Meera Bains

B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau says, for her, the need for more transparency and collaboration in government are two of the biggest takeaways from the province’s three states of emergency this year.

Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum did not appear in person for his first court date on a charge of public mischief over a police complaint he made in September, with his lawyers attending online on his behalf instead.

A new report entitled The Road to Safety shows that Indigenous women and gender-diverse people in B.C. are facing a significant increase in domestic violence during the pandemic, highlighting the need for culturally appropriate services.

Voters will be heading to the polls in the Surrey South byelection in less than two weeks. The vote is shaping up to be a low-key test of how the province’s political parties are faring, particular in the area of health care.

Surrey mayoral candidate Gordie Hogg who has decades of political experience from having been the mayor of White Rock, a provincial MLA and a federal MP, is jumping into a highly competitive and heated political race for the city’s top job under the Surrey First banner.

Four federal and provincial privacy authorities in Canada have launched an investigation into OpenAI, the company behind artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT, after receiving a complaint about the company’s disclosure of personal information.

The B.C. Conservative Party has dropped a controversial Denman Island doctor as a candidate for Ladysmith-Oceanside after his views on COVID-19 and vaccines circulated online on Wednesday.

Coun. Christine Boyle with OneCity, who is bringing forward the motion, says funding for the Granville Bridge suicide prevention fencing should be committed soon. 

Surrey RCMP say they have ruled out criminality in the death of an Indigenous infant earlier this month. The boy was under the care of a family friend as part of a plan created by the Ministry of Children and Family Development and his parents, according to the parents' lawyer.

With over 60 per cent of all wild B.C. seafood sold in the U.S. — half a billion dollars worth — tariffs imposed by President Trump could devastate the industry.