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Astronaut Chris Hadfield reflects on technology, privilege and responsibility

Canadian is in the Kootenays to speak at the Columbia Basin Symposium

Oct 13, 2017 2:07 PM Read more >

Victoria Book Prize Awards celebrate local writers

A children’s story of a refugee family, and the tale of a journey to Vietnam among top honours

Oct 13, 2017 1:47 PM Read more >

Sears Canada to liquidate remaining stores

The move will put roughly 12,000 people out of work

Oct 13, 2017 10:25 AM Read more >

Traffic snarled on Coquihalla as drivers face heavy snow

Highway 5 is closed southbound at Kamloops due to several ‘spun out trucks on the road’

Oct 13, 2017 10:20 AM Read more >

BC man wanted for murder in California cold-case

Anthony Michael Kubica is a suspect in the cold-case murder of a wealthy California widow who disappeared from her home 27 years ago.

Oct 13, 2017 9:45 AM Read more >

Victoria seeking climate costs from fossil fuel industry

City councillors approved of sending a letter asking oil companies including Exxon, Chevron and Shell, to pay their share of the city’s climate costs.

Oct 13, 2017 8:30 AM Read more >

Canadian writers, actors join Twitter boycott

Canadian writers and actors are boycotting Twitter amid Weinstein sex scandal

Oct 13, 2017 8:30 AM Read more >

Murky timeline the focus of Las Vegas shooting probe

Authorities are still at a lost as to why Stephen Paddock opened fire on the country music festival

Oct 13, 2017 7:30 AM Read more >

Employees killed in foiled US prison break

Two employees were killed in foiled North Carolina prison break

Oct 13, 2017 7:15 AM Read more >

Canadian family held captive by Taliban-linked group leave Pakistan

The family, with three young children, had been held captive for years

Oct 13, 2017 7:00 AM Read more >