Author Archives: Bill Nation

B-C Utilities Commission says it does not have enough information in several areas to recommend whether the 8.8-billion-dollar Site-C dam project should proceed. The commission released its preliminar...

Hundreds of volunteers, soldiers and police are digging and tunnelling into the precarious, pancaked ruins of a collapsed Mexico City school where at least 25 students and teachers were killed in a ma...

Off-road vehicles will once again be allowed in much of B-C's backcountry today as the risk of wildfire drops across the province. A ban on A-T-Vs and other off-road vehicles was put in place this sum...

The provincial government has put forward legislation that would radically change campaign finance rules in the province, but the new laws may come with a steep price tag. Attorney General David Eby h...

The B-C Wildfire Service has lifted a campfire ban that was in effect for the Coastal Fire Centre. That means campfires can now be lit, along with tiki torches, outdoor stoves, gas stoves and other po...

Starting on Monday, New Democrats can make their choice on who should replace Tom Mulcair as leader of the federal party. A weekend caucus retreat in Hamilton, Ontario saw the four leadership hopefuls...

R-C-M-P have confirmed a filmmaker who was reported missing earlier this month has been found dead in Campbell River. Thirty-eight-year-old Twyla Roscovich was last seen September 6th before reportedl...

Finance Minister Carole James says some of the big promises the New Democrats made on the campaign trail last spring could appear in February's budget, but first the party will have to discuss logisti...

A police department in the Lower Mainland is joining calls for Ottawa to hit pause on plans to legalize marijuana. Deputy Chief Mike Serr with the Abbotsford Police Department says officers won't be r...

Finance Minister Carole James has tabled a financial plan that hikes taxes for the province's wealthiest residents while boosting spending for education, housing and health care. She says the budget u...