The Supreme Court of British Columbia has resumed hearings for a class-action lawsuit brought by a non-profit organization against Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and the COVID-19 mandates introduced by the government. The certification hearings aim to determine whether to approve the lawsuit, proposed by the Canadian Society for the Advancement of Science in…
Hearings Resume for Class-Action Lawsuit Targeting BC Pandemic Health Orders
Surrey Knife Attack Case Is Being Treated as Terrorism: RCMP
The investigation into the attack on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C., over the weekend has been taken over by the RCMP national security police and is being treated as terrorism. Abdul Aziz Kawam was initially charged with attempted murder for allegedly slashing a victim’s throat with a knife on Saturday morning. But on Monday,…
Poilievre Says a Tory Gov’t Would Sue Big Pharma for Role in Opioid Crisis
March 14, 2023
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said on March 14 that if elected, his government would launch a “massive” series of lawsuits amounting to $44 billion against large pharmaceutical multinationals for their role in Canada’s opioid and addiction crisis. “The people who profited from this misery should be the ones to pay the bill. It’s about bringing…
BC School Trustee ‘Traumatized’ by Detailed Child Rape in School Library Book
March 8, 2023
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Explicitly sexual, and even violently sexual, books found in B.C. school libraries have sparked an outcry that has especially flared up in Chilliwack School District 33. One of the books, “Identical,” by Ellen Hopkins, details a father raping his 7-year-old daughter. “I was traumatized,” District 33 Trustee Heather Maahs told The Epoch Times. “I cannot…
BC MLAs Vote Unanimously to Freeze Politicians’ Salary Increases for 2023
B.C. MLAs voted unanimously Wednesday to freeze salary increases of provincial politicians, a measure intended to show residents that the government understands how rising inflation is impacting the province’s residents. With the motion passed, there will be a freeze on salary increases for 2023. MLAs would have received a 7–10 percent raise as of April 1,…
BC Agrees to Pay $300,000 to Couple Who Say Logging Flooded Their Property
Lawyers for the British Columbia government have agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a couple whose property flooded after a third of the forest in the surrounding watershed was cut down. The agreement came in a handwritten note that was signed by the Crown’s lawyers and handed over in court on the…
BC Doctors Fundraising for Legal Fight Over Vaccine Mandate for Health Workers
B.C. doctors out of work for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are crowdfunding to raise financial support for a court battle against the provincial government in November. Vascular surgeon Dr. York Hsiang, psychiatrist Dr. David William Morgan, and clinical resource nurse Hilary VanderGugten filed a request for judicial review on June 10 to challenge the ban…
All Evacuation Orders Rescinded for Keremeos Creek Wildfire Near Penticton, BC
Local authorities in British Columbia’s Okanagan region say all evacuation orders around the so-called Keremeos Creek wildfire near Penticton have been rescinded. Erick Thompson, an information officer for the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, says this means residents from the last 25 households still displaced by the fire have received the go-ahead to return home. He…
Evacuation Orders Rescinded as Wildfire Burns Along BC Highway 3
An evacuation alert has been rescinded for about two dozen properties near a stretch of Highway 3 in British Columbia’s Interior, where a vehicle fire appeared to have spread to nearby grasses and started burning up a mountainside. Karley Desrosiers with the BC Wildfire Service said the fire started around 1 a.m. Friday, and while…
Stable Weather Allows Fire Crews to Focus on Containment of BC Wildfires
Crews battling the wildfire that has forced the evacuation of more than 500 properties in British Columbia’s southern Okanagan are taking advantage of calm winds and stable conditions to bolster fire lines. The BC Wildfire Service says the the wildfire covers 68 square kilometres southwest of Penticton, with most of the recent growth due to…
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