Rob Ford: City Lobbyist's Home Raided In Project Traveller Probe
The home of a well-known city hall lobbyist for the adult entertainment industry was raided in connection with the same police investigation that seized a video showing Mayor Rob Ford smoking what...
View ArticleVancouver City Bird competition down to the wire
Bird Week in Vancouver officially wraps up Saturday with the announcement of the city bird for 2015. Nearly half a million votes have been cast so far — better than any municipal election! The City of...
View ArticleProject Traveller documents named city hall lobbyist
The connection between the high-profile police raids last summer known as Project Traveller and city hall were not limited to the video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack. CBC News has learned a city hall...
View ArticleColin Martin, accused B.C. drug kingpin ordered extradited to U.S.
Colin Martin, who the U.S. accuses of being the kingpin in a cross-border drug smuggling operation that left two people dead, has been ordered extradited to the United States. The U.S. claims the...
View ArticleAddict's Story Highlights Unregulated Recovery Homes, Services
After 20 years of helping others battle their addictions, Mike Pond succumbed to his own. It was 2008, and he had lost everything to alcoholism: his psychotherapy practice in Kelowna, his wife, his...
View ArticleFamous People You Didn't Know Were From B.C.
Countless stars film blockbuster movies, shoot award-winning TV shows, and pack concert venues in British Columbia. And we can boast many of them as homegrown celebrities. There are the obvious names,...
View ArticleRob Ford: One Wild Night In March
Loaded behind the wheel of his Cadillac Escalade, high on his Jimmy Kimmel interview, Mayor Rob Ford is winding through the streets of his city.
View Article'Big Brother Canada' Winner Jon And Runner-Up Sabrina Talk Season 2 (VIDEO)
Newfoundlander Jon Pardy, 23, is $100,000 richer, and all he wants to do is head home to The Rock and help his grandparents renovate their kitchen. The winner of "Big Brother Canada" Season 2 is...
View ArticleMan Faces Fine For Filling Potholes City Hasn't Fixed
Picture this: a street with potholes as big as a foot wide. They sit there unfixed until a man comes along with a tractor and fills them himself. And what does the city do? It tells him he could be...
View ArticleRob Ford In Rehab, Doctor Confirms To CBC News
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is indeed in a residential treatment program for substance abuse at a clinic in North America, and has been since last week, according to a supervising doctor at the facility.
View ArticleDemonstrators rally for Nigerian schoolgirls
Demonstrators gathered in downtown Toronto on Saturday — one of many protests staged around the world over the Nigerian government’s inability to track down its kidnapped schoolgirls. The Islamic...
View ArticleCalgary police seek driver of B.C. car used in hit-and-run
Calgary police are looking for the driver involved in a hit-and-run incident early Saturday morning. Police say a pedestrian was hit in the 300 block of 10th Avenue S.W. around 1:30 a.m. MT. The driver...
View ArticlePolice search for hit-and-run suspect
Toronto police are looking for a silver Honda after an early morning hit and run near Dundas Street West and Augusta Avenue. A pedestrian in his late 20s was struck there at around 2:30 a.m. according...
View ArticleThe 10 Things Canadian Employers Want Most
Canadian employers are a practical bunch, and — unlike employers in other countries — they value effectiveness over experience, according to research from job search index Adzuna. The company scoured...
View ArticleMourners wear red, not black, at Michael Lunn's funeral
The family of one of two men killed 10 days ago at the Western Forest Products sawmill in Nanaimo, B.C., asked mourners to wear red, not black, today at his memorial service. Michael Lunn, a...
View ArticleU.S.-ranging Selkirk mountain caribou on track to oblivion
The U.S. federal government has downgraded the protected status of the last mountain caribou herd that ranges from Canada south into the United States — a herd on the verge of dying out. Five years ago...
View ArticleLicensed grow-op in Mission, B.C., destroyed in fire
Investigators in B.C.'s Fraser Valley are trying to determine what caused a fire at a Health Canada-licensed marijuana grow-op this morning. The fire broke out in an outbuilding at a Silverdale-area...
View ArticleCanada introduces tougher water quality rules for planes, trains, and buses
MONTREAL - The Canadian government is laying out stricter rules to ensure clean water aboard planes, trains and passenger ships for drinking, hand washing, oral hygiene and food preparation.It's been...
View ArticleHeritage Minutes filming at Calgary's Hillhurst United Church
Everyone has a favourite Canadian Heritage Minutes segment — those brief interludes from the 1990s when TV viewers got a glimpse of the nation's past by way of costumed actors in dramatic skits — and...
View ArticleWith MERS concerns rising, WHO warns about some camel products, contact
The World Health Organization is stepping up its warnings about contact with camels, urging people to avoid some camel products because they may pose a risk for contracting the MERS virus.The WHO says...
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