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B.C. deficit to grow by $19 billion for COVID-19 recovery spending

B.C. Finance Minister Selina Robinson outlines the province’s three-year budget in Victoria, April 20, 2021. (B.C. government video)

Pandemic-year deficit $5 billion lower than forecast

by Tom Fletcher

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Trudeau pledges to cut emissions by 40% to 45% by 2030, short of U.S. goal
- updated 6h ago
Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, Lake Babine Nation get provincial funding for land, title rights
Lower Post residential school building to be demolished, replaced with cultural centre
B.C. overdose deaths still rising 5 years after public health emergency declared

MLA Shirley Bond, right, answers questions during a press conference at Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on February 19, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Former B.C. gaming minister says she wasn’t told directly about dirty cash flowing to casinos

by The Canadian Press

7 mins ago

RCMP Constable Etsell speaks to tourists leaving the area at a police roadblock on Westside Road south of Fintry, B.C., Thursday, July 23, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Yvonne Berg

Vancouver Island could be at its worst point of overdose crises yet: medical health officer

by Jake Romphf

33 mins ago

BC Hydro released a survey Thursday, April 22. It found that many British Columbians are unintentionally contributing to climate change with their yard maintenance choices. (Pixabay)

Spend a lot of time doing yard work? It might be contributing to climate change

by Sarah Grochowski

updated 33 mins ago

Journal de Montreal is seen in Montreal, on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The daily newspaper uses a file picture of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau dressed in traditional Indian clothing during his trip to India to illustrate a story on the Indian variant of the coronavirus. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press

Montreal newspaper blasted for front-page photo of Trudeau in India

by The Canadian Press

updated 2h ago

Village of Masset: Notice of Tax Sale Surplus

VIDEO: Large, police-patrolled crowds gather at Vancouver beach for COVID protests

FILE – NDP Leader John Horgan, right, and local candidate Mike Farnworth greet one another with an elbow bump during a campaign stop in Coquitlam, B.C., on Friday, September 25, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. won’t be using random individual road stops to enforce travel rules: Safety Minister

In this image from NASA, NASA’s experimental Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands on the surface of Mars Monday, April 19, 2021. The little 4-pound helicopter rose from the dusty red surface into the thin Martian air Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight on another planet. (NASA via AP)

VIDEO: NASA’s Mars helicopter takes flight, 1st for another planet

Vancouver resident Beryl Pye was witness to a “concerning,” spontaneous dance party that spread throughout social groups at Kitsilano Beach on April 16. (Screen grab/Beryl Pye)

VIDEO: Dance party erupts at Vancouver’s Kitsilano Beach to the dismay of onlookers

AstraZeneca advice from national panel delayed by new data on COVID-19 and variants

NACI was minutes away Tuesday afternoon from providing an update to its advice that AstraZeneca shouldn’t be given to people under the age of 55 but the planned briefing was called off

by The Canadian Press

21 mins ago

An Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet arrives at Halifax Stanfield International Airport on Friday, April 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan

Canada to halt direct flights from India, Pakistan for 30 days due to COVID variant concerns

Cargo flights will still be allowed to enter Canada

by Katya Slepian

updated 57 mins ago

Discount airline expanding service to Canada with flights between Vancouver and New York
- updated 2h ago
Nanaimo man hospitalized after pouring gunpowder onto backyard fire
- updated 2h ago
B.C. sees 1,006 COVID-19 cases Thursday, ‘alarming’ 502 in hospital
- updated 1h ago
Retaking language test unfair during COVID-19: applicants to new residency pathway
- 4h ago
B.C. paramedics responded to a record 138 overdose calls in a single day
- updated 4h ago

VIDEO: Inaugural Skidegate Food Gathering Fest reels in 365 donated salmon

by Karissa Gall, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

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