Author Archives: Bill Nation

Premier John Horgan says the province is investing 240 million dollars over three years to increase staffing levels in residential care homes. Horgan says the change will ensure seniors are getting th...

R-C-M-P is investigating a motorcycle crash on the Strathcona Parkway at Mount Washington. It happened on Monday afternoon. Condition of the driver or the cause of the crash is unknown. The parkway wa...

A man accused of sending a mail bomb to his brother in Port Alice has died after going into medical distress while in custody in Whitehorse. Yukon's chief coroner say 73-year-old Leon Nepper was taken...

Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver is urging the province to adopt a task force recommendation that rental hikes be tied only to inflation. The Rental Housing Task Force is calling on the province to sc...

Elections B-C is responding to calls that it raise the profile of local elections, as some politicians sound the alarm over what they suspect will be a record low voter turn out in next month's munici...

Shares in Nanaimo-based marijuana company Tilray Inc. leaped nearly 20 per cent in early trading on Wednesday, then slipped back a bit, as investors respond enthusiastically to Tilray's announcement a...

A 73-year-old Whitehorse man returns to court in Yukon later this week as he faces two charges related to a mail bomb that seriously injured his brother. Leon Nepper made a brief court appearance on T...

On the day next month when pot becomes legal in Canada, B-C will have only one cannabis store open for business. Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says more stores will open in the following month...

Members of Parliament return to Ottawa for the final sitting of the House of Commons ahead of an election year with a general vote coming next fall. Nailing down trade agreements will likely play a bi...

The Federal Court of Appeal has overturned the National Energy Board's approval of the contentious Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The court says the energy board's review was so flawed that the fe...