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Richmond woman slapped with $75,000 fine for fake income tax statements

Richmond woman slapped with $75,000 fine for fake income tax statements

Fake invoices were made to match overstated amounts on a business' income tax return
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How B.C. paramedics treat heat illness just changed — so why isn't the public being told?

How B.C. paramedics treat heat illness just changed — so why isn't the public being told?

B.C. paramedic guidelines changed in June saying the best way to save a person with severe heat illness is to immerse them in cold water. The author of the updated guidelines worries the message isn't getting through to staff or the public.
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COVID-vaccination registration opens for children six months to four years

COVID-vaccination registration opens for children six months to four years

Register online at getvaccinated.gov.bc.ca or phone 1-833-838-2323
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Canada sued in federal court over B.C. oil and gas 'sleeper' permits

Canada sued in federal court over B.C. oil and gas 'sleeper' permits

Two environmental groups are suing the Canadian government for what they claim are unlawful extensions of offshore oil and gas permits dating back to the 1960s.
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B.C. cleaning up 30 derelict vessels, 1,000 km of shoreline

B.C. cleaning up 30 derelict vessels, 1,000 km of shoreline

Richmond-based non-profit Ocean Legacy Foundation will clear 400 kilometres of shoreline debris from North Vancouver Island to the south coast of the Sea to Sky region.
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Blanket metaphor helps convince people climate change isn't natural, finds study

Blanket metaphor helps convince people climate change isn't natural, finds study

Researchers found basic information about the human causes of climate change can convince people people across the political spectrum.
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Does ICBC still need a hefty legal department to beat the claims backlog?

Does ICBC still need a hefty legal department to beat the claims backlog?

Documents obtained via FOI show the insurer spent $26 million on legal services department salaries between April 2020 and March 2021.
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Here's what you need to know about monkeypox in B.C.

Here's what you need to know about monkeypox in B.C.

Monkeypox vaccinations can now be booked by anyone at high risk at clinics in Vancouver Coastal Health
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Remembering Inuvialuit writer Margaret-Pokiak Fenton

Remembering Inuvialuit writer Margaret-Pokiak Fenton

It's important to recognize how Canada planted itself on top of pre-existing nations and cultures, the Indigenous people who had lived on the North American continent for thousands of years.
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Leaders of the host Nations discuss the mixed emotions surrounding the papal apology

Leaders of the host Nations discuss the mixed emotions surrounding the papal apology

"Please stop telling us to 'get over it.' We can’t get over it when the last of our residential schools closed in the mid-nineties," said Chief of Louis Bull First Nation Desmond Bull.
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