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EXPLAINER: Pronouns, nonbinary people and the Club Q attack
December 07, 2022 - 10:05 PM

The Colorado Springs gay bar shooting suspect’s assertion of being nonbinary has put gender identity and pronouns — and some sensitive questions around them — back in the spotlight.
Judge jails editor over reporter's use of recorder in court
July 06, 2021 - 10:12 PM

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina Superior Court judge put a small-town newspaper editor behind bars last month after one of his reporters used an audio recorder for note-taking purposes at a murder trial — a punishment the paper and media rights groups consider excessive.
Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding
January 21, 2021 - 3:54 AM

PARIS - Just like the leaves of its gilded fans, France’s storied fan-making museum could fold and vanish. The splendid Musee de l’Eventail in Paris, classed as a historical monument, is the cultural world’s latest coronavirus victim.
National program to help keep COPD patients out of hospital being expanded
January 22, 2018 - 9:05 PM

TORONTO - At age 69, Chris Burden is still working 60-hour weeks as a bailiff and process server, a job that takes him all over New Brunswick and has given rise to his self-styled moniker of "road runner."
Homelessness activists evicted from pricey mansion in London
February 01, 2017 - 4:25 AM

LONDON - British authorities have evicted a group of squatters who moved into a vacant mansion in one of London's priciest neighbourhoods to draw attention to the problem of homelessness.
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THOMPSON: Junk drawers: No method to my indefensible organizational madness
OPINION Maybe everyone has that drawer, you know, the one where you stick things because you don’t know where else to put it. I hope - for your sake - you don’t have what I have, multiple drawers. I

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Advocacy group calls on Vancouver to 'embrace' cannabis tourism after 4-20 'debacle'
VANCOUVER - The head of a B.C. cannabis growers group says the City of Vancouver's choice to discourage instead of sanction a marijuana celebration over the weekend was a costly "missed opportunity." The BC Craft Farmers Co-Op

Tranquille developer blames province after multiple ALC denials
The province's Agricultural Land Commission has heard multiple pleas from the owner of a historic Kamloops property who wants to build an agricultural suburb on the massive site. Each time Ignition Developments goes to the commission, i

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EXPLAINER: Pronouns, nonbinary people and the Club Q attack

Judge jails editor over reporter's use of recorder in court

Virus pushes storied Paris fan museum to brink of folding

National program to help keep COPD patients out of hospital being expanded

Homelessness activists evicted from pricey mansion in London

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