For the second time in recent months, Crown prosecutors declined to lay charges in a fatal mill explosion occurring in the B.C. Interior. Read more…

Excluding occupational disease and vehicle accidents, Alberta, with a population of four million, now reports 5.9 times more fatalities due to workplace injury than the United Kingdom, which has a population of 141 million, according to Athabasca university labour expert Bob Barnetson. Read more…

Six hundred and fifty-seven jobs lost, $130 million slashed from the CBC's budget, the broadcaster announced today. Was this "Plan B?" Read more…

Juan de Fuca MLA John Horgan is poised to become the next leader of the British Columbia New Democratic Party after Port Coquitlam MLA Mike Farnworth today withdrew from the race. Read more…

Three Tyee projects scooped up nominations in the 2013 Canadian Association of Journalists annual awards for outstanding investigative journalism. Read more…

Celebrated author Arundhati Roy's talk last evening at the St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, hosted by Vancouver's Indian Summer Festival, drew mostly on stories and experiences from the place she calls home, India. Here's eight insights from the reading and discussion. Read more…

Less than a month after securing a new location for its Main Street Adult Education Centre in Gladstone Secondary, the Vancouver School Board is considering closing the Roberts Adult Education Centre at Lord Roberts Elementary. Read more…

Canada's commissioner of elections says his office was never consulted on the Fair Elections Act, and that some of the controversial bill's provisions could hamper the investigations he conducts. Read more…

The reason for the departure of British Columbia's top-ranking ambulance officials is shrouded in secrecy. Read more…

The B.C. Services Card could become the omnibus identity card that B.C. Civil Liberties Association warned about at a 2013 conference. Read more…

Canada's new medical marijuana regulations will make it more difficult and costly for thousands of Canadians to access the medicine, users protested Tuesday. Read more…

Premier Christy Clark's dramatic eleventh hour agreement with striking port truckers -- who paralyzed Port Metro Vancouver for four weeks with an innovative bargaining strategy that relied on protest, not picketing -- was an unqualified victory for Unifor, Canada's newest national union. Read more…

Another BC Liberal connection to Ontario's gas plant investigation has surfaced. Read more…

Dana Hayden resigned from the Crown corporation that manages the taxpayer-owned BC Place Stadium and Vancouver Convention Centre at the end of January and is now a senior associate at Hill and Knowlton. Read more…

Canada is doing little to anticipate risks of extreme weather and this inaction will cost us severely when disaster eventually strikes, said Canadian insurance executives during the Globe conference on environmental business and sustainability held in Vancouver.

In 2013, catastrophe losses in Canada reached an all-time high of $3.2 billion, an incredible increase from the 1983 to early 2000s average of roughly $400 million yearly. Read more…

Mike Farnworth played down the importance of endorsements from MLAs in the race to lead the British Columbia New Democratic Party as he announced the support of two caucus colleagues of his candidacy. Read more…

Truckers in British Columbia will be returning to work March 27 after their representatives reached an agreement with Port Metro Vancouver and the provincial and federal governments.

"We came here this morning and had a press conference set up at 10:30 and we were going to announce that we were going to defy the return-to-work legislation," said Unifor National President Jerry Dias in a press conference at the B.C. legislature. "We've come a long way in six or seven hours." Read more…

The Saanich School District is still hopeful its custom-made student data system can be used, despite government's warning that compliance with the provincial system will cost the district "millions" in additional costs. Read more…

Legislation to end the ongoing trucker's strike was introduced by the provincial government yesterday in an effort to restore work at the disrupted Port Metro Vancouver. Read more…

In the wake of the devastating Typhoon Haiyan, a coalition of groups came together to raise money for the two young Filipino Canadians to travel to PowerShift Philippines, a conference at the University of San Carlos in Cebu City where 200 youth leaders will gather to address the urgent climate crisis. Read more…