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Education Minister responds to teachers' court action

Education Minister Mike Bernier made a public statement following a Supreme Court decision to grant the B.C. Teachers Federation leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in their court action ...
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Increase coming for homeowner grants in B.C.: finance minister

British Columbia's finance minister says the threshold to claim homeowner grants will be raised to help the tax burden on those whose property values have soared. Mike de Jong wouldn't say what the ...
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Local talent shines at the Sing It Fwd fundraiser concert

Local musicians donated their time and collaborated their acoustic talent last week at the annual Sing It Fwd concert. With the mindset of "music changes lives" and the idea of passing on that notion, ...
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group of death

The highlight of this day is the "group of death" match between Cote d'Ivoire and Portugal that could become one of the highlights of the tournament. Two great teams. Winner likely to advance, loser l ...
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See what Industry Minister Moore has to say about your sky-high cell phone bills

Last fall, a group of over 35 leading innovators and entrepreneurs joined OpenMedia.ca in sending a letter to Industry Minister James Moore. The letter decried that we pay some of the highest prices ...
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A pop star as a diva, a French hit transferred to New York and making sense of Vancouver’s most recognized art scene

Before the films below, here’s a tip to a very good one. The Guilty is a superbly tense thriller from Denmark that is showing just once, so far, at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the VanCity Theatre sponsored by ...
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Celebrity cremations: TV stars, rockers, and writers who opted for the urn

"Glee" star Cory Monteith's body was cremated days after his death, following a private viewing of his body by members of his immediate family and girlfriend Lea Michelle. Monteith is one of a growing ...
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Conflict escalates as LNG pushes Unist'ot'en for land access

A month after the B.C. government conditionally approved a liquefied natural gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell in Kitimat, the Unist’ot’en Camp has reported escalating conflict as RCMP and the LNG ...
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Texada Island residents outraged over 20-fold coal export expansion without consultation

A group of residents of Texada Island, BC, are alarmed by news that the BC Ministry of Energy and Mines quietly approved permit amendment that allows the Lafarge Canada coal plant on Texada Island to ...
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After kicking out government officials at industry summit, Fort Nelson First Nation signs LNG worker camp deal

In an apparent turn of events since the "Fort Nelson Incident", in which 33-year-old Fort Nelson First Nation Chief Sharleen Gale held up a feather and kicked out government officials from an LNG ...
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First Nations' anti-Keystone XL alliance years in making

When energy campaigner and school teacher Crystal Lameman arrived in Washington DC on Sunday for the "Reject and Protect" Keystone XL protest, she saw dozens of First Nations people from all over ...
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It's "Our Turn," says Twitter VP Kirstine Stewart

In a recent stop in Vancouver to promote her book, Our Turn, Kirstine Stewart took a few moments at Roundhouse Radio to talk about her book's premise and the golden era of leadership opportunities ...