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Policy shift would make Vancouver only city in North America to decriminalize drugs

Policy shift would make Vancouver only city in North America to decriminalize drugs

City aims to adopt Portugal model
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Upstairs, this pub serves beer. Downstairs, the owner wants to sell pot

Upstairs, this pub serves beer. Downstairs, the owner wants to sell pot

Bowen Island Pub owner Glenn Cormier has set aside space for a marijuana shop in the new building set to open this spring. Photo Mike Wakefield Glenn Cormier knows he has a customer base for his retail pot shop waiting to bloom on Bowen.
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Search continues for accomplished Squamish climber missing in Alaskan range

Search continues for accomplished Squamish climber missing in Alaskan range

Marc Andre Leclerc is shown in a photo from a GoFundMe page. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO An accomplished B.C. alpinist spent 10 years training for the Alaskan mountain range where he disappeared last week, a family friend said.
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First Nation members build watch house on pipeline path at Trans Mountain pipeline protest

First Nation members build watch house on pipeline path at Trans Mountain pipeline protest

Thousands march in Burnaby in opposition of Kinder Morgan project
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Report recommends city kick in $200k for two mass bike rides this summer

Report recommends city kick in $200k for two mass bike rides this summer

Cyclists at the start of the 2016 “Bike the Night” ride in Vancouver hosted by HUB Cycling.
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Eye to eye with a cougar: who blinks first?

Eye to eye with a cougar: who blinks first?

A cougar in a forest north of Campbell River stares intently at Adam Bartsch. Photograph By SHE HUNTS PRODUCTIONS/YOUTUBE You don’t know whether to admire the cougar’s graceful stealth or be terrified of it.
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Park board motion aimed at women’s safety at big events

Park board motion aimed at women’s safety at big events

Park board commissioner Catherine Evans is bringing forward a motion next week aimed at increasing safety at concerts and major events in the city.
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'It's really frustrating:' Sikh Canadian dismayed by extremism allegations

'It's really frustrating:' Sikh Canadian dismayed by extremism allegations

Jaspreet Bal, an educator and member of the board of directors of the Sikh Feminist Research Institute, is pictured in a handout photo.
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B.C. protesters rally for and against Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline plan

B.C. protesters rally for and against Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline plan

Scott McBride, of Nanaimo, B.C., holds a caricature of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a protest against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Burnaby, B.C., on Saturday March 10, 2018.
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Vancouver police investigate alleged parental abduction of boy, 9

Vancouver police investigate alleged parental abduction of boy, 9

Emerson Cusworth, 9, is seen in this undated three photo police handout combination image along with his mother Shawana Chaudhary.
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