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CTV News
14 hours ago
- Health
- CTV News
Lillooet Hospital emergency room in B.C. faces another closure
Lillooet ER has faced a string of shutdowns this year, with over 30 closures in six months. Emergency services at the Lillooet Hospital and Health Centre in B.C. will be unavailable for over 24 hours, as the facility announces yet another closure. The emergency department closed at 7 a.m. Friday morning and will remain closed until 8 a.m. Saturday, according to a statement from Interior Health. Patients are advised to access care at the Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops in the meantime. 'People in the community who need life-threatening emergency care (i.e., chest pains, difficulty breathing, severe bleeding) should always call 911 for transport to the nearest available and appropriate facility,' the statement said. The shutdown marks the latest in a string of over 30 closures the medical facility has faced this year, with past incidents most often caused by a lack of hospital staff. Anyone unsure whether an emergency room visit is warranted is advised to call HealthLink BC at 8-1-1, or visit for non-emergency health information from nurses, dietitians and pharmacists 24 hours a day, seven days per week. All other inpatient services at the hospital are running as normal.
CTV News
a day ago
- CTV News
Victim in hospital, suspect at large after shooting in Kamloops, B.C.
Mounties in Kamloops, B.C., are investigating an early-morning shooting that sent one person to hospital with serious injuries Thursday. Several front-line police and canine officers responded to the reported shooting in the city centre shortly after midnight, the Kamloops RCMP said in a statement. One male victim was found suffering from a gunshot wound in the 600 block of Seymour Street. The victim was transported to hospital with serious injuries, 'the extent of which are unknown at this time,' police said. A suspect has not been identified. 'Although the investigation is ongoing, current evidence suggests this incident was not random,' Staff Sgt. Kelly Butler said in the release. The Kamloops RCMP's serious crimes and forensic identification divisions are assisting with the investigation. 'We are asking anyone who may have been witness to this incident or has video surveillance to call the Kamloops RCMP,' Butler said.
CTV News
3 days ago
- Business
- CTV News
Teck receives provincial certificate to extend B.C. Interior copper mine
Teck's Highland Valley Copper mine is pictured in British Columbia's interior, Sunday, March 26, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward Vancouver-based mining company Teck Resources says it has received an environmental assessment certificate from the B.C. government to extend the life of the Highland Valley Copper Mine. Teck says in a release that the positive decision supports the extension for Canada's largest copper mine. The mine is located about 50 kilometres southwest of Kamloops, B.C. Teck president Jonathan Price says in a statement that site preparation work is expected to start shortly along with work to secure additional required permits, with a final construction decision by Teck's board of directors expected later this year. Price says the decision will not only support the extension, but will strengthening the North America critical minerals supply chain and contribute to jobs and economic activity. The company says the project is expected to create roughly 2,900 jobs during construction and support 1,500 jobs once in operation. This report by Chuck Chiang, The Canadian Press, was first published June 17, 2025.
National Post
5 days ago
- Politics
- National Post
Michael Higgins: Woke B.C. law society hostile to verifiable reality
At the beating heart of every woke institution lies an ideology so powerful and sacred that everything, including truth, must be subservient to it. Article content Whatever the ideology, it is usually cloaked in virtuous sentiment and undisputed righteousness so that it appears less a belief and more an incontrovertible truth. Article content Article content What began for British Columbia lawyer Jim Heller as a straightforward battle to get his law society to admit what he believes is a simple truth about the Kamloops residential school graves has now morphed into questions over ideology. Article content Article content Is the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) ideologically captured by the Indian residential school narrative? And if so, is the LSBC unable to distinguish what is true? Article content Article content These questions arise from new legal documents in Heller's libel suit against the LSBC. He accuses the law society of defaming him for questioning the narrative that 215 'bodies' were found in unmarked graves at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in May 2021. Article content Heller wanted the law society to insert the word 'potential' before 'unmarked graves' in its educational material for lawyers to highlight that no bodies have, to date, been discovered, or unearthed, at the site. Article content He contends that for this 'crime' he has been accused of being a racist and a denialist, hence the lawsuit. Article content In its defence, the LSBC has filed a Response to Civil Claim (RCC) in which it denies libelling Heller, accuses him of holding 'misinformed and misguided views' and says its course material is accurate. Article content Article content Heller has now filed an application to strike the RCC, claiming it is 'convoluted and incomprehensible' and is mainly the view of various academics opining about the Indian residential school system. Article content Article content But his application also accuses the LSBC of being ideologically driven. Article content 'The LSBC is significantly involved in promoting various ideological perspectives,' says the application. 'Its defamation of Heller and its conduct in this litigation reflects an emotionally charged ideological culture in which objective fact-finding and ethical standards have become secondary to the objective of protecting certain narratives.' Article content It adds, 'The tone and content of the RCC and rejection of a quick and inexpensive settlement reflects the use of this litigation to promote ideological perspectives and to double down in its attacks of Heller intended to deter potential debate on certain subjects.' Article content In his affidavit to the court, which the National Post has seen, Heller says, 'I have observed a cultural change at the LSBC over the last few years and believe ideological perspectives have compromised objectivity and ethical decision-making on certain subjects. Such perspectives include, for example, belief about the legal system's complicity in the genocide of Indigenous people and the need to 'decolonize' institutions, policies, procedures and practices.' Heller cites the LSBC's 2023 report of the Indigenous Engagement in Regulatory Matters Task Force in which the law society 'acknowledges that it has contributed to the perpetuation of colonialism' and that 'violation of Indigenous rights have been authorized by colonial law and normalized within colonial society.'
CBC
13-06-2025
- CBC
Merritt, B.C., hotel fire deemed suspicious by RCMP
Police in B.C.'s Interior say no one was hurt in a suspicious fire that broke out early Friday morning at the Comfort Inn & Suites hotel in Merritt, about 70 kilometres southwest of Kamloops. "A significant section of the building was engulfed, resulting in extensive damage. Fire investigators and Merritt RCMP officers remain on scene today gathering evidence and determining the cause of the blaze," Cpl. James Grandy said in a media release. Leo Charlie and his family were staying at the hotel when the fire broke out just before 2 a.m. PT. "Everyone was sleeping," he said. "All of a sudden the fire alarms started going off. It was dark and then I started hearing people running down the hallway yelling that there's a fire. It was kinda scary." Charlie, his wife and two children, aged five and seven, made their way down a fire escape to safety. He estimates he saw about 100 people in the parking lot who had evacuated the hotel. "It was pretty intense not knowing what was going on and having your kids and family, and at that time of night," he said. "The flames and smoke was coming out of the left side of the building." Like Charlie, a number of people staying at the hotel were in town for their graduation ceremony from the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. He said people displaced from the hotel were being sent to the Mission Community Centre where alternate accommodation was being arranged.
