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SOGI foe promotes campaign to recall NDP education minister

SOGI foe promotes campaign to recall NDP education minister

This is the third recall petition of 2023.
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Manitoba government may push back promise to freeze hydroelectric rates

Manitoba government may push back promise to freeze hydroelectric rates

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's new NDP government may push back a key election promise to freeze hydroelectric rates for one year, due to a worsening fiscal outlook at Crown-owned Manitoba Hydro.
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Survey says 75% of B.C.'s jobs in next decade will need post-secondary education

Survey says 75% of B.C.'s jobs in next decade will need post-secondary education

BURNABY, B.C. — The latest labour market survey for British Columbia says 75 per cent of the one million jobs needed over the next decade will require some level of post-secondary education or training.
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B.C. based company proposing sand mine north of Prince George

B.C. based company proposing sand mine north of Prince George

The proposed mine would supply frac sand used for hydraulic fracturing in the Montney Basin oil and gas region in northern B.C. and Alberta
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Only conservation officers equipped with tranquillizer guns, police say after cougar killed

Only conservation officers equipped with tranquillizer guns, police say after cougar killed

The question about tranquillizer guns was raised after Victoria police shot and killed a full-grown cougar that had been prowling the Gorge-Selkirk Waterfront area on Tuesday
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Victoria councillor asks for signature to be removed from controversial letter

Victoria councillor asks for signature to be removed from controversial letter

Susan Kim, who did not write the open letter, has faced intense backlash since her name was discovered on it
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Murderer back behind bars after nearly killing man while at halfway house

Murderer back behind bars after nearly killing man while at halfway house

Ryan Quigley was released from custody in July to a halfway house somewhere in B.C.'s central interior after stabbing his fiancée to death in 2014
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Okanagan man gets more jail time for cutting open Good Samaritan's face

Okanagan man gets more jail time for cutting open Good Samaritan's face

Randolph Dionne, 65, pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon, theft and breach of release order in BC Provincial Court in Penticton Thursday.
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City of Penticton lifts evacuation order for homes threatened by precarious rock

City of Penticton lifts evacuation order for homes threatened by precarious rock

PENTICTON, B.C. — The City of Penticton, B.C., says it's lifting an evacuation order for 25 homes in a mobile home park that were threatened by a potential rock slide.
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Jewish association wants Vancouver pro-Palestine group banned

Jewish association wants Vancouver pro-Palestine group banned

Samidoun opposes Canada's 2002 designation of Hamas as a terrorist group.
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