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BC Finance Minister Brenda Bailey is diagnosed with 'early-stage, treatable cancer'

British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says she has early-stage, treatable cancer. Bailey said in a post on social ...
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'The continuous battle' to defeat one of the worst invasive species follows a devastating diesel spill

A decade after the tugboat Nathan E. Stewart ran aground and spilled diesel into Heiltsuk clam harvesting areas, Indigenous ...
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The world’s rarest great ape is worse off than we thought

A pair of new studies suggest fewer than 700 Tapanuli orangutans remain after a cyclone tore through Indonesia last year.
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Status of 'iconic' mountain goats living near evacuated BC community is unclear

It is not clear yet what has happened to a small group of "iconic" mountain goats, as a large wildfire burns out of control near the evacuated community of Summerland, BC.
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'Mark Carney manipulated you': Équiterre launches campaign targeting prime minister

Messages were projected onto buildings in Montreal to denounce what the group calls "environmental rollbacks." ...
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Woman dead in a BC wildfire as grim video reveals village in ruins

The wildfire raging near Okanagan Lake in British Columbia's southern Interior claimed the life of an 80-year-old woman as ...
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Équiterre calls for an end to Quebec’s honeymoon with Mark Carney

Its new executive director, Daniel Rotman, believes Quebecers soured on the prime minister after Steven Guilbeault’s ...
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'We will lose a lot of our annual crops': BC farmers brace for losses due to wildfires

Ella Braden, the owner of Braden Hill Orchard & Farm, says she was on vacation when wildfires roared through Summerland, BC.
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Ring of Fire supply road faces its first legal challenge

Ontario’s Ring of Fire is facing its first court challenge by a group trying to overturn the federal environment minister’s ...
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Quebec gets a reprieve in its wildfire fight

A water bomber picks up water on Okanagan Lake while fighting the Bradley Creek wildfire burning near the Okanagan Indian ...
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Chief asks for co-operation to prevent fires as world changes at a 'rapid pace'

The chief of the Penticton Indian Band in British Columbia says events such as the wildfire that forced thousands of people from their homes in the Okanagan aren't natural occurrences and more needs ...
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Evacuations expand south on Okanagan Lake, as more Mexican fire crews arrive in BC

The wildfire evacuation zone along the shores of Okanagan Lake in British Columbia's Interior expanded south on Thursday, ...