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B.C. becomes first province to remove criminal penalties for possession of some hard drugs | Globalnews.ca
The B.C. government will now work with multiple agencies and organizations to establish indicators to establish outcomes.
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Bitcoin mining could be heating homes in North Vancouver next year
North Vancouver could become the first city in North America to warm people’s homes using an unconventional method: harnessing the heat emitted from an entire room of code-cracking Bitcoin servers.
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Vancouver Film and TV Directors Vote to Authorize Strike
The members of the Directors Guild of Canada in British Columbia have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike, after a year of negotiations on a new contract reached an impasse.
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B.C. says its climate plan is world leading. So why are emissions going in the wrong direction? | CBC News
While B.C. has touted its own climate plan as among the best in the world, climate experts and environmental advocates point out that the province's emissions keep climbing — in part due to ongoing investment in fossil fuels.
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This eerie and beautiful abandoned village in Canada has just gone up for sale
Once a home for Swiss mountain guides, the hamlet of Edelweiss is now totally deserted.
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Canadians donate thousands to animal-rescue organizations in honour of Betty White
Animal rescue organizations across Canada have received thousands of dollars in honour of the late Betty White, the much-loved actor and animal-rights advocate. Monday would have marked White's 100th birthday, but she died on Dec. 31.
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Fisherman handed lifetime ban following midnight poaching of hundreds of crabs in Vancouver harbour
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has banned Nanaimo, B.C., fisherman Scott Stanley Matthew Steer from fishing for life. The sentence was delivered on Nov. 12, 2021, and it is the first lifetime ban for a Pacific region fisherman in more than a decade.
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Family speaks out about racism after people throw garbage at grandmothers and kids in Surrey park
Family members of those targeted with racist comments are questioning how the RCMP handled the incident.
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B.C. boy permanently brain damaged after eating lettuce contaminated with E. coli
E. coli outbreaks used to mainly be linked to hamburgers, but the last decade has seen recall after recall of tainted romaine lettuce coming into Canada from the United States. At least seven people have died, and hundreds have been sickened or hospitalized in both countries. Toddler Lucas Parker was one of them.
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School officials order windows screwed shut after teachers open them to increase ventilation
Teachers at a school in Abbotsford, B.C., started opening classroom windows after learning in December that there was no ventilation system in an older wing of the school. But many of the windows were later screwed shut, with school officials citing safety issues.
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B.C. Mounties chop firewood for elderly woman who was busting furniture to burn, heat home
For a handful of RCMP officers in the village of Midway, B.C., the line of duty goes far beyond crime prevention. Officers recently responded to a residence in that small community near the U.S. border to assist paramedics on a medical call. An elderly man was taken to hospital with one of the officers taking it upon himself to visit the home and check on the man’s wife.
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Environmentalists say B.C. falling behind on pledge to protect Great Bear Rainforest
B.C. environmental groups say a plan to formally protect about half of the forest covered by a landmark deal is two years behind schedule.
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'We’ve got a real divide in the community:’ Wet’suwet’en Nation in turmoil - APTN News
The battle over the CGL pipeline in B.C. both on social media and in the press is dividing the Wet’suwet’en Nation some members say.
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Biometric opioid vending machine unveiled in Vancouver
Vancouver is now home to the first biometric opioid vending machine, the latest harm reduction strategy in the ongoing opioid crisis. The vending machine, located in the city’s Downtown Eastside at 60 Hastings Street next to an overdose prevention site, was launched by the MySafe Project, which is led by Dr. Mark Tyndall, a professor of medicine at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health. Tyndall showed how it works in a video posted on social media this week.
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The Blood Pipe Is Still Spewing Blood After Nearly Two Years
Newly-obtained footage shows the underwater fish farm pipe in British Columbia is still churning out virus-infected blood and guts.
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Atheists, humanists want an end to prayers in B.C. legislature
Legislature to consider ‘tradition as old as Parliament itself’ recently found discriminatory by humanist association.
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Body of woman missing since 1992 found in lake
An almost three-decade old missing persons case near Revelstoke, B.C., has been solved in part because of a curious 13-year-old boy and his GoPro camera.
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‘It’s All Driven by Salmon:’ The Push to Protect the Pitt River
The Coquitlam area river and its tributaries are under attack. But advocates are working to repair the damage.
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British Columbia's dirty natural gas secret
Three LNG projects in Squamish and Kitimat would require over 13,000 new fracking wells over the next 30 years between them. While industry and government tout this brand new fossil fuel industry as the 'cleanest LNG in the world' there’s little talk of the explosion in fracking operations it would bring.
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BC will see scorching heat and SNOW on the same day
It will truly feel like two distinct seasons in this part of Canada.
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