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West Fraser selling two pulp mills to Atlas Holdings for US$120-million
Logs are piled up at West Fraser Timber in Quesnel, B.C., Tuesday, April 21, 2009. West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. has signed a deal to sell two pulp mills in Western Canada to Atlas Holdings for US$120 million. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
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Western Canada: Vancouver searches for a new head of planning
A report by Re/Max Canada says the prices for detached houses in Toronto, Vancouver and B.C.'s Fraser Valley saw upward momentum in the first half of the year, but average prices fell short of those seen last year in most neighbourhoods. Houses are seen in a neighbourhood on the side of a mountain, in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Thursday, August 17, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Canada: B.C. to review why suspect in Vancouver Chinatown stabbing was on leave from hospital
Bc Premier David Eby speaks on his anger of the Triple stabbing in Chinatown while attending a press conference for a news hospital in Surrey B.C. on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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Western Canada: Search continues for the exact cause of E. coli outbreak in Calgary
The building and kitchens where an E. Coli outbreak happened in Calgary on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Several daycares have closed due to an E. Coli outbreak, Fueling Brains (formerly called UKids) are in the building where the kitchen of the outbreak began. (Photo by Jude Brocke/The Globe and Mail)
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Western Canada: Vancouver school board looks to close schools in growing neighbourhoods
Annika Williams looks for the birdie during a game of badminton on the field of Graham Bruce Elementary School in the Renfrew-Collingwood neighbourhood of Vancouver, B.C. on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. Williams was one of the dozens of children playing on the school grounds during a weekly rally of parents petitioning against the potential loss of school land to future development. According to Melanie Cheng, vice-president of the Graham Bruce Elementary parent advisory council, children use the field daily, which is at risk of being partially sold or leased by the Vancouver School Board. (Kayla Isomura/The Globe and Mail)
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Western Canada a global hot spot over summer months, Climate Central study shows
A new analysis has found that western Canada was one of the global hot spots in a summer that climate change made one of the warmest on record. A man cools off at a temporary misting station deployed by the city in the Downtown Eastside due to a heat wave, in Vancouver, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Canada: New tactics in tackling Canada’s toxic drug crisis
University of Calgary researchers check monitoring equipment as they track traces of COVID-19 in the wastewater system in Calgary on July 14, 2021. Researchers say the amount of opioids and other illicit drugs found in a monitoring of Alberta wastewater jumped in June. Wastewater testing is done weekly at six sites throughout the province as part of a pilot-study funded by the Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research and Education at the Cumming School of Medicine and Calgary Health Foundation that ends this fall. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Western Canada: Flow of international students worsening housing crisis
Kitchener, Ontario (August 25, 2023) - After handing out a few resumes at Conestoga Mall, Kartik Purani heads home on the bus in Kitchener, ON. Alicia Wynter/Globe and Mail
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Western Canada: Among the wildfires bad news, some happier tales emerge
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns on the mountainside above lakefront homes in West Kelowna, B.C., on Friday, August 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Canada: Some B.C. residents stayed to fight wildfires, defying evacuation orders
Dean Smith and Everett Loberg are photographed in Celista on Aug. 19, 2023. Janis Smith/The Globe and Mail
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Western Canada: Wildfires another blow to Okanagan wine industry
A growing body of international research suggests pollution from wildfire smoke can produce cognitive deficits, post-traumatic stress and may even cause or hasten dementia, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.A person travels in a boat past people walking on the boardwalk as smoke from the McDougall Creek wildfire blankets the area on Okanagan Lake, in Kelowna, B.C., Friday, Aug. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Canada’s weather alert system should account for wildfires, expert urges
<div>As wildfires rage on in Western Canada, a communications and broadcasting policy expert says the national weather alerting system should account for a wider range of extreme climate-related events. A fallen tree burns at the Lower East Adams Lake wildfire, in Scotch Creek, B.C., on Sunday, August 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck</div>
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Western Canada: Unrelenting wildfires threaten Kelowna and Yellowknife as evacuations continue
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns outside the Okanagan community of West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Chris Helgren
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Western Canada: Thousands of NWT residents displaced as wildfires rip through territory
This handout photo provided by the Canadian Armed Forces shows Royal Canadian Airforce aircraft immediately engaged in emergency response by airlifting residents of Fort Smith to Fort McMurray, Northwest Territories, Canada on August 14, 2023. Hundreds of people started to be airlifted to safety from remote villages threatened by wildfires in Canada's far north overnight Monday to Tuesday after Yellowknife, the largest city in the region, declared an emergency. (Photo by Handout / Canadian Armed Forces / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / Canadian Armed Forces " - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Geneviève NORMAND "Military airlifts provide escape as wildfires sweep Canada's far north" (Photo by HANDOUT/Canadian Armed Forces/AFP via Getty Images)
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Western Canada: Canadian visitors flee Hawaiian wildfire as island death toll rises to 80
Marla Strobel poses for a portrait after arriving at the Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C. on August 11, 2023 from Maui, Hawaii.
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Western Canada: A look at Alberta’s moratorium on wind and solar projects
Ardenville, AB, (2022-10-05) Wind turbines viewed from the Transalta Ardenville wind farm project near Highway 3, Alberta on October 5, 2022. In recent years, millions of dollars in investment in renewable energy projects have been injected into the southern Alberta economy, mainly along Highway 3 between Medicine Hat and the Rockies. Previously known for its favorable agricultural weather and its oil and gas potential, the region is now seen as the next green energy hot spot. Guillaume Nolet/ The Globe and Mail
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Western Canada: Wildfire-induced super storms becoming increasingly common in Canada
Photo taken by wildfire scientist Mike Flannigan on the afternoon of July 14, 2017. A pyroCb cloud forms above the Elephant Hill wildfire near Ashcroft, B.C.
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Western Canada: Feeding the foreign firefighters battling Canada’s blazes
Firefighters from Mexico march along a fire guard as they battle wildfires near Vanderhoof, British Columbia, Canada July 13, 2023. REUTERS/Jesse Winter
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Western Canada: B.C. farmers dealing with severe drought ponder ways to cope
This July 27, 2023, aerial image from the British Columbia Wildfire Service, shows smoke from the the Ross Moore wildfire south of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. (Photo by Handout / BC Wildfire Service / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / BC Wildfire Service / Handout" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by HANDOUT/BC Wildfire Service/AFP via Getty Images)
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Western Canada: Manitoba First Nation to excavate church basement for possible unmarked burials
Minegoziibe Anishinabe, also known as Pine Creek First Nation, requested the RCMP launch an investigation after it found 14 points of concern underneath the Catholic church in the community last year using ground-penetrating radar. The community is set to begin excavating the area underneath the Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Catholic Church, shown in this handout photo on Monday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Justin Richard *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Western Canada: B.C. orders Surrey to drop RCMP and move to municipal police force
British Columbia Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says he'll announce the final decision on the future of policing in Surrey on Wednesday. Farnworth speaks during a news conference in the press theatre at the legislature in Victoria, Friday, April 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito.
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Western Canada: As B.C. marks record wildfire season, the rest of summer set to be extremely challenging
A firefighter directs water on a grass fire burning on an acreage behind a residential property in Kamloops, B.C., Monday, June 5, 2023. Firefighters battling British Columbia's hundreds of wildfires have had more obstacles to deal with beyond the record-sized blazes. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Canada: A 19-year-old B.C. firefighter killed as wildfires continue to burn
B.C. Wildfire crew members (left) and a member of the Alaska Smoke Jumpers (right) chat during a pause in burning operations on a wildfire near Vanderhoof, B.C. Jesse Winter/ The Globe and Mail
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Western Canada: Concern grows over economic impact of B.C. port workers strike
Signs displaying "closed" are seen at the Centerm Container Terminal as striking International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada workers picket at the port, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, July 11, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Confederacy of Treaty No. 6 Nations declares state of emergency over opioid crisis
This Aug. 29, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of prescription oxycodone pills in New York. Opioids should not be prescribed to treat acute neck and lower-back pain, new research suggests. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Mark Lennihan
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Western Canada: We’re in for a tough summer as unpredictable weather continues
People embrace after a tornado damaged homes near Carstairs, Alta., Saturday, July 1, 2023. No injuries were reported. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Western Canada: Controversy surrounding the shuttering of Larwill Place as predictable as it was inevitable
Modular housing units at 620 Cambie Street in Vancouver, B.C., December 27, 2018. Mr Alkhouli is a former firefighter and worked with the White Helmets in southern Syria. Jimmy Jeong for The Globe and Mail.
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Western Canada: Alberta’s new finance minister will need all the help he can get
Alberta Finance Minister Nate Horner speaks to the media at a news conference in Calgary, Thursday, June 29, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Western Canada: Controversial Chinatown condo building gets go-ahead in Vancouver
A sign opposing a condo project at 105 Keefer Street in Vancouver's Chinatown is seen on a fence at the proposed site on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Vancouver's development permit board has approved the controversial nine-storey residential tower in the heart of the city’s Chinatown, capping a years-long battle between the developer and the city. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Canada: International students face tougher job prospects than domestic peers
Harmanpreet Kaur and Rajbir Kaur, international students at Langara College in Vancouver, come to Strawberry Hill Public Library on Saturday, June 17, 2023 for their studies as it is close to Harmanpreet's home and workplace in Surrey.
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Western Canada: Surrey, B.C., community reeling after Sikh leader shot on temple grounds
A police officer surveys the scene near the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib temple after a shooting in Surrey, B.C., Monday, June 19, 2023. A close associate of Sikh community leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar says his friend was warned by Canadian intelligence officials about being targeted for assassination by "mercenaries" before being gunned down on Sunday in Surrey. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jennifer Gauthier
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Western Canada: Deadly Manitoba bus crash leaves community reeling
A Canadian flag flies at half-mast at a truck stop in Brandon, Man., on Friday, June 16, 2023, to honour the victims of a bus crash in Carberry, on the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg. Health authorities say six of 10 seniors who survived a bus crash in southern Manitoba that killed 15 others were listed in critical condition in hospital. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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Western Canada: Alberta only province to not share FOI data, according to Secret Canada project
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Western Canada: This year’s fire season prompts dread over what’s to come
Smoke rises from Cameron Bluffs wildfire on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, June 9, 2023 in this screen grab obtained from a social media video. BC Wildfire Service via Facebook/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.