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Advocates aim to shape 'Vancouver model' for drug decriminalization
VANCOUVER - City councillors in Vancouver voted unanimously this week to ask the federal government to decriminalize small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use, a decision advocates hope will bla...
Nov 27, 2020
Academic detained in Iran for 2 years returns to Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has arrived back in Australia and will soon reunite with her family after more than two years in an Iranian prison. Moore-Gilbert was met by public h...
Nov 27, 2020
Brazilians mourn death of Argentinian archrival Maradona
SAO PAULO - Brazil and Argentina are long rivals for soccer supremacy in South America, and Brazilians naturally think of their own Pel as the best footballer in history. But they are putting aside th...
Nov 26, 2020
Trump says he'll leave if Electoral College seats Biden
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden's victory - even as he insisted such a decision would...
Nov 26, 2020
Tory MP Duncan pushes Health Minister to finally end the gay blood ban
OTTAWA - Eric Duncan, the first openly gay Conservative MP, laced into the federal health minister Thursday over the Liberals failure to end a ban on gay men donating blood. In a heated and emotional ...
Nov 26, 2020
Venezuela judge convicts 6 American oil execs, orders prison
CARACAS, Venezuela - Six American oil executives held for three years in Venezuela were found guilty of corruption charges by a judge Thursday and immediately sentenced to prison, defence lawyers said...
Nov 26, 2020
'No crying': Venezuelan refugee Kenney cited says interaction was less dramatic
EDMONTON - The Venezuelan woman who believes she was used as part of Jason Kenney's argument not to lockdown restaurants in the province remembers her encounter with the premier as less dramatic than ...
Nov 26, 2020
Logan Lake's VisionQuest works to save lives as overdose crisis deepens
LOGAN LAKE, B.C. - Located just outside of Logan Lake, VisionQuest Recovery Society is trying to help stem the tide of the province's ongoing overdose crisis, which has only worsened due to the pandem...
Nov 26, 2020
B.C. records 887 more cases of COVID-19, with death toll now at 384
VICTORIA - British Columbia has recorded 887 new cases of COVID-19 as the province nears 30,000 infections from the illness. Health Minister Adrian Dix and provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie H...
Nov 26, 2020
"An absolute tragedy": Kamloops mayor calls for change in response to opioid crisis
KAMLOOPS - The COVID-19 pandemic is one of two major health crises in British Columbia. The province has been engaged in a battle against illicit drug overdoses for years, racing to save peoples' live...
Nov 26, 2020
