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'Are they going to walk away?': Charges 10 years after B.C.'s Mount Polley disaster

'Are they going to walk away?': Charges 10 years after B.C.'s Mount Polley disaster

Doug Watt won't forget the sound of a tailings pond collapsing at the Mount Polley Mine more than 10 years ago, sending millions of cubic metres of waste into waterways in the British Columbia Interior. “I went outside, and you could hear the roar.
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Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone will bring messy, dangerous weather to East Coast

Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone will bring messy, dangerous weather to East Coast

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather that will be rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone .
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Making a $1B investment in the US? Trump pledges expedited permits - but there are hurdles

Making a $1B investment in the US? Trump pledges expedited permits - but there are hurdles

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is promising expedited federal permits for energy projects and other construction worth more than $1 billion.
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Catholic bishops in Quebec oppose premier's suggestion to ban public prayer

Catholic bishops in Quebec oppose premier's suggestion to ban public prayer

MONTREAL — Quebec's Catholic bishops have come out against Premier François Legault's desire to end prayer in public places, saying it would violate people's constitutional rights.
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When fire threatened a California university, the school says it knew what to do

When fire threatened a California university, the school says it knew what to do

MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — The wildfire alert came in the middle of the night as some college students in Southern California were cramming for final exams and others were woken up in their dorms.
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Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone will bring messy, dangerous weather to East Coast

Atmospheric river and potential bomb cyclone will bring messy, dangerous weather to East Coast

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. East Coast is due for a whiplash-inducing stretch of weather that will be rainy, windy and potentially dangerous, due in part to an atmospheric river and developing bomb cyclone .
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Monarch butterflies to be listed as a threatened species in US

Monarch butterflies to be listed as a threatened species in US

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S.
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A Nobel Prize-powered gift from Geoffrey Hinton is boosting a Canadian water charity

A Nobel Prize-powered gift from Geoffrey Hinton is boosting a Canadian water charity

The Canadian winner of this year's Nobel Prize in physics is pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars from his winnings into a small Ontario-based organization.
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Supreme Court leans toward Utah oil railway plan, but may not make broad environmental ruling

Supreme Court leans toward Utah oil railway plan, but may not make broad environmental ruling

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed to favor a Utah oil railroad expansion in arguments on Tuesday, but appeared more skeptical of putting strict new limits on a key national environmental law.
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U.S. wildlife officials plan to list monarch butterflies as threatened species

U.S. wildlife officials plan to list monarch butterflies as threatened species

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S.
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