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A sea of red serge as thousands of officers honour B.C. Mountie Const. Shaelyn Yang
November 02, 2022 - 2:00 PM

RICHMOND, B.C. - Thousands of officers dressed in red serge marched in unison in a procession led by an RCMP pipe band, a hearse and riderless horse in the funeral for fallen RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang Wednesday.
Review: 'Ghostbusters' takes aim at misogyny and scores
July 12, 2016 - 6:00 AM

The easy, electric chemistry of the four leads in Paul Feig's "Ghostbusters" acts like a firewall against the supernatural and the adolescent, alike, in this spirited reboot of the 1984 original.
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A new study from UBC Okanagan and Thompson Rivers University has found that cannabis use can offer benefits to people undergoing treatment for substance use. People living in a residential recovery facility were given supervised amounts of

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A sea of red serge as thousands of officers honour B.C. Mountie Const. Shaelyn Yang

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