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Dogs can trigger bear attacks, warn experts after grizzly charges Bella Coola man
Video of a Bella Coola man trying to scare a grizzly sow out of his backyard with a dog and a shotgun is renewing warnings about the dangers of mixing bears and dogs. → Read More
Don't count on pot pardons to wipe your record clean, legal experts warn
John Baxter was convicted in the 1980s for robbery and possession of a joint. He's spent 30 years trying to clear his name and says a pardon he got in 2014 did not help him at the border. → Read More
Elizabeth May pleads guilty to criminal contempt for pipeline protest
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court to criminal contempt for her role in a Trans Mountain pipeline protest and has been ordered to pay a $1,500 fine. → Read More
Canadian allegedly lynched in Peru 'gentle' seeker of 'deeper meaning,' friend says
Family and friends of a Vancouver Island man believe that he was killed in Peru in an alleged lynching by people who thought he was involved in the shooting death of an 81-year-old traditional healer. → Read More
City employs secret invention to foil theft from Vancouver's 'dumb' parking meters
Police and city staff say there’s a growing number of thefts from coin-operated parking meters. A Vancouver meter technician has invented a secret weapon they hope foils vandals siphoning people’s hard-earned money. → Read More
Family blames iPhone for sparking fire that destroyed Langley farmhouse, demands $600K from Apple
A B.C. couple are demanding Apple pay $600,000 in uninsured losses after they were forced to close their farm business following a devastating house fire that they claim was sparked by a faulty iPhone. → Read More
Canada's luge medals come from heartbreak, grit and ice time on world's fastest track near Whistler
Canada's first Olympic luge medals are being credited to a combination of prior heartbreak, hard-won experience and slide-time on the world's fastest luge track near Whistler, B.C. → Read More
Victoria father dies after foam pit accident at Richmond trampoline park
A 46-year-old Victoria father has died after an accident Saturday night at a Richmond B.C., trampoline park. → Read More
Loved ones mourn gifted Coquitlam student killed by stray bullet
The teenage bystander who died after being caught in an exchange of gunfire in Vancouver on Saturday has been identified as Alfred Wong. → Read More
Cryptocurrency exchange swamped by 'madness' of cybercash craze
A Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange is scrambling to handle what the founder calls an avalanche of interest in digital currencies that overwhelmed his company's staff and computer system and left clients fearing they'd lost their money. → Read More
Closure of Vancouver's neighbourhood pools would have social costs, planner says
Two Vancouver pools won a last-minute reprieve late this year. But the Vancouver Park Board plans to phase out older pools, marking a potential end to an era of small, neighbourhood pools. → Read More
Star Trek's secret weapon: a scientist with a mushroom fetish bent on saving the planet
Paul Stamets looks nothing like his TV counterpart, but he's just as enamoured with fungi. In fact, he believes mushrooms can help save the planet. → Read More
Farm in Richmond, B.C., sells for more than 100 times its assessed value
A Richmond farm property has sold for 100 times its assessed value, opening up a new potential development site in the booming suburb where home prices have skyrocketed in the past decade. → Read More
University denies it failed to protect staff in case involving alleged diaper fetish
Vancouver Island University is at the centre of a human rights complaint that female staff were not protected from a student who brought a “diaper-related sexual fetish” to school. → Read More
B'nai Brith Canada condemns rash of pro-Nazi postering in B.C.
B'nai Brith Canada has condemned the actions of whoever put up anti-Semitic posters and chalkboard drawings at the University of British Columbia over the Remembrance Day weekend in Vancouver. → Read More
Bedroom-sharing rules shut door on affordable housing for some families
Experts say outdated rules created to gauge overcrowding in Canadian homes are being used to determine who gets affordable housing, leaving some families shut out. → Read More
Goodbye Greyhound? The thread stitching together Canada's North wears thin
Greyhound Canada is trying to pull passenger service out of parts of rural B.C. — again threatening bus service that in many parts of Canada is the only ride in or out of town. → Read More
'It's so much more than the kill': hunters decry ban on grizzly trophy hunt
A ban on hunting grizzlies for trophies was announced this week in B.C., but some experts say the move won’t protect the iconic bears. → Read More
Smoky B.C. air felling foreign berry pickers, advocates sound alarm
At least 10 farm workers — seven Mexicans and three Guatemalans — were sent home, deemed too ill to work hard, say advocates who blame smoky conditions and lack of protections for making some sick. → Read More
Christy Clark's farewell wave means one less woman in politics
In Canada, despite our prime minister’s famous quip defending his choice of female ministers -- “Because it’s 2015” -- there’s only been one female prime minister and eight provincial premiers to date. → Read More