Highlights

B.C. Premier David Eby hung out with some dogs while announcing $12 million in funding toward the construction of four new SPCA facilities.

So far this year, wildfires in Canada have burned an area more than double the size of Vancouver Island. The record comes just as the core season begins.

VANCOUVER — A coalition of eight advocacy groups is decrying Canada's "devastating" drug policy that advocates say is doing more harm than good in the country's fight against the illicit drug overdose crisis.

CALGARY — Suncor Energy Inc. falling victim to a cyberattack may be the most significant cybersecurity breach of an oil and gas company thus far in Canadian history, experts say.

Buyers getting financial assistance from family, looking at more affordable neighbourhoods

Summer Camps and Skills Program returned to the island this year

A 56-year-old man died from gunshot wounds on June 22, according to the RCMP's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team. Two suspects are in custody.

Earlier this month, pharmacists in B.C. were given expanded powers to treat a variety of common ailments.

“The story isn’t so much how the NDP did but how the three main opposition parties fared,” says David Black, a political communications professor at Royal Roads University.

The vessels will undergo about two weeks of tests and trials to earn Transport Canada certification prior to heading to Nanaimo.