David Sidoo's membership in the Order of British Columbia was terminated on Friday, June 12, 2020. The Provincial Symbols and Honours Act governs nominations, appointments, resignations and terminations in the Order of B.C., the province's highest honour. According to the act, the chancellor of the Order may terminate a person's membership on the recommendationof the advisory council and with the approval of the executive council. This process is initiated when a member of the Order is convicted of a criminal offence or when their conduct undermines the credibility and integrity of the Orde

One man has been charged in what Kamloops RCMP describe as a gang-related weapons seizure at a storage locker in a warehouse in that city. Police say three semi-automatic rifles, one bolt-action rifle, a lever-action rifle, a shotgun, air-soft pistols, crossbows, nunchucks and possible explosives were seized in the Wednesday raid. A 43 year old man and 23 year old woman arrived at the warehouse while the bust was underway and police say the two were searched and weapons and drugs, including cocaine, fentanyl and crack, were seized. The man now faces drug and weapons charges while police sa

British Columbia's premier says calls for defunding police are a simplistic approach to a complex problem. John Horgan says police are increasingly burdened with a range of challenges in areas including homelessness, mental health and addiction which need more funding. He says it's inappropriate to expect law enforcement to take on those issues as they deal with public safety concerns. Horgan says he envisions expanding the capacity for communities to ensure they're not asking police for more than they're capable of delivering. He says defunding issues arising from George Floyd's police-involv

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer wants Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne to explain how his holding two mortgages with a Chinese bank doesn't compromise his ability to deal with the People's Republic. Scheer wants Champagne to appear before the special House of Commons committee on Canada-China relations and he says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau needs to justify the cabinet appointment there too. Scheer says Champagne is Canada's top diplomat and China's communist leaders can use the $1.2 million he owes on two London properties to the Bank of China as leverage at a time of

New video has emerged of the violent arrest of a prominent chief of a northern Alberta First Nation. The Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says the RCMP dash-camera video was released publicly as part of a court application to get criminal charges against Chief Allan Adam stayed. The 12-minute video, posted by several media outlets, shows an officer approaching Adam's truck outside a casino in Fort McMurray, Alta., early in the morning of March 10. The RCMP have said Adam's truck had expired plates and the video shows Adam getting in and out of the vehicle, aggressively removing his coat and us

There are 97,530 confirmed and presumptive cases in Canada. Quebec: 53,485 confirmed (including 5,105 deaths, 20,299 resolved) Ontario: 31,544 confirmed (including 2,487 deaths, 25,855 resolved) Alberta: 7,316 confirmed (including 149 deaths, 6,788 resolved) British Columbia: 2,694 confirmed (including 167 deaths, 2,344 resolved) Nova Scotia: 1,061 confirmed (including 62 deaths, 994 resolved) Saskatchewan: 660 confirmed (including 13 deaths, 626 resolved) Manitoba: 289 confirmed (including 7 deaths, 286 resolved), 11 presumptive Newfoundland and Labrador: 261 confirmed (including 3 d

Reduced crowd scenes. Fewer people on set. COVID-19 testing. Handwashing stations. Canadian film and TV producers are grappling with some of those health and safety protocols as provinces including BC, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec ease pandemic restrictions that shut down the industry in mid-March. But despite such measures, many independent producers can't set a date to roll cameras yet because of a key issue: insurance. The Canadian Media Producers Association says on a go-forward basis, insurance companies that service the film and TV industry are excluding any coverage for COVID-19 fro

British Columbia is marking the sixth day in a row with no additional deaths due to COVID-19. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says the death toll is still 167 and there have been no new community or health-care outbreaks identified since Wednesday. She says 14 more people have tested positive for the disease, bringing the total to 2,694. There are 183 active cases, including 13 people in hospital with five in intensive care. Henry says 2,344 people have recovered so far. Health Minister Adrian Dix says the situation in B.C. is not necessarily typical, since cases of COVID-19 a

Family and friends said goodbye to Regis Korchinski-Paquet at her funeral today. Her family says the 29 year old Toronto woman was an avid gymnast as a child and loved dancing, music and singing. She fell to her death from a balcony on May 27th while police were in her home. Her family has questioned the role of officers in her death.