Darryl Greer
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Reporter with The Canadian Press
Rustad backpedals after BC Coroners Service says no record of fatal overdose
B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has changed his story about seeing a man die of a drug overdose on his way to a televised election debate, after the BC Coroners Service said it had no record of such a death where he said it occurred.
B.C. Premier vows to scrap consumer carbon tax if feds drop legal requirement
A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia's long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to "big polluters" if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said on Thursday.
Is there microplastic in your coffee? This device can tell you
When UBC food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.
Disastrous fruit year the final straw for indebted B.C. fruit group
British Columbia's fruit growers co-operative that served farmers for almost a century has filed for creditor protection, citing more than $58 million in liabilities and a disastrous crop failure this year that it called "the final tipping point."
'Pivotal moment': Trudeau and Tsilhqotʼin nation the celebrate anniversary of land ruling
Chief Joe Alphonse of the Tsilhqot’in First Nation says the 2014 court ruling that resulted in the first declaration of Aboriginal title in Canadian history triggered a decade of "huge" shifts.
B.C. grasslands are preserved thanks to Nature Conservancy of Canada B.C. land purchase
The Nature Conservancy of Canada says a new conservation area north of Cranbrook, B.C., will protect important bird habitat and preserve grasslands in the province's southeast.
Premier David Eby announces major hydrogen project expected to create 300 jobs
The Canada Infrastructure Bank is providing a $337 million loan to support the $900 million project by hydrogen company HTEC, which involves plans to build up to 20 hydrogen refuelling stations, with 18 of them in B.C. and the others in Alberta.
B.C.'s toxic drug crisis rages on eight years after emergency declared
Sunday marked eight years to the day since the province declared a public health emergency related to the deadly toxic drug crisis, and Graham said it's a sombre anniversary as she and others in public health reflect on the thousands of deaths.
Deltaport operator calls its emissions data a ‘trade secret’
The B.C. company that operates Canada's largest container terminal is going to court against the federal government to keep five years of greenhouse gas emissions data secret.
B.C.'s securities watchdog struggles to make rulebreakers pay
More than a quarter of the money owed to the B.C. Securities Commission, about $130 million, is unlikely to ever be recovered, it says.