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Upper Beach home in Toronto has spa space above, gym below
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Police say they have dozens of tips about missing B.C. sex offender Randall Hopley
Randall Hopley is shown in this undated handout photo newly released by Vancouver police on Nov. 8, 2023. Vancouver police say high-risk sex offender Hopley was likely worried about an upcoming court appearance and took "deliberate actions" to avoid it when he walked away from his Vancouver halfway house. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Vancouver Police *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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B.C. conditions are magic for mushrooms in bumper season for fungi, tasty and toxic
Mushrooms large and small, tasty and toxic, are popping up across British Columbia this year in what experts say is a bumper crop of fungi. Fly agaric mushrooms stand in a forest of the Taunus region near Frankfurt, Germany, on a foggy Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Michael Probst
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B.C.’s new fossil emblem an 80-million-year-old marine reptile called elasmosaur
British Columbia officially designated a large, fierce-looking marine reptile with a mouthful of pointy teeth that made its home about 80 million years ago in Vancouver Island waters as the province's official fossil emblem. A fossil of a Puntledge River elasmosaur is shown at the Museum and Palaeontology Centre in Courtenay, B.C., in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Pat Trask *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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More than half of B.C. businesses in survey reported cyberattacks in past year
A man uses a computer keyboard in Toronto in this Sunday, Oct. 9, 2023 photo illustration. Global accounting firm KPMG says cybercrime is a growing issue in Metro Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy
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B.C. helicopter lands safely after being hit by lightning, Helijet says
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) signage is pictured outside TSB offices in Ottawa, Monday, May 1, 2023. A commercial helicopter with 14 people on board landed safely in Victoria Tuesday after it was hit by lightning. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Heavy rain deluges B.C.’s coast, bringing potential for low-lying flooding
A woman wears a plastic poncho as rain falls in Vancouver, on Monday, September 25, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Is a kayak truly lost if it goes missing on Vancouver Island?
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First days of autumn expected to be cool and damp over most of British Columbia
The City of Kelowna, B.C., declared a state of emergency, as fire crews responded to spot fires coming across Okanagan Lake from the McDougall Creek wildfire. An evacuation order has been issued for the Clifton Road North and McKinley neighbourhoods
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Three minor earthquakes recorded off B.C. coast, near Port Hardy
Joffre Lakes Provincial Park will reopen Monday in an agreement between the provincial government and the two local First Nations that had stopped visitors in August. British Columbia's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Key stretch of Vancouver Island highway set to fully reopen before long weekend
Repairs to Highway 4 near Port Alberni, B.C. after damage from the Cameron Bluffs fire are shown in this undated handout image provided by the B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. Locals and visitors on Vancouver Island's west coast may breathe a sigh of relief as the British Columbia government says a key stretch of highway is fully reopening after nearly three months of full and partial closures set in motion by a wildfire. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure **MANDATORY CREDIT **
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RCMP back at Fairy Creek logging blockades after high court confirmed protester’s acquittal
An RCMP helicopter is seen patrolling the Fairy Creek logging area near Port Renfrew, B.C., on Monday, Oct. 4, 2021. Mounties are back enforcing an injunction on Vancouver Island less than a week after the Supreme Court of Canada confirmed the acquittal of a protester at the same site because police failed to fully read out the court's order. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Power outage and high winds force new B.C. ferry firm to cancel first sailings
The inaugural sailings for the passenger ferry between downtown Vancouver and Nanaimo, B.C., were cancelled Monday because of a power outage. Passengers ride a ferry from Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo, B.C., on Tuesday, June 16, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Rain brings small ‘reprieve’ in B.C.’s north, but wildfire conditions dire elsewhere
A wildfire in southeastern British Columbia, shown in a handout photo from the BC Wildfire Service, first spotted on Monday afternoon, has charred three square kilometres in less than 24 hours and is threatening more than 1,000 properties, including a ski resort, west of Invermere. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-BC Wildfire Service **MANDATORY CREDIT**
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B.C. officials warn of lightning-caused wildfires expected over the coming days
Sessel Mountain wildfire located approximately 43 kilometers northwest of Pemberton B.C. is shown this handout photo provided by the BC Wildfire Service from Saturday July 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-BC Wildfire Service **MANDATORY CREDIT **
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Canada’s most endangered mammal, the Vancouver Island marmot, is staging a comeback
HIGH RES - - - Bluebell, the marmot There are 83 marmots currently in the captive breeding program (49 at the Tony Barrett Mount Washington Marmot Recovery Centre, 16 at the Toronto Zoo, and 18 at the Calgary Zoo. These numbers do not include pups born this year, or the marmots waiting to be released).
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Northeast B.C. sees thousands of lightning strikes as active wildfire count climbs
The Donnie Creek wildfire burns in an area between Fort Nelson and Fort St. John, B.C., in this undated handout photo provided by the BC Wildfire Service. Wildfire crews in northeastern British Columbia are keeping an anxious lookout after a series of weekend lightning storms rolled through the parched region. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-BC Wildfire Service **MANDATORY CREDIT **
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Highway 4 on Vancouver Island closed again after wildfire threat
Debris is strewn across Highway 4 on Vancouver Island in a Tuesday, June 13, 2023, handout photo. Highway 4 on Vancouver Island was reopening Friday afternoon after being closed for more than two weeks over wildfire concerns. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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B.C. warns of summer drought, asks people to conserve water
A drought struck grand fir tree is seen on a Tree Farm in the Cowichan Valley area of Duncan, B.C., Saturday, July 31, 2021. The British Columbia government is urging people to conserve water, saying the forecast points to drought across much of the province this summer. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Two dead, two injured in Vancouver Island plane crash
Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) signage is pictured outside TSB offices in Ottawa, Monday, May 1, 2023. Mounties on Vancouver Island say two people have been killed in the crash of a small plane northwest of Tofino on Vancouver Island. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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