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Federal leaders point fingers at each other over Alberta's COVID-19 health emergency
September 16, 2021 - 2:13 PM

OTTAWA - Federal leaders pointed fingers and fired rounds at each other Thursday over the spiralling COVID-19 crisis in Alberta, each seeking to forge a link in voters' minds between the province's dire health emergency and the others' policies.
Ongoing protest over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island marks one year
August 29, 2021 - 1:00 AM

PORT RENFREW, B.C. - In the year since the first camp was set up to prevent old-growth logging around the Fairy Creek watershed on southern Vancouver Island, an expert in Canadian environmental movements says the protests have made a mark on politics and public discourse.
First Nation chief detained by fisheries officers in N.S. after launching fishery
August 16, 2021 - 6:11 PM

SAULNIERVILLE, N.S. - The chief of Sipekne'katik First Nation was taken in for questioning by federal Fisheries Department officers on Monday, moments after he announced the expansion of his band's self-regulated lobster fishery in St. Marys Bay.
$Damaged vehicles and a structure is seen in Lytton, B.C., Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by climate change, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck$

Property insurers update risk modelling as Canada braces for climate impacts
August 16, 2021 - 1:17 PM

VANCOUVER - The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by climate change, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says.
RCMP spied on Canadian nationalist committee as it pushed pro-independence agenda
July 25, 2021 - 4:00 AM

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service closely monitored the burgeoning nationalist movement in the 1960s and '70s, poring over pamphlets, collecting reports from confidential sources and warily watching for signs of Communist infiltration, once-secret records reveal.
Wildfire report author says heat dome highlights need for new plans in wildfire fight
July 24, 2021 - 1:00 AM

One of the authors of a report examining what went wrong during British Columbia's extraordinary wildfire season in 2017 says this year's unprecedented heat dome demands new ways of approaching extreme weather events.
B.C's smoking wildfires and Annamie Paul's reprieve: In The News for July 19
July 19, 2021 - 1:30 AM

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 19 ...
First Nations, political leaders mark Indigenous Peoples Day, recognizing dark truths
June 21, 2021 - 2:41 PM

OTTAWA - As many settler Canadians gain greater awareness of the dark and disturbing truths about the country's mistreatment of Indigenous populations, political leaders struck conciliatory tones in recognizing National Indigenous People's Day Monday.
Feds got supplies to provinces during COVID-19 despite issues with stockpile: AG
May 26, 2021 - 2:44 PM

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada couldn't immediately handle a massive surge in demand for personal protective equipment when COVID-19 began because it had ignored years of warnings that the national emergency stockpile of medical supplies wasn't being properly managed.
Ten years later: Five things to know about the Slave Lake wildfire
May 09, 2021 - 7:00 AM

A wildfire burned about one-third of Slave Lake in northern Alberta in May 2011. Nearly 400 homes and businesses, including an apartment complex, were reduced to ash and rubble when fierce winds whipped flames through town with little warning.
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Armstrong's Caravan Farm Theatre looking for kids to scare 'living daylights' out of adults
A popular walk of walk of terror event held by the Caravan Farm Theatre in Armstrong is returning this year and is in need of some kids to scare hundreds of adults. “This is a gig for the kids out there who love Halloween… get

Kamloops Farmers' Market is a delicious adventure
The Kamloops Farmer’s Market is a bi-weekly market that beautifully showcases the bounty from the surrounding areas of the Thompson Valley. The big market happens on Saturdays with around 100 vendors on site selling their products. We

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Canadian News

Federal leaders point fingers at each other over Alberta's COVID-19 health emergency

Ongoing protest over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island marks one year

First Nation chief detained by fisheries officers in N.S. after launching fishery

Property insurers update risk modelling as Canada braces for climate impacts

RCMP spied on Canadian nationalist committee as it pushed pro-independence agenda

Wildfire report author says heat dome highlights need for new plans in wildfire fight

B.C's smoking wildfires and Annamie Paul's reprieve: In The News for July 19

First Nations, political leaders mark Indigenous Peoples Day, recognizing dark truths

Feds got supplies to provinces during COVID-19 despite issues with stockpile: AG

Ten years later: Five things to know about the Slave Lake wildfire

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