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B.C. forest industry grasps for hope amid seven-month strike, shutdowns, changes
VICTORIA - The crisis facing British Columbia's forest industry is intensifying as markets decline, mills shut and a strike involving 3,000 forestry workers enters its seventh month. Th...
Jan 19, 2020
New fisheries minister visits B.C. slide site, says it's her 'top priority'
LILLOOET, B.C. - Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan visited the site of a massive landslide in British Columbia's Fraser River on Friday in her first official trip since being appointed to t...
Jan 18, 2020
Disrespectful that Horgan won't meet during northern B.C. tour: hereditary chief
HOUSTON, B.C. - One of five hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation who oppose a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia says it's disrespectful that Premier John Horgan isn't plan...
Jan 18, 2020
Trudeau, ministers head to Winnipeg for cabinet retreat, western outreach
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is reviving his practice of holding periodic cabinet retreats outside the nation's capital - an exercise in regional outreach that his office maintains is w...
Jan 18, 2020
Once proposed as ski resort: B.C.'s Jumbo Glacier turned over to First Nation
A spectacular swath of mountains, glaciers and forests once proposed for a ski resort is being turned over to the First Nations people who have lived there for centuries. After decades of controv...
Jan 18, 2020
Once proposed as ski resort: B.C.'s Jumbo Glacier turned over to First Nation
A spectacular swath of mountains, glaciers and forests once proposed for a ski resort is being turned over to the First Nations people who have lived there for centuries. After decades of controv...
Jan 18, 2020
Resident hummingbirds suffer in British Columbia's frigid weather
BURNABY, B.C. - Harsh winter weather on British Columbia's south coast has frozen out the area's resident hummingbirds. The Wildlife Rescue Association says it has responded to more than 75 ...
Jan 17, 2020
Miscommunication led to three people turned away at pipeline checkpoint: RCMP
VANCOUVER - The RCMP says miscommunication led to three people being turned away at a checkpoint along a logging road leading to a work site for a natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. Su...
Jan 15, 2020
Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister plans to discuss carbon tax with prime minister
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says he would like to discuss carbon taxes and climate change with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau when the federal cabinet holds a retreat in Winnipeg n...
Jan 15, 2020
Andrew Weaver leaves B.C. Greens to sit as Independent, cites family health
VICTORIA - Andrew Weaver is leaving British Columbia's Green party to sit as an Independent. The former party leader said Wednesday in a news release that he will continue to sit as the legislatu...
Jan 15, 2020
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