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Extreme Weather is Now Everywhere
My hometown, Vancouver, is in a rainforest, so we celebrate sunny days. People I talk to are enjoying the recent warm, dry weather, but they invariably add, ‘This isn’t normal’ — especially with all the smoke from nearby forest fires.
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China’s stock rout sends shivers around globe
On a day when China’s stock market rout hit the share prices of B.C.-based commodity producers and spilled panic into North American capital markets, Vancouver resident Wendy Wu was focused on the pain in her own trading portfolio. “I’m annoyed to death. Annoyed to death,” said an exasperated Wu, who has been day trading Chinese stocks since before she moved to Vancouver’s west side from Luoyang in central China.
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Bear rehabber says B.C.’s 'ridiculous' policy of killing cubs not based on scientific reality
B.C.'s most experienced rehabilitation specialist for black bears said Wednesday it is crazy for the Ministry of Environment to assert that two eight-week-old cubs on northern Vancouver Island needed to be destroyed because they'd become habituated to human food.
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Tofino and Ucluelet: Canadian West Coast Wonders
Tofino and Ucluelet are side-by-side towns on the edge of Vancouver Island, British Columbia housing old-growth rainforests, beaches and dramatic coastlines
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Braving the blazes - On the front lines with firefighters battling B.C.’s wildfires
In British Columbia, more than 2,300 workers are risking their lives battling upwards of 200 active wildfires. Reporter Andrea Woo and photographer John Lehmann joined one team putting out a blaze along the Sunshine Coast
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A housing correction is likely to happen this summer: Author - BNN News
Hilliard MacBeth is standing by his prediction that the Canadian housing market is primed for a correction. The author of When The Bubble Bursts: Surviving the Canadian Real Estate Crash says it will happen this summer.
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Vancouver MP Joyce Murray apologizes for 'inappropriate' ad in First Nations newspaper
Joyce Murray's ad congratulates Aboriginal high school students on their sobriety
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B.C. orca baby boom offers hope, but population still fragile
B.C.'s southern resident orcas may be the most studied marine mammals in the world but their survival is still precarious, particular for four calves born this year.
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‘Disabled’ undercover cop waits for robbers in Vancouver but only finds kindness
Vancouver police staff sergeant Mark Horsley wanted to make at least one bust. Very much. It would have made his year, taking down one of the creeps responsible for assaulting and robbing disabled Vancouverites. People in wheelchairs, getting smacked around, mugged. It’s hard to imagine any crime more despicable or cowardly.
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Shelters from the storm: Preparing cities for a changing climate – before it’s too late
Rising sea levels, epic droughts, massive flooding: the effects of climate change are already here. How do we adapt? From the Netherlands to Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Alex Bozikovic explores the cutting-edge engineering – and cultural shifts – that could help
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Vancouver is mortgaging its future for a market that’s anything but free
In modern-day Vancouver, policies at all three levels of government are leading to another great generational wealth transfer – not on Russia’s scale, perhaps, but certainly the largest in the city’s history
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B.C. man in Guy Fawkes mask killed by RCMP identified, Anonymous ‘hacktivist’ group vows revenge
A man shot and killed by police in northern British Columbia has been identified. The corners’ service has issued a news release identifying the man as James Daniel McIntyre, a 48-year-old resident of Dawson Creek, B.C. The release says McIntyre was fatally shot Thursday night outside a restaurant in Dawson Creek, where a hearing for the Site C hydroelectric dam was taking place. Eyewitness video shows a man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask laying...
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Marijuana found growing in Vancouver traffic circle
It's hard to control where weeds grow but one particular kind of weed was found recently in a traffic circle in Vancouver.
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B.C. drought: Metro Vancouver reservoirs fall to 69%
Daily water consumption in the region has not dropped enough, despite increasing water restrictions and reservoir levels falling well below the norm for this time of year.
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Pete McMartin: The intractable problem of addiction and the mentally ill
It’s been hoped for years that securing safe and affordable housing for the homeless and mentally ill would go a long way toward reducing substance abuse and addiction rates among that population. That belief has been a cornerstone in government policies in B.C. at both the provincial and civic levels, and among the social welfare agencies that advocate for that housing.
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Vancouver introduces harsh SRO rules to dissuade from renovictions
In an effort to stop the conversion of low-income single-room occupancy hotels, Vancouver council has adopted punishing new fees for owners wanting to get out of the business.
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I Love Being A B.C. Teacher So Much That I Have To Quit
Things are worse. They are so much worse. I cannot express how bad things are getting. It's because I love the work so much, that I have to leave. I've spent the last two years thinking about going. I've felt increasingly sorrowful that I simply cannot do all that these kids need and deserve me to do.
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Prehistoric Trees May Help A B.C. Forest Fight Climate Change
B.C. is only in the first year of a drought. But already signs of heat stress to some of the trees are unmistakable.
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B.C.’s food trucks struggling to make ends meet
Metro Vancouver and Victoria now have more than 300 food trucks, but the trendy mobile restaurants are struggling and contrary to popular belief are not a “golden ticket” to success, according to a new report from Vancity.
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This Is How The Blind Are Experiencing Fireworks In Vancouver
Fingerworks uses a person's back as a kind of canvas to translate the motion of fireworks through touch.
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