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B.C. First Nation, Catholic Church announce 'sacred covenant' to be signed on Easter
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Vancouver's Catholic Archbishop says a 'Sacred Covenant' agreement has been reached with the First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., that announced the discovery the remains of more than 200 children at the site of a former residential school. Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the Catholic archdiocese of Vancou...
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Saskatchewan teachers hope to be back at bargaining table with government next week
REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers could return to the bargaining table as early as next week to work out their labour dispute with the province. Samantha Becotte, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, says she's encouraged by a draft memorandum of understanding from the government. The document says the prov...
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On pre-budget charm offensive, Trudeau announces plans to expand $10-a-day child care
SURREY, B.C. - The federal government's pre-budget charm offensive is back for a second straight day - this time aimed at parents and child care providers. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government plans to provide more than $1 billion in low-cost loans, grants and student loan forgiveness to expand child care...
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Killer whale rescue tactics could involve plan to lift orca calf out of lagoon
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Experts are reconsidering their options on a rescue plan for the young killer whale trapped by the tide in a remote lagoon off Northern Vancouver Island. Paul Cottrell, the marine mammal co-ordinator at the Fisheries Department, says they are thinking about changing tactics in efforts to convince the ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Republican committee to select Buck's likely replacement, adding a challenge to Boebert's campaign
DENVER (AP) - A panel of Colorado Republicans will select a candidate Thursday who will likely serve out the final months of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck 's term - and could pose a challenge to Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress. It's an unusual and confusing twist in a closely watched primary race for a dist...
Mar 28, 2024
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Marine LNG jetty project in Delta, B.C., gets environmental assessment certificate
DELTA, B.C. - British Columbia's Environment Ministry says a marine jetty project in the city of Delta to facilitate liquefied natural gas exports has been issued an environmental assessment certificate. Environment Minister George Heyman and Transportation Minister Rob Fleming say they issued the approval after "...
Mar 28, 2024
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Protection fund, bill of rights for renters coming; 'renters matter,' Trudeau says
VANCOUVER - The federal government wants to support those who rent their homes with a protection fund, a bill of rights and a plan to give reliable renters credit when they step up to by a home. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there's something fundamentally unfair about paying $2,000 a month for rent, while those ...
Mar 27, 2024
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RCMP Bomb Squad investigate apartment
RCMP Bomb Squad investigate apartment
Port Alberni RCMP along with the explosives disposal unit from Vancouver are searching a Burde Street apartment today. Police raided the building yesterday morning and neighbours say multiple guns were brought out and taken away. Police have arrested the male occupant of the apartment, who is scheduled to appear in cou...
Mar 27, 2024
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Indigenous nation gives stranded B.C. killer whale calf name: Brave Little Hunter
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A marine scientist says he expects rescue efforts to help coax a stranded killer whale calf from a shallow lagoon off northern Vancouver Island to continue today despite federal Fisheries Department concerns about limited opportunities due to changing tidal flows. Jared Towers, who's with the whale res...
Mar 27, 2024
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Trudeau says premiers complaining about carbon price didn't pitch better ideas
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back against premiers who are asking him to cancel an upcoming increase to the federal carbon price, saying they have not proposed better ideas to fight climate change. Trudeau says in a letter to premiers today that the last time they discussed the issue in 2022, their...
Mar 26, 2024
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Lawsuit accuses B.C. gas utility of deceiving consumers over environmental impact
VANCOUVER - An environmental group is suing British Columbia natural gas utility FortisBC, accusing it of "greenwashing" its product through advertising, making the company seem more environmentally friendly than it is. The lawsuit from the Stand Environmental Society alleges FortisBC's ads exaggerate claims...
Mar 26, 2024
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Stranded orca was pregnant, while efforts to save her other calf turns on rising tide
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A necropsy on the killer whale that died after being stranded off northern Vancouver Island shows she was pregnant with another calf. Marine scientist Jared Towers watched the necropsy on the animal and says the 15-year-old Bigg's killer whale was expecting another calf when she became trapped in shall...
Mar 26, 2024
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Small drug seizures down in Vancouver post-decriminalization, police say
VANCOUVER - Data from Vancouver police shows a "dramatic" drop in small drug seizures after decriminalization came into effect in British Columbia last year. The department says during the first nine months of the program officers did not seize any drugs under 2.5 grams, as is outlined in Health Canada's thre...
Mar 26, 2024
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Environment Canada issues dust advisory for Houston, B.C., joins Burns Lake
HOUSTON, B.C. - Environment Canada has added a dust advisory for Houston, B.C., in response to "high concentrations of coarse particulate matter" that it says is most prominent near busy roads. The weather office is advising people limit their exposure to high traffic and industrial areas, saying poor air qu...
Mar 26, 2024
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Need to improve Canadian productivity has reached emergency level, BoC official says
HALIFAX - A senior Bank of Canada official says the need to improve productivity has reached an emergency level as the economy faces a future where inflation may be more of a threat than in the past few decades. In a speech, senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers says an economy with low productivity can only grow so qu...
Mar 26, 2024
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Time of essence amid efforts to reunite orphaned B.C. orca calf with its pod
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Intense efforts are underway to reunite an orca calf with its family pod after its mother was stranded and died in a tidal lagoon near the remote northern Vancouver Island village of Zeballos. The Fisheries Department says in a statement that a highly complex operation is underway to entice the juvenil...
Mar 25, 2024
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Child dies in fall through ice at lake in B.C.'s Cariboo region
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Mounties in Williams Lake, B.C., say a child has died in a plunge through the ice on Tyee Lake, in the province's Cariboo region. Police say it happened Saturday when the utility task vehicle the child was riding on went through the ice. RCMP say in a statement that the death is a sad reminder of ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Black Press closes sale of company; emerges from creditor protection
SURREY, B.C. - Black Press Ltd., the owner of dozens of community newspapers across Western Canada, says it has emerged from creditor protection following the restructuring and sale of the company. The Surrey, B.C.-based publisher announced in January it had entered creditor protection under the Companies' Creditors Ar...
Mar 25, 2024
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New, improved stun gun is accepted for police use in B.C., province says
VICTORIA - British Columbia has approved the use of an updated Taser weapon for officers around the province to use as a less-lethal weapon during police confrontations. A statement from the Ministry of Public Safety says the Taser 7 offers the ability to discharge a second shot without reloading a new cartridge and it...
Mar 25, 2024
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Group asks Vancouver for more time over Crab Park homeless site cleanup
VANCOUVER - An advocacy group and others are making a final plea to the City of Vancouver to hold off on its second phase of a plan to clean up the site of a homeless camp in Crab Park. The group called Stop the Sweeps and residents of the encampment oppose the move, saying they're being offered small, fenced pens to ...
Mar 25, 2024
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Taseko Mines signs deal to consolidate its ownership of the Gibraltar mine
VANCOUVER - Taseko Mines Ltd. has signed a deal to buy the 12.5 per cent interest in the Gibraltar mine it does not already own from Dowa Metals & Mining Co. Ltd. and Furukawa Co. Ltd. The company says the acquisition price consists of a minimum of $117 million payable over a period of 10 years and potential contin...
Mar 25, 2024
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B.C. e-bike company shares evidence on social media after brazen container theft
DELTA, B.C. - Police in Delta, B.C., say they're investigating a theft of a shipping container that contained thousands of dollars worth of electric bicycles. Delta Police say a pair of suspects showed up at a warehouse lot on Annacis Island March 19 around 1 a.m. in a semi-trailer, connecting the container to the tru...
Mar 24, 2024
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Two daughters, two parents, and echoes of a murder that rocked Indigenous activism
VANCOUVER - In Halifax, Denise Pictou Maloney says the trauma and grief from the 1975 murder of her mother, Indigenous activist Anna Mae Aqaush, has never dimmed. Pictou Maloney was nine when she last saw her. In Vancouver, Naneek Graham vividly remembers American FBI agents visiting her family's home in Yukon in the 1...
Mar 24, 2024
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Joni Mitchell's music back on Spotify two years after joining Neil Young in boycott
Joni Mitchell's music is back on Spotify more than two years after the songwriter pulled it off the platform in protest of other content available on the popular streaming service. Mitchell herself did not release an official statement announcing the return to Spotify, but a search for her content on the app reveals he...
Mar 23, 2024
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Borrow a bee colony? West Vancouver library loans out pollinators
VANCOUVER - Patrons at the West Vancouver Memorial Library are abuzz over a loan program of mason bees that come with their own "bungalow." The bee program is a bid to educate people about the need for pollinators and how simple it is to raise these easygoing insects, said Taren Urquhart, the library's arts ...
Mar 23, 2024
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B.C. funds nearly 600 new affordable rental homes in the Interior, North
OKANAGAN FALLS, B.C. - The latest funding to flow through British Columbia's Community Housing Fund will add nearly 600 rental homes to communities in the Interior and northern B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says the province has selected 15 projects in those regions for development in partnership with local non-pro...
Mar 22, 2024
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Explosive found during Sooke Crash, two people arrested
SOOKE - RCMP in Sooke say two people are in custody after a crash led to the discovery of an explosive device. Island District RCMP said in a statement that officers responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision on East Sooke Rd. on Friday, March 22 where an injured woman was found on scene. It says the male driv...
Mar 22, 2024
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B.C. fugitive found in Puerto Rico returned to Canada to stand trial for murder
SURREY, B.C. - Police say a Canadian gang leader who escaped to Puerto Rico and posed as a businessman has been returned to Canada to face trial for his alleged role in a 2009 homicide in Vancouver. British Columbia's gang squad, the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit, says Conor D'Monte is being held in a Canad...
Mar 22, 2024
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