Burns Lake

Emergency Management Minister Bowinn Ma says 75 military members are heading to Burns Lake, in central B.C., to join 75 others who were sent to nearby Vanderhoof yesterday as part of federal assistance in the province's wildfire fight.

British Columbia is putting out a call for national and international help to fight wildfires that are blanketing communities in thick smoke, as some residents watch flames approach their homes.

Escalating wildfires and worsening drought across British Columbia signal challenging times ahead, with the province and nation facing the worst fire season in 100 years, said Premier David Eby.

New research shows that large volumes of trees have been logged specifically for the province's wood pellet industry since 2010.

The cannabis industry is seen by some First Nations as an opportunity to take the initiative and get out of poverty, says the regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations.

"I never knew her, but to me, in my eyes, she gave me life," Vicki Hill told the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women on Tuesday, "Now I have to live without her."

John Furlong's lawyer is rejecting the premise of a resolution passed by the Assembly of First Nations that asked Ottawa to investigate allegations made against the former Vancouver Olympics boss.

After reading the Supreme Court judgment, I resolved to travel to Burns Lake myself—to hear, first-hand, the stories of Furlong's former students.