendar to talk about the government's plans to suspend sections of a law that has created political and legal friction.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby says he's sure his government will retain the legislature's confidence and pass his plan to suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act that he says pose a legal peril.
Recent court rulings involving Aboriginal title have raised interest in a new committee that is exploring how public lands in Squamish, B.C., can be returned or co-managed with the Squamish First Nation, the district mayor said Tuesday.
The mayor of Squamish says recent court rulings involving Aboriginal title have raised interest in a new committee that is exploring how public lands in Squamish, B.C., can be returned or co-managed with a local First Nation.
VICTORIA -- A First Nations leader in B.C. says Premier David Eby's plan to suspend the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act will create less certainty, especially because the NDP may not be in government three years from now.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Premier David Eby hasn't had to familiarize himself with a new face in his office after deputy director of communications James Smith left for another job -- he simply tapped Smith's identical twin brother, George.
VICTORIA -- Changing British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is "non-negotiable" and it will be pushed into law, Premier David Eby said on Wednesday.
VICTORIA -- B.C. Premier David Eby says that changing the Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is "non-negotiable" and it will be pushed into law.
VICTORIA -- A First Nations leader said proposed amendments to British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act would take a "sledgehammer" to the landmark legislation.
VICTORIA -- B.C. Conservative leadership candidate Yuri Fulmer and breakaway MLA Dallas Brodie have announced a "unite the right accord" to avoid vote-splitting if Fulmer becomes Opposition leader.
VICTORIA -- A joint federal-provincial commission could look into the shooting that killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., says British Columbia's public safety minister.
VICTORIA -- A political analyst says calls for the resignation of Independent MLA Hon Chan hold water.
VICTORIA -- The MP representing Tumbler Ridge, B.C., has described how a 12-year-old girl heroically tried to save two classmates shot in the mass killing in the community last month.
VICTORIA -- Style advisor Dale Olsen says he doesn't distinguish between party colours, but he doubts British Columbia Premier David Eby is well qualified to act as the fashion police.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia's credit rating has been downgraded, but Premier David Eby says government made a "very clear choice" between making cuts to "meet a credit rating" and "prioritizing British Columbians."
VICTORIA -- James Wolfe, who lives in B.C.'s Fraser Valley, spent the last year and a half looking for a long-term care bed for his 68-year-old brother Brian, who has Down syndrome and non-verbal dementia.
VICTORIA -- A recruitment campaign in the United States has allowed British Columbia to hire more than 400 health-care professionals in less than a year.
VICTORIA -- The number of candidates running for the leadership of the British Columbia Conservatives has shrunk to seven.
VICTORIA -- A B.C. legislator who has sought to scrap the province's Human Rights Code and ban land acknowledgments, and has blamed the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting on "transgender ideology," is facing a recall campaign from constituents who say she has left them without "coherent" representation.
VICTORIA -- B.C. Premier David Eby says he had a "frank discussion" with U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra about the cross-border softwood lumber dispute and tariffs.
VICTORIA -- American duties on Canadian softwood lumber and the ban of American alcohol by B.C. will be on the table when Premier David Eby meets the U.S. ambassador to Canada in Victoria today.
The mother of a 12-year-old girl critically injured in the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., last month says her daughter's breathing tube has been removed as doctors check to see whether she can breathe on her own.
VICTORIA -- Two new police training sites have been approved in Vancouver and Victoria to address a surge in demand for recruits from communities across British Columbia.
VICTORIA -- The Tumbler Ridge and Prince George chambers of commerce in B.C. are urging Ottawa and the provincial government to ban children under 16 from using AI tools and social media.
VICTORIA -- The Tumbler Ridge and Prince George chambers of commerce in B.C. are urging Ottawa and the provincial government to ban children under 16 from using AI tools and social media.
VICTORIA -- Workers in B.C.'s softwood lumber industry and other sectors who are out of work because of U.S. tariffs will benefit from almost $71 million in funding for retraining.
Federal Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon says the CEO of OpenAI has agreed to take several actions to bolster safety, including providing a report outlining the new systems the firm is developing to identify high-risk offenders and policy violators.
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 last month.
