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09/06/2023

Another school district on Vancouver Island has cut ties with a popular Christian summer camp after a teenager spoke out against the organization's staff agreement, which prohibits "homosexual behaviour" and calls it a "sexual sin."

09/01/2023

Bankruptcy order will clear the way for 1,200 cheated investors to recover assets and a small fraction of the $226 million they are owed by disgraced mortgage broker Greg Martel.

Bankruptcy order will clear the way for 1,200 cheated investors to recover a small fraction of the $226 million they are owed by disgraced mortgage broker Greg Martel.

09/01/2023

CEO Nicolas Jimenez is repeating the same message that company representatives have been saying and buying ads for all summer: If you don't have a reservation, don't show up at a terminal in your vehicle.

With long-weekend ferry travel in full swing, B.C. Ferries is hoping that an upward trend in foot-passenger travel will continue.

08/31/2023

Highway 4, the only road connecting Tofino, Port Alberni and Ucluelet to the rest of Vancouver Island, will reopen to two-way traffic Thursday at 5 p.m.

Highway 4, the only road connecting Tofino, Port Alberni and Ucluelet to the rest of Vancouver Island, will reopen to two-way traffic at 5 p.m.

08/31/2023

A CBC viewer from Arbutus Ridge filmed this lively pod of orcas splashing in the shallow waters of the Saanich Inlet from his backyard on Monday evening.

08/31/2023

Ashley Skeldoch may be travelling with a man who police say is known to be "extremely violent."

Police in Nanaimo are asking the public for help finding 24-year-old Ashley Skeldoch, who has been missing since Tuesday.

08/29/2023

"We need to preserve them," said Saya Masso, the natural resources manager with the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation of old-growth forests on the west coast of Vancouver Island. "And we need to do it in a manner that acknowledges these trees and mountains are bringing a service to the world."

Sierra Club B.C. says the logging of large old trees in verdant, bio-diverse forests on Vancouver Island has continued mostly unabated in the 30 years since one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience in Canada.

08/29/2023

The provincial wildfire map shows at least seven new wildfires sparked by lightning on Monday, five of which are within Strathcona Provincial Park on Vancouver Island.

A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for most of Vancouver Island Monday, adding to smoke and heat alerts that cover other parts of B.C.

08/27/2023

"Based on what we learn from the very large releases [of radioactive water] that occurred when the [Fukushima nuclear plant] reactors first melted down in 2011, we don't expect that the additional radionuclides that will be added to the North Pacific ... will have any negative impact on our ecosystem here ... up and down the coast of British Columbia," said Jay Cullen, a University of Victoria professor of earth and ocean science.

University of Victoria ocean scientist Jay Cullen says Japan's discharge of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean won't have a negative effect on B.C.'s ecosystem, but Canada should keep monitoring radioactive isotopes in local waters.

08/26/2023

Many people often consider learning other languages like French or Spanish. But what about SENĆOŦEN? The team at the QENTOL, YEN/ W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians Program has published a kids' book all about the killer whale or KELL̵OLEMEĆEN.

Many people often consider learning other languages like French or Spanish. But what about SENĆOŦEN? The team at the QENTOL, YEN/ W̱SÁNEĆ Marine Guardians Program has published a kids' book all about the killer whale or KELL̵OLEMEĆEN. The book teaches fun facts about orcas and their unique co...

08/26/2023

A shortage of doctors at a Vancouver Island hospital — which one physicians says has impacted many patients — has forced an elderly man with a terminal cancer diagnosis to wait more than a day for follow-up care, according to the man's family.

08/26/2023

On Vancouver Island’s west coast, First Nations are taking back control of stewardship and access in their traditional territories.

The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s lands and resources manager stops to scoop them with his bare hands into a moist, shady spot beneath the trail’s cedar boardwalk. He sighs.

08/26/2023

Forty per cent of all the sailings that B.C. Ferries cancelled in its 2023 fiscal year were due to crew shortages, according to a report released at B.C. Ferries' annual general meeting.

08/24/2023

Credit and debit fares to added in 2024, says B.C. Transit.

B.C. Transit launched its hotly anticipated electronic payment system, Umo, allowing riders to tap and go with their Umo app or card, which can be loaded online or through a B.C. Transit call centre.

08/23/2023

A six-week mission by non-profit Ocean Cleanup has recovered a mother lode of plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean.

A six-week mission by the non-profit Ocean Cleanup has recovered a mother lode of plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean.

08/23/2023

B.C. Ferries says anyone travelling on the route between Tsawwassen and Nanaimo should book reservations in advance.

B.C. Ferries says the out-of-commission Coastal Renaissance vessel will take at least two months to repair.

08/19/2023

Some of those involved in Savage Patch were also present at the Fairy Creek protests, although they say their group is a separate movement.

On Tuesday, RCMP arrested three protesters from the group, called Savage Patch, for breaching a court-ordered injunction after the group blockaded a bridge to prevent Teal Cedar Products from logging in the area.

08/17/2023

The company has cancelled the 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. sailings from Duke Point in Nanaimo and the 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. sailings from Tsawwassen in Metro Vancouver.

One of B.C. Ferries' largest vessels that services the busy route between Nanaimo and Metro Vancouver will be out of commission for weeks, the company's president says.

08/17/2023

Highway 4, which was cut off in June for more than two weeks due to a wildfire east of Port Alberni, will be closed 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. on both Aug. 17 and Aug. 24 so crews can remove a dozen refrigerator-sized boulders.

08/17/2023

"These marine heat waves result in die-offs of bird populations, especially sea birds," said David Bradley, the B.C. director of Birds Canada.

A marine heat wave off the Pacific coast has scientists worried about mass deaths.

08/17/2023

The forest, on the Saanich peninsula just north of Victoria, is overrun with invasive English ivy which chokes out native species. But since the project started two years ago, Sarah Jim and her family have seen traditional plants and animals return.

W̱SÁNEĆ artist and land steward Sarah Jim invites volunteers onto her family’s land once a month to pull invasive plants like ivy out of the forest. She calls it an act of decolonization and says the native plants and animals are starting to thrive.

08/17/2023

Brigitte Cleroux worked at the private View Royal Surgical Centre for three weeks in 2020, while she was on leave from B.C. Women's Hospital in Vancouver.

Another round of criminal charges has been filed in B.C. against a serial impostor with a long history of posing as a nurse, this time related to her brief employment at a private surgery clinic in the Victoria area.

08/16/2023

"Obviously I'm relieved," said Victor Mema, former CFO with the City of Nanaimo. "I wonder if this will mean anything for people of colour who face the same challenges I faced."

Victor Mema, who worked as the city's CFO until he was suspended and then fired over a report of serious misconduct, alleged the city breached the Human Rights Code by discriminating against him on the basis of his ancestry, place of origin, race and colour.

08/16/2023

“For one morning when I was denied service, it’s taken four years and a tremendous amount of energy just to have an outcome,” said Georgia Pike, a woman who won a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal against a Vancouver cafe that discriminated against her.

Georgia Pike, a 28-year-old Victoria, B.C. woman who uses a guide dog to navigate, says she and her father were refused service by Ooh La La Cafe because they were accompanied at the time by her guide dog, Grainger.

08/15/2023

Crews need daylight hours and good weather to remove a dozen refrigerator-sized boulders.

Highway 4, which was cut off in June for more than two weeks due to a wildfire east of Port Alberni, will be closed 8:30 a.m.-9 p.m. on both Aug. 17 and Aug. 24 so crews can remove a dozen refrigerator-sized boulders.

08/15/2023

"The anticipated arrival and implementation of the ferry system, the fast ferry, has been such an important event for Nanaimo and so to see this start like this, it's very upsetting," said City of Nanaimo Mayor Leonard Krog.

A new foot-passenger ferry service between downtown Vancouver and Nanaimo is struggling to launch with a second day of cancelled sailings.

08/14/2023

RCMP have located the body of a 49-year-old woman after 2 days of searching Prior Lake.

Witnesses reported seeing the woman go under the water while swimming but did not see her resurface, according to RCMP

08/13/2023

A new documentary on CBC Gem shines a spotlight on the challenges and triumphs of small-scale sustainable fishing in British Columbia.

Absolutely Canadian is a national one-hour series showcasing documentaries and performance programs that tell unique stories from communities across Canada. All programs are produced locally.

08/13/2023

Juvenile salmon already face pressure from human land use and development, and may be further squeezed out of their estuary habitat by climate change, as sea levels rise.

Climate-caused sea level rise is threatening coastlines in Canada. Caught in the squeeze are juvenile salmon, who depend on estuaries to survive. Now scientists and First Nations on Vancouver Island are trying to find out where baby salmon will live in the not-so-distant future. The question is: wil...

08/12/2023

"Each and everyone of us needs to be a little more cautious when they are travelling in the areas where wells are present," the director of the Pacific Whale Society said.

Conservationists and a First Nation are expressing worry after three humpback whales were struck by ships in northern B.C. waters in a 10-day span last month.