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$30M in improvements coming for B.C. logging road where two students died
VICTORIA - Improvements are coming to a narrow logging road on Vancouver Island where members of the local First Nations as well as two university students have lost their lives. Indigenous Relations ...
Sep 11, 2020
$30M in improvements coming for B.C. logging road where two students died
VICTORIA - Improvements are coming to a narrow logging road on Vancouver Island where members of the local First Nations as well as two university students have lost their lives. Indigenous Relations ...
Sep 11, 2020
Steeler Smith-Schuster impressed with Canadian rookie Chase Claypool
JuJu Smith-Schuster can see Canadian rookie receiver Chase Claypool having a big year with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh selected the six-foot-four, 238-pound Claypool, a native of Abbotsford, B...
Sep 11, 2020
Ottawa, airlines agree on passenger info rules to aid contact-tracing efforts
OTTAWA - Transport Minister Marc Garneau says Canada's largest airlines agreed to a new set of rules to help contact-tracing efforts should a passenger test positive for COVID-19. Passengers will be a...
Sep 11, 2020
Concern for groundwater contamination after huge scrap metal, tire fire
NANAIMO - Firefighting and cleanup efforts continue at a major fire south of Nanaimo airport.The blaze, fueled by scrap material, recyclables and tires began Thursday morning, sending a huge plume of ...
Sep 11, 2020
Rugby Canada expands young talent search both in Canada and abroad
Canada rugby coach Kingsley Jones is back on the field, finally coaching again - albeit with small groups and under COVID-19 restrictions. Jones has been helping out with the developmental Pacifi...
Sep 11, 2020
Staying with Vancouver Canucks a priority for free agent Tyler Toffoli
Tyler Toffoli wants to finish what he has started with the Vancouver Canucks. As an unrestricted free agent, the 28-year-old right-winger could test the market when the NHL's free agenc...
Sep 11, 2020
Trudeau, Tam defend Canadian response times to COVID-19 pandemic
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government began preparing for a possible pandemic as soon as it received the first alert about a mysterious cluster of pneumonia cases in China...
Sep 11, 2020
B.C. auditor general outlines costs of government's pandemic response so far
VICTORIA - A new report from British Columbia's auditor general says the largest amount the provincial government had allocated by mid-August in its pandemic response was for individual...
Sep 11, 2020
Council of Federation to go virtual as face-to-face meeting in Quebec nixed
QUEBEC - A premiers meeting that had been rescheduled for this month in Quebec City has been cancelled. Premier Francois Legault told a news conference today in Quebec City he hopes the...
Sep 11, 2020