It’s time for B.C. to implement comprehensive measures to help locate and protect missing seniors with dementia, says Selina Robinson, MLA for Coquitlam-Maillardville. On Tuesday, Robinson introduced the Silver Alert Act in the legislature. The bill would create a program which would alert the public of a missing person who...

The funny thing about provincial budgets is that sometimes they tell you a lot more about a government's attitude than what the politicians might have intended when they first wrote the document. Case in point: most governments like to pat themselves on the back at budget time by highlighting the impact of their fiscal ...

February, dominated by Canada’s performance in the Winter Olympics, was a busy news month. However, the second half of February featured two other news stories on the subject of a performance we ought not overlook: the federal and provincial budgets. Although these budgets will guide our performance as a society, their press...

Its never to late to celebrate Christmas. At least that’s what it felt like for a 90-year-old Nanaimo female and her 83-year-old husband, after reading in a local paper about a purse with a significant amount of cash being found and handed over to the RCMP. After reading the article, the couple called the Nanaimo detachment. A […]

Good news is the B.C. Government is drinking establishment the chance to be open for the Men’s Olympic Hockey games. The bad news, for those who want to celebrate with a beverage, there will be no alcohol served. Subject to local government bylaws, pubs/bars will be allowed to extend their operating hours for the bronze […]

A story on the CBC website said the Alberta man killed in an avalanche Saturday near Revelstoke died saving another snowmobiler, his widow says. The story said Chris McCoy was crusing on Boulder Mountain when the avalanche struck around 1:30 p.m. PT. The Sylvain Lake man had apparently gotten off his snowmobile to help another...

Halifax or Vancouver? Ask most folk which city boasts the higher median family income and chances are they'll say Vancouver. They couldn't be more wrong. The median income for a two-parent family living in Halifax was $87,430 in 2011. Vancouver wasn't even close at $74,510. In fact, family incomes were higher in St. John's,...

The woman in the video of a man that BASE jumped from the Peak 2 Peak Gondola last week, and posted the video on the YouTube Wednesday, was questioned by RCMP and released. The local resident who is originally from Ontario, was arrested Wednesday afternoon at her Whistler workplace. RCMP said the woman has since been […]

Budget 2014 falls short of taking significant action on many of the challenges facing Canadians today, according to Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior. “There are 300,000 more unemployed today than before the recession, many seniors are struggling and families are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet,”...

Province implements snowmobile ban in West Kootenays Backcountry recreationalists are reminded to follow the rules while snowmobiling to help protect mountain caribou habitat and support British Columbia’s Mountain Caribou Recovery Implementation Plan. Natural resource officers and conservation officers are patrolling B.C.’s...