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B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...
Mar 16, 2022
B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...
Mar 16, 2022
B.C. provincial data shows 23,000 people experienced homelessness in 2019
VICTORIA - British Columbia's housing minister says a new method for collecting data on homelessness is the first of its kind in Canada and will help the province tackle the issue. David Eby says the ...
Mar 16, 2022
Veteran Canadian offensive lineman Duvernay-Tardif hits NFL free-agent market
For the first time in his NFL career, Canadian offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a free agent. The six-foot-five, 321-pound Duvernay-Tardif hit the open market Wednesday afternoon as an unr...
Mar 16, 2022
Canada's Maddie Szeryk and Jaclyn Lee using Epson Tour event to ramp up golf season
A handful of Canada's best women golfers are looking to get into the swing of things this week on the Epson Tour. Six Canadians will tee off at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic on Thursday, t...
Mar 16, 2022
B.C. to review how its COVID-19 pandemic response decisions were made
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government will conduct an independent review of its operational response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help it prepare and respond to emergencies. Public Safety Minister...
Mar 16, 2022
Canada's Bennedict Mathurin has had long, interesting road to NCAA stardom
Bennedict Mathurin has led the way for a resurgent University of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team that is ready to hit the dance floor at the 2022 NCAA Tournament. The 19-year-old sophomore guar...
Mar 16, 2022
Olympic champion women's soccer squad bringing celebration tour to West Coast
VANCOUVER - Canada Soccer has announced that the country's gold medal-winning women's soccer team will face Nigeria in a pair of games in British Columbia next month. The two-match series is part of t...
Mar 16, 2022
Canada cheers U.S. effort to abolish 'spring forward, fall back' daylight time ritual
WASHINGTON - A giddy Massachusetts senator, clapping his hands and dancing with delight in the shadow of a sun-drenched U.S. Capitol, isn't something one sees every day. But doing away with the annoyi...
Mar 16, 2022
Vaccinated travellers will no longer need a COVID-19 test to come to Canada: source
OTTAWA - Vaccinated travellers will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test to come to Canada as of April 1, according to a source in the federal government. The source, who is not authorized to sp...
Mar 16, 2022
