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Island Health demonstrated the technology at the Comox Valley Nursing Centre in Courtenay March 15 as part of a trial in a group of washrooms identified high-risk spaces for drug poisonings. Photo by Erin Haluschak
Washroom sensor trial underway on Vancouver Island to reduce drug poisonings
An RCMP officer wears a body camera at the detachment in Bible Hill, N.S. on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Alberta plans to require all police services in the province to wear the devices.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Alberta poised to become first province to require body cameras for all police
A screen displays a patient’s vital signs during open heart surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore on Nov. 28, 2016. The senator who pushed for Canada’s assisted dying regime to include people whose only condition is a mental disorder says the debate about that policy is now over. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Patrick Semansky
The issue of expanding assisted dying eligibility ‘has already been decided’: senator
James Magok Achuli, a refugee now studying international relations at UBCO while running on the varsity cross-country team. (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Running toward education: A former child soldier’s path to UBC Okanagan student athlete
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he thinks his party has more leverage to push for things it wants in the next federal budget. Singh speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
NDP want Liberals to expand GST rebate, fund school lunches in upcoming budget
The Transportation Safety Board says pilots in Canada need better guidelines for screening heart-related conditions. A plane is silhouetted as it takes off from Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., Monday, May 13, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Transportation Safety Board urges better medical screening guidelines for pilots
A man has been charged in relation to an incident on Friday (March 10) at the combined Wendy’s and Tim Hortons at the Fraser Valley Auto Mall. (Google Street View)
Man charged with yelling racial slurs and threatening Abbotsford restaurant customers
President Joe Biden meets Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Naval Base Point Loma, Monday, March 13, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checks
A woman hugs another returning on one of the few overseas flight arriving at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday after a three-year halt during the pandemic as it sought to boost its tourism and economy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China to reopen to tourists, resume all visas Wednesday
Mohammed Ramzan, second right, right, outside Preston Crown Court, Lancashire, England, Tuesday March 14, 2023. A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after falsely claiming to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang. Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday after making a series of false rape allegations. Mohammed Ramzan, a business owner who Williams alleged trafficked her, told the court: “I have had countless death threats made over social media from people all over the world because of what they thought I was involved in.” (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
Fake sex abuse claims get British woman 8.5 year prison term
B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth announced the $25 million program to target repeat violent offenders in Langley on Tuesday, March 14. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)
Teams of cops, prosecutors, to target repeat violent offenders in B.C.: Farnworth
Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown continues to insist he did nothing wrong prior to an alleged altercation in Arizona that triggered a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council. Brown looks on during his welcoming ceremony at the Supreme Court in Ottawa on October 6, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
My statement stands, Supreme Court justice says of alleged ‘unwanted touching’
The federal government and B.C. announced the Island Rail Corridor segment running through the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation will return to the community. (Photo by Mike Bonkowski for Island Corridor Foundation)
Canada won’t fund Vancouver Island rail revival, returning land to First Nation
The BC SPCA is warning the public about a man and woman selling sick, skinny kittens in Surrey. (Unsplash photo)
BC SPCA issues warning about pair selling ‘sick, skinny kittens’
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How coconuts protect the Jersey Shore, other eroding coasts
FILE - A man walks by Pfizer headquarters, Friday, Feb. 5, 2021, in New York. Pfizer will spend about $43 billion to buy Seagen and broaden its reach into cancer treatments, the pharmaceutical giant said Monday, March 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Pfizer buys Seagen for $43B, boosts access to cancer drugs
The first day of spring is exactly one week away, but extreme winter conditions still persist on British Columbia’s southern and southeastern mountain passes as snowfall warnings are posted for most routes. Two women pose under a snow-covered tree as a man takes photographs of them after an overnight and morning snowstorm, in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
South B.C. highway passes see more snow, Avalanche Canada urges caution as storm hits
A doctor who formerly worked in Duncan is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for contempt in divorce proceedings. (File photo)
Former Vancouver Island doctor wanted on Canada-wide warrant
B.C. is facing a growing labour shortage. But it’s more complicated than simply a lack of people to hire. In this October 2021 file photo, carpenters work on new home in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
B.C. employers are struggling to hire. But there’s more than just a labour shortage at play.
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