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  B.C. family doctors press parties for plans to address crisis ahead of election

  More than 700,000 British Columbians don't have a family doctor and two physicians’ groups want to know how the province’s political parties plan to address the crisis.

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  Family of teen who died in B.C. homeless camp pushes for involuntary treatment for children with addictions

  In February, when Brianna MacDonald was rushed to hospital because of a suspected overdose, her parents said they begged Surrey Memorial to keep her in the youth psychiatric ward because of her mental health and addiction issues.

• RCMP enforcement at B.C. logging protests 'unreasonable,' federal police watchdog says

  A federal police oversight agency has found the RCMP's enforcement of a civil injunction against old-growth logging protesters on Vancouver Island was unreasonable and violated the rights of activists.

• 'Concerning' number of impaired drivers arrested in roads in Saanich, B.C.: police

  Police on southern Vancouver Island say they’ve arrested almost as many impaired drivers in the first eight months of this year than they did in 2023 in a concerning trend of people getting behind the wheel while drunk or on drugs.

• Metro Vancouver men charged after several kilos of drugs seized

  Two men are facing drug-trafficking charges after police seized several kilograms of cocaine, fentanyl and methamphetamine from multiple Metro Vancouver properties last year, British Columbia's anti-organized crime task force announced Wednesday.

• Parents fight for change after 13-year-old girl dies in B.C. homeless camp

  Brianna McDonald's death was caused by a suspected overdose, according to her family. And her grieving parents are urging change so other families don’t have to face what they are going though.

• Taxi driver killed in Vancouver Island crash

  Mounties say a 66-year-old taxi driver is dead after his vehicle veered off the roadway and struck two trees on Vancouver Island.

• NDP tries to make abortion B.C. election issue, Conservatives push back

  Ahead of next month’s provincial election, the BC NDP is claiming the BC Conservatives – if elected – will reduce access to abortion and support for other reproductive health services if elected.

• 'I think we can stop them': Esquimalt renters vow to fight demoviction

  Renters in Esquimalt, B.C., say they are being caught in a housing conundrum—between the need to build more units and saving aging apartments that remain affordable.

• Mistrial declared in case of teen bystander killed in Vancouver gang shooting

  After five days of deliberations, jurors were unable to break their deadlock in the second-degree murder trial of Kane Carter, who is accused of fatally shooting a rival gang member and an innocent teen passerby in January 2018.

• $2M home belonging to children's musician Raffi on the market

  Canada’s children’s troubadour is selling his B.C. home, which is now up for grabs for $1,995,000.

• Financial pressures difficult, but not the time for service, support cuts, says Eby

  British Columbia's estimated budget deficit is growing again, with the latest Ministry of Finance forecast pegging the province to be almost 9 billion in the red.

• B.C. man allowed to keep Great Dane in condo where pets prohibited: tribunal

  A B.C. man has won his fight to keep a Great Dane in his condo – despite the building’s ban on pets.

• 7-Eleven ordered to pay B.C. woman $907K for pothole injury

  A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ordered 7-Eleven Canada to pay a woman more than $900,000 in damages after she tripped on a pothole and broke her ankle in the parking lot of a convenience store.

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  LIVE | Presidential debate replay: Donald Trump-Kamala Harris face off

  Kamala Harris and Donald Trump exchanged barbs in a combative face-off on key issues such as the economy, immigration and abortion in a showdown that comes less than two months before election day.

• B.C. businesses seek concrete economic 'vision' from parties ahead of fall election

  Leaders from a wide array of businesses in British Columbia are urging the province's political parties to "deliver a clear and actionable plan" for revitalizing an economy that they say has pushed many residents into a "personal recession."

• Weather aids B.C. fire fight amid evacuation order, alerts in southeast

  The BC Wildfire Service says rain, light winds and cooler temperatures are expected to decrease fire behaviour in the province this week, just as a newly discovered blaze in the East Kootenays prompts an evacuation order and alerts for more than 50 properties.

• 2 hospitalized, suspects sought after 'extreme case of road rage' in B.C.: RCMP

  Mounties in B.C.'s Lower Mainland are searching for two people allegedly responsible for a road rage incident that sent a couple to hospital with serious injuries, saying the suspects could be in another province.

• BC United sources leak 'extremism' file on B.C. Conservative director

  Sources in the Official Opposition BC United party have leaked a file on the "extremism" of the B.C. Conservatives' executive director, Angelo Isidorou, less than two weeks after the parties' leaders announced a deal to work together.

• CTV News Reality Check: Why reopening Riverview wouldn't solve B.C.'s mental health crisis

  Every time British Columbians are rattled by an act of random violence like last week’s shocking homicide and maiming in downtown Vancouver, there are calls to reopen the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital, but that’s not the solution some think it is.