Author Archives: Bill Nation

Canada's justice minister says Ottawa is going to intervene in British Columbia's court case over the 7.4-billion-dollar Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. The federal government supports the ...

A motorcyclist has been killed in a collision with a transit bus on Ryan Road in Courtenay near North Island College. R-C-M-P say the motorcyclist was attempting to pass other motorists when he collid...

Police are warning consumers to be vigilant and inspect meat products before eating them after pins were found in meat sold in Nanaimo. R-C-M-P say they've had three reports about food tampering at se...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is linking British Columbia's record-high gas prices to a contentious pipeline project B-C opposes. While in Vancouver promoting the expansion of tech giant Amazon's hub,...

Attorney General David Eby says he has no timeline for getting a decision in a reference case that the government is taking to B-C's Court of Appeal over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The N-D...

B-C's solicitor general says some grey areas remain despite the trio of bills he introduced to help set out a legal framework for recreational marijuana. Mike Farnworth says provincial staff are still...

Bill Cosby is lashing out at prosecutors after a jury convicted him of three counts of sexual assault. Cosby stood up and erupted after jurors left the courtroom, using an expletive to refer to Distri...

Toronto's police chief says video and countless eyewitness reports of a van plowing into a crowded sidewalk are actions that ``definitely look deliberate.'' Ten people were killed and 15 were injured ...

Peruvian authorities say a Comox Valley man who travelled to Peru to study hallucinogenic medicine was killed by a mob in the Amazon rain forest after people blamed him for the slaying of an elderly s...

A worker's rights group says it's happy that the B-C government plans to close the wage gap between liquor servers and the province's minimum wage, but it would prefer the change happens sooner. The N...