Clik here to view.
Helijet receives heaviest aviation fines from Transport Canada in B.C.
Richmond-based Helijet has received the heaviest fines from Transport Canada so far this year for aviation violations in B.C., a review of federal enforcement files by Postmedia News reveals. Helijet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Organic food must be certified by September to meet new B.C. rules
B.C. consumers are paying a premium for organic food without the assurance they’re getting the real deal. Forthcoming provincial rules aim to change that by requiring that food sold as organic must...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Globally significant karst and old-growth ecosystems at risk on Vancouver Island
THE HANKIN RANGE — The impact of clearcut logging on biodiversity is well-documented. But this is quite something else, a desperate razed landscape of charred stumps, barren limestone rocks and lost...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More than 150 grizzlies killed while NDP contemplated hunting policy
Hunters killed more than 150 grizzly bears in B.C. — one-third of them females — during the time it took the newly elected NDP government to make a decision to ban the hunting of grizzlies for trophies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Researchers take to water and sky in major effort to save endangered killer...
Marine researchers will take to the water and sky in the Salish Sea this year in a major effort to help save endangered southern resident killer whales. Bankrolled by the federal government’s $1.5...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canadian music icon Ian Tyson says voice is gone at 84, but the show continues
Ian Tyson and Corb Lund Jan. 11; 7 p.m. | Vogue Theatre Tickets and info: From $42.50; Ticketmaster.ca Life hasn’t been the same for 84-year-old Ian Tyson since open-heart surgery two years ago in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
British Airways plane with 315 aboard sustains 'total system failure' in...
A British Airways Boeing 747-400 with 315 passengers and crew on board experienced an engine “total system failure” while landing at Vancouver International Airport, Transport Canada files on aviation...
View ArticleProvince moves to rename soggy, record-setting Henderson Lake at request of...
Bit by bit, First Nations are putting their mark on the map of British Columbia. In 2009, the B.C. government reached a landmark agreement with the Haida to rename the Queen Charlotte Islands as Haida...
View ArticleSouth Delta potato farmer wants Crown lands protected for agriculture and nature
Third-generation farmer Rod Swenson is concerned about the destruction of prime farmland in South Delta and says he hopes that B.C.’s NDP government saves the best of what’s left — more than 250...
View ArticleRare plant communities in B.C. not being protected from logging: Forest...
A Forest Practices Board report into a B.C. Timber Sales operation on the Sunshine Coast has revealed that rare plant communities are not receiving adequate protection from logging in B.C. The report,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. releases documents revealing hunting culture among conservation officers
After repeatedly denying the existence of such documents, the B.C. government has finally complied with a freedom-of-information request revealing a strong hunting culture within the conservation...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jump in animal research in Canada generates debate on science ethics
There is a very special brown mouse in a small plastic cage on the table in Fabio Rossi’s lab at the University of B.C. The mouse carries the mutation for muscular dystrophy and is being used for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C.'s foreign caregivers seek fair permanent-residency policy from feds
B.C.’s foreign caregivers have called on the Trudeau government to adopt a fair and compassionate permanent-residency policy that recognizes the sector’s valuable contribution to Canada. “The time is...
View ArticleB.C.'s plan to restrict the transport of bitumen not illegal — yet: legal expert
B.C.’s plan to restrict the transport of bitumen in the province, impacting Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline project, is not illegal — at least not yet — a University of B.C. legal expert said...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bald eagles' poisoning deaths raises alarm over lead shot used in hunting,...
The troubling poisoning deaths of four bald eagles in South Delta are raising alarms over the use of lead by hunters and fishermen in the region. Lead shot has been banned for decades for waterfowl...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Environment Canada strikes potential death blow to port's $2b container...
Environment officials have struck a potential death blow to the Port of Vancouver’s $2-billion container expansion in South Delta, saying the risks to a significant migratory population of western...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. suspends fisher relocations to Washington state amid habitat loss to...
It is one of the most secretive and unknown creatures in our forests, but also one of the fastest in short bursts. It mainly hunts snowshoe hares, squirrels, rodents, and birds, but also holds the...
View ArticleB.C. aircraft accident fatalities among lowest in a decade
The number of fatalities resulting from aircraft accidents in B.C. has dropped to among the lowest in a decade. B.C. recorded 38 aircraft accidents in 2017, a 28-per-cent decline over 2016. At the same...
View ArticleMetro Vancouver directors torn on controversial Hazelmere development in...
A planned residential development in rural Hazelmere in south Surrey was described Friday as both a dangerous land-use precedent and a boost to young farmers and the local environment. The Metro...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vancouver park board orders review after pressure to ban use of rodenticides
The Vancouver park board is conducting a review of rodenticides after Postmedia News revealed that the placement of poisoned-bait boxes around restaurants and other park buildings could result in the...
View Article