A disembodied foot found on a B.C. shore last year belongs to a fisherman who died in January 1987, the BC Coroners Service said Friday ( Read more... )

Galliford “is going to blow this inquiry wide open," says sister of Pickton murder victim

RCMP Cpl. Catherine Galliford, the former calm, professional voice and face of the Missing Women Task Force, said Tuesday she knows her evidence will be “explosive” when she appears at the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

Galliford, 44, is slated to testify ( Read more... )

The death of a woman taking part in the Occupy Vancouver protest at the city's art gallery has led the city's mayor to announce the protest movement's tent city will be cleared ( Read more... )

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association is calling for an independent investigation into allegations an RCMP officer in Williams Lake, B.C., assaulted a 17-year-old girl.

Martina Jeff says her teenaged daughter, Jamie Haller, was punched in the face by an RCMP constable while she was handcuffed in the back of a police car.

Jeff said the incident ( Read more... )

A new municipal strategy on the sex trade put forth yesterday by the City of Vancouver has won the tentative support of a prominent sex worker advocacy group.

"We feel pretty positive about it," says Kerry Porth, executive director of PACE Society, a group working on behalf of street-level sex workers in Vancouver. "Sex work issues in this city ( Read more... )

British Columbians have voted to scrap the province’s controversial
harmonized sales tax, according to the results of a binding,
province-wide referendum.

Elections B.C. announced on Friday morning that 54.73 per cent of the
1.6 million British Columbians who cast a ballot in the mail-in
referendum voted to get rid of the tax and 45.27 per voted to keep ( Read more... )

When you know a natural disaster is coming, is it rude, or good manners, to tell people to get ready ( Read more... )

The first time Paula Armstrong visited The Rainier Hotel, a renovated heritage building in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, she could barely climb the stairs to the second floor. A decade spent living on the streets, wracked by addiction and poverty, had left Armstrong close to death. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease had cut her lung function to ( Read more... )

Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell is going to London as Stephen Harper’s pick to be the Canadian envoy to Britain.

Mr. Campbell abruptly quit the B.C. premier’s chair last November after nine years in office, with his popularity levels sinking to basement levels after the introduction of the harmonized sales tax.

Now he’ll take on one of Canada’ ( Read more... )

Spencer Chandra Herbert says transgender people should be explicitly protected from discrimination by the B.C. Human Rights Code.

The NDP MLA for Vancouver-West End is introducing in the legislature today (May 26) a member’s bill called the Gender Identity and Expression Human Rights Recognition Act.

Herbert’s legislation would add “gender ( Read more... )