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Premier offers support to municipalities trying to ban public drug use

Premier offers support to municipalities trying to ban public drug use

While he argued previously that municipalities already have tools to address public drug use, the premier says he’s heard from some mayors that those tools are not as effective as they could be
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Opinion: For Canada jays, sibling rivalry can be deadly as winner takes all

Opinion: For Canada jays, sibling rivalry can be deadly as winner takes all

Canada jays who are able to expel their siblings from the nest and home territory have better chances of survival.
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Opinion: We're just starting to learn more about aphantasia, the inability to picture things with the mind's eye

Opinion: We're just starting to learn more about aphantasia, the inability to picture things with the mind's eye

People with aphantasia are unable to deliberately bring to mind mental images. Understanding the mechanisms of aphantasia reveals that different types of cognition exist.
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Two people taken to hospital after car ends up in a lake in Garden Bay

Two people taken to hospital after car ends up in a lake in Garden Bay

Ambulance, police and firefighters were on the scene Tuesday afternoon
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Open burning ban starts on Sunshine Coast this week

Open burning ban starts on Sunshine Coast this week

The Coastal Fire Centre is preparing for wildfire season
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WestJet customers holding their breath as strike notice jeopardizes travel plans

WestJet customers holding their breath as strike notice jeopardizes travel plans

MONTREAL — The travel plans of WestJet customers are up in the air after its pilots' union issued a 72-hour strike notice Monday night. The gambit by the Air Line Pilots Association kicked off a countdown to a flight crew walkout at 3 a.m.
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As a B.C. senior faces cancer and eviction, advocate pleads for help

As a B.C. senior faces cancer and eviction, advocate pleads for help

Pender Harbour's Bonnie Shotropa is searching for a new home amid rising rent prices and her battle with liver cancer – and after a year of searching, she still can't find somewhere to live.
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B.C. casinos to require photo ID for all visitors

B.C. casinos to require photo ID for all visitors

No ID? No entry. BCLC is moving to more rigid ID verification at casino doors to support its self-exclusion program for problem gamblers.
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Here's why the stink bugs are back in Vancouver homes

Here's why the stink bugs are back in Vancouver homes

It's a stinky situation.
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Letters: Who will take responsibility for our lack of water?

Letters: Who will take responsibility for our lack of water?

'Forty  years lack of meaningful action on the water supply is scandalous.'
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