Vancouver is giving away bucket loads of free road salt to residents as an unusually cold and snowy winter torments the traditionally temperate West Coast, turning some streets and sidewalks into impromptu skating rinks.
VICTORIA — Health officials on Vancouver Island are asking the federal government for permission to open a supervised drug consumption site in downtown Victoria.
VANCOUVER — University of British Columbia president Santa Ono has apologized for the school's decision to cancel a planned speech by former Vancouver Olympic CEO John Furlong.
OTTAWA — The federal government's push to close bilateral health-funding deals with individual provinces and territories appears to be losing momentum.
OTTAWA — Almost three-quarters of veterans using medical marijuana will feel the impact this spring when the federal government imposes a new limit on the amount of weed for which it will pay.
VANCOUVER — The death of a whale considered the oldest in the West Coast's southern resident population could particularly affect one animal who may have lost yet another adoptive mother, a wildlife biologist says.
