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Experts to downgrade B.C. growth forecasts

DIRK MEISSNER

The Canadian Press

VICTORIA — British Columbia's high-flying economy is showing signs of gliding back to earth to join most of the rest of the country, as economic problems in the United States cut into traditional export and tourism markets, economic experts say. They said the westernmost province is now facing a bumpy economic road ahead, but not a crash. Economists who provide the B.C.

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