The Health Employers Association of B.C. has reached tentative agreements with associations representing community health-care workers and health-sciences workers. The Finance Ministry says that negotiations for both deals were made under the 2025 Balanced Measures Mandate to “support government’s key priorities to protect and strengthen critical services in B.C.’s public sector, to maintain labour stability […]

B.C.’s business leaders gathered in Vancouver on Tuesday morning to sound the alarm on B.C.’s most recent budget, saying the province is hampering economic growth with new taxes, particularly the expansion of the provincial sales tax (PST). “It’s clear this government and the business community are not on the same page,” said Bridgitte Anderson, CEO

A man was arrested in Maple Ridge and charged with possessing and distributing child sexual abuse and exploitation material by mail after a multi-jurisdictional investigation by the BC RCMP Integrated Child Exploitation, (ICE), Unit. On Wednesday, Feb. 18, the RCMP child exploitation unit — with the assistance of Ridge Meadows RCMP, the Lower Mainland Integrated

Surrey, B.C.’s Olympic silver medallist Jenn Gardiner is back home on Canadian soil. Gardiner, along with some of her Team Canada and Vancouver Goldeneyes teammates, and luge athletes Embyr-Lee Susko and Trinity Ellis, landed late at Vancouver International Airport Monday night (Feb. 23). They were welcomed by members of the Musqueam First Nations and a

One man is suspected to have died in a blaze that tore through the Fraser Lake Shopping Centre last weekend. According to RCMP, officers were called to a structure fire at the Fraser Lake Inn at about 3 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 22. “Upon arrival, police discovered that a person had re-entered the Inn and was