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Halfmoon Happenings: Hiking to the Big Tree

Halfmoon Happenings: Hiking to the Big Tree

Also, mark your calendars for HBCA summer events
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He stormed Hong Kong's legislature in 2019 but now calls Vancouver home

He stormed Hong Kong's legislature in 2019 but now calls Vancouver home

Pro-democracy activist Ernie Shue-fung Chow studies history at the University of B.C. but it wasn't long ago that he was making it
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Celebration of artists and food returns to Lund

Celebration of artists and food returns to Lund

Chowder challenge one of the highlights of seafood festival in the qathet region
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Gibsons' Kern's Furniture is closing its showroom after 51 years, what's next?

Gibsons' Kern's Furniture is closing its showroom after 51 years, what's next?

'It’s just time – it just can’t go on forever' says Sandra Kern as she prepares to close the Kern's Furniture showroom and look to new opportunity
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B.C. moves to ban illicit drug use in public spaces

B.C. moves to ban illicit drug use in public spaces

Premier David Eby said he has received assurances that the federal government will help ensure police can enforce a ban on illicit drug use in any public spaces, including parks, transit, hospitals, restaurants and beaches.
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Les Leyne: Public safety forces retreat on decriminalization

Les Leyne: Public safety forces retreat on decriminalization

B.C.’s historic drug decriminalization experiment is being dramatically scaled back as the NDP government retreats in the face of sustained public anxiety about what it is doing to perceptions of public safety.
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The great escape: Orphaned orca swims to freedom, begins search for family

The great escape: Orphaned orca swims to freedom, begins search for family

The young orca's bid for freedom occurred at a high tide early Friday and involved swimming through a swift-moving, narrow channel and underneath a bridge, with Esperanza Inlet in the near distance.
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B.C. nurse disciplined for giving opioid to wrong patient

B.C. nurse disciplined for giving opioid to wrong patient

Kamloops nurse Amaris Foster administered hydromorphone to the wrong patient. 
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Outlook for B.C.'s forestry sector in 2024 not so rosy

Outlook for B.C.'s forestry sector in 2024 not so rosy

B.C. lumber production down a 'whopping' 26.5 per cent in 2023.
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Sechelt Skies: Eta Aquariids, ISS passes and a cool star

Sechelt Skies: Eta Aquariids, ISS passes and a cool star

The Garnet Star, faint but with a bright future
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