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Morning Update: Parliamentarians say Canada never informed them of targeting by Beijing-linked hackers
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How B.C.’s aborted social-media lawsuit is related to tobacco, and why that’s dangerous
Max Krangle
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B.C.’s retreat on drug decriminalization spurs concern about fates of similar plans
Members of the Vancouver Police Department walk past a tent on Hastings Street in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, February 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Rich Lam
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Western Canada: B.C. rolling back decriminalization pilot project
Dave Hamm, an ethical substance peer navigator with the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), distributes packets of drugs tested for contaminants, as the province of British Columbia decriminalized the possession of small amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA and opioids like heroin, fentanyl and morphine, in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Jennifer Gauthier
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Preparing for wildfire season is a year-round endeavour in Western Canada
Conair Air Tractor AT802 Fire Bosses are parked on the tarmac in Abbotsford, B.C., Friday, April. 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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Evacuation alert lifted as wildfire in northeastern B.C. now ‘held’
A firefighter directs water on a grass fire burning on an acreage behind a residential property in Kamloops, B.C., Monday, June 5, 2023. British Columbia's Peace River Regional District has cancelled an evacuation alert for areas around Chetwynd in the province's northeast. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C. asks Ottawa for help on decriminalization fallout
Needles are seen on the ground in Oppenheimer park in Vancouver's downtown eastside on March 17, 2020. The scourge of overdose deaths underscores the need for Canada to decriminalize simple possession of hard drugs, the head of the national chiefs of police association said on Thursday. In urging action, Bryan Larkin noted that overdose deaths are outpacing those from the pandemic and homicides in British Columbia and likely Ontario. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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‘Extreme drought’ in area of early-season wildfire near Chetwynd, B.C.
An out-of-control wildfire in northeastern British Columbia has triggered the province's first evacuation of this year's fire season. A wildfire burns in the Peace River Regional District of British Columbia in a May 5, 2023, handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-BC Wildfire Service *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Western Canada: Alberta premier defends task force led by doctor skeptical of COVID measures
A panel looking into Alberta's response to the COVID-19 pandemic has put forth more than 90 recommendations for how to deal with future emergencies.
first person
Why a Medicine Hat cemetery is my new favourite place to run
report on business
Alaska Indigenous groups, seeking a say in B.C. mining, try a legal end-run on the Canada-U.S. border
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Federal addictions minister meets with B.C. counterpart as backlash continues on decriminalization
Chrissy McMullin displays her "safe supply" of opioid alternative Dilaudid, provided by the local health unit to combat overdoses due to poisonous additives and to support addicts and the homeless into practicing social distancing to help slow the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April 6, 2020. Picture taken April 6, 2020. REUTERS/Jesse Winter
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Three B.C. hunters fined and banned for unlawfully killing wildlife near Kamloops
A deer is seen at the Michel-Chartrand Park in Longueuil, Que., Friday, November 13, 2020. Three men from British Columbia's Lower Mainland have been fined and banned from hunting for 10 years each for "unlawfully killing wildlife," including a deer pregnant with two fawns. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
opinion
The failure of Canada’s health care system is a disgrace – and a deadly one
Robyn Urback
waters on wine
Eight Canadian wines to buy now
Christopher Waters
report on business
Indigenous loan guarantee program could transform resource sector in Canada
Pickle Crow Gold Project. Auteco Minerals Chairman Ray Shorrocks' bold prediction from last October that his Pickle Crow Gold Project could reach the two-million-ounce mark in resources by this winter has apparently come to pass. The Australian gold explorer, which is poking around the former Pickle Crow Mine near Pickle Lake, announced a new resource estimate for its project, which now stands at 2.23 million ounces, averaging 7.89 grams of gold per tonne, all in the inferred category. The resource update was compiled from 30,000 metres of drill data. Taken from the following article which has more information. https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/industry-news/mining/auteco-has-plenty-to-crow-about-in-pickle-lake-5069224 Ring of Fire, James Bay Lowlands, Northern Ontario Canada, 2015. This 5000 sq. km. vast area in the far north of Ontario is equally valued for hosting one the largest intact peatlands remaining on the planet - the most effective terrestrial ecosystem for sequestering carbon and therefore one of our best defences against climate change - as well as for their, so far largely undeveloped, mineral deposits. 51°30'4" N 90°2'47" W
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B.C. construction sector seeks support as workers shortage, late payments persist
BC Housing is warning of scammers targeting recipients of a support scheme for elderly low-income renters, just one day after it was announced. Construction cranes dot the skyline as condo towers are seen under construction at the Oakridge Park shopping centre redevelopment, in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C. celebrates 10 billion seedlings planted since 1930
A Grand Fir tree at Francis/King Regional Park in Saanich, B.C., is shown on Thursday, May 26, 2016. British Columbia officials are celebrating the planting of 10 billion seedlings since reforestation efforts began nearly a century ago. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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B.C. woman found dead after alleged abduction, man arrested
RCMP police car.
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B.C. to add 240 complex-care housing units in communities throughout the province
British Columbia is planning to add 240 new units to its complex-care housing program, providing homes for people with mental-health and addictions challenges that overlap with other serious conditions. B.C. Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Jennifer Whiteside steps away from the podium after speaking during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., Monday, Jan. 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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B.C. home sales slid almost 10% in March from one year earlier
For the federal Liberals, the growing discontent with the state of the housing market is becoming a political threat. A real estate sign is pictured in Vancouver on Tuesday, June 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward
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B.C. formally recognizes Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii
Captain Gold with a youth group in the Gwaii Haanas National Park July 5, 2012. Captain Gold is a Haida elder who several years ago found what has turned out to be one of the richest archeological sites on the islands, where thousands of artifacts have been collected. He says the oral history of his people tell of a time when ice covered the land. He believes archeological research will one day unearth proof that such stories are fact, not myth. (John Lehmann/The Globe and Mail
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B.C. signs agreement handing over title to Haida Gwaii
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks during a news conference in Vancouver on Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. British Columbia introduced proposed legislation Thursday that would allow it to sue for health-related costs over damages by companies like social-media giants and energy drink manufacturers whose products could cause harm. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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Ottawa is funding affordable rental projects that aren’t actually affordable
SoHo Italia apartment building on Preston Street in Ottawa April 12, 2024. Photograph by Blair Gable
politics
Trudeau says he doesn’t understand why NDP is pulling back from carbon price support
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tours a modular home construction facility before making a housing announcement in Calgary, Alta., Friday, April 5, 2024. Trudeau says he doesn't understand why the federal New Democrats are pulling back their support on the carbon price. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Twelve B.C. municipal parties under investigation for finance or advertising violations
An Elections BC sign.
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B.C. to require hospitals have designated spaces for patient illicit drug use, health minister says
A ambulance drives past the emergency entrance of Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver, B.C., Friday, April 9, 2021. COVID-19 cases have been on a steady increase in the province of British Columbia over the past week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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B.C. judge rejects bid to throw out Ibrahim Ali’s conviction for teen girl’s murder
A judge has rejected an application to to throw out the conviction of Ibrahim Ali for the murder of a 13-year-old in Burnaby, B.C. The Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Consulting company MNP shouldn’t be in charge of CleanBC grant program, trucking company founder says
Chace Barber of Edison Motors poses for a photo with the company’s hybrid truck, in Toronto, Wednesday Sept. 27, 2023. A small diesel engine periodically turns on to charge an electric engine that drives the truck. According to Barber, in this way, his truck can operate for 12 hours using one tenth of the fossil fuels compared to motored trucks. Aside from the compressor and the brakes, the truck is completely silent. (Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail)
opinion
The first goal of drug overdoses policy: Keep people alive
The Editorial Board
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B.C. has lowest snowpack on record, drought a concern, says BC River Forecast Centre
The latest monthly snow survey shows that, as of April 1, snowpack in British Columbia was "extremely low," marking the lowest snowpack on record since 1970 for the province and the Fraser River. Backcountry skiers are dwarfed by the mountains in the southern Chilcotin mountains of British Columbia, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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With B.C. groundwater usage not fully tracked, experts worry as drought looms
Paige Thurston, Columbia Basin Water Monitoring Framework program manager, right, completes a survey following a hydrometric install on Apex Creek in the Columbia Basin near Nelson, B.C. in this undated handout photo. A trio of experts in British Columbia says persistent drought is exposing cracks in how the province manages water, especially when it's scarce. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Living Lakes Canada *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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BC government to create provincial policy after nurses’ complaints of illicit drug use in hospitals
The emergency department entrance to St. Paul's hospital in downtown Vancouver, B.C. Thursday, March 19, 2020.
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B.C. moves alone on Surrey Police Service after mayor, council refuse to leave RCMP
Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke speaks during a news conference about the city's municipal police force transition, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday, April 28, 2023. City council in Surrey, B.C., says it has been forced to restrict public access to its meetings citing persistent disruptions from pro-Palestinian protesters.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
alberta
RCMP searching for Alberta family after finding abandoned vehicle, could be in B.C.
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police "E" Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Study shows addiction as biggest predictor of recidivism
The Matsqui Institution, a medium-security federal men's prison, is seen in Abbotsford, B.C., on Thursday October 26, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck