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B.C's auditor general to review government's response to 2021 Lytton wildfire
LYTTON, B.C. — British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C. Michael Pickup says in a video statement that the report will focus on the B.C. government's roles and responsibilities for disaster recovery, its support for Lytton, including funding, challenges that came with rebuilding and how the province can improve. On June 30, 2021, just one day after Lytton hit a Canadian temper
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'Someone is going to get hurt,' says OPP officer minutes before fatal 401 crash
A police radio recording is providing a glimpse into the moments leading up to a fiery wrong-way crash that killed four people east of Toronto on Monday.
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Pro-Palestinian protest camps emerge at two more B.C. universities
VICTORIA — Pro-Palestinian protesters have set up encampments at two more British Columbia universities, as a wave of demonstrations at North American post-secondary institutions continued to spread. The University of Victoria confirmed Wednesday that a protest site had been established on campus, saying the school was "taking a calm and thoughtful approach" to minimizing disruptions stemming from the encampment in its quad. "We encourage thoughtful, reasoned and academic discourse on current is
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Human-rights advocates pan budget plan to detain immigrants in federal prisons
OTTAWA — Human-rights groups are urging Ottawa to reverse course on plans to allow immigrant detention in federal prisons, saying vulnerable people could be exposed to unreasonably harsh conditions. "We're concerned that all of these changes are being rammed through (in) a budget bill," Amnesty International campaigner Julia Sande said at a news conference on Parliament Hill. Immigration Minister Marc Miller has said under the budget measure to allow detention in prisons, immigrants would be hel
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Squamish, B.C., rejects LNG company's plan for floating work camp
SQUAMISH, B.C. — Plans to use a renovated cruise ship to house more than 600 workers at a liquefied natural gas facility near Squamish, B.C., have been voted down by the local council. The ship arrived in B.C. waters in January after a 40-day journey from Estonia, where it had sheltered Ukrainian refugees, but the District of Squamish had yet to approve the Woodfibre LNG Ltd. plan to operate the so-called "floatel." Squamish councillors voted three to four against a one-year permit at a meeting
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Head of port says cargo scanners won't solve the issue of exported stolen vehicles
OTTAWA — Scanning more shipping containers for stolen cars may do little to curb auto theft, the head of the Halifax Port Authority said this week at a House of Commons committee. Port president Allan Gray appeared before the national security committee to testify for a study into rising car thefts. Political leaders including Ontario Premier Doug Ford have called for more cargo scanners at ports to catch cars being shipped out of Canada. "Let's beef that up," he said during a news conference in
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Saks says drug criminalization decision 'urgent', B.C. says feds have all they need
OTTAWA — Addictions Minister Ya'ara Saks said she needs more information from British Columbia before she can make a decision about recriminalizing public drug use in that province, but the province says she already has everything she needs. Last week B.C. asked Health Canada to amend an exemption that decriminalized hard drugs in that province to recriminalize public drug use. Saks told reporters in Ottawa Wednesday the decision needed to be made urgently but she needed more from the province.
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