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UBCO study supports low-carbohydrate high-fat diets

UBCO study supports low-carbohydrate high-fat diets

“Hypertension is the most common chronic disease," says one Kelowna-based family physician
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B.C. following example of how other provinces collect used vehicle PST

B.C. following example of how other provinces collect used vehicle PST

Finance Minister Selena Robinson defends decision to force consumers to pay tax based on wholesale book value rather than actual sales price
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NDP bureaucrat demanded answers from river forecasters amid 2021 atmospheric river disaster

NDP bureaucrat demanded answers from river forecasters amid 2021 atmospheric river disaster

Megan Harris, the assistant deputy minister of communications operations, asked what the province's flood experts knew in advance.
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Surrey Police Service to keep hiring despite council vote to go with RCMP

Surrey Police Service to keep hiring despite council vote to go with RCMP

SURREY, B.C. — The Surrey Police Service says it will continue hiring and deploying officers despite a vote by city council Monday to stick with RCMP and halt the transition to a municipal force.
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Rockfall that crushed West Vancouver police car blamed on weather

Rockfall that crushed West Vancouver police car blamed on weather

Largest boulder to fall on Cypress Bowl Road the size of ‘small car’
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Teens' self-heating life-jacket a finalist for provincial showcase

Teens' self-heating life-jacket a finalist for provincial showcase

Liam Pope-Lau and Fraser Tuck, Grade 8 students at St. Michaels University School, created a pouch containing a chemical that heats up when it comes into contact with water
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Twelve clean fuel projects in B.C. to get federal funds

Twelve clean fuel projects in B.C. to get federal funds

B.C. projects are among 60 across Canada to get piece of $800 million
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Man who broke into Brentwood house and killed woman gets life in prison

Man who broke into Brentwood house and killed woman gets life in prison

Alan Chapman was high on crack cocaine and looking for someone else when he broke into Emily Caruana’s grandmother’s house and killed the 20-year-old, stabbing her 38 times
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Why are those signs shaped like that along the Sea to Sky Highway?

Why are those signs shaped like that along the Sea to Sky Highway?

Hint: They were finished by 2009.
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BC Housing 'concerned' about Kamloops mayor's unannounced shelter visits

BC Housing 'concerned' about Kamloops mayor's unannounced shelter visits

“It's our responsibility to know why people are laying all over the streets. I mean, it's not good for them, they don't want to be there," said Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.
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