Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from British Columbia

British Columbia ending its 3-year drug decriminalization pilot project

Canada’s Pacific coast province of British Columbia is ending its three-year experiment in decriminalizing possession of small amounts of drugs

The Independent UK

Fossil-fuel propaganda is stalling climate action. Here’s what we can do about it

2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada’s climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction of a new pipeline from Alberta to northern British Columbia.

The Conversation

Who benefits from ‘nation-building’ projects like Ksi Lisims?

When the Canadian government added the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal on Nisg̱a’a territory in northwest British Columbia to its new list of fast-tracked “nation-building” projects this fall, it resurrected an idea many British Columbians thought had quietly faded away: that liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports are central to the…

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Canada’s exile of Japanese Canadian citizens: A shameful 80-year anniversary few remember

In the closing weeks of 1945, months after the Second World War had ended, the Canadian cabinet enacted executive orders to banish more than 10,000 Canadians of Japanese descent to Japan, stripping many of them of Canadian citizenship in the process.

The Conversation

Canada may approve a new oil pipeline. First Nations fear another ‘worst-case scenario’

Mark Carney is considering lifting a tanker ban that has protected coastal communities for 53 years

The Guardian - US

‘There’s no monitoring of earthquakes’: new British Columbia pipeline could spell catastrophe, experts warn

Project on ‘very poorly understood’ terrain and likely to pass through Rocky Mountain trench, which researchers say poses immense geological hazard

The Guardian - US

From earthquakes to wildfires, Canada is woefully ill-prepared for disasters

A fault line in Canada’s Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying the Tintina Fault, which stretches 1,000 kilometres from northeast British Columbia into the Yukon and towards Alaska, have found evidence that the fault has built up at least six metres of…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Seventeen-Year-Old Takes Own Life After Learning About Mental Health Diagnosis Through FOI Request - Could It Have Been Avoided?

Seventeen-year-old Maya Cassady's death in British Columbia raises urgent questions about youth access to medical records and mental health support.

International Business Times UK

Mark Carney says Canada's trading relationship with the U.S. was 'once a strength,' but 'now a weakness'

Canada struck a pipeline deal with Alberta on Thursday to diversify the country's oil exports beyond the U.S.

Fortune

Canada's prime minister and Alberta's premier sign pipeline deal which could reverse oil tanker ban

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the premier of Canada’s oil rich province of Alberta have agreed to work toward building a pipeline to the Pacific Coast to diversify the country’s oil exports beyond the United States

The Independent UK

Tortured for $1.6M Bitcoin: Parents Waterboarded as Daughter Was Forced to Strip Naked

A British Columbia family was targeted in a 13-hour home invasion, where they were waterboarded and their daughter was forced to strip naked, losing $1.6M in Bitcoin.

International Business Times UK

Grizzly bear that attacked children and teachers in Canada still eludes searchers

Eleven people were injured as three teachers fought the bear during attack on walking trail in British Columbia

The Guardian - US

Eleven injured after grizzly bear attacks schoolchildren and teachers in Canada

Two critically hurt after attack on walking trail in British Columbia as police and conservation officers search for bear

The Guardian - UK

Spencer Lofranco's Final Public Post Resurfaces After Actor's Death at 33

Actor Spencer Lofranco's last Instagram post gains attention following his death at 33, with the cause still under review by authorities in British Columbia.

International Business Times UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - US

Raiders of the lobster pot: wily wolves learn to haul in Canadian crab traps

Researchers in British Columbia catch sea wolves in the act after placing camera to solve mystery of damaged traps

The Independent UK

Not everything needs to be seen to be felt – I’m blind and this is my experience on a cruise around Alaska

On a sailing from San Francisco to British Columbia, Sassy Wyatt relishes in the sounds, feelings and atmosphere of the Pacific Ocean – with activities ranging from whale watching to axe throwing

The Guardian - UK

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites

The Independent UK

Canadian federal agency says cull over, all ostriches shot dead at British Columbia farm

A Canadian federal agency says it has shot dead all ostriches at a British Columbia farm, fulfilling a 10-month-old cull order over a bird flu outbreak

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

How anti-vaccine sentiment helped raise funds and saved the lives of some B.C. ostriches

More than 300 ostriches have been threatened with destruction in eastern British Columbia after avian flu was detected in the flock. The birds’ owners have argued this is a case of “unjust governmental overreach.”

The Conversation

The evidence is clear: National pharmacare for contraception can’t wait

Why should women in British Columbia, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island and the Yukon have access to free contraception while the rest of Canadians do not? Our new research, published in the British Medical Journal and JAMA Pediatrics, underscores the urgent need for universal prescription contraception coverage nationwide. Spoiler alert: cost…

Benzinga

Lithium Corp Rockets 290% After Rare Earth Discovery—Could It Be Trump's Next Mineral Gambit?

Lithium Corp (OTCPK: LTUM), a micro-cap explorer worth just $5 million, just made the kind of discovery that turns heads in Washington. The company announced enriched deposits of neodymium, dysprosium, and other rare earth elements at its fluorspar project in British Columbia — sending shares up a staggering 290% in…

Reason

Brickbat: Head in the Sand

Katie Pasitney and her mother, owners of the Universal Ostrich Farm in British Columbia, were arrested for defying a Canadian… The post Brickbat: Head in the Sand appeared first on Reason.com.

Dot Esports

Is Online Baccarat Legal in Canada? What You Need to Know Before Playing

Online baccarat holds a strong reputation as one of the most elegant casino games, both on the floor and behind the screen. In Canada, players who want to join a baccarat table from home face a unique legal setup.

RideApart

Damon Motorcycles Is Getting Sued Over Back Rental Payment by a Major SEO Firm

Damon Motors, Inc. is currently being sued in a Canadian Supreme Court by SEO giant Moz, but the reasons why have nothing to do with the Internet and everything to do with a rental agreement.

The Conversation

People with schizophrenia were hit hard by B.C.’s deadly 2021 heat dome

In June 2021, British Columbia experienced an extreme climate event. A heat dome trapped hot air over the province, pushing temperatures to record highs for several days, killing more than 600 people.

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the University of Victoria

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.