Vancouverairing now

91.5FM

91.5HD2

airing nowConnect FM 101.7 Edmonton

airing now

8.85

Edmonton

airing now|

91.5 FM

91.5 HD2

Connect FM 101.7 Edmonton

News Entertainment Shows About Careers Connect Originals Advertisers

Home News Entertainment Shows About Careers Connect Originals Advertisers

News

All Alberta BC Canada India World

BC

BC NDP promises to fully complete Surrey Langley SkyTrain

British Columbia's Liberal and NDP leaders squeezed in campaign promises of small business tax breaks and transit expansion before they square off at a board of trade event later today. Speaking in Langley, NDP Leader John Horgan ...

BC Liberals look at tax cuts ahead of recovery talk

A BC Liberal government will immediately eliminate the 2% small business income tax in a move to give more help to businesses, workers, and families at a time when it is needed most, promised BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson tod...

BC Green Party releases plan to help tourism operators and small businesses battered by the COVID-19

BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau has released a plan to help tourism operators and small businesses battered by the COVID-19 pandemic get through the winter. Furstenau says if the Greens win the election later this month, the targeted plan will get help more quickly where it's really needed. It includes a 300-million dollar rent subsidy program that would cover 25 per cent of rental costs for qualifying small businesses. Furstenau is also promising to retool the provincial grant program to focus on supporting small tourism operators and to ensure grant money can start to flow immediately....

Calls for homeless camp to be shut in Vancouver park as council considers plan

Residents of a Vancouver neighbourhood want the city to shut down a homeless encampment at a park where people have been living in about 400 tents since the summer. Kelsey Mulyk says families in Strathcona have lost use of the pa...

Seven-year-old girl to be honoured by Squamish RCMP

A seven-year-old girl will be honoured for helping rescue her mother after a car crash. Squamish RCMP say Adelaide Prince and her mom were driving on Highway 99 near Squamish early last month when they were both hurt after their car veered down a steep embankment. With her mom trapped, Adelaide managed to get out of the car and crawl back up to the road where she flagged down a driver who called for help. Now that daughter and mother have recovered, Squamish RCMP and the Britannia Beach Volunteer Fire Department plan to recognize the Grade Two student for her bravery and quick thinking in a ce...

Liberals promise funding for mental health workers to partner with police

B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson says his party would expand a program that pairs police officers with mental health workers if the party wins the provincial election. During a campaign event in Vancouver today, Wilkinson sai...

Shooting outside restaurant in Vancouver neighbourhood leaves one man injured

A shooting outside a restaurant in a west-side Vancouver neighbourhood has left one man injured. It happened at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in a busy section of the Dunbar area, crowded with shops and restaurants. A statement from police says a family of three was leaving a restaurant when the shots were fired. A woman and child were not hurt but a man with them was taken to hospital suffering from non-life-threatening injuries. Two people were arrested a short time later. Police have not yet said if there is a motive for the shooting or whether it was targeted. ...

Mayor Kennedy Stewart proposes $30-million recommendation to help Vancouver homeless

Mayor Kennedy Stewart wants councillors to support a multimillion-dollar proposal to help those who are homeless in Vancouver during the pandemic. Stewart has released a recommendation to council seeking as much as $30 million t...

102 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths in BC

B-C health officials are reporting 102 new cases of COVID-19 and two more deaths. That brings the death toll in the province to 244. Provincial health officer Doctor Bonnie Henry says active cases ticked up to one-thousand-384 with 71 people in hospital, including 16 in intensive care. Henry says the latest modelling data shows individual actions make a difference and B-C is starting to flatten the curve of the pandemic once again as a result of public health measures....

Latest News

Poilievre Calls for Special Session of Parliament After Jagmeet Singh’s Announcement

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has called for a special session of Parliament following Jagmeet Singh’s announcement, which he claims signals the Trudeau government has lost its majority. Poilievre stated that he is ...

1...385386387...471

Sign up for the newsletter

We'll deliver best of entertainment right into your inbox