BCOct 21, 2024
B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau loses seat after changing ridings
Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau has lost her seat in the legislature after changing ridings to Victoria-Beacon Hill.
Furstenau lost to Grace Lore, the minister of children and family development in the previous NDP government.
The Green leader was first elected 2017, when her party played a key roll in helping the New Democrats form government with a confidence and supply agreement between the two parties.
BCOct 21, 2024
B.C.'s final election result won't be known until recounts complete Oct. 26-28
The final results of British Columbia's weekend election won't be known until at least next week.
Elections BC says official recounts are being held in two tight ridings where the difference between the New Democrat and B.C. Conservatives candidates is less than 100 votes.
The NDP candidates hold slim leads in both the Surrey City Centre and Juan de Fuca-Malahat ridings, and the results could determine who forms government.
Elections BC says it will also be counting about 49,000 absentee and mail-in ballots.
The election's initial results have the NDP leading or elected in 46 ridings, with the
BCOct 18, 2024
Three teenage girls charged in violent B.C. transit attacks
Three teenage girls have been charged with assault after two separate violent attacks took place on Metro Vancouver's transit system.
Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the assaults happened on July 11, the first of which was on board a SkyTrain while it travelled from New Westminster to Surrey.
Police say a 16-year-old student was attacked by the three suspects after she tried to prevent one of them from prying open the doors while the train was moving.
The attackers are accused of punching and kicking the girl, then dragging her by her hair before other passengers and SkyTrain attendants in
BCOct 17, 2024
CP Railway adjusts safety measures following B.C. train crash: safety board
The Transportation Safety Board says a mistake by a Canadian Pacific Railway supervisor set off a crash between a freight train and a railway work vehicle in Cache Creek, B.C.
The board's report says the supervisor was inspecting the main tracks on Dec. 29, 2022, in a vehicle that can operate on both roads and rail when he noticed a defect that needed repair.
It says that while the man was repairing the track, an eastbound freight train crashed into the unoccupied vehicle, but no one was hurt.
The board says that its investigation found when the supervisor noticed the problem, he requested a s
BCOct 17, 2024
Snow warnings along B.C.-Yukon border as southern B.C. braces for atmospheric river
Environment Canada has issued the first snowfall warnings of the season along the British Columbia and Yukon border, with accumulations up to 20 centimetres expected in some areas.
The weather office says the snow will spread through southwestern Yukon starting today and will persist until Saturday.
It says 10 centimetres of snow is expected in most regions, but predicts up to 25 centimetres in Swift River.
But it says an arctic ridge of high pressure will clear the skies on Sunday and temperatures will fall to about -20 degrees Celsius by Monday.
Environment Canada says the "first substantial
BCOct 16, 2024
Leaders converge on Vancouver Island as B.C. voters break advance polling record
Leaders of British Columbia's main political parties have converged on Vancouver Island in the final stage of campaigning before the provincial election on Saturday, with record numbers of voters already casting their ballots in advance polling.
Elections BC says more than 181,000 people voted on Tuesday, breaking a record set on the first day of voting last week.
The election office says 778,000 people have already voted ahead of today's final day of advance voting.
NDP Leader David Eby and B.C. Conservative counterpart John Rustad both have announcements scheduled in Nanaimo, while Green Par
BCOct 15, 2024
Founders of Vancouver club that sold tested illicit drugs file Charter challenge
The founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" that sold heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine bought on the dark web and tested for contaminants, have filed a court challenge arguing their Charter rights and the rights of users were violated when the club was shut and they were arrested.
Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, the co-founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, say denying compassion club members access to a predictable supply of drugs they depend on, while exposing them to the severe risks of the street supply is "grossly disproportionate" to any benefits of shutting down the club.
They sa
BCOct 15, 2024
B.C. Conservatives expected to release costs of promises days before election
It's the last week of the British Columbia election campaign after a busy long weekend of promises for the B.C. Conservatives, including a new Children's Hospital for Surrey.
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is expected to explain how he's going to pay for all his promises, from the so-called Rustad rebate to exempt up to $3,000 a month of rent or mortgage payments from taxes, to the plan to eliminate the carbon tax.
Rustad also said the Conservatives would eliminate the provincial deficit of nearly $9 billion within two terms of government.
In the battle to win the 10 Surrey ridings, the
BCOct 11, 2024
Police probe clears seven Vancouver officers in beating death of Myles Gray
Seven Vancouver police officers involved in the beating death of Myles Gray nine years ago have been cleared of wrongdoing by a police discipline authority.
The Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner says it's reviewing the decision over the 2015 death of Gray, which was classified as a homicide by a coroner's inquest last year.
A pathologist told the inquest Gray died of cardiopulmonary arrest, complicated by police actions including "neck compression," blunt force injuries, the use of pepper spray and holding Gray on his stomach while his arms were handcuffed behind his back.
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