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VPD whistleblower alleges arrest quotas in Downtown Eastside crackdown
An email from the anonymous whistleblower is on the agenda for Thursday's meeting of the board along with a corresponding letter from the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner asking the board to take action.
B.C. accepting only 1,100 new skilled immigrant applications after feds slash provincial nominee program
The odds of new applications from immigrants being accepted into British Columbia's nominee program this year have dropped to near zero for anyone other than health workers or entrepreneurs.
B.C. bumps up rental subsidy programs for seniors, low-income families
Low-income families will see monthly subsidies jump $300, while qualifying seniors will have theirs increase $145, on average.
'Several critical safety failures' behind B.C. worker's death, WorkSafeBC says
The WorkSafeBC report says CCTV footage revealed "no effective controls in place" and safety protocols not followed, with workers often under suspended loads and entering areas that should have been off-limit "ground control zones."
Heiltsuk Nation files Charter challenge over RCMP refusal to enforce bylaws
The Heiltsuk Tribal Council says in its lawsuit that the police are “emboldening drug dealers” and other wrongdoers to enter and stay on reserve lands by refusing to enforce its bylaws banning people engaged in dangerous activities.
B.C. will do 'whatever is necessary' to remove internal trade barriers: minister
Leaders from across Canada are meeting in Toronto this week to discuss removing internal barriers in face of tariff threats from United States.
Chronic understaffing, high burnout: Child welfare system in B.C. is in 'crisis,' investigation finds
Chronic understaffing, and the excessive workload and burnout that comes with it, has the people in charge of protecting British Columbia's most vulnerable children in a state of crisis, the province's representative for children and youth says.
'Metabolic knife edge': Study offers insight into hummingbirds' hibernation-like rest
Lead researcher Shayne Halter said new research is an early step in better understanding how hummingbirds use their energy during migration and how that might be impacted by changes to the flowers they depend on for food.
B.C. inquest into starvation death told of home-share providers' burnout
Cary Chiu was the last person to testify in the coroner's inquest into the death of Florence Girard, a 54-year-old woman with Down syndrome who starved to death while living in her caretaker's home in October 2018.
As fruit buds swell, B.C. farmers hit by 2024 deep freeze hope for better harvest
This week marks one year since the deep freeze that sent temperatures plummeting to about -30 C in some fruit-growing regions.