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A Whistler team full of comeback kids is on its way to the provincial championships. The Whistler Minor Hockey Association’s Peewee rep squad has emerged as its league’s playoff champions, a victory earned even though the players found themselves…

After February’s hiatus, Whistler Blackcomb’s on-mountain events are getting back in gear. The ever-popular Showcase Showdown, which was initially scheduled for March 6, has been moved to April 3, but those who are raring to race should take note:…

 
RCMP have laid eight more child porn charges against a Surrey man arrested January 22nd.

Corporal Annie Linteau with the RCMP says the charges include include sexual assault, invitation to sexual touching, sexual interference, possession of child pornography, making child pornography, and distribution of child pornography.

A total of nine children have been rescued by police in this case, se…

The Dunsmuir Viaduct looks a little different today, as the city has added protected bike lanes.

More cyclist-friendly measures are on the way.

Mayor Gregor Robertson says cycling is the way to go for now, given how expensive it is to build public transit.

With the Burrard bike lanes and now the Dunsmiur Viaduct, Robertson says the city will look at lanes in the downtown core.

The city says it will…

20 years from now, what will Canada’s diversity look like? We speak to Andrew Ramlo, Executive Director of Urban Futures Institute about a new statistics Canada Report.

Known for its rustic charm and laid-back style, Tofino doesn’t want to become a cookie-cutter community

Police closed Pat Bay Highway to deal with downed power lines.

A very young child is safe and sound after it was found in the back of a stolen car in Surrey Monday night.

RCMP Staff Sergeant David Brown says just after eight Monday night police received a report of a stolen car with a six-week old baby inside. Shortly after, Brown says officers found the car in a parking spot at a south Surrey funeral home.

The baby was asleep and unharmed in the unlocked car, “…

While Vancouver strip clubs and massage parlours reported a very brisk business during the Winter Olympics, not everyone agrees the Games brought with them a rise in human trafficking and sex tourism.

Kerry Porth with the PACE Society says street-level sex business in the downtown east side was slow, which they anticipated during the Games, “There have been numerous reports, scientific studies, to …

We’ve learned more about the homeless man who was found dead in a downtown Vancouver alley early Sunday morning. Police are calling his death suspicious.

Jeff Adams came to know ‘Tom’ while working in a cafe next door to a building at Smythe and Richards in which ‘Tom’ slept in the doorway, “I just knew him from downtown. He was always around selling flowers and living in the Yaletown neighborhood….

For the fourth time since the beginning of March, BC has a new millionaire lottery winner.

Two winning Lotto Max tickets were bought in BC last Friday, each worth 9.5 million dollars.

One ticket was sold in Abbotsford. That person has not yet come forward. The other winner is from Houston, about three hours west of Prince George.

48- year old fork lift operator Kevin Bowser says he had to borrow his …

NDP Leader Carole James says the Government is sending mixed messages to parents and children.

James says on the one hand the Government wants kids to be more active, but on the other hand it’s cutting funding for school playgrounds, “Anyone who travels around a playground on weekends knows that out there, kids are having fun, they’re active. That’s the kind of behavior we want to encourage; we wa…

Groups interested in keeping the Stanley Park Farmyard and Bloedel Conservatory on Little Mountain open aren’t exactly beating down the door to get their bids on the table to the Park Board.

So far, only two groups have expressed some sort of interest in the Farmyard and four for the Conservatory.

Vancouver Park Board Chair Aaron Jasper says time’s running out with April 30th as the cut off date for…

A former Mountie who’s already facing charges is back in trouble with the law.
Rob Sidhu has been charged with assault and uttering threats in connection with a domestic dispute. Sidhu is already charged with impersonating a police officer to allegedly gain access to information from the RCMP’s operations communications centre about the Bacon brothers.
He allegedly posed as a member of IHIT to reques…

A key witness at the trial of a man accused of murdering four people has admitted she lied to police.

The former common law wife of Charles Kembo has told a BC Supreme Court jury she lied about buying a hockey bag and rope from Canadian Tire shortly before one of the victims was found in a hockey bag by the Massey Tunnel.

Genevieve Camara broke down as she said Kembo threatened “if you say anything,…

Another bus driver has been assaulted on the Lower Mainland.

The attack happened Friday night in Coquitlam.

The female driver was grabbed by the throat and pulled out of her seat by one of the passengers.

Canadian Autoworkers Union local 111 President Don Macleod says even if a camera was on board, that would only be one part of what’s needed to ensure drivers feel safe behind the wheel.

He says th…

A former mountie already facing charges for impersonating a police officer to allegedly get access to information about the Bacon brothers has been collared again.

Constable Ian MacDonald says Abbotsford’s Rob Sidhu has been charged with assault and uttering threats in connection with a domestic dispute.

The incident occured February 28th.

The accused was arrested a few days later.

Sidhu will appear…

By Westcoaster.ca Staff

TOFINO— Municipal councillors have defeated two bylaws, one of which would have required the owners of local vacation rentals to live on site.

By Westcoaster.ca Staff

TOFINO — A group of Iranian investors is coming to Tofino.

By Keven Drews

TOFINO — New fast-food franchises and chain restaurants may soon be unwelcome in Tofino.

B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he has a plan to market health-care services to rich, offshore patients similar to how the province sells higher education to foreign students.

Jannik Hansen scored the decisive goal with 2:08 remaining, Mikael Samuelsson had his first NHL hat-trick, and the Vancouver Canucks rallied to beat the Colorado Avalanche 6-4 on Tuesday.

A small, organic cheese maker on B.C.’s Saltspring Island is continuing production after a big product recall this week, but with stricter safety measures in place.

For the second time in less than 24 hours, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has added more products to the list of foods recalled due to a salmonella contamination in Las Vegas.

CTV News examines what is happening inside the kitchens of some major fast food chains. Find out what the violations were — and which chain topped the lists.

Police responding to a domestic dispute call this weekend in Kelowna, B.C., instead found a home-grown marijuana operation worth an estimated $1.7 million.

An argument over a stolen cellphone appears to have triggered a brawl involving more than two dozen Victoria-area teenagers that resulted in two youths requiring hospital treatment early Saturday morning, police say.

It’s finally snowing on Vancouver’s Cypress Mountain ski hill but not enough to ease concerns that the El Nino weather pattern B.C. is experiencing could lead to water shortages and forest fires this summer.

Canada Border Services agents discovered four kilograms of heroin hidden in two suitcases belonging to a man who arrived in Vancouver on a flight from India during the Olympics.

Vancouver Canucks forward Jannik Hansen notched his fourth career game-winning goal and second in as many games to cap a come-from-behind 6-4 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday night.

Charities that depend on gaming grants are pondering legal action against the B.C. government following word this week of extensive funding cutbacks.

The B.C. Lions began clearing up their logjam at quarterback by releasing Buck Pierce on Tuesday, one day after Casey Printers agreed to a contract extension.

B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he has a plan to market health-care services to rich, offshore patients similar to the way the province sells higher education to foreign students.

VANCOUVER – The Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay visits Vancouver’s Riley Park and Maple Ridge tomorrow and the torchbearers selected by the Province of British Columbia are ready to carry the flame with pride during Day 8 of the relay’s 10-day inspirational journey.

VICTORIA – A record number of major construction projects are proposed in British Columbia, and nine of the 10 top-valued projects focus on clean energy.