British Columbia’s emergency call centre is reminding everyone that 9-1-1 is for emergencies only, not everyday frustrations ...

E-Comm, the company responsible for handling 99 per cent of B.C.’s 911 calls, is reminding residents to use the emergency ...

A bad haircut, a broken dishwasher or a hornet buzzing around the house may feel like a crisis at the time — but they are not ...

E-Comm, the 911 service for the Lower Mainland, is reminding British Columbians that these everyday problems and consumer complaints are not 911 fodder, in its  annual list of the Top 10 reasons peopl ...

The annual lists of B.C.'s most notable nuisance 911 calls and power outages in 2025 have led to reminders that emergency ...

While there is a lot of humour to E-Comm’s list of wackiest 911 calls in British Columbia, there’s also an important message.

“No matter how absurd a call might be on the surface, we have to treat every 911 call as an emergency, until we can confidently determine otherwise,” Bailey Mitchell, police call taker at E-Comm, said ...

E-Comm has released its annual list of the worst nuisance calls its 911 call-takers received in 2025, sharing audio of their ...