Author Archives: Bill Nation

A criminal investigation by the R-C-M-P has led to two key figures at the B-C legislature to be placed on paid leave. N-D-P House Leader Mike Farnworth introduced a motion at the end of question perio...

Health officials in both Canada and the U-S are telling people to stop eating romaine lettuce because of a new E. coli outbreak linked to the vegetable. No deaths have been reported, but 18 people in ...

The B-C government has introduced legislation that will allow ride-hailing companies to enter the provincial market next year. Transportation Minister Claire Trevena says the milestone legislation get...

A new B-C Hydro report says climate change has led to a large number of power outages in the province. The report says storm and extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe as a resul...

The union representing Canada's postal workers is still awaiting a response from both Canada Post and the federal government. On its website last night, CUP-W says it believes the counter-offer it pro...

A man is recovering in a Victoria hospital after surviving for several days in his crushed truck when it veered off the road and over a cliff near Sayward. Twenty-three-year-old Duncan Moffat suffered...

The federal government is adding six new radar installations along the B-C coast to improve marine safety and safeguard the environment. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the installations will fill in...

Overdose deaths continue at a relentless pace in B.C. Figures from the B-C Coroners Service say 128 people died of illicit-drug overdoses in September, up eight per cent from August and also a jump fr...

A University of B-C political scientist says the likelihood that adopting a proportional representation voting system will lead to extremists in the legislature has been overstated. Maxwell Cameron sa...

The B-C government has announced an additional 10 million dollars in provincial funding to support communities in their recovery from the 2018 wildfire season. The new funding is in addition to 3 mill...