The Canadian Football League’s prize game, the Grey Cup, is heading back to B.C. The CFL granted B.C. the championship contest after Winnipeg decided not to host the game due to construction of the new stadium. Vancouver last held the Grey Cup Game and Festival in 2011, the last time the B.C. Lions won the […]

A 37-year-old woman has been charged in the suspicious death of a man Friday (March 8) in Kimberley. On Friday RCMP was called to a residence in Marysville to find a deceased 47-year-old male. The death appeared suspicious whick prompted investigators to secure the scene and requested the assistance of major crime. The man’s girl […]

Chrisa, the one and only current female police dog on the RCMP Lower Mainland District Integrated Police Dog Service, partnered with the newest dog handler to the team, captured their first suspect following an alleged armed robbery. At just after midnight on March 8, police dog handler Const. Jamie Dopson and Police Service Dog (PSD) […]

As we get ready to move our clocks forward an hour this Saturday night for the start of Daylight Savings Time, ICBC is asking drivers to make an effort to adapt to the time change to help reduce the impact it could have on their driving skills. According to an ICBC survey, 34 per cent […]

It was close, but the B.C. Liberal  government survived a key budget vote Tuesday. The close vote comes on the heels of a stormy period over a leaked ethnic vote winning strategy. Premier Christy Clark took the positive road, saying the 45 to 38 budget vote in her favour is a sign for her people […]

Don’t get left behind on camping this summer in B.C. Provincial Parks. Starting Friday (March 15) at 7 a.m. the Discover Camping phone lines are opening up to begin accepting reservations for campgrounds with reservable inventory. “With camping being so popular, many British Columbian families are starting to plan for the upcoming camping season. Discover […]

Reports about the behaviour of some Senators have once again unleashed a flurry of demands to either abandon or at least reform that venerable institution. Defenders refer to the Senate as the “Chamber of Sober Second Thought.” It is not how the Constitution defines it, although sobriety may have been a consideration in the...

They're off. The start to B.C.'s official pre-campaign period for the 2013 election campaign is well underway.    Day one of the pre-campaign would have been an easy miss, coming as it did on the same day a meteor crashed to earth and the Canucks fell to the Dallas Stars.    Heck, Elections BC didn't even post a news release...

Canada now has an Ambassador of Religious Freedom. By definition the basis of religion is in the realm of metaphysics, but metaphysics surely cannot be the focus for our newest Ambassador. How does our federal government define religion? Are Taoism and Confucianism religions, or are they an amalgam of spirituality, ethics and...

Independent MLAs say the current government is putting a stranglehold on the post-election government by deliberately cutting short funding supply for operations. In a statement released this week, the four independents say that no government in the past has taken this approach in advance of an election. "We are calling on ...