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Job action hasn't affected liquor and cannabis distribution so far but the industry still has fresh memories of a 2022 BCGEU strike that shut down distribution warehouses.
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Job action hasn't affected liquor and cannabis distribution so far but the industry still has fresh memories of a 2022 BCGEU strike that shut down distribution warehouses.
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The approval of yet another pharmacy in the Downtown Eastside has renewed questions about B.C.'s "safer supply" program, less than a year after a leaked government document revealed troubling allegations about dispensing practices in the neighbourhood.
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Flash Pharmacy and Medical Centre has been given approval to open at 66 West Hastings, and will be the sixth in a tight geographic area.
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While the Surrey School District looks to add new classrooms, it's also facing the expensive prospect of getting rid of its old portables — at a cost of more than $100,000 each.
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Surrey's District Parent Advisory Council says the cost to remove the portables they are replacing is more than $100,000 each.
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Hullo Ferries workers have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action after being without a contract for nearly a year.
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Ninety-one per cent of unionized workers with the passenger ferry service have approved job action, the B.C. Ferry and Marine Workers' Union said on Tuesday.
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An evacuation order has been by the Ulkatcho First Nation and the Cariboo Regional District due to the Beef Trail Creek wildfire.
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Anyone in the area must leave immediately and are being asked to proceed to Highway 20 and then east to Williams Lake, where an emergency centre has been set up.
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The once-popular plant-based food brand, Yves Veggie Cuisine, has announced it is being discontinued.
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Michael von Massow, a professor at the University of Guelph, said there are also a lot of new options in the marketplace, so shares of Yves must have gone down.
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Conservation officers are investigating after an elk was shot and its antlers sawed off in the Squamish Valley over the Labour Day long weekend.
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Conservation officers are investigating after an elk was shot and its antlers sawed off in the Squamish Valley over the Labour Day long weekend.
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A ridge of high pressure has prompted more heat warnings in British Columbia and broken temperature records, including one that was nearly a century old.
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A ridge of high pressure has prompted more heat warnings in British Columbia and broken temperature records, including one that was nearly a century old.
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Picket lines have gone up at three locations across B.C. today.
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The pickets are set up outside the Jack Davis building in Victoria, a Service BC building in Surrey and a Child and Family Services Centre in Prince George.
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There was another somber gathering for harm reduction advocates in Victoria on Monday as they continued their fight to stop the toxic drug crisis that has claimed so many lives.
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Demonstrators placed a long line of photos memorializing some of the thousands of British Columbians whose lives have been lost to drugs on the steps to the B.C. legislature.
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There is was a large police presence in the Burnaby Heights neighbourhood Monday evening, where witnesses report hearing several gunshots. B.C.'s civilian police watchdog has been deployed to the scene.
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Witnesses in the Burnaby Heights area reported hearing five to six gunshots around 3 p.m. on Monday.
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Hundreds of workers, union members and labour leaders gathered at Edmonds Park in Burnaby on Monday to mark Labour Day in the shadow of looming job action by one of B.C.'s largest public sector unions.
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The B.C. General Employees Union (BCGEU) has issued strike notice, with up to 34,000 members set to start job action as early as 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday.
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People in the Oliver area who need need of emergency medical care will need to travel to Penticton on Monday and overnight into Tuesday, with the South Okanagan General Hospital's ER set to close.
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Interior Health says the South Okanagan General Hospital in Oliver's emergency department will be closed from 1 p.m. on Monday through to 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
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Police say the occupants were sleeping inside when someone opened fire on the home, but that thankfully no one was physically injured.
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Police say the occupants were sleeping inside when the home was riddled with bullets, but that thankfully no one was physically injured.
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A Vancouver man recently sentenced for attacking a stranger last fall, and assaulting a supportive housing worker earlier this year, has now been charged with assaulting a peace officer.
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A Vancouver man with a long history of violence has now also been charged assaulting a police officer during an altercation at Waterfront Station.
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An early morning collision in East Vancouver has left an 81-year-old pedestrian dead.
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Vancouver police said the collision happened around 4:30 a.m. on Monday as the man was crossing South Eat Marine Drive near Borden Street.
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The number of wildfires in British Columbia continues to swell as thousands of lightning strikes hit the province due to persisting hot and dry weather.
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The number of wildfires in British Columbia continues to swell as thousands of lightning strikes hit the province due to persisting hot and dry weather.
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BC’s hospitality industry is concerned that an upcoming potential strike by the BC General Employees’ Union could hurt restaurants, bars and other establishments that rely on provincial liquor distribution branches.
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BC’s hospitality industry is concerned that an upcoming potential strike by the BCGEU could hurt restaurants, bars and other establishments that rely on provincial liquor sales.
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For avid hiker Margaux Cohen, a trek up a Squamish peak with her dog and two others last weekend turned into a frightening ordeal that's landed her bedridden in hospital.
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36-year-old Margaux Cohen is recovering in hospital with a broken leg after falling 18 metres down a mountainside on Tricouni Peak near Squamish.
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ICYMI: B.C. General Employees' Union members voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action and issued a 72-hour strike notice on Friday.
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More than 34,000 BCGEU members have been without a collective agreement since April.
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