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Don’t like B.C.’s new Pacific time zone? Local governments still have the power to set their own clocks
As B.C.’s provincial government does away with biannual time changes, the East Kootenay region will continue to spring forward and fall back with Alberta. And, the province says, other local governments can choose to set their own time zones, if they want to.
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Calgary’s WinSport again defends demolishing bobsled track after athlete criticism
WinSport is again defending demolishing the bobsled and luge track at Canada Olympic Park in 2019, having most recently received criticism after Canada’s sledding athletes missed the Olympic podium for the first time in 24 years.
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Vancouver teacher says sudden licence suspension over email sent to spam felt like ‘gut punch’
Dozens of Lower Mainland teachers were suspended after emails from the Ministry of Education about updating their criminal record checks ended up in their spam inboxes. Now, those teachers want to know if the ministry will compensate them for the days they weren’t allowed to teach.
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Frank Stronach says ‘justice will prevail’ in sexual assault trial as 7th and final complainant cross-examined
Canadian businessman Frank Stronach said that “justice will prevail” in his sexual assault trial being held in a Toronto courthouse.
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LaSalle police investigate fatal stabbing of woman
Police are seeking answers about a 45-year-old woman who was found stabbed on Todd Lane in LaSalle on Tuesday night. She died in hospital.
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12-year-old Tumbler Ridge survivor Maya Gebala ‘will not give up,’ parents say
After a “turn for the worse” late last week, Tumbler Ridge mass shooting survivor Maya Gebala was showing signs of improvement early this week, even intently watching some favourite shows from her hospital bed, her parents shared. Both Maya’s father, David Gebala, and mother, Cia Edmonds, posted separate updates about the resilient 12-year-old and her…
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Posthaste: This dormant pipeline needs to be restarted for the sake of Canada, economists say
A natural gas pipeline that has been dormant since 2013 should be reopened, says a new report from National Bank of Canada . TC Energy Corp. ‘s Line 2 has been inactive for more than a decade, but economists at National Bank say now is the time to restart the pipeline, which runs through…
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Sask. company says it developed the largest, fastest film scanner on market
The company’s owner, Greg Miller, developed the scanner through careful research and with the help of a German engineer he found online.
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Months after suspension for racist posts, Hamilton officer’s car bears sticker with symbol ‘appropriated by’ neo-Nazis
A Hamilton community group is calling for action after it says a resident discovered a police officer’s vehicle is once again displaying a sticker “associated with white nationalist extremism.” Police had recently investigated the officer for sharing racist and extremist content on social media.
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Time running out in Canada for man who caused Humboldt Broncos bus crash
Jaskirat Singh Sidhu, the man responsible for the 2018 Humboldt Broncos bus crash, could be deported to India within weeks, leaving behind a wife and two children who are pleading with Canada to let him stay. At the same time, some families of the victims say Sidhu should have been removed from Canada years ago.