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Crews guard against flare-up of Vancouver Island wildfire after rainfall

August 19 , 2025 at 09:42:33 a.m. PDT • :

The fire measured at more than 36 square kilometres has triggered evacuation orders and shut off power, telecom and the main road access to nearby Bamfield, B.C.

B.C. Palestinian-Canadians fighting to get families out of Gaza urge feds to speed up resettlement

August 19 , 2025 at 06:00:00 a.m. PDT • :

A Toronto immigration and refugee lawyer has filed a petition to the federal court to force the Canadian government to speed up the resettlement process. Two Palestinian-Canadian families worry their loved ones could die while waiting.

A big black tube on Salt Spring Island is diverting tonnes of organic waste

August 19 , 2025 at 05:00:00 a.m. PDT • :

A new commercial composter — years in the making — allows food producers on the island to avoid burying it or shipping organic waste, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions and boosting local agriculture.

Catherine Galliford, the RCMP officer who launched a sexual harassment lawsuit against the force, dead at 58

August 18 , 2025 at 05:10:00 p.m. PDT • :

Galliford's treatment, which she said left her with PTSD and agoraphobia, eventually prompted her to file a lawsuit that was settled in 2016, and her lawsuit led to a wave of other civil suits from other officers that forced a reckoning within the RCMP ranks.

1 killed, 4 taken to hospital in weekend crash near northern B.C. waterfall

August 18 , 2025 at 12:43:37 p.m. PDT • :

RCMP are searching for any witnesses or dashcam footage from the area near Bijoux Falls on Saturday.

August 18 , 2025 at 10:07:45 p.m. PDT • :

Magnitude 3.6 earthquake shakes west of Victoria on Vancouver Island

August 18 , 2025 at 03:50:23 p.m. PDT • :

What Air Canada passengers need to know amid flight disruptions

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August 19 , 2025 at 08:18:55 a.m. PDT • :

2 dead near Lytton, B.C., after fiery head-on crash on Highway 1

August 19 , 2025 at 07:31:29 a.m. PDT • :

Blues sign Milan Lucic to professional tryout after year away from NHL

August 18 , 2025 at 07:56:16 p.m. PDT • :

TransLink increasing bus service on 53 crowded Metro Vancouver routes in September

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