"We're bridging the digital divide," explains Phones For Fearless executive director Irwin Oostindie. The Phones For Fearless campaign is giving artists and other residents of Vancouver?s downtown ...

Around 1,000 rallied in Victory Square in downtown Vancouver against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline today. Bolstered by the support of Idle No More and Downtown Eastside community ...

British Columbia coastal residents have a pressing need for greater control as to how the federal government decides on approvals for natural resource export. We have seen in recent years, the loss of ...

STOMP – the 25-year-old percussion ensemble of makeshift, self-improvised gongs, bongs and drums – is back in town for a three-day engagement. Much of the opening night audience was comprised of ...

A study with 'first published evidence that a European variant of the infectious salmon anaemia virus (ISAV) is present in British Columbia is extremely disturbing,' a news release from the Ahousaht ...

On the website of the Fraser Institute, Christmas music tinkles as the conservative think tank's fellows express their wishes for the coming year. Peter Cowley, whose title is director of school ...

Before you read about the new ones, consider Canada’s 10 best films of last year. The Toronto Film Festival assembles a series every year and it’s here, starting tonight at The Cinematheque. ZERO DAYS ...

Ethical Oil, the pro oil-sands non profit organization that claims to have no government backing, appears to share the same mailing address as Treasury Board President and Conservative MP Tony Clement ...

The weather is no excuse not to be fashionable. So what if Vancouver gets 1199 mm of rain a year? Instead of having a pity party about the strains the rain puts on your wardrobe, pull on your ...

A long-time friend of slain UBC graduate student Ximena Osegueda Magana, 39 – whose body was found this week on a Mexican beach after having been tortured and burned – told the Vancouver Observer she ...

VANCOUVER — More flights have been cancelled after a cloud of ash spewed from a volcano on the Alaska Peninsula. WestJet spokeswoman Lauren Stewart said the airline cancelled three flights from ...

Impending logging on BC’s pristine Cortes Island is becoming a hot topic this week, with increasing media attention around the issue and a petition to protect the forests now boasting over 4,700 ...