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AVIAN FLU SURVIVOR
Joselynn Armstrong, 14, survived Canada's first case of locally acquired avian flu. B.C. Children's Hospital's Dr. Muhieldin Ahamad, right, was part of the team that treated her. Joselynn, whose parents Meghan Makowka and Ryan Armstrong are at left, is...
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Woman fears transplant wait will kill her
A Kelowna woman with end-stage liver failure is drawing attention to her challenges in navigating B.C.'s transplant system, which has kept her waiting for over a year to get life-saving surgery. Lyndsay Richholt said her doctors told her she had six...
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Mountie fans extortion fear flames
Premier David Eby, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and Surrey Coun. Mandeep Nagra expressed alarm Wednesday after B.C. RCMP Assistant Commissioner John Brewer labelled the city's recent extortion-related shootings “not a crisis,” warning the comment...
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Campbell River family mourns their daughter
The parents of a B.C. teenager found dead on an Australian beach said Piper James loved life and planned to return home after her trip to train to become a pilot. But James's decision to take a morning swim on a beach on K'gari, formerly known as...
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METRO IN A FOG
Fog covers parts of downtown Vancouver on Monday. Environment Canada has issued a warning for fog in most of Metro, especially areas close to the Strait of Georgia, which will continue until this afternoon.
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XI WELCOMES STEADY STREAM OF LEADERS SHAKEN BY TRUMP'S NEW WORLD ORDER
Donald Trump's tariff war occupied U.S. allies for much of last year. Now, Chinese President Xi Jinping is welcoming a procession of leaders looking to mend fences with the world's other major economy. South Korea's Lee Jae Myung kicked off the trend...
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COME OUT AND PLAY
Goalie Kyle Mccarthy, centre, seen with teammates Brett Hagardt, left, and Reid Hearsum, is president of Cutting Edges Hockey Association, a group of more than 100 LGBTQ+ players ranging in age from 19 to 65, and the first of its kind in Western...
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Decriminalization won't be renewed
The province's drug decriminalization test is coming to an end, three years after it was introduced with much fanfare as a measure meant to reduce stigma toward drug users and keep them alive until they could receive treatment. The pilot project was...
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Brothers Keeper gangster found dead inside burning Surrey house
A Brothers Keepers gangster and suspected hitman was found dead in a burning Surrey house Monday, a short time after he returned to Canada from the Middle East. Naseem Ali Mohammed, known as Lil Man for his short stature, is believed to have been shot...
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SPOTTING A FLOOR CROSSER
When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits' views on the floor crossing were all over the place. The only consistency expressed in the media reports was that nobody, including those within his Conservative...
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LOSING THEIR APPETITE
Ron Macgillivray sold his house to keep his restaurants alive after the pandemic. Now, two of his locations are up for sale. His story isn't unique in B.C.: Restaurateurs across the province say they are battling with rising costs — including...
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TransLink bus routes vary widely in cost efficiency
On a recent weekday, TransLink's 614 shuttle bus, which runs through South Delta and Tsawwassen, pulled up to the stop at the South Delta Recreation Centre, empty except for the driver. Meanwhile, in Vancouver, four 99 B-Line buses departed from...
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Metro Vancouver home sales in 2025 hit 20-year low, real estate agents say
Metro Vancouver's tepid housing market recorded its lowest number of home sales in two decades, according to the board that represents the region's real estate agents. Economic uncertainty, combined with a market with ultraexpensive homes that are no...
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WILL TOP U.S. COURT END THE TARIFF TURMOIL?
'Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn't labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in a new op-ed,...
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LEFT WITH FEW OPTIONS
Surging rents mean tenants are often `pressured, pushed and forced' into increasingly precarious living situations, says Robert Patterson, a lawyer with the Tenant Resource and Advisory Centre. Sage Smith explores the challenges renters face in the city.
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A `BEACON OF HOPE' IN ALBERTA
A significant shift in Calgary's municipal politics is being welcomed as a hopeful sign by some British Columbians who feel like their cities are building too much, too fast. Earlier this month, Calgary council voted to begin the process of repealing a...
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Donations fade as costs increase
Every day, Surrey's AJ Sico sits in a wheelchair inside a south Vancouver care facility, his body still bearing the marks of a spring evening that has forever altered his family. “I never expected to see my adult son like this,” says his mother,...
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DID TRUMP SAVE CANADA FROM BAD POLICY?
Prime Minister Mark Carney rescinded Canada's digital services tax (DST), a threeper-cent levy on digital services revenue from large domestic and foreign businesses, in June after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade talks if the tax...
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HIGH-TECH HEALTH
The 1.2-million-square-foot St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver is moving closer to its planned 2027 opening. The facility aims to provide leading-edge health treatment and research with an eye to embracing future developments in medical technology.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
When the doors to the Strathcona Community Centre on Keefer Street were opened one day last week for breakfast, there was less interest in the boiled eggs, grilled cheese sandwiches and four types of cereal on offer than in the two former Vancouver...
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Two people dead after Surrey RV fire
Two people are dead following a fire inside a recreational vehicle Sunday night in Surrey, despite a neighbour jumping into action to help. Sukhwinder Saroya lives next door to the home where the RV fire happened around 9 p.m. Sunday in the 12200...
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BOOM & GLOOM
In one southwestern Ontario city, forever linked by history to all things jumbo, one of the world's largest automakers is building Canada's biggest factory — a $7-billion colossus expected to employ about 3,000 people. Only 50 kilometres away, in...
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THEY'VE GOT BAGGAGE
YVR'S updated cargo management system is coping with the surge in travel that comes with the holiday season. An average of 40,000 bags pass through the airport on a typical day. During the holidays, that number nearly doubles.
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PROVINCE'S POPULATION FALLS
B.C. will finish the year with fewer people than it started with for the first time in recorded history. Experts say that while the population drop could help drive down rents in some parts of the province, it is unlikely to help the struggling...
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Tax freeze a hit; city, not so much
Paula Havard, a 72-year-old retired human-resources professional, counts herself among those who feel the city of Vancouver is on the wrong track. “I understand the city has to change and grow,” Havard told Postmedia this week as she was running...
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Metro ski resorts are waiting for their winter wonderland
It's mid-December, and it's unseasonably warm in parts of B.C. “Today I'm at the Kelowna campus at UBC, and the temperature is plus 10 C,” UBC earth and environmental sciences professor Michael Pidwirny said on Monday. “Well, that's 11 degrees C above...
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Giving youth at-risk safety, support and role models
Fadi Toma was nine years old when the war in Iraq killed his father and made refugees out of him, his mother, two older brothers and sister. It was 2008, and like thousands of other families fleeing violence, they would be offered a new life in...
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HOW KUSHNER BECAME TRUMP'S INDISPENSABLE SECOND PEACE ENVOY
As soon as he finished negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza in early October, Jared Kushner said he was returning to his family and day job in Miami, where he heads a multibillion-dollar private equity firm. His involvement in high-stakes peacemaking was...
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MORE RAIN IN THE FORECAST
In the end, the best flood models — and hours of gruelling work — couldn't stop the water. The sandbags surrounding Matt Dykshoorn's chicken barns couldn't save thousands of his birds from drowning. The consequences of the decision he made to keep...
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Abbotsford residents fear a return of floodwaters
As she put her five-year-old to bed, Patti Gerbrand got this question: “What if our house floats away while we're sleeping?” The Abbotsford mother said Thursday she was trying to keep calm for her kids while preparing to evacuate to higher...
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More rain to follow atmospheric river
Residents of B.C.'s South Coast drenched this week by an atmospheric river should have a brief break in the storm today before a second system moves in Friday. Environment and Climate Change Canada on Wednesday posted rainfall warnings for parts of...
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Mobi's shared bikes have travelled over 21 million klicks in Vancouver
Mobi bike No. 1079 took its first recorded trip on Jan. 12, 2017, leaving the docking station on the seawall under the Cambie Bridge at about 5 p.m. It was -2 C and dark. The bike went about one kilometre — probably along the seawall — to Ontario...
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Pizza chains' food fight to be decided in court
As the pizza warms, the scent of dough and cheese fills the shop. Less than $4 and one minute later, a glistening slice is packaged in a white bag and ready to eat. Freshslice founder Ray Russell opened his first pizza shop in Vancouver in 1999....
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ONTARIO CITY A CENTRAL SPOT IN FENTANYL FIGHT
In an underworld of criminals, guns and deadly fentanyl, Windsor, Ont., is a national nexus. Windsor's place in the country's booming fentanyl trade was recently highlighted with a record-shattering 46-kilogram drug bust. The $6.5-million fentanyl...
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GROWING EXCITEMENT
Friday's FIFA World Cup draw gave Vancouver fans something to cheer about, politicians cause for celebration and skeptics an opportunity to voice concerns. The draw, which places different countries teams into pools for next year's international men's...
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Conservatives prepare for a leadership race
The B.C. Conservative party says it expects to kick off a leadership race in January after John Rustad submitted his resignation as party leader on Thursday. His departure capped a tumultuous 24 hours after the party board moved to remove Rustad and...
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Residents worry about the future after Steveston apartment fire
Ted Hesketh tried to contain his emotions Wednesday morning as he looked up at the blackened exterior walls of the Fraser Place Apartments in Steveston, hours after a fire forced residents of the complex to flee. Alarms started going off at around 8...
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SIGN OF THE SEASON AT THE ART GALLERY
Christmas has arrived in downtown Vancouver with the installation of a 23-metre Christmas tree outside the Vancouver Art Gallery. The tree, which was lit up during a festive ceremony on Nov. 28 that raised money for several charities, was advertised by...
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Fund helps Chinatown shops attract customers
The Dollar Meat Store has a storied history in Vancouver's Chinatown selling Cantonese meat specialties, such as lap cheong sausage, roasted char siu pork and salted, pressed ducks. It's been in business for more than 50 years, opening its doors on...
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WHY CHINESE EVS KEEP HAUNTING LIBERAL PRIME MINISTERS
Mark Carney has inherited Justin Trudeau's nightmare. In his decade as prime minister, one of the policy decisions that haunted Trudeau was the unavoidable question about whether to allow Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) into the Canadian market. It...
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NOT JUST A PIPE DREAM
After denouncing an oil pipeline through northern B.C. as a “figment” of Alberta's imagination, Premier David Eby was confronted this week with a 2,200word Ottawa-alberta deal on the project. Therein, among many whereases, objectives, commitments,...
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West End businesses fear losses after fireworks festival cancelled
For Lisa Arthurs, the three nights each summer of Vancouver's Celebration of Light were about more than fireworks — they were makeor-break for her small business. “Those two Saturdays are the busiest of the year,” said the owner of the Quick Nickel, a...
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Funding crunch snuffs out the Celebration of Light
After more than three decades, Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks, one of the city's highest-profile and most popular public events, has fizzled out due to escalating costs and dwindling government and private funding. Vancouver's Honda...
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AMPHITHEATRE COST TRIPLES
The budget for the PNE's new amphitheatre, which is under construction and set to host Vancouver's official FIFA World Cup watching parties next summer, has been increased again to a new total of $183 million, almost triple the original estimate. City...
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IS YOUR DOCTOR GETTING PAYMENTS FROM A PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY?
In Canada, when a doctor hands you a prescription, you trust that what's been recommended is the best drug for your health. What you can't know is whether your physician has benefited financially from a relationship with the company that made the drug...
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Ceremonies honour those who serve and who served
The last surviving Chinese Canadian soldier from the Second World War died in B.C. last month, just shy of his 100th birthday, but there were still surviving Chinese Canadian veterans to honour at the Remembrance Day service in Vancouver's...
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`EVERYONE IS AGREED THAT IT'S AWFUL'
You're a Canadian farm kid, sitting in a European trench in 1915. A man you've never met is dying across a stretch of open land, 100 yards away, as you pen a letter home. Death is everywhere. You've shot moving bodies, you've huddled against incoming...
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PIECES OF THE PAST
One morning in the fall of 1945, Canadian Army officer David Crandell Webber woke up in northern Netherlands with a hangover and three bronze figurines next to his bed depicting a man, a woman and a child. Webber, a lieutenant from Vancouver, was one...
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Drug ties suspected in Burnaby shooting
A 19-year-old man killed in a targeted shooting in Burnaby on Wednesday night was suspected of having ties to the drug trade, homicide investigators have confirmed. Connor Sheriff was gunned down just after 6:30 p.m. in a parking lot outside the...
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Leaked memo reveals city job cuts
About 400 full-time jobs could be slashed from the City of Vancouver's workforce, according to an internal memo obtained by Postmedia. The memo was sent Tuesday to help managers prepare for questions from staff after the release of the draft 2026...
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FEDS PLAN $78 BILLION DEFICIT
Prime Minister Mark Carney holds up a copy of the budget as he and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne make their way to the House of Commons for the tabling of the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday. The budget's estimated...
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THE COLOURS OF FALL
A worker clears leaves Monday morning in Cardero Park, next to the Westin Bayshore hotel in Coal Harbour. Today might be your best chance to venture out and enjoy the vibrant fall foliage as rain is forecast for much of the rest of the week.
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FROM FAMILY HOME TO IRAQI SPOILS
Mayer Lawee, an 86-year-old Montreal man, remembers a childhood in his family's elegant mansion, built by his father and uncle in the heart of Baghdad, Iraq's quixotic capital, especially family weddings in the walled gardens with its tiered fountains,...
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DEMOLITION AVERTED
Coquitlam councillor Craig Hodge says almost a quarter of his city's landfill is taken up by construction and demolition waste. Much of it comes from houses that are being torn down for condos or apartments. He estimates there are about 600 houses in...
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`Culinary community centre' lost as restaurant closes
Over the past three decades, the sprawling dining room of Floata Seafood Restaurant has hosted prime ministers, premiers, mayors, business leaders of every stripe, and way too many weddings, political events and formal occasions to count. As many as...
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Businesses frustrated as construction of Broadway line extension drags on
Some local businesses operating near the busy intersection of East Broadway and Main Street in Vancouver say they might not last long enough to benefit from the eventual completion of the Mount Pleasant SkyTrain Station. The station is one stop along...
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Health care needs `sustainable' fix
Dr. Robert Carruthers, a B.C. neurologist, said he recently heard about a case of a young woman who had suffered what he described as a stroke in her eye. The woman was referred to a hematologist, but her appointment won't be until September...
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`We do not wish to deepen division'
The B.C. government and the City of Richmond's response to a B.C. Supreme Court ruling granting Aboriginal rights to a portion of lands in Richmond to the Cowichan Tribes is provoking unnecessary fear, chiefs from related First Nations on Vancouver...
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ACCESS TO CHEAP CANADIAN MEDS ON LIFE SUPPORT
Linda Klonsky usually orders her prescription eye drops from a Canadian pharmacy that charges US$250 for a three-month supply. But that came to an abrupt halt late this summer when it came time for her to reorder, as the Trump administration's latest...
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UNCERTAINTY IN RICHMOND
Along a rural stretch of No. 6 Road in south Richmond, residents have a lot of questions — not to mention fear — after a B.C. Supreme Court ruling granted the Cowichan Tribes on Vancouver Island land title rights that encompass their properties. Judy...
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Seniors' care in jeopardy: providers
B.C.'s health minister acknowledged Thursday that efforts to design a new payment model for employees of long-term care facilities has stalled — and operators warn they may have to close if cuts are made to pandemic-era funding programs. In December...
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Lummi Nation challenges B.C. over consultation
Dana Wilson, a member of the Lummi Nation business council in Washington state, still fishes waters along the Canada-U.S. border by Tsawwassen and the west side of Boundary Bay — near where the nation asserts that its summer village sites once...
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`We need that place': Surrey mayor
The City of Surrey is pushing ahead with a vision to create a new “downtown” hub that would include an entertainment district featuring a 10,000-seat arena for sporting events and concerts, as well as an interactive art museum, hotels and other...
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Cruise ship traffic slows slightly after reaching a record high last year
B.C.'s cruise ship industry saw growth taper off in 2025 after shattering records the previous three years, but industry executives say they aren't fretting. Passenger numbers fell to 1.2 million from a record of more than 1.3 million last year. The...
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INDIGENOUS PEOPLE BEAR THE WORST OF HISTORIC WILDFIRE SEASON
Fire WE025 started small. But in late May, hot and dry conditions and gusty winds whipped it into an out-of-control inferno. Over 116 days, it swept across northwestern Manitoba, chewing up 447,000 acres of boreal forest — an area larger than Houston —...
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BUSINESS IS DRYING UP
William Donnellan, owner of Donnellan's Irish Pub, says that the continuing BCGEU strike could be the crisis that breaks the province's hospitality industry. `There is no way that we can continue to operate like this,' he says.
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THIRD SHOOTING AT SAME CAFE
Surrey business leaders say an increasing wave of extortion and gun violence has reached a crisis — and they're frustrated by what they see as a slow police response. Kap's Cafe, owned by Bollywood actor Kapil Sharma, was targeted by gunfire early...
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FIERY FALL COLOURS
A jogger runs past the famed Sylvia Hotel in Vancouver's West End on a sunny day earlier this week. During the fall, the Boston ivy covering the hotel's exterior walls become a radiant crimson, making it a popular subject for photographers.
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Service delays during BCGEU strike leave former youth-in-care in the lurch
Former youth-in-care Jade Ryan was hoping to get some tuition support from the province to help cover her classes at Douglas College this fall on her road to a nursing degree. Instead, the 26-year-old is struggling to make ends meet and has taken up...
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Metro region rich in `togetherness' values, report finds
Phalak Betab has given serious thought to the values that drive her. When she was considering a move from India to Metro Vancouver in 2022, she watched every YouTube video she could find about the region. “I knew where to live, where to eat, how to...
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EAGER TO JOIN IN THE HUNT
A flicker in the underbrush catches Charlie Coombs's eye. Gun slung over a shoulder, the 13-year-old girl walks carefully over rough ground, her gaze sweeping the forest. But the deer is gone, swallowed by green and gold foliage. It's a lesson in...
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SQUASHING THE RECORD
Richmond's Dave Chan, the Canadian record-holder for growing the heaviest pumpkin at 2,252.5 pounds, sits inside one from his crop right after a competition. `Everyone loves them,' he says of the eye-catching, award-winning giants.
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ABC ORDERS UP $100M IN CUTS
Vancouver council's ABC majority has directed city staff to slash millions for what Mayor Ken Sim calls a “historic” municipal budget for next year — but the mayor's party evaded attempts to get clarity about where the cuts might come. Council...
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`I don't want this fight,' Eby laments
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's dream of a pipeline from the oilsands around Fort McMurray to B.C.'s northwest coast faces opposition from both the B.C. NDP and coastal First Nations, but experts say there is little that Premier David Eby can do to...
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