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Chronic understaffing, high burnout: Child welfare system in B.C. is in 'crisis,' investigation finds
Chronic understaffing, and the excessive workload and burnout that comes with it, has the people in charge of protecting British Columbia's most vulnerable children in a state of crisis, the province's representative for children and youth says.
'Metabolic knife edge': Study offers insight into hummingbirds' hibernation-like rest
Lead researcher Shayne Halter said new research is an early step in better understanding how hummingbirds use their energy during migration and how that might be impacted by changes to the flowers they depend on for food.
B.C. inquest into starvation death told of home-share providers' burnout
Cary Chiu was the last person to testify in the coroner's inquest into the death of Florence Girard, a 54-year-old woman with Down syndrome who starved to death while living in her caretaker's home in October 2018.
As fruit buds swell, B.C. farmers hit by 2024 deep freeze hope for better harvest
This week marks one year since the deep freeze that sent temperatures plummeting to about -30 C in some fruit-growing regions.
Florence Girard starved to death in a B.C. home-share. Her sister wants change
The sister of a British Columbia woman with Down syndrome who starved to death in a Port Coquitlam home in 2018 says she believes more people will die if systemic changes aren't made to how people with developmental disabilities are treated.
David Eby among premiers heading to Washington to tamp down Trump tariff threat
On Tuesday, Trump threatened to use economic force to make Canada the 51st state and promised substantial tariffs on Canada and Mexico in his first news conference since the certification of his election win.
Drug 'superlabs' leave a toxic mess. Some say B.C.'s cleanup rules are a mess, too
As clandestine drug labs become larger and more complex, so does the toxic mess they leave behind and the tools required to clean them up, creating expensive and dangerous situations for both people and the environment.
B.C. hopes to hang onto 'Hollywood North' title by boosting film and TV tax incentives
Premier David Eby said the tax credit for international projects made in B.C. will jump from 28 to 36 per cent, and an incentive for Canadian-content productions will increase from 35 to 36 per cent.
Taylor Swift fans up at the crack of dawn in Vancouver for concert gear
A line of hundreds of fans snaked around Vancouver's Canada Place in downtown on Wednesday waiting for the first major in-person sale of official Swift merchandise, ahead of three concerts in the city this week
First Nation goes to court, accusing B.C. of not consulting over major gold mine
The Tsetsaut Skii km Lax Ha Nation has applied to the B.C. Supreme Court for a judicial review of the province's decision to issue a "substantial start determination" for Seabridge Gold's KSM Mine Project in northwestern B.C., part of the final stage of the environmental assessment process.