Here’s your daily update with everything you need to know on the novel coronavirus situation in B.C. for Oct. 20, 2020. We’ll provide summaries of what’s going on in B.C. right here so you can get the latest news at a glance. This page will be updated regularly throughout the day, with developments added as…
The B.C. provincial election will be held Oct. 24. This is your daily campaign trail update with everything you need for Oct. 20, 2020. This page will be updated throughout the day, with developments added as they happen. WHERE THE LEADERS ARE TODAY John Horgan, NDP : The NDP leader will participate in a roundtable…
Victoria police officers who wore the thin blue line symbol on their uniform were asked to remove the unauthorized patch after a social media post prompted complaints. A photo posted to Twitter in June showed a reserve constable wearing a black Canadian flag patch with a blue line horizontally through the middle. The police department…
The B.C. Liberals more than tripled their spending on Facebook to more than $40,000 a day last week, prompting the NDP to issue an urgent plea for last-minute donations. In a Monday morning email blast with the subject line “We’re coming up short,” NDP media manager Tyler Michaels asked supporters for $10 each “right now”…
Katie Lewis, an outspoken resident of Strathcona, where tensions are high over the presence of a large tent city in the community’s namesake park, says she was bludgeoned and left unconscious outside her home on the weekend. The alleged attack on Lewis, the vice-president of the Strathcona Residents’ Association, comes after her own repeated pleas…
British Columbia is in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry declared on Monday. “One can say that we are in our second wave here of our COVID-19 storm in B.C., but we have control over what that wave looks like, and we have shown that we can do…
A body was found inside a large wheelie bin that was floating off Kits Point in Vancouver on Sunday. Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Const. Tania Visintin said the Canadian Coast Guard received several calls from boaters around 11 a.m. on Sunday about a large, wheeled recycling bin in the water. The coast guard retrieved the…
VICTORIA — B.C.’s political parties are switching gears in the last week of the election campaign to focus on helping supporters cast their ballots amid the numerous uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The B.C. Greens, Liberals and NDP joined Elections B.C. on Monday to urge voters who have not already mailed their mail-in ballots…
B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson promised to support two major infrastructure projects in Maple Ridge, a city he said the B.C. NDP has ignored, if his party forms government after Saturday’s election. Wilkinson, who was in Pitt Meadows campaigning on Monday morning, said a Liberal government would also add mental-health beds to Ridge Meadows Hospital.…
The judge who convicted two Red Scorpion gangsters in the Surrey Six murders found there was “overwhelming” evidence they participated in B.C.’s worst gangland slayings, the B.C. Court of Appeal heard Monday. Crown prosecutor Mark Levitz said B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Wedge properly convicted Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston of first-degree murder and conspiracy,…