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B.C. government says more oversight coming for dysfunctional municipalities

The ongoing dysfunction in the City of Kamloops has gotten so bad that the B.C. government is considering major changes to the oversight of feuding city councils across the province.

10-year-old child who died in North Vancouver boat crash identified

The child who died in Saturday’s boating crash has been identified as 10-year-old Lionel Hall, a Vancouver student who enjoyed soccer, rugby, hurdles and track, according to a family friend.

Woman charged with 1st-degree murder in 2021 death of her husband in Nanaimo, B.C.

A B.C. woman has been charged with first-degree murder four years after the death of her husband. 

Non-profits are racing to save affordable apartments. But critics say we should just build new ones

While Canada continues to lose affordable rental housing at alarming rates, we look at the dramatic shift in B.C., where a provincially funded Rental Protection Fund has helped not-for-profits secure record-breaking amounts of units as they go for sale — and whether this could work countrywide.

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