Why was ‘incredible’ giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.’s big-tree protection law?

Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Joshua Wright says a yellow cedar tree he photographed last year was "incredible," the largest he'd ever seen in a decade of hiking around Vancouver Island.

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A Lytton Fire Class-Action Suit Against Railways Is Going Ahead

Amanda Follett Hosgood / thetyee - A BC Supreme Court justice ruled the evidence that a train sparked the devastating fire is sufficient for a trial.

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Carney vows to meet Coastal First Nations after chiefs vote against pipeline to B.C.

sootoday - OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to meet with Coastal First Nations after chiefs voted unanimously Tuesday to press the government to uphold the oil tanker ban off the northern British Columbia coast and withdraw an agreement signed with

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B.C. to require safer supply prescription opioids to be taken under supervision

Andrea Woo / theglobeandmail - Change follows considerable scrutiny and political pushback on the program

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Two more grizzlies captured, to be evaluated after B.C. attack on schoolchildren

theglobeandmail - Conservation officers continue to search for the bear that left three children and a teacher seriously injured

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Hodgson says it's 'premature' to draw conclusions about the BC tanker ban's fate

Nick Murray / nationalobserver - Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says it's "premature" for anyone to draw conclusions regarding the potential removal, or adjustment, of the West Coast tanker ban, since no pipeline route has been mapped out to bring oil from Albe…

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What is the B.C. oil tanker ban, and could it change under pipeline deal?

Sean Boynton / globalnews - The Alberta deal includes a commitment from Ottawa to 'enable the export of bitumen ... including if necessary through an appropriate adjustment to the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act.'

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B.C.’s dairy milk testers go on strike after 20 months of bargaining

Amy Judd / globalnews - In a news release, the B.C. General Employees' Union says the workers served a 72-hour strike notice on Nov. 21 and went on strike on Nov. 25.

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Indian police arrest ‘prime conspirator’ accused of B.C. extortion-linked shootings

theglobeandmail - As police and politicians met in British Columbia to talk about a series of extortion shootings and threats, Delhi police were announcing the arrest of a gang member allegedly connected to some of the crimes.

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Braid: With tanker ban on the table, it's B.C. Premier Eby's turn to gripe about Ottawa

Don Braid, Calgary Herald / calgaryherald - Eby sounds almost like an Alberta premier during the Trudeau regime, when Ottawa systematically piled up laws that stifled the province’s economy

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It’s unacceptable B.C. has been cut out of pipeline talks, Premier Eby tells Mark Carney

Globalnews Digital / globalnews - For a project he says 'doesn't actually exist,' there was a lot British Columbia Premier David Eby had to say about a potential pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s northern coast.

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BC activists found guilty of testing and selling heroin and meth launch constitutional challenge

The Canadian Press / nationalobserver - A constitutional challenge by founders of a Vancouver "compassion club" who were found guilty of drug trafficking is expected to begin today at the British Columbia Supreme Court.

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Search continues for grizzly bear that attacked students, teachers in B.C.

Wolfgang Depner and Ashley Joannou / theglobeandmail - No decision has been made on whether to euthanize the bear if it is caught

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B.C. and Alberta premiers continue public duel over pipeline

Amy Judd / globalnews - The Alberta and federal governments are said to be close to signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to move forward with the project.

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Missing contractor found dead in Sparwood, B.C. mine

Amy Judd / globalnews - On Friday morning, Elk Valley RCMP confirmed that a contractor working at Elk View Operations had died and his remains were recovered.

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B.C. family tortured for 13 hours by thieves impersonating mailmen in $2M crypto heist

Chris Knight / nationalpost - Daughter sexually assaulted on camera, wife 'degraded' as thieves threatened to cut off the man's genitalia. One of the men came specifically to Canada to commit the crime, court documents state

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11 injured in grizzly bear attack on elementary class in Bella Coola, B.C.

Denette Wilford / torontosun - One male teacher 'got the whole brunt of it' and was among those who were taken from the scene by helicopter

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