Unpublished Newswire

The Globe and Mail has been nominated for five Jack Webster Awards, including for coverage of British Columbia’s mental health system in the wake of a deadly attack on a street festival and an investigation into the culture within Canada Soccer before the drone spying scandal at the Paris Olympics.Nancy Macdonald is a finalist for Best News Reporting of the Year – Print/Digital for her in-depth feature about the impact of fentanyl on Victoria’s Pandora Avenue.Pandora Avenue has seen an especially stark transformation from a leafy, green gateway boulevard into the city’s downtown to a...

British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad, who helms the province’s Official Opposition, has won a 70 per cent show of support of party members, following a months-long review that was marked by low turnout.The voting results were announced hours before Mr. Rustad was scheduled to meet Conservative MLAs in Victoria on Monday evening to determine if he still has their confidence to lead the caucus.