Living near a wastewater treatment plant can be stinky.
Now though, a research team at UBC Okanagan's School of Engineering has found that simply adding a common chemical before wastewater treatment can wipe out common toxic gases and make production safer.
A man is in custody after police say he crashed his pickup truck into a house in East Vancouver late Wednesday night.
The man was driving down Champlain Crescent, near Matheson Crescent, around 11:30 p.m. when he apparently lost control and ended up crashing through a fence and into a two-storey house.
Parent Chantelle Morvay-Adams knew as soon as she put her son into kindergarten that he needed extra help in the classroom.
"We knew he had differences," she said.
"I thought when we put him in the public school system, they will just give support, just like that. But it's not like that."
While many people and communities suffered dearly from the wildfires that ripped through B.C. this summer, on Thanksgiving, there was also a sense of gratitude for some.
On a holiday edition of Daybreak South, voices from B.C.'s Interior said the adversity gave affected communities a stronger bond than they had before.
One of those people was Xatsull First Nation band councillor Kelly Sellars, who, along with other members of his community, chose to stay behind and fight the flames.
Three youths have been found guilty in the 2015 stabbing death of Burnaby teen Luka Gordic.
A judge found two young offenders guilty of manslaughter Friday and a third guilty of second-degree murder. Because they were 17 at the time of the offence, they cannot be named, but Crown prosecutors have said they will be seeking adult sentences.
“It’s not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.” ADLAI STEVENSON
Mel Tobias, the consummate culture and arts connoisseur and patron, breathes, lives and personifies the Vancouver’s Filipino-Canadian arts and cultural life. He was a perennial participant in the Cannes Film Festival and wrote for international publications like Variety and the Philippine Star in Manila.
B.C. drivers planning to use the Coquihalla Highway this weekend are being warned to expect long delays due to two major road and bridge construction projects underway between Hope and Merritt.
