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Blood water discharges from an effluent pipe at Browns Bay Packing Company near Campbell River. The company processes farmed Atlantic salmon, and wild salmon advocates fear it will spread a highly contagious virus to wild stocks.

An excavated bear fossil is shown in a handout photo. The discovery of some rare fossilized remains in Canada’s Arctic has allowed experts to piece together an evolutionary tree for the descendant of North American bears.

Various brands of bread sit on shelves in a grocery store in Toronto on Wednesday Nov. 1, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Doug Ives Loblaw Companies Ltd.

Thousands of Vancouver Island residents are without power due to snow and freezing rain. As of 11:15 a.m., B.C. Hydro was reporting 129 outages on the Island, affecting almost 50,000 customers. A list of all the outages can be seen on the B.C.

A fiery crash on a Vancouver bridge has left one person dead. Vancouver police confirm the fatality and say two others were seriously hurt when two vehicles collided on the Burrard Street Bridge just after 1 a.m.

Vancouver police are sharing tips for how to avoid becoming a victim of theft this holiday season. ‘Tis the season for shopping… and stealing.

Shutterstock Grocery stores across the country are cashing in on the demise of the penny, according to a young researcher at the University of British Columbia.

For those who are more moody than merry...

‘Secret Sister’ gift exchange on social media is an illegal scam Sometimes things are too good to be true — and legal. The Better Business Bureau is warning people to be alert for a pyramid scheme making the rounds on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

Shutterstock A woman has been awarded almost $1.2 million by the B.C. Supreme Court after her skull was fractured 17 years ago in a pedestrian crash when she was a baby.