Tag Archives: B.C

For more than a month, Canadian pilot Michael MacDonald had taken a marine biologist on daily flights over Mexico’s Gulf of California, surveying the sea for wildlife.  Thirty-three of those flights went smoothly. About three hours into the 34th, things went south.  MacDonald, who is now safe at home in …

Twice in two weeks, Surrey, B.C., immigration consultant Neera Agnihotri discovered her firm was listed on employment documents for foreign workers supposedly bound for B.C. The only problem: she had never heard of any of the prospective workers or the businesses wanting to hire them. “I was like, ‘No, this is not our client,'” Agnihotri …

Stephanie Ramirez says she worked 15-hour shifts and drank up to three Monster Energy drinks a day to keep herself going. Until one day, her body gave out and she collapsed on the job. Ramirez is a Guatemalan farm worker whose story Canadians might not ordinarily hear. But CBC News …

A man suspected of setting an apartment building on fire is dead after he drove his vehicle into the blaze, RCMP say, but not before he shot one person and displaced roughly two dozen others. The string of events happened Friday afternoon in the city of Fort St. John, in …

A 17-year-old is dead after falling down a cliff while hiking in B.C.’s Interior, according to police.  RCMP said the teen boy was hiking with two friends on Monday evening when he “disappeared” off a 60-metre cliff on Bastion Mountain, north of Salmon Arm in B.C.’s Shuswap region. Police said he was …

WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse and ​​​intimate partner violence. British Columbia’s privacy watchdog has sided with a woman suing the provincial government and its victim assistance program over an alleged breach of her sensitive files. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC) has ordered B.C.’s Ministry of …

Once a month, Abbotsford-based optometrist Dr. Vicky Mahairhu flies from Vancouver to Fort Nelson, B.C., a more than 1,000 kilometre journey, to care for patients in the northeastern community.  But every time she flies, Mahairhu said there are last-minute cancellations that affect her on either end — and sometimes both.  …

A former Conservative candidate in the Metro Vancouver riding of New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville says he was removed from the party’s slate because of comments he made about the Chinese government in a podcast four years ago. Lourence Singh, a real estate agent who had been campaigning in the riding, spoke out …

The Conservatives have dropped Lourence Singh, the party’s candidate for the New Westminster—Burnaby—Maillardville riding in the upcoming federal election. Singh is the third candidate the Tories dropped on Tuesday, following the ouster of Mark McKenzie in southwestern Ontario and Stefan Marquis in Montreal. The Conservatives did not share a reason for …

Premier David Eby has walked back a key portion of the NDP’s tariff response bill following a backlash over concerns that the proposed legislation would give the government the power to bypass the legislature. “I didn’t get the balance right in terms of the ability to move quickly and necessary …