"I certainly don’t hear Peter Julian speaking in tones that suggest he’s applying for the job of prime minister," said UBC political science professor Max Cameron.

The male orca, found in the water off the Sunshine Coast north of Vancouver on Tuesday, also had a hematoma, indicating it was alive for a time after the injury, said a specialist from DFO.

Green Leader Andrew Weaver challenged Notley to a public debate on the project, saying she is not engaging with British Columbians during her trip.

"A carbon tax would do nothing but hurt the economy," the Yukon Party leader said in an interview.

An aviation expert says determining what caused a fatal plane crash near Kelowna, B.C., will be especially difficult because the aircraft didn't have flight recording devices.

The Petronas-led $36-billion LNG project near Prince Rupert, B.C., would ship 19 million tonnes a year of liquefied gas to Asia while pumping more than five million tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere.

The couple, without Prince George and Princess Charlotte, left Victoria on a float plane and arrived at Vancouver's Jack Poole Plaza, where several hundred royal fans gave them a noisy welcome.

Doctors are already seeing the effects of an aging population and those issues will only continue to grow over the coming decades.

U.S. election bets have become the highest earner on the B.C. Lottery Corp. website's novelty betting category, surpassing the Oscars.