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Housing Minister Selina Robinson Photograph By DARREN STONE, Times Colonist A Victoria tenants advocacy group says changes to B.C.’s tenancy laws introduced in the legislature Thursday will give more rights to renters facing renovictions.

Andy Everson of the K'ómoks First Nation has been making a splash over the past few years working pop culture into his Northwest Coast artwork.

Bus crash victim Brody Hinz, 18, who compiled stats for the Humboldt Broncos and worked for local radio station 107.5 Bolt FM, is shown in a photo on display at the Elgar Petersen Arena in Humboldt, Sask., on Monday, April 9, 2018.

Helen Jennens poses for a photograph in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday January 8, 2018.

Fast-thinking locals helped save two cats from drowning in a sinking boat Friday in Mannion Bay.

A proposal has been put forth that BC Hydro acquire the rights to build a new substation underground at the Lord Roberts Annex property.Photo Dan Toulgoet The buzz around an underground hydro substation in the West End is about to be recharged.

Two hockey sticks signed by Vancouver Canuck players Chris Tanev and Bo Horvat are being raffled off by Grenfell elementary students to raise money for the Humboldt Broncos hockey team.

A police officer Const. Ian Jordan in Victoria has died after spending 30 years in a coma following an on-duty car crash. Jordan was racing to the scene of a break-and-enter when his car collided with another police vehicle early on Sept. 22, 1987.

A sign warning of an underground petroleum pipeline is seen on a fence at Kinder Morgan’s facility.

Professor David Scheffel is seen in this undated handout photo. An anthropology professor from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, B.C.