Author Archives: Bill Nation

The B-C government says recreational pot will be sold online and through both private and government-operated retail stores in the province, once it becomes legal later this year. But Public Safety Mi...

The provincial government has announced the appointment of B-C's first innovation commissioner. Alan Winter will be an advocate and ambassador for the B-C technology sector in Ottawa, in the U-S and a...

B-C Liberals have elected Andrew Wilkinson to lead the party after former premier Christy Clark stepped down last year. Wilkinson ran with an old-school, stick to our roots message that elevated the p...

Canada's Fisheries Ministry is launching an independent expert panel to investigate aquaculture and marine environment protections. Minister Dominic LeBlanc said in a statement Friday that he understa...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is bringing his cross country town hall tour to Nanaimo on Friday, where he may face questions over his support for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The Prime Minis...

The province says on-the-ground community action teams are being sent to 18 communities deemed hardest hit by the overdose crisis. The teams will focus on expanding community-based harm-reduction serv...

B-C's chief coroner says more than half of the fatal drug overdoses in the province last year involved people aged 30 to 49 and four out of five of those who died were male. Lisa Lapointe broke down s...

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss B-C's proposal to restrict increases in shipments of diluted bitumen. B-C Environment Minister George Heyman says the propo...

Opponents of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain expansion project are welcoming the B-C government's proposal to at least temporarily restrict increases in diluted bitumen shipments. Environment Minister ...

Health officials and the Coroners Service of British Columbia are expected to release the total number of overdose fatalities in 2017 today, while the current death toll already exceeds records. The B...