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Royal B.C. Museum starts decolonization of galleries this month, says acting CEO
VICTORIA - The Royal British Columbia Museum is closing some sections of its galleries as it embarks on an effort to decolonize the institution. Daniel Muzyka, the museum's acting CEO, says in a state...
Nov 03, 2021
Royal B.C. Museum starts decolonization of galleries this month, says acting CEO
VICTORIA - The Royal British Columbia Museum is closing some sections of its galleries as it embarks on an effort to decolonize the institution. Daniel Muzyka, the museum's acting CEO, says in a state...
Nov 03, 2021
Frey wins 2nd term as Minneapolis mayor after bitter race
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey was reelected to a second term, surviving a bitter challenge in a race that focused on calls for changes to policing and racial justice, elections offic...
Nov 03, 2021
Officials tell AP that Iran seized Vietnamese oil tanker
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran seized a Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman last month and still holds the vessel, two U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday, rev...
Nov 03, 2021
Splatsin to build new care facility for Elders
A North Okanagan First Nation has announced plans for a new housing project, the second one this year.Splatsin will be constructing a new independent care facility early next year featuring two buildi...
Nov 03, 2021
Bank of Canada plans to keep eye on climate change impact on inflation
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada says it plans to more closely monitor how increasingly frequent and severe weather events could impact the prices consumers pay for goods as part of its mandate to keep inf...
Nov 03, 2021
Alberta, with largest oil industry, sends fewer to COP than any other energy province
EDMONTON - The province with Canada's largest oil and gas industry has sent one of the country's smallest delegations to the international climate conference, where emissions from that industry are un...
Nov 03, 2021
Transportation Safety Board to probe fire in containers on Zim Kingston, off Victoria
RICHMOND, B.C. - A team from the Transportation Safety Board has been assigned to investigate the fire that destroyed containers aboard a freighter now moored off the south coast of Vancouver Island. ...
Nov 03, 2021
Mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., apologizes for residential school repost
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., has apologized for reposting a social media comment that suggested there are "two sides" to the history of residential schools. Walt Cobb made t...
Nov 03, 2021
Mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., apologizes for residential school repost
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The mayor of Williams Lake, B.C., has apologized for reposting a social media comment that suggested there are "two sides" to the history of residential schools. Walt Cobb made t...
Nov 03, 2021
