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Taylor Swift to kick off final three Toronto shows as Eras Tour heads toward finale
TORONTO - Taylor Swift is throwing another party in Toronto as her celebrated Eras Tour heads into its final three nights in the city. The pop superstar will pack the Rogers Centre full of Swifties tonight, Friday and Saturday. She'll head to Vancouver for the last three shows of her tour, performing at BC Place from D...
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BC Hydro says most power outages fixed after bomb cyclone, but new storm looms
VANCOUVER - BC Hydro says it has restored power to 90 per cent of customers who lost electricity this week when hurricane-force winds slammed into parts of the British Columbia coast, but forecasters say a new storm is on the way. Winds from the so-called bomb cyclone weather system exceeded 100 km/h in some places Wed...
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Border agency detained dozens of 'forced labour' cargo shipments. Now it's being sued
VANCOUVER - Canada's border agency says it has detained about 50 shipments of cargo over suspicions they were products of forced labour under rules introduced in 2020 - but only one was eventually determined to be in breach of the ban. The Canada Border Services Agency provided the figures after being asked about a law...
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B.C. RCMP say multiple victims injured in single vehicle crash
SAANICH - Mounties on Vancouver Island say they are investigating a single-vehicle crash that left "multiple" people injured. Sidney North Saanich RCMP say officers were called to a shopping plaza in Sidney at about 2:30 p.m. They say a number of people have been taken to hospital with non-life-threatening in...
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Estate sale Emily Carr painting bought for US$50 nets C$290,000 at Toronto auction
TORONTO - An Emily Carr painting that sold for US$50 at an estate sale has fetched C$290,000 at a Toronto auction. Heffel Fine Art Auction House says "Masset, Q.C.I." sold for $290,000 at its fall sale Wednesday night. That's above a presale estimate of $100,000 to $200,000, and does not include auction house...
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Site of massive B.C. river slide remains unstable, effects on salmon not yet clear
A salmon task force examining the impacts of the massive landslide that temporarily dammed British Columbia's Chilcotin River last July says there have been three "significant" slope failures since then, and the site remains unstable. A statement from the Tsilhqot'in National Government, which is part of the ...
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B.C. Conservative leader names shadow cabinet, gives job to controversial member
VICTORIA - B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad has assigned jobs to 41 of his 44-member caucus, including giving a critic's position to MLA Brent Chapman, who faced calls to step down during the campaign over controversial social media remarks. Several groups called on Rustad during last month's election to remove Cha...
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Eby's NDP cabinet 'bloated, expensive,' says B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad
VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative Leader John Rustad says Premier David Eby's new cabinet appears to be a taxpayer-funded loyalty program that rewards NDP caucus. Eby introduced his new cabinet this week, which includes 23 ministers, four ministers of state and 14 parliamentary secretaries. He also announced pos...
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Investigation led to huge drug bust, which will disrupt Surrey drug trade, says RCMP
SURREY - Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a year-long investigation has led to one of the largest drug seizures in the detachment's history and will "disrupt" the drug trade in the city. RCMP say they launched an investigation in June 2023 into a criminal group alleged to be involved in trafficking "high-po...
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B.C. government delegation jets to California to promote the province's film industry
Just days after being appointed to their new jobs, three members of the British Columbia government are off to California to promote the province as a hot spot for film production. Spencer Chandra Herbert, minister of tourism, arts, culture and sport, says in a statement that they want to bring the "biggest produc...
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Emergency alert test coming as B.C. mops up from 'bomb cyclone' with high winds
A test for Canada's emergency alert system is set to take place just as British Columbia cleans up from a so-called "bomb cyclone" weather system that cut power and battered parts of the coast with hurricane-force winds. The national alert system is typically tested twice a year, with the next test set to tak...
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Urban salmon return to Metro Vancouver streams to spawn and inspire recovery efforts
BURNABY, B.C. - The metallic screech of a train rolling by. The constant hum of traffic on the nearby Trans-Canada Highway. These are the sounds of the Brunette River in the fall, as it cuts through the suburbs of Burnaby, B.C. And rising above the din of Metro Vancouver, the splashing of chum salmon as they push upstr...
Nov 20, 2024
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Bomb cyclone batters B.C. with hurricane-force winds, cutting roads and power
VANCOUVER - Hurricane-force winds of up to 159 km/h have slammed into parts of the British Columbia Coast as a massive storm swirling off Vancouver Island severed highways and cut power to about 225,000 people. Winds from the bomb cyclone weather system were expected to reach 120 km/h on the central and north coast, al...
Nov 20, 2024
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B.C. port union challenges constitutionality of labour minister's back-to-work order
VANCOUVER - The union representing port supervisors in British Columbia is formally challenging the legal and constitutional authority of the federal labour minister to order them back to work. In a legal document dated Tuesday, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 514 says it's questioning whether the ord...
Nov 20, 2024
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Transportation Safety Board investigating after plane goes off runway in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The Transportation Safety Board says it's investigating after a Boeing 767 cargo jet went off a runway at Vancouver International Airport. The airport says the Cargojet flight went off the east side of its north runway after landing about 1:45 a.m. The airport says firefighters responded and there were no r...
Nov 19, 2024
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Writers' Trust of Canada to hand out seven book prizes, cash
TORONTO - The Writers' Trust of Canada is set to hand out seven awards and more than $330,000 in prize money at its annual awards bash tonight. Prizes include outstanding debut book by an LGBTQ2S+ emerging writer, best non-fiction and fiction books, and career achievement awards. Poet-novelists Canisia Lubrin and Fawn ...
Nov 19, 2024
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From atmospheric river to bomb cyclone, here are the ABCs of weather terminology
A series of meteorological terms associated with extreme weather have become popularized in recent years. Here's how some of them are defined by the American Meteorological Society: BOMB CYCLONE A storm outside the tropics in which central pressure drops rapidly, by a certain amount within a certain period of time, wit...
Nov 19, 2024
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A 'bomb cyclone' sounds scary but meteorologist says it's not alarmist
VANCOUVER - The use of terms including "atmospheric rivers" and "bomb cyclones" to describe weather phenomena has moved out of scientific journals and into the mainstream in recent years, but meteorologist Cindy Day says there's nothing alarmist about the language. Day says that when used appropriat...
Nov 19, 2024
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Border agency says changes to hours at 35 land crossings coming in January
OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency says it will be adjusting hours at 35 land ports of entry in January -- a move it says will allow it to deploy officers at busier land crossings. Only one crossing in Alberta will be affected -- the facility at Del Bonita -- where hours will be 9 to 5, seven days a week, begin...
Nov 19, 2024
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A list of members of B.C. Premier David Eby's new cabinet
VICTORIA - There's been a near total shakeup of British Columbia's government cabinet, with few ministers retaining their jobs and some longtime backbenchers and newly elected members moving in. Here is a list of British Columbia's cabinet: Premier: David Eby Attorney general and deputy premier: Niki Sharma Health: Jos...
Nov 18, 2024
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Two dead after fiery rollover crash on Highway 99 in Surrey, B.C.
SURREY - Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say they are investigating a fiery overnight crash that killed two people and caused a partial shutdown of Highway 99. RCMP say officers responded to a report of a vehicle rollover at 3:38 a.m. in the highway's northbound lane between 16 and 32 Avenue, where they found a vehicle fully...
Nov 18, 2024
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Fall storm could bring 'hurricane force' winds to B.C.
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning about an intensifying storm that is expected to bring powerful winds to Vancouver Island and the British Columbia coast this week. Matt MacDonald, the lead forecaster for the BC Wildfire Service, says models predict "explosive cyclogenesis," which is also known as a b...
Nov 18, 2024
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Vancouver Island doctors set up overdose prevention sites without government blessing
Doctors on Vancouver Island say they're setting up unsanctioned overdose prevention sites on the grounds of Nanaimo General and Royal Jubilee hospitals this week because the B.C. government hasn't lived up to its promise to set aside space for the sites. Dr. Jess Wilder, an addictions and family medicine practitioner i...
Nov 18, 2024
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Eby introduces new-look B.C. NDP cabinet in slim, one-seat majority government
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby will introduce his new cabinet in British Columbia today after last month's tight election win that gave his New Democrats a slim, one-seat majority. Eby's NDP government holds 47 seats in the 93-seat legislature. His cabinet is expected to include veteran New Democrats, but with up to a do...
Nov 18, 2024
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Orla Mining signs deal to buy Musselwhite gold mine in Ontario from Newmont
VANCOUVER - Orla Mining Ltd. has signed a deal to buy the Musselwhite gold mine in Ontario from Newmont Corp. Under the deal, the company will pay US$810 million plus up to an additional US$40 million, depending on the price of gold after the deal closes. Musselwhite is an underground gold mine in northwestern Ontario ...
Nov 18, 2024
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B.C. charities worried Canada Post strike will affect fundraising efforts
VANCOUVER - Some B.C. charities and not-for-profits say they are worried the Canada Post strike will jeopardize their year-end fundraising efforts. Nicole Mucci, a spokeswoman for Union Gospel Mission in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, says 50 per cent of the organization's revenue normally comes between Thanksgiving an...
Nov 17, 2024
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Eby says new B.C. cabinet built around 'kitchen table' issues: affordability, homes
VICTORIA - Premier David Eby says the British Columbia cabinet he introduces Monday will be tasked with focusing on issues voters strongly told the government they are most concerned about: affordability, health care, community safety, housing and the economy. Eby's New Democrats won a slim, one-seat majority in last m...
Nov 17, 2024
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B.C. nursing student attacked with knife during first clinical placement: union
VANCOUVER - The president of the B.C. Nurses' Union says a student nurse was attacked with a knife during her first clinical experience at Vancouver General Hospital on Thursday. The Vancouver Police Department says officers responded to the scene around 9 a.m. following reports of an assault inside the hospital, which...
Nov 16, 2024
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