A British Columbia judge has granted an injunction stopping a woman's medically assisted death, the day before it was scheduled to take place in Vancouver.
The injunction granted on Saturday to the woman's common-law partner prevents Dr. Ellen Wiebe or any other medical professional from helping end the life of the 53-year-old Alberta woman within 30 days.
Federal prosecutors have approved charges against 19 people, eight of them still at large, after an investigation into what police call a violent drug trafficking network in northeastern British Columbia. A statement from B.C.'s Combined Special Forces Enforcement Unit says two of the 11 people who were arrested remain in custody, while the others have been released with conditions as they move through the judicial process.
Indian youth are among the best in innovation and technology, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. He said this in reply to GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, who lauded India for being the fastest-growing developer population on the planet.
Canada's Correctional Service says officials recently seized 70-thousand-dollars' worth of cannabis from outside a federal prison in B-C's Fraser Valley.
The service says it happened last Thursday along the perimeter of the medium-security Mountain Institution outside Agassiz, northeast of Chilliwack.
Garry Begg's slim win over the B.C. Conservative candidate in Surrey-Guildford is still subject to a judicial recount, but for now his win gives the NDP the 47 seats needed to form a majority government in British Columbia's 93-seat legislature.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held a protest on Wednesday against the BJP-led Central government over the slow procurement of paddy and lifting of old grain from Punjab’s markets. As AAP leaders were about to gherao the BJP’s office, the Chandigarh Police detained them and used water cannons to stop them.
