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Climate change causing more frequent warm winter temperatures: extreme weather expert
Climate change is causing mild winter temperatures to become more frequent across the country, one extreme weather expert says. Parts of southern Ontario have seen unseasonably warm temperatures and r...
Jan 04, 2023
B.C. boosts funding for Human Rights Tribunal to help tackle increased caseload
VICTORIA - British Columbia is boosting funding for the Human Rights Tribunal and Community Legal Assistance Society by as much as $4.5 million per year. The province says in a statement the number of...
Jan 04, 2023
911 call taker in B.C. releases 2022 list of frivolous complaints to emergency lines
VANCOUVER - The agency that handles most emergency calls in British Columbia has announced 2022 was its busiest year, but along with managing life-saving communications, EComm says it is still receivi...
Jan 04, 2023
TRU cheer team off to world championships this month
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack cheer team is ready to take on the world.After first- and second-place finishes at the 2022 BC Sport Cheer Provincial Championships last March, the t...
Jan 04, 2023
Yukon begins providing $1,300 a year in dental benefits for those with no coverage
WHITEHORSE - Yukon has begun offering $1,300 a year in dental benefits to residents who don't have coverage under another plan. The government says in a news release the program will cover dental trea...
Jan 04, 2023
Rich nations must help build Haiti consensus: former governor general Michaëlle Jean
OTTAWA - Former governor general Michalle Jean says wealthy countries must admit mistakes they've made in Haiti and pressure that nation's elite to find a path out of an ongoing humanitarian crisis. J...
Jan 04, 2023
Latvia sweeps world junior relegation series with 4-2 win over Austria
HALIFAX - Latvia maintained its spot in the top tier of world junior hockey with a 4-2 win over Austria on Wednesday. Latvia swept the best-of-three relegation series at the 2023 world junior champion...
Jan 04, 2023
McCarthy failing anew in bid for speaker, GOP in disarray
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was failing anew to win the House speakership Wednesday in dramatic fourth round voting as the chamber plunged into Day Two of the new Congress with ...
Jan 04, 2023
Israel's new government unveils plan to weaken Supreme Court
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's justice minister on Wednesday unveiled the new government's long-promised overhaul of the judicial system that aims to weaken the country's...
Jan 04, 2023
Quebec's social services under pressure by influx of asylum seekers
MONTREAL - The influx of asylum seekers to Quebec is putting pressure on the province's social services network, with homeless shelters in Montreal bearing the brunt. France Labelle, with a youth home...
Jan 04, 2023
