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How much have consumer costs risen in B.C. since 2017, the year NDP came to power?
British Columbia's high cost of living has made it a pivotal issue in the provincial election on Oct. 19. Here is a look at changes in components of the consumer price index in British Columbia since ...
Sep 26, 2024
Pride, sorrow mix for Franklin expedition descendant after DNA match with sailor
Nigel Gambier has always been proud of his ancestor, who captained one of the ill-starred ships on Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Now, after DNA analysis...
Sep 26, 2024
Visual effects, animation studios unite to convince Quebec for better tax deal
MONTREAL - Visual effects and animation companies are uniting to strike a better deal with the Quebec government after it implemented tax changes that some firms say will cost them nearly two-thirds o...
Sep 26, 2024
Party leaders of different stripes seem to agree on involuntary addiction treatment
FREDERICTON - As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictio...
Sep 26, 2024
'Life is hard': Living under a 29-year boil-water advisory in an Ontario First Nation
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. - Every other day, Derek Moonias drives 15 minutes to the airport in Neskantaga First Nation and fills his pickup truck with cases of bottled water flown in on the dime o...
Sep 26, 2024
Rising prices pinch B.C. households. Political parties feel the pressure, too
VANCOUVER - In the seven years since the NDP came to power in British Columbia, food prices have jumped by almost 30 per cent. Rent and transport costs are up by about a quarter, while the cost of fil...
Sep 26, 2024
Canada's Auger-Aliassime falls to Nishioka in Japan Open first round
TOKYO - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Japan Open in the first round. Auger-Aliassime fell 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (5) to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in a three-hour-12-minute match at Ariake T...
Sep 25, 2024
DeBrusk scores second goal in overtime to give Canucks pre-season win over Flames
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Jake DeBrusk scored his second goal of the game 58 seconds into overtime as the Vancouver Canucks battled back from a late deficit to defeat the Calgary Flames 4-3 in an NHL exhibit...
Sep 25, 2024
Japanese court acquits a former boxer in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death r...
Sep 25, 2024
Japanese court acquits a former boxer in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on de...
Sep 25, 2024