CBC - British Columbia (8 minutes ago)
Kelowna has opened three transitional housing sites built around clusters of tiny homes, with each project having a capacity of 60 residents. New figures obtained by CBC News reveal the projects are achieving far lower success rates, in terms of people finding permanent homes, than Mayor Tom Dyas recently suggested.
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The ruling released Tuesday from Justice Ward Branch says there's "some basis in fact" to support the plaintiffs' allegations that the "horrific fire" was caused by railway operations, where CN and CP have parallel tracks that run through the town.
ReadVancouver Sun - Local (14 hours ago)
Re: New poll shows British Columbians favourable to idea of pipeline — sort of Thanks to Derrick Penner for reporting on the latest Angus Reid poll of 517 British Columbians (out of a population of 4.4 million adults) that purports to show that 53 per cent of us support a crude oil pipeline from Alberta […]
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (15 hours ago)
British Columbia's Director of Civil Forfeiture wants to seize three clubhouses from the Hells Angels, claiming properties in Surrey, Mission and Pitt Meadows were used by the motorcycle club to carry out unlawful activities, including drug trafficking and murder.
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (17 hours ago)
BC Hydro says a family of ranchers in Vanderhoof, B.C., is wrongfully blocking access to properties that would allow its crews to clear the way for the North Coast Transmission Line, a $6-billion project the federal government has labelled a "nation-building."
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Supporters of the OneBC party gathered on the University of Victoria (UVic) campus Tuesday for an unsanctioned event — condemned by Indigenous groups for spreading residential school denialism rhetoric — that ended when police arrested one of the speakers for trespassing.
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (2 days ago)
British Columbia's energy minister says a vote from chiefs at the Assembly of First Nations gathering in Ottawa to uphold the oil tanker ban is more support for the provincial argument that there are better alternatives than a northern coast pipeline.
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More than 5,000 unionized workers in eligible long-term care and assisted living facilities will transition to the provincewide Facilities Collective Agreement over the next two years, giving them higher wages and improved benefits, according to B.C.'s health minister.
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Hunger in B.C. is at a record high, according to a new report of “unprecedented” food bank usage. Surrey-based non-profit Food Banks BC’s annual Hunger Report shows nearly a quarter (24.4 per cent) of British Columbians are experiencing food insecurity, and food banks are struggling to keep up with a 79 per cent increase in […]
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For Paul Chow, the images are almost too much to bear. The Hong Kong apartment complex he called home for more than 30 years has been reduced to ashes in a catastrophic fire that has claimed 150 lives and counting. “I still cannot believe it happened in Hong Kong,” Chow said. “When I see videos […]
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Brock Boeser has seven primary assists this season, and the five centres he has played with on the Vancouver Canucks' second line have none. Without a National Hockey League playmaker down the middle, winger Conor Garland had been creating scoring chances for Boeser from the opposite side of the line, but now Garland is hurt, too. "That’s the...
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