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Old-growth logging was 'goal' of Interfor: B.C. Forest Appeals Commission decision
British Columbia's Forest Appeals Commission has upheld a finding that forestry giant Interfor violated provincial legislation when it harvested cut blocks that overlapped with proposed old-growth man...
Feb 19, 2025
Old-growth logging was 'goal' of Interfor: B.C. Forest Appeals Commission decision
British Columbia's Forest Appeals Commission has upheld a finding that forestry giant Interfor violated provincial legislation when it harvested cut blocks that overlapped with proposed old-growth man...
Feb 19, 2025
The white man who pleaded guilty to shooting a Black teen who rang a wrong doorbell dies
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - An 86-year-old Kansas City man has died just days after pleading guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who rang the white man's do...
Feb 19, 2025
NewsAlert: B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion
VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply anti-addiction program to a witnessed model, in which users will be watched as they consume t...
Feb 19, 2025
NewsAlert: B.C. ends take-home safer supply for drug users to stop diversion
VICTORIA - British Columbia's health minister has announced that the province is changing its safer-supply anti-addiction program to a witnessed model, in which users will be watched as they consume t...
Feb 19, 2025
RCMP conduct authority lawyer calls move to replace board 'desperate' legal manoeuvre
A lawyer for three British Columbia RCMP members facing dismissal over alleged racist group chats told a police conduct board panel that they should be replaced over "real or perceived" bias against t...
Feb 19, 2025
Montreal pleads with residents as it struggles to clear record-breaking snowfall
MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante is pleading for patience and urging caution as the city's snow removal trucks and plows struggle to clear the record-shattering snowfall that has blanketed Mont...
Feb 19, 2025
Fire-ravaged Lytton, B.C., getting 'community hub' with museum, pool, market space
LYTTON, B.C. - The federal government is promising more than $25 million to help build a new "community hub" in the Village of Lytton years after much of the B.C. town was wiped out by fire. A stateme...
Feb 19, 2025
Fire-ravaged Lytton, B.C., getting 'community hub' with museum, pool, market space
LYTTON, B.C. - The federal government is promising more than $25 million to help build a new "community hub" in the Village of Lytton years after much of the B.C. town was wiped out by fire. A stateme...
Feb 19, 2025
Curling Canada, Kruger insist Hearts relationship strong as curlers ponder changes
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - The title sponsor of the Scotties Tournament of Hearts and Curling Canada insist their relationship is rock solid as some curlers wonder about changes they've seen this year. Kruge...
Feb 19, 2025
