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BCGEU steps up job action with overtime ban

BCGEU steps up job action with overtime ban

The overtime ban excludes BC Wildfire Service during the wildfire season
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Opinion: An economist explains: What you need to know about inflation

Opinion: An economist explains: What you need to know about inflation

An economist provides insight into how inflation is measured, where it comes from and how it is impacting Canadians and the economy at large.
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Opinion: Canada is witnessing more thunderstorms than ever before

Opinion: Canada is witnessing more thunderstorms than ever before

Are severe and extreme weather events on the rise? And does this have anything to do with manmade climate change? The simple answer is: it’s complicated.
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Activists call on UN delegates to move fast on high seas treaty

Activists call on UN delegates to move fast on high seas treaty

After a sluggish first week, activists took to the streets of New York City to push delegates negotiating a United Nations high seas treaty to act with urgency.
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Reflections on the extraordinary power of 'slow water'

Reflections on the extraordinary power of 'slow water'

In her new book, Water Always Wins, environmental journalist Erica Gies says stop resisting, just go with the flow.
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What has Canada got to offer Germany?

What has Canada got to offer Germany?

Public Policy Forum urges Canada to seize LNG, hydrogen export opportunity
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Large, long-lived mammals more resilient to climate change, study finds

Large, long-lived mammals more resilient to climate change, study finds

What do an elephant, llama and bat all have in common? They're more likely to withstand climate change.
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In B.C.'s drug crisis, 'the only life he couldn't save was his own'

In B.C.'s drug crisis, 'the only life he couldn't save was his own'

Chris Schwede would have gone to treatment, his sisters say, but “nothing was available.” On Thursday, he died of a suspected drug overdose.
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Psilocybin offers new ways to lower risks of opioid addiction

Psilocybin offers new ways to lower risks of opioid addiction

Medicine is seeing a revival in the use of psychedelics as more studies across North America release promising results.
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'Have to do something': Workers react with fear and hope to Alberta is Calling campaign

'Have to do something': Workers react with fear and hope to Alberta is Calling campaign

Health-care workers are in high demand in both Alberta and B.C. The Alberta government is asking Vancouverites to consider the move, but nurses' unions from each province say neither province can afford to lose any more staff.
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