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Canada puts nicotine pouches behind the counter, bans flavours

Crackdown starts next week and includes limits on how products can be packaged

Aug 22, 2024 1:30 PM Read more >

UPDATE: Railways set to restart after feds push for binding arbitration

Liberals ask Canada Industrial Relations Board to end dispute at Canada’s 2 largest rail companies

Aug 22, 2024 1:30 PM Read more >

Less than 1% of B.C.'s physicians self-identify as First Nations: Report

Report reveals for the 1st time a breakdown of First Nations nurses, midwives in B.C.

Aug 22, 2024 11:52 AM Read more >

BEHIND THE FENCE: Pitchfork memory haunts B.C. woman ripped from Doukhobor family

'Just seeing that place reminds me of all the awful things that happened there'

Aug 22, 2024 11:52 AM Read more >

Coroner's inquest will examine 2018 death at Nanaimo ferry terminal

Jerry Robert Smallwood, 39, died in police-involved incident at Departure Bay terminal

Aug 22, 2024 11:04 AM Read more >

Former Olympic swimmer leads push to save UVic pool from closure

University of Victoria president agrees that the closure was ‘rushed’ and the situation needs to be reassessed

Aug 22, 2024 10:00 AM Read more >

Triumph over tragedy for Shuswap band 1 year after wildfire

'What I am most proud of is how our band members came together this last year'

Aug 22, 2024 8:54 AM Read more >

Pushback saves B.C. Japanese Canadian news archive from digital oblivion

SFU agrees to continue hosting New Canadian newspaper’s digital archives until new host can be found

Aug 22, 2024 8:40 AM Read more >

Extreme weather hitting close to home for 1/3 of Canadians: poll

Leger poll suggests more than 1 in 3 impacted by forest fires, heat waves, floods or tornadoes

Aug 22, 2024 8:30 AM Read more >

West Coast Express sidelined in B.C. as rail strike causes commuter chaos

Commuter railways in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver that run on CPKC-owned lines affected

Aug 22, 2024 6:35 AM Read more >