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6 days ago | 
castanet.net | Brendan Kergin |Jami Makan |Darryl Greer |Glen Korstrom
A grey whale among a population that is listed as a special concern in Canada has washed ashore on a Vancouver Island beach. Parks Canada says the whale was spotted floating offshore on May 6, then it landed the next day on Long Beach in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve near Tofino. The federal agency is warning visitors to the popular beach not to touch the whale and to keep dogs on leash.
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6 days ago | 
castanet.net | Brendan Kergin |Jami Makan |Darryl Greer |Glen Korstrom
Brendan Kergin / Vancouver is Awesome - | Story: 549264This could be the last time Vancouver sees The Who. The legendary British rock band has announced The Song Is Over, their North American Farewell Tour. The tour will see 16 shows in 14 cities, and Vancouver will be one of those cities. The band will play Sept. 23, 2025, at Rogers Arena. The Who were one of the biggest and influential bands of the 20th century, considered one of the leaders of the British Invasion of the 1960s.
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1 week ago | 
castanet.net | Kathy Michaels |Darryl Greer |Jami Makan |Glen Korstrom
Crown prosecutors in British Columbia have filed an appeal in a sexual-assault case that was tossed out over unreasonable delays last month. The accused, who is identified only by his initials because of a publication ban, was charged with sexual assault causing bodily harm and assault involving two alleged victims after he was arrested in July 2023.
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2 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Kirk Penton |Madison Reeve |Stefan Labbe |Darryl Greer
Uber is set to launch across all of B.C. next month. The company has been operating in Vancouver since January 2020, and in Kelowna and Victoria since June 2023, but soon everyone from Kamloops to Osoyoos will be able to hitch a ride with the international ride-share behemoth.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Darryl Greer
The B.C. Supreme Court has found a section of the Criminal Code unconstitutional because it treats all offenders convicted of first-degree murder the same, regardless of the number of people they kill. The court ruled in a decision released this week that the code's provision requiring first-degree murderers be sentenced to 25 years in prison before being eligible for parole violated Charter guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Darryl Greer
A British Columbia woman has pleaded guilty to charges of human trafficking, assault, unlawful confinement and sexual exploitation of minors. Jennifer Stephens was arrested by Langley RCMP officers in December 2023 after an investigation that began in March of that year.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
cbc.ca | Darryl Greer
British Columbia·NewA private medical clinic that launched an unsuccessful constitutional challenge of Canada's public health-care system must pay the B.C. government's legal costs, after what a judge calls a 'gruelling marathon' of a case.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Darryl Greer
One of the admitted hitmen who killed former Air India bombing suspect Ripudaman Singh Malik is set to be sentenced for his part in the murder today in a New Westminster, B.C., courtroom. Tanner Fox and accomplice Jose Lopez pleaded guilty to second-degree murder last October, with Fox scheduled to be sentenced today, and Lopez due back in court on Friday. Malik, who was acquitted of charges related to the 1985 Air India bombing, was shot dead in Surrey, B.C, on July 14, 2022.
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Jan 26, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Darryl Greer
A British Columbia-based climate change activist says he's looking forward to seeing his family and eating the food when he returns to his native Pakistan, as he was being deported from Canada on Sunday. Zain Haq and his Canadian wife were hoping for a last-minute intervention by either the public safety minister or the immigration minister to stop his deportation, but he says he's "at peace" with his fate as he waited on board a plane departing from Toronto.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
castanet.net | Darryl Greer
A climate activist in British Columbia says he's packing his bags and plans to report to the Vancouver airport later Saturday to face deportation back to Pakistan, believing his removal from Canada is "certain" without ministerial intervention. Zain Haq, who first came to Canada on a student visa, says he's due at the airport to catch a flight to Toronto before he is set to be sent back to Pakistan Sunday.
