Camille Bains
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Camille Bains
Schools not to blame for high COVID rates among B.C. youth: provincial health officer
British Columbia's provincial health officer says the findings of a study she co-authored showing children and youth have had the highest rates of COVID-19 in parts of the province should not be interpreted to suggest those infections occurred mostly in schools.
As many as 80 per cent of kids, youth in Lower Mainland B.C. have had COVID, study states
A study co-authored by British Columbia's top doctor says at least 70 to 80 per cent of children and youth in Greater Vancouver and the Fraser Valley have been infected with COVID-19.
Time for mandatory overdose education in B.C. schools amid drug emergency, advocates
When a teenage girl collapsed on the SkyTrain in Coquitlam, B.C., passengers calling 911 thought she had fainted or was having an epileptic seizure.
B.C. Attorney General David Eby says he's got support and will make a bid to become premier
British Columbia Attorney General David Eby has announced his bid to become the province's next premier, saying he has secured the support of a large majority of New Democrat members of the legislature.
Ripudaman Singh Malik, man acquitted in Air India bombing, assassinated in B.C.
The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team released a statement on Thursday, July 14, 2022, confirming Malik's death, saying the shooting appears to have been targeted and there was believed to be no further risk to the public.
B.C. Premier John Horgan to resign this fall after bout with cancer
British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he'll resign as leader in the fall after the New Democrats hold a leadership convention because a second bout with cancer has left him with little energy for a job that's been the thrill of his life.
Judging efficacy of B.C.'s drug decriminalization plan may be impossible: Jane Philpott
A former federal health minister who championed decriminalization in Canada says a three-year model approved for British Columbia may not provide ample evidence to ensure the success of a policy that should have been implemented across the country.
B.C. among small number of jurisdictions to decriminalize hard drugs
Uruguay, Portugal, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and the state of Oregon all have introduced some form of decriminalization in an effort to curb overdose deaths.
B.C. First Nation to vote on $135M settlement from feds for land grab
A British Columbia First Nation has reached a proposed $135-million settlement with the federal government, 160 years after settlers began taking over its village lands.
B.C. old growth protector and hunger striker briefly hospitalized
A British Columbia man says he was briefly hospitalized on the 24th day of a hunger strike to protest old-growth logging but plans to go without food until the end of the month before joining others in escalating action against the government.