An Oak Bay father told first responders "just kill me" when they arrived at his apartment on Christmas Day of 2017, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard Tuesday.
Andrew Berry, 45, is on trial for second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of his daughters. Chloe Berry, 6, and Audrey Berry, 4, were found dead in their bedrooms at his apartment.
TransLink has a problem most transit operators would envy: too many people are using the system.
"There is so much appetite, that we are not keeping up," said Sarah Ross, TransLink's director of system planning, as she presented TransLink's annual ridership report, which showed a record 437.4 million boardings in 2018, up 7.1 per cent from 2017.
Discovery Community College has had its knuckles rapped by the province for "false or misleading" advertising of its police foundations program — a $20,000 course the college website says gives students "the skills to pursue a career as a law enforcement professional."
Dennis Halstead says he's not a fentanyl trafficker — he's just a landlord who made the mistake of renting a townhouse to drug dealers. But he's spent the last four years defending himself against allegations of running a multi-million-dollar drug operation.
That ended earlier this year when all criminal charges against him were dismissed after a judge said Vancouver police officers had committed "serious breaches" of his charter rights during their investigation, nicknamed Project Trooper.
Penticton RCMP haven't yet identified the victims of Monday's shooting spree, in which four people were killed, but CBC News has confirmed, based on interviews with friends of the deceased, the identities of three.
All of the victims lived on the same block on Cornwall Drive, as does Katherine Brittain, John Brittain's estranged wife.
A man has died after a snowmobiling accident at Sun Peaks Resort northeast of Kamloops, B.C.
According to resort staff — who confirmed the death — the accident happened during a snowmobiling competition on the mountain Saturday.
Strolling through Vancouver's Chinatown on a sunny spring day, Pat Singh Cheung chuckles as he talks about how local merchants react to his beard and turban.
"They talk to me in English and when I respond in Cantonese, they are all big surprised," said Cheung.
