Tag Archives: Politics

VICTORIA - Overdose deaths linked to illicit drugs dropped by 36 per cent last year in British Columbia compared with 2018 but the death toll remains almost as high as when the province declared ...

VANCOUVER - Money laundering has distorted British Columbia's economy, fuelled the opioid crisis and overheated the real estate market, the province argued at the start of an inquiry into the criminal...

VICTORIA - A seventh case of the novel coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia, bringing to 11 the number of cases in Canada. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monda...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has introduced legislation aimed at making it easier for intolerably ill Canadians to get medical help to end their lives. The bill, tabled Mon...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Worried Democrats on Monday intensified their assault against the party's presidential front-runner, Bernie Sanders, as the Vermont senator marched toward South Carolina's w...

SAN ANTONIO - By the fall of 2018, when Democrats were promoting a slate of centrist candidates to topple Republicans in Congress, Bernie Sanders was seeing a very different picture. The Vermont senat...

WASHINGTON - "It's been three years of promises made and promises kept, but we're just getting started, (insert state here)." That line from Vice-President Mike Pence is a hallmark of how he introduce...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A New Brunswick doctor who uses cannabis to treat veterans with PTSD says Lionel Desmond wasn't suicidal and showed no sign he was a threat to others in Februar...

OTTAWA - The NDP have tabled a new bill that calls for a universal pharmacare plan in Canada. The party, which has been promising the legislation for some time, says its proposal is based on the ...

RCMP began enforcing an injunction earlier this month that prevents interference with construction of a $6.6-billion natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. Here is a timeline of the disput...