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A teddy bear carrying the audio of a dying mother's final message to her daughter has been safely reunited with its owner. Mara Soriano played the recording after getting the bear back on Tuesday.
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Watch the timelapse of the climate strike across Cambie Street in Vancouver. The march from Vancouver City Hall to the Vancouver Public Library took roughly an hour and 30 minutes.
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WATCH: Vancouver photographer's video of ravens playing like puppies in the snow goes viral.
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Video in civil claim shows RCMP officer dragging student, stepping on her head after wellness check. Read more:
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For over a decade, Tinney Davidson waved out the window of her Comox home to students on their way to school. Now she's moving away, so the students gave her a proper send-off. More:
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The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) is calling on the federal government and the Catholic church to take action following the discovery of the remains of 215 children buried on the Kamloops Indian Residential School grounds.
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The UBC nursing student seen dragged and stepped on by an RCMP officer on video, is speaking out. Mona Wang is suing Cpl. Lacy Browning, who denies causing Wang any harm. @LienYeung sat down with Wang earlier today as she reflected on the incident:
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Outrage is spreading after video surfaced in a civil claim showing an RCMP officer dragging a student and stepping on her head after a wellness check. As @BradyStrachan tells us, the Mountie says she used no more force than was necessary:
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Cell phone footage captured the dramatic moment a woman pulled a dog from the icy waters of Trout Lake. Full story here: by @MichelleGhsoub
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Jogger crosses U.S. border by accident, detained by authorities for 2 weeks
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A man had to be rescued by helicopter from the White Rock pier Thursday after heavy winds and powerful waves ripped a gaping hole in the structure leaving him stranded. Read more:
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'Science is on my side," says @MileyCyrus , targets B.C.'s wolf cull, grizzly hunt in video http://t.co/zh3ZZGteml http://t.co/MrHPEQrq0f
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A little boy in North Vancouver has taken up learning how to play the bagpipes and it's become one of his biggest passions. Meet 4-year-old Frankie and his hero, Frank.
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Stanley Park Teahouse manager fired after refusing to serve Trump supporter | CBC News
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BREAKING NEWS: Saudi activist Loujain Alhathloul has been released from detention in Saudi Arabia, where she had been held since May 2018. Alhathloul, 31, was a graduate of the University of British Columbia.
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BREAKING NEWS: Autopsy confirms B.C. homicide suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky were the two people found dead along Manitoba’s Nelson River last week. They died of suicide by gunfire.
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BREAKING NEWS: Newborn baby orca spotted swimming with J pod | CBC News
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A fishing crew shot this video of a knock-down, drag-out fight between an octopus and bald eagle off the coast of northern Vancouver Island. Read more about how they rescued the raptor:
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NEW: The B.C. government says it will immediately stop the importing and sales of Russian liquor products from B.C. liquor stores and provincial liquor distribution centres. The province is also donating $1 million to the Red Cross to support the people of Ukraine.
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Dr. Bonnie Henry, B.C.'s provincial health officer, fought back tears at a press conference Saturday after announcing 6 new cases of COVID-19. More:
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Residents in Vancouver's West End applauded health-care workers from their windows Friday evening to recognize their efforts battling #COVID19 . Some are now hoping to make it a daily tradition.
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Vancouver's Trump International Hotel is closing permanently, according to staff. Repeated calls to Holborn Group and the hotel manager, based in Hawaii, were not returned. The front entrance is boarded up, and the online booking system does not connect.
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Health care is "probably not the right profession" for workers who don't recognize the importance of vaccines, Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday. 3,325 health-care workers in B.C. — 2.6 per cent of the work force — are unvaccinated and on unpaid leave.
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In a stunning blow, the Federal Court of Appeals has quashed the government's approvals to build the Trans Mountain expansion project handing a major victory to Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the $7.4 billion project. #TransMountain
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apologized to the Tsilhqot'in community for the hanging of six chiefs more than 150 years ago. He rode into the valley on a black horse, symbolizing the ones the historic chiefs rode into what they believed were peace talks.
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Snow's no problem for this particular Vancouver driver ... watch till the end to find out why.
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This B.C. six-year-old's healing dance honours children who died at residential schools.
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A new Korean pop music video shot entirely on location in Metro Vancouver is racking up millions of views on YouTube
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Sikh children now have the option of wearing a helmet that fits them properly, thanks to a Canadian mom. Tina Singh, an occupational therapist, couldn't find a suitable helmet for her boys, so she's created her own.
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'Never seen anything like it': A passenger on a B.C. ferry captured this video of hundreds of racing dolphins. 🐬
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A Bhangra dancer has gone viral after sharing videos of him performing the traditional Punjabi dance with people across iconic locations in B.C. More:
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A pod of killer whales was spotted Friday in Indian Arm near Metro Vancouver's North Shore. "First time in my 59 years," said one area resident who saw the orcas. More:
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Orca that carried dead calf for 17 days gives birth to 'healthy and precocious' new baby
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Research out of the U.S. finds an increase in deaths from heart attacks for people between 25 and 44. Dr. Melissa Lem, a clinical assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, gave Anita Bathe some insight into the research.
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After 'f--k Trump' barb at Tony Awards, Robert De Niro apologizes in Toronto for 'the idiotic behaviour of my president'
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Truckers are transporting vital shipments during the COVID-19 pandemic, including food, hand sanitizers and masks. Groups are now posting online where truckers can go for services such as showers, laundry facilities and take-out food.
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Terry Fox's brother plans to get up at 4 a.m. today to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope.
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A U.K. scientists found out by accident that puffin beaks glow under UV light ... now they're trying to figure out why.
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A rare, young white killer whale has been spotted once more in B.C. waters, this time up close with drone footage. Read more:
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A B.C. company specializing in making life jackets and survival suits has jumped into the COVID-19 crisis to manufacture life-protecting hospital gowns for B.C.'s health workers.
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He or She. Him or Her. For many people, binary male/female pronouns are just too limiting, even though they're a part of the English language. 15-year-old Micah Cottingham explains their perspective on what it means to be non-binary.
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JUST IN: Vancouver city council has approved $30 million to lease or buy vacant hotels, apartment buildings and single-room occupancy buildings to house homeless people. #vanpoli
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Another look at the dolphins passing through the Georgia Strait in British Columbia. Look at them all!
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Thousands gather in Vancouver to support U.S. Women's March
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Just before the deadline, a B.C. charity has raised enough cash to turn a swath of stunning coastal wilderness into a park — and save it from potential logging and development.
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Surrey, B.C., girl heads to national spelling bee after arriving in Canada 2 years ago
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BREAKING: B.C. is dropping its indoor mask mandate on March 11 and vaccine card on April 8.
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Ryan Reynolds has a request for B.C.'s young people during COVID-19 surge: 'Don't kill my mom'
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Gia Tran has been collecting bottles in Vancouver for the past 21 years and giving the proceeds every day to a local charity.
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BREAKING NEWS: Modelling shows physical distancing has halved spread of #COVID19 in B.C., officials say | CBC News
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BREAKING NEWS: Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada
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Canada, we heard you're snowed in. Would you care for some flowers? 🌸🌼
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at Sunday's Vancouver Pride Parade, responded to the back-to-back mass shootings in the United States and was asked how Canada is dealing with the threat of white nationalism. Read more:
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A deer with a hammock on his head is Prince Rupert's newest celebrity
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Thousands of people are at the counter protest outside #Vancouver 's city hall #standuptoracism rally ( @Tinalovgreen /CBC)
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A group of students ended a 100-hour hunger strike Friday after the University of British Columbia assured them it will fully divest its $1.7 billion endowment fund of fossil fuel investments.
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There are heroes walking among us...like this group of commuters Wednesday morning who helped push a TransLink bus stuck in the snow on West Broadway.⁠ #VancouverSnowStorm2020 Read more on the snow storm walloping Metro Vancouver:
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Moon is older than we thought, new research suggests
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Canada is closing its borders to travellers who are not Canadian citizens, permanent residents or Americans. #COVID19 But B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix says Canada's travel restrictions don't go far enough, as he calls for a travel ban on non-essential U.S. travel into B.C.
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Punjabi movie filmed in Vancouver breaks box-office records in India
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Self-isolation didn't stop these seniors at a Vancouver retirement home from joining a fitness class and busting out some moves on their balconies. 🎵
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Have you tried to cut your own hair, yet? Dr. Bonnie Henry has.
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"He got to go out doing what he loved" A Canadian rap artist is dead after an airplane stunt near Vernon went terribly wrong. Our @tinalovgreen hears from a friend of Jon James McMurray, about how the man "had a heart of gold"
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Breaking News: John Turner, Canada's 17th prime minister who spent decades in federal politics as a cabinet minister and Liberal Party leader during some of the most turbulent moments in modern Canadian history, has died at 91.
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Health care is "probably not the right profession" for workers who don't recognize the importance of vaccines, B.C.’s provincial health officer said Monday. Here's how people reacted to Dr. Bonnie Henry's comments.
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A 6-year-old in Saanich, B.C., has opened a stand offering free jokes. "There's a lot of stress in the world," he said, "and I kind of want to get some smiles on people's faces."
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'They were saying no one would ride it.' 10 years on, Burrard bike lane is North America's busiest, officials say.
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British Columbia Premier John Horgan says it's "laughable'' for the new premier of Alberta to suggest unvaccinated people are the most discriminated against group in her lifetime.
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It was an embrace four years in the making. Two Sikh refugee families landed at the Vancouver airport Thursday and met the sponsors who fought for their safety. More:
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So many people have been vaccinated in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside neighbourhood that the community has begun to achieve significant local herd immunity, according to experts from Vancouver Coastal Health.
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A woman caught a man stealing a package from a stranger's doorstep, so she pulled over and made him put it back. Read more: #cityofPG
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Some good news! Gillian McIntosh, the Abbotsford woman who gave birth via C-section in early November while in an induced coma because of COVID-19, has been eased out of her coma and has met her newborn son for the first time. #COVID19BC
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New logo for Vancouver Island school district by Indigenous artist represents moving forward
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Asian restaurants across the Lower Mainland hope to deliver at least 2,900 meals to front-line workers in hospitals this month. #COVID19 Read more:
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Check out the drone footage of a northern resident killer whale swimming with her calf. It was captured as part of a project by B.C. researchers studying killer whales from above. Read more:
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2 northern resident killer whale families brought along a baby as they returned for the first time in 20 years to their traditional winter foraging grounds in British Columbia waters.
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BREAKING NEWS: B.C. to protect 353,000 hectares of old-growth forest from logging | CBC News
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A Squamish, B.C., man was on a sailboat last week in Howe Sound when a pod of killer whales swam around and underneath the vessel — including one with a freshly caught seal in its mouth. More:
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George Chow was one of roughly 600 Chinese Canadians who served in the Second World War. He died Nov. 6, the day after he turned 99 and just a few days away from Remembrance Day.
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The Vancouver Aquarium has released the last of the 172 seal pups it rescued for treatment in 2018. One of the healthy pups shot out like a cannon to the ocean. Others... needed a little more encouragement to get out of their carriers.
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The Royal Canadian Mint has launched a new toonie to commemorate the legacy of B.C. Haida artist Bill Reid, more than 20 years after his death.
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Is Vancouver the new Gangnam? Korean pop video filmed entirely in Vancouver gets millions o…
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Move aside CSI: #UBC students can now study the human brain using holograms
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Canada also detains migrant children, sometimes for months at a time
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Just a pod of dolphins, spotted alongside a ferry from Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay. 🐬🐬🐬
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'Toot, toot, toot.' Some Vancouver residents dressed up in bird costumes, and paraded around on stilts — all for international birding festival in the city.
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BREAKING: The Penelakut Tribe in B.C.'s Southern Gulf Islands says it has found more than 160 "undocumented and unmarked" graves in the area, which was also once home to the Kuper Island Residential School.
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Watch this pod of killer whales swim in Vancouver's harbour 🐳 More:
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B.C. Premier John Horgan said there's a "special place" for people who buy and re-sell essential items during the coronavirus pandemic. Read more about a B.C. couple who say they've made $30k re-selling cleaning products:
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'Reinstate this honourable man,' tweets Ricky Gervais on conservation officer who wouldn't… http://t.co/KaF7EXWQjZ http://t.co/rxw7ea2yl4
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Nearly 200 doctors at some of Metro Vancouver's busiest hospitals are pleading with B.C.'s provincial health officer to lock down entire communities in order to contain COVID-19.
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