Dirk Meissner
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Dirk Meissner
B.C. teen overdose inquest recommends improvements in substance abuse treatment
A British Columbia coroner's inquest jury recommends improvements in provincial substance abuse treatment, detection and prevention services for young people following an inquest into the overdose of a Victoria-area teen.
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
The government approval of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion won't stop efforts in British Columbia to halt the project, protesters gathered outside Victoria's city hall said on Saturday, June 22, 2019.
Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death
Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest on Thursday, June 20, 2019, about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was abusing drugs but showed signs of a growing opioid addiction.
Butterfly garden keeper manages to film large tarantula shedding exoskeleton
A 20-centimetre tarantula capable of killing a bird has been filmed at its most vulnerable state shedding its armour-like exoskelton at a Victoria-area tropical jungle insectarium.
Victoria council debates asking Ottawa to help fund Remembrance Day
A move to seek federal funding for Victoria's annual Remembrance Day events may have backfired, the city's mayor said on Friday, June 7, 2019.
Aging Haida totem comes down during ceremony outside Royal B.C. Museum
Dancers circled an aging totem pole that tells the story of a murdered Haida woman before it was hooked to a crane and gently lowered to the ground on Wednesday, June 5, 2019.
B.C. premier rejects Liberal calls to dump legislature Speaker Darryl Plecas
The British Columbia legislature became embroiled in political turmoil on Thursday, May 30, 2019, as Premier John Horgan rejected calls to replace the Speaker after the Opposition Liberals accused him of conducting a clandestine security probe.
B.C. post-secondary schools at risk of money laundering: minister
Post-secondary institutions in British Columbia were warned on Tuesday, May 28, 2019, to be on the look out for possible student money launderers in the province's ongoing fight against illegal cash.
Crackdown on money laundering does not include federal public inquiry: minister
The federal minister in charge of Canada's fight against money laundering supports British Columbia's public inquiry into dirty money but says a national examination is not necessary.
B.C. legislature clerk retires; report says benefits wrongly claimed
A spending scandal that shook British Columbia's legislature came to a partial conclusion on Thursday, May 16, 2019, with the abrupt retirement of the clerk and the suspended sergeant-at-arms asking for his job back after a report by a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.