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Environment Canada calls for a shift in the Vancouver weather this week

Environment Canada calls for a shift in the Vancouver weather this week

Keep your umbrella handy.
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B.C.'s industrial heritage being mapped

B.C.'s industrial heritage being mapped

Heritage BC seeks public submissions for its new digital Industrial Heritage Cultural Map
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Annual count of Metro Vancouver homeless underway after pandemic hiatus

Annual count of Metro Vancouver homeless underway after pandemic hiatus

VANCOUVER — More than 1,000 volunteers have fanned out across Metro Vancouver for the first homeless count since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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This adorable B.C. animal sometimes eats flesh — including of its own kind

This adorable B.C. animal sometimes eats flesh — including of its own kind

A really cute B.C. mammal is a part-time cannibal.
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B.C.'s overdose death rate double what it was when health emergency declared in 2016

B.C.'s overdose death rate double what it was when health emergency declared in 2016

VICTORIA — The overdose death toll has surpassed 200 for another month in British Columbia.
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Prince George family attacked by restaurant manager

Prince George family attacked by restaurant manager

Red Robin Canada closed the restaurant following the incident to bring in a counsellor.
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Surrey to use new provincial fund to shave 5% from proposed 17.5% property tax hike

Surrey to use new provincial fund to shave 5% from proposed 17.5% property tax hike

SURREY, B.C. — Councillors in Surrey, B.C., plan to use newly allotted provincial funding to reduce the city's proposed 17.5 per cent property tax increase slated for the 2023 civic budget.
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Coastal First Nation’s cutting-edge ocean wave energy project just got a million-dollar boost

Coastal First Nation’s cutting-edge ocean wave energy project just got a million-dollar boost

A cutting-edge clean energy project to use ocean waves to power a coastal First Nation’s return to its traditional territory on Vancouver Island’s wild west coast just got a surge in funding.
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New trial for man unaware his guilty pleas would stop Charter argument: B.C. court

New trial for man unaware his guilty pleas would stop Charter argument: B.C. court

VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Court of Appeal has overturned guilty pleas and ordered a new trial for a man who it says was unaware the pleas would prevent him from claiming his Charter rights were violated over the time it took to get him to trial.
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Vancouver-based Wealth One Bank fined for anti-money laundering violations

Vancouver-based Wealth One Bank fined for anti-money laundering violations

Wealth One Bank failed to submit suspicious transaction reports “where there were reasonable grounds to suspect that transactions were related to a money laundering offence.”
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