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Parks Canada scales back recovery operation for missing boy in B.C.'s Yoho...
FIELD — Parks Canada says it is scaling back the recovery operation for an 11-year-old Calgary boy who fell into the Yoho River in southeastern B.C. Two boys fell into the river near the Takkakaw Falls...
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Premier unveils foreign buyers tax on Metro Vancouver real estate
VICTORIA – Foreign buyers of Metro Vancouver real estate will be taxed an additional 15 per cent, the government announced Monday in new legislation. The tax would increase the property transfer tax on...
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Review: Tragically Hip's penultimate Vancouver show no dress rehearsal
The Tragically Hip July 24 (again July 26) | Rogers Arena Outside Rogers Arena before Sunday night’s concert, Tragically Hip fans sporting baseball caps and hockey jerseys were locked in brotherly...
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Video: Vancouver mayor in talks with Black Lives Matter ahead of Pride
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says he has started a dialogue with Black Live Matters after the local chapter requested police withdraw from the Pride parade. The police have said they’ll take part...
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Paddle to the Arctic: Winter will be early this year (with video)
Wrigley is a small community of roughly 200 people located atop the east bank of the Mackenzie. If not for the gravel road down to the water you’d have no idea that there’s a village here. This current...
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Nanaimo girl OK after suspect punches her, grabs iPhone in Sunday attack
NANAIMO — RCMP are investigating an assault and robbery of a 14-year-old girl in Nanaimo. Const. Gary O’Brien says the teen was sitting outside a busy recreation centre in central Nanaimo when she was...
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N.S. barristers' society can't block graduates of Trinity Western: appeal court
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal from the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society of a decision that allows graduates of a private Christian university to practice in the...
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Triathlete strokes toward goal as marathon Okanagan Lake swim passes 70 km mark
VERNON — A potentially record-breaking swim is churning along in the waters of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake as an endurance swimmer from the United States got closer to his goal. Support crews for...
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Vancouver man falls to his death while mountain climbing in Glacier National...
REVELSTOKE — A 61-year-old Vancouver man has been killed in a climbing accident in Glacier National Park, east of Revelstoke. RCMP Cpl. Thomas Blakney says Carl Douglas died Monday evening while...
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Vancouver mayor, police in talks with Black Lives Matter ahead of Pride parade
Vancouver police say they will take part in the city’s annual Pride parade, despite a call from the activist group Black Lives Matter for the force to stay away. Ahead of Sunday’s march, Vancouver...
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Paddle to the Arctic: Fast times and long days
We move out of Wrigley on high spirits and a fast current. We’ve committed ourselves to long days if conditions permit, as a gusty 40km north wind and a 1ºC temperature morning remind us that safe...
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TRAGICALLY WORSE: Does Ontario offer better survival odds than BC for brain...
BY PAMELA FAYERMAN Gord Downie and The Tragically Hip perform another concert in Vancouver Tuesday night. All eyes will be fixated on the masterful singer performing with boundless energy even though...
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REAL SCOOP: VPD says teen murdered last year was "innocent child"
A year ago, a 15-year-old East Vancouver teen was murdered at his own home. Vancouver Police said very little at the time, except that Jason Nguyen was not known to them and that the death may have...
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B.C. aware of 26 ‘baby houses’ as birth tourism from China booms
Health ministry investigators are aware of more than two dozen so-called birth houses in B.C. offering pregnant foreign mothers temporary room and board before and after giving birth in local...
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Ikebana exhibition comes to Nitobe
There’s no better time to discover the beauty and serenity of the Nitobe Memorial Garden at the University of B.C. than right now in the heart of summer. Nitobe Memorial Garden The garden is at its...
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Track issues cause morning delays on Canada Line
TransLink says a track issue on SkyTrain’s Canada Line is causing reduced service this morning. Service between Waterfront and Marine-Gateway station is every five minutes, and customers will be...
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Foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver twice as high as previously thought
VICTORIA — The number of foreign purchases in Metro Vancouver’s housing market is twice as high as previously thought, according to new numbers released Tuesday by the government. The figures released...
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British royal couple William and Kate coming to B.C. this fall
Canada’s Governor General David Johnston has announced William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will tour B.C. this fall. Johnston did not provide a date, but said the tour will take the...
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Nanaimo man busted after police track selfie to stolen iPhone
NANAIMO — RCMP have arrested a man suspected of taking a photo of himself with an iPhone they say was stolen in Nanaimo. Const. Gary O’Brien says in a news release that the 39-year-old was arrested...
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Top Vancouver realtor rapped for trying to avoid new 15% property transfer tax
A top-selling real estate agent in Vancouver who sent out an email advertising how to circumvent the new foreign purchasers’ property transfer tax is being investigated by the Real Estate Council of...
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