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Coast Guard investigates oily sheen covering Vancouver’s False Creek
A sheen of pollution can be seen on the surface of Vancouver’s False Creek on Dec. 5. The Canadian Coast Guard says it's trying to identify the source of the sheen and a diesel smell that was reported Monday evening. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ian Young
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Hundreds of derelict vessels removed from Canadian waters, Coast Guard says
The retired BC Ferries vessel Queen of Sidney, top, that was in operation from 1960 to 2000, and another derelict vessel are seen moored on the Fraser River, in Mission, B.C., on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Coast guard suspends search for missing Newfoundland fisherman, police to take over
The Canadian Coast Guard has ended its search for a man who went missing after a cod fishing boat sank Tuesday off the island's northeast coast. Mark Gould, deputy superintendent search and rescue, takes questions from the media regarding the sinking of a fishing vessel off the coast of Fleur de Lys, N.L., at the Canadian Coast Guard Regional Headquarters in St. John's on Wednesday, Sept.13, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly</div>
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Decommissioning Coast Guard vessel leaves fisheries scientists without a ride
A tour boat passes the damaged Canadian Coast Guard vessel Alfred Needler in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Sept. 2, 2003.
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Former crew say goodbye to storied research ship as Canadian Coast Guard awaits replacement
The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Hudson is shown in this undated handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Misadventures of container ship MV ZIM Kingston highlight the risks of marine traffic off B.C.’s ecologically fragile coast
Ships work to control a fire on board the MV Zim Kingston about eight kilometres from the shore in Victoria, B.C., on Sunday, October 24, 2021. The Canadian Coast Guard says the owner of a ship that lost 109 containers overboard in stormy weather last week has hired a contractor to try to recover the bins loaded with cargo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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Fires in cargo ship off B.C. coast may take days to put out: coast guard
A tugboat pours water on the container ship Zim Kingston after it caught fire off the coast of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada October 25, 2021. Canadian Coast Guard/Handout via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Cargo ship fire remains ‘dangerous and difficult’: Coast Guard
Ships continue to work to control a fire onboard the MV Zim Kingston about eight kilometres from the shore in Victoria, B.C., on Monday, October 25, 2021. A special weather statement was issued for the Greater Victoria area as southeasterly winds gusting up to 90km per hour were forecasted. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
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British Royal Navy, Canadian Coast Guard sign deal on Arctic co-operation, training
The Canadian Coast guard's medium icebreaker Henry Larsen is seen in Allen Bay during Operation Nanook near Resolute, Nunavut, August 25, 2010.&nbsp; THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Vancouver, Quebec shipyards to each get new heavy icebreaker; cost remains a mystery
The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent sails past a iceberg in Lancaster Sound, Friday, July 11, 2008. The federal government is expected to end nearly two years of mystery today and reveal its plan to build a new, long overdue heavy icebreaker for the Canadian Coast Guard. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Coast Guard ship Edward Cornwallis renamed to honour peace treaty between British governor, Mi’kmaq chief
(XCHN 101) OFF THE COAST OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, Aug. 19--BACK TO WORK--The Ocean Foxtrot, a diving support ship, and the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Edward Cornwallis head back to the Irving Whale salvage site in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Saturday. The project to lift the oil-laden barge which sank 25 years ago has been delayed by bad weather and preparatory work. (CP PHOTO) l995 (stf/Andrew Vaughan) av
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Cost of Coast Guard ship balloons to nearly $1B as questions mount over federal shipbuilding plan
The CGGS M. Perley searches the waters of the Bay of Fundy in Hillsburn, N.S. on December 16, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Ship that sank 52 years ago off B.C.’s coast now polluting marine park
British Columbia's provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. The Tahltan Nation has issued a notice that the public should avoid its territory in northwest British Columbia until the there's a vaccine or community immunity for COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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‘We felt that we won’: Vancouver shipyard fights second icebreaker battle
The Canadian Coast Guard Offshore Fisheries Science Vessel John Cabot is seen moored at Seaspan Shipyards, in North Vancouver, on Aug. 6, 2020.
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U.S. allows aquarium to import Marineland belugas, but Canadian approval needed
A beluga whale is seen in this undated handout photo. A U.S.-based conservation group has selected an eastern shore Nova Scotia community for a form of retirement home for whales and dolphins raised in captivity. The Whale Sanctuary Project said Tuesday it has decided in favour of a coastal area of about 40 hectares in an inlet off Port Hilford, along the province's rugged and lightly populated Eastern Shore. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Catherine Kinsman *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Davie shipyard late on delivering icebreakers after pushing federal government on purchase
An overall view of the Davie shipyard is shown in Levis, Que., on Dec. 14, 2018.
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Federal government working with Indigenous group to rename icebreaker CCGS Edward Cornwallis
The Ocean Foxtrot, a diving support ship, and the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Edward Cornwallis are seen in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in an undated file photo.
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Pacheedaht First Nation and Canadian Coast Guard agree to build new facility to help improve oil spill response
Minister of Rural Economic Development Bernadette Jordan rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on April 5, 2019. The minister in charge of a soon-to-be-released plan to help rural Canada thrive will place a a heavy focus on expanding broadband and cellphone coverage, even funding communities that want to become service providers. Rural Economic Development Minister Bernadette Jordan is expected to unveil the strategy next month. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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B.C., Ontario shipyards announce plans to work together if awarded multibillion-dollar icebreaker contract
A Seaspan Vancouver Shipyards worker walks past a barge under construction in North Vancouver, B.C., on Nov. 2, 2011.
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Virtual memorial service planned for four N.L. fishermen as community mourns
A photo provided by Melissa Mayo-Norman shows Ed Norman, Scott Norman, Jody Norman and Isaac Kettle, the four fishermen from St. Lawrence, N.L., who went missing while fishing for crab on Monday.
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Three bodies recovered as crews search for missing fisherman off coast of Newfoundland
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Woman arrested after RCMP recover body from pickup that plunged off Nova Scotia ferry
The RCMP badge is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police 'E' Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on April 13, 2018.
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Refurbishment of coast guard vessel Edward Cornwallis should include a name change, Indigenous historian says
The Ocean Foxtrot, a diving support ship, and the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Edward Cornwallis head back to the Irving Whale salvage site, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in an undated file photo.
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Federal government gives shipyards two weeks to make their cases for building heavy icebreaker
A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker makes its way through the ice in Baffin Bay, in a July 10, 2008, file photo.
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Federal government announces Quebec’s Chantier Davie was the only shipyard to qualify for icebreaker work
Liberal MP Anita Anand arrives for the swearing in of the new cabinet, at Rideau Hall, in Ottawa, on Nov. 20, 2019.
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Four dead in float plane crash off north coast of Vancouver Island
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No icebreakers in Ottawa’s $15.7-billion plan for new coast guard ships
No icebreakers in Ottawa’s $15.6-billion plan for new coast guard ships