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3 weeks ago | 
biv.com | Graeme Wood |Phil Melnychuk |Glen Korstrom |Kyle Duggan
B.C. has left the option of a vehicle levy to fund TransLink on the table, despite contradictory comments last week that it may be disallowed. Premier David Eby confirmed the vehicle levy is one of a suite of ideas the government will discuss. “These are not easy conversations,” he said in an interview with BIV.
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3 weeks ago | 
biv.com | Graeme Wood |Phil Melnychuk |Kyle Duggan |Catherine Morrison
Since 2005, more than 100 leaders have been inducted into the Business Laureates of British Columbia Hall of Fame, including seven celebrated last week at the program’s 19th annual awards gala, hosted by Junior Achievement British Columbia (JABC).
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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Crookall |Roxanne Egan-Elliott |Jeff Bell |Phil Melnychuk
A woman who slipped out of a harness while bungee jumping in Nanaimo on the weekend walked away mostly unscathed. The woman fell out of a harness attached around her ankles after reaching the lowest point of the jump, plunging about 10 feet into the river below, said Tom Benson, chief experience officer of Wild Play. She suffered bruising on her ankle, but was in “incredibly good spirits,” when the Wild Play team retrieved her from the water.
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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Crookall |Jeff Bell |Phil Melnychuk |Glen Korstrom
A Greater Victoria School District teacher is awaiting trial on five charges related to youth sexual assault. Marnie Burnham, 36, who also taught under the name Marnie Forin, was arrested on Feb. 15, 2024, after a Saanich police investigation. She faces three counts of sexual exploitation and two counts of telecommunication to lure a child under 18.
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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Phil Melnychuk
A Point Roberts business has had enough with slow sales and is packing up and moving north to the Tsawwassen Mills shopping centre in Delta. Neil King said he expects the Rubber Duck Museum to be in its new home by the end of summer or fall. He opened the museum last year as an addition to his Point Roberts shop, Kora’s Corner, which opened three years ago. Kora’s Corner will remain but the Rubber Duck Museum will be opening north of the border.
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3 weeks ago | 
castanet.net | Sarah Crookall |Jeff Bell |Phil Melnychuk |Glen Korstrom
Jeff Bell / Times Colonist - May 13, 2025 / 5:54 pm | Story: 550284A Greater Victoria School District teacher is awaiting trial on five charges related to youth sexual assault. Marnie Burnham, 36, who also taught under the name Marnie Forin, was arrested on Feb. 15, 2024, after a Saanich police investigation. She faces three counts of sexual exploitation and two counts of telecommunication to lure a child under 18.
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1 month ago | 
timescolonist.com | Phil Melnychuk
Two lumbering leviathans with Herculean strength have arrived from across the Pacific, and will be inching into Global Container Terminals Deltaport on Saturday. The behemoths, which are part a $170-modernization project, can move mountains of containers from ships to rail cars and on to a waiting continent. The pair of state-of-the-art structures, 52 metres high, were made in Shanghai, China, and are the first of six that GCT is bringing over in the next two years.
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1 month ago | 
richmond-news.com | Phil Melnychuk
An anonymous letter dropped off at his office had South Delta MLA Ian Paton asking if technical issues are delaying work on the Fraser River Tunnel.
However, the Ministry of Transportation and Transit says there are no such problems.
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2 months ago | 
castanet.net | Phil Melnychuk
The Fraser River was just a few metres away and the George Massey Tunnel a few minutes’ drive but there were no definite announcements of federal money for the new tunnel when Liberal leader Mark Carney made a campaign stop on River Road, in Delta, Tuesday, following a meeting Carney has with B.C. Premier David Eby on Monday. The province wants the federal government to cover a good portion of the $4.1-billion cost of the new Fraser River Tunnel, set to be built by 2030.
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2 months ago | 
nsnews.com | Phil Melnychuk
Jim Sinclair is no longer leading Fraser Health’s board of directors.
Fraser Health announced the retirement as the board chair on Monday.
Sinclair had been serving as board chair since 2017. Sinclair is also a former president of the B.C. Federation of Labour, from 1999 to 2014.
