Darryl Greer
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Reporter with The Canadian Press
Law suit alleges abuse, cultural devastation at Indigenous group homes
A proposed class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government says Indigenous people removed from their communities and placed in group homes beginning in the 1950s suffered physical, sexual and psychological abuse that "was commonplace, condoned and, arguably, encouraged."
Bad weather and human error led to missed ballots: Elections BC
B.C.'s chief electoral officer Anton Boegman says the agency is investigating the mistakes to "identify key lessons learned" to improve training, change processes or make recommendations for legislative change to ensure "errors can be prevented in the future."
Guns for hire killed B.C. man accused in Air India bombing: court document
The day before Ripudaman Singh Malik was murdered in July 2022, a pair of hired hit men showed up at his B.C. business, "scoping out the scene" for several minutes before driving away.
Rustad backpedals after BC Coroners Service says no record of fatal overdose
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has changed his story about seeing a man die of a drug overdose on his way to a televised election debate, after the BC Coroners Service said it had no record of such a death where he said it occurred.
B.C. Premier vows to scrap consumer carbon tax if feds drop legal requirement
A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said on Thursday.
Is there microplastic in your coffee? This device can tell you
When UBC food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.
Disastrous fruit year the final straw for indebted B.C. fruit group
British Columbia's fruit growers co-operative that served farmers for almost a century has filed for creditor protection, citing more than $58 million in liabilities and a disastrous crop failure this year that it called "the final tipping point."
'Pivotal moment': Trudeau and Tsilhqotʼin nation the celebrate anniversary of land ruling
Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation says the 2014 court ruling that resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canadian history triggered a decade of "huge" shifts.
B.C. grasslands are preserved thanks to Nature Conservancy of Canada B.C. land purchase
The Nature Conservancy of Canada says a new conservation area north of Cranbrook, B.C., will protect important bird habitat and preserve grasslands in the province's southeast.
Premier David Eby announces major hydrogen project expected to create 300 jobs
The Canada Infrastructure Bank is providing a $337 million loan to support the $900 million project by hydrogen company HTEC, which involves plans to build up to 20 hydrogen refuelling stations, with 18 of them in B.C. and the others in Alberta.