B.C.

VANCOUVER – While Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the fate of Enbridge’s proposed pipeline from the Alberta oilsands to tankers on the British Columbia coast will be based on science and not politics, documents show some of that science isn’t forthcoming.

VANCOUVER – Travis Lulay ran for one touchdown, threw for another and handed off for one more as the B.C. Lions beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 24-5 on Sunday at B.C. Place Stadium.

PENTICTON, B.C. – Penticton, B.C., Liberal MLA Bill Barisoff has ended months of speculation about his political future by announcing he won’t seek re-election in the 2013 provincial election.

BURNABY, B.C. – The board of Photon Control Inc. (TSXV:PHO) has adopted a shareholder rights plan, a defensive move that could provide time for it to pursue alternatives if an unsolicited takeover offer emerges. Photo Control says it hasn’t received a specific takeover bid but it has received “expressions of interest” from time to time. Phton Control had a market value of about $5 million at the close of trade on Monday.

VANCOUVER – B.C.’s Police Complaints Commissioner has rejected the proposed punishment for a Vancouver police officer who pushed a disabled woman to the sidewalk.

KELOWNA, B.C. – A furor over flags in Kelowna, B.C., has forced an end to a long-standing tradition in that Okanagan city.

VANCOUVER – Argentum Silver Corp. (TSXV:ASL) has acquired the Coyote and Victoria properties in western Mexico by triggering the early-exercise provisions of a 2011 option agreement with Soltoro Ltd. (TSX:SOL). Argentum also owns the Lachiguiri and Silacayoapan properties, in southern Mexico. Soltoro will have rights to receive royalties on production from the properties and owns about 6.7 million shares of Argentum, or about 15 per cent of its total common shares outstanding.

VANCOUVER – Energold Drilling Corp. says it has recently been awarded several long-term service contracts worth a total of about $45 million per year.

VERNON, B.C. – Forestry and fire crews in Vernon, B.C., had to scramble to deal with an aggressive grass fire that broke out south of the city.

VICTORIA – The B.C. government is touting a new report that says the province is attracting more investment than other jurisdictions in Canada.

COQUITLAM, B.C. – Brooke Henderson is set to make history when she tees off at the CN Canadian Women’s Open.

COQUITLAM, B.C. – Lorie Kane is not ready to relinquish her role as the torchbearer of Canadian women’s golf.

COQUITLAM, B.C. – Defending champion Brittany Lincicome has some high praise for the Canadian Women’s Open.

VANCOUVER – Canada’s national hang-gliding association says pilot error not equipment failure led to the death of a 27-year-old woman in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley this spring.

CLINTON, B.C. – Crews are making good progress as they try to tame a wildfire burning in B.C.’s Cariboo region at Big Bar Creek, 40 kilometres west of Clinton.

VICTORIA – Four people have been arrested after undercover police officers in Victoria bought various illegal club drugs during a three-month sting.

VICTORIA – The B.C. Coroners Service is urging people to be cautious around lakes, rivers and ocean coastlines because drownings are up by more than 50 per cent this summer compared to 2011.

VANCOUVER – A disabled woman who was shoved to the ground by a Vancouver police officer two years ago says she would like to see Const. Taylor Robinson disciplined at a public hearing.

COQUITLAM, B.C. – Lydia Ko and Chella Choi share the clubhouse lead at the Canadian Women’s Open.