B.C. News

Derek Corrigan urges protesters not to get arrested, trust city to fight project

Victoria Police blocked off Bay Street to traffic between Cook and Chambers streets for more than two hours Sunday afternoon while they attempted to talk a distraught man out of a house.

Western Canada’s oldest city has opted for young blood and a fresh start. For the first time in a dozen years, New Westminster has a new mayor, as former councillor Jonathan X.

Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has been re-elected to a fifth consecutive term in office. HIs party, the Burnaby Citizens Association, completed a third straight sweep of all positions on council and school board.

Surrey voters have opted to keep the status quo for the next four years, sweeping in a Surrey First council headed Linda Hepner as the successor to outgoing mayor Dianne Watts.

The Non-Partisan Association’s Kirk LaPointe made it one of the most exciting mayoral races in the city’s recent history, but ultimately lost in a squeaker to two-term Vision Vancouver incumbent Gregor Robertson in Saturday’s municipal elections.

Update: Voting hours at four of Vancouver's 117 voting locations have been extended. Vancouver's chief election officer has directed that Killarney Community Centre will remain open a further 15 minutes to 8:15 p.m.

VANCOUVER — A group of Vancouver parents is taking the Vancouver School Board to court in a bid to quash a controversial policy that provides more support for transgender students.

VANCOUVER — They are described in the video caption as a group of “bro” type “idiots” from Vancouver. Once the camera starts rolling, it becomes pretty clear why. The video, posted online on Monday at the media site LiveLeak.

VANCOUVER — Radiation from Fukushima in Japan has been detected off the coast of North America at amounts thousands of times lower than acceptable levels in drinking water.