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Unusually boisterous clouds at UBC: look back at the T-Bird Twister of 2021

Unusually boisterous clouds at UBC: look back at the T-Bird Twister of 2021

The weak tornado that touched down at University Golf Club a year ago this Sunday came as a blessing to Prof. Roland Stull. He teaches a meteorology of storms course at University of B.C.
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Top B.C. bureaucrat overseeing Surrey police transition quits

Top B.C. bureaucrat overseeing Surrey police transition quits

The key provincial bureaucrat overseeing the Surrey police transition has quit, just over two weeks since Brenda Locke beat Doug McCallum for the Surrey mayoralty on a promise to keep the RCMP.
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Relief at the pump: Metro Vancouver gas prices drop

Relief at the pump: Metro Vancouver gas prices drop

Fill up while it's cheaper than $2/litre.
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Bears that attacked two women in Squamish, B.C., won't be captured

Bears that attacked two women in Squamish, B.C., won't be captured

SQUAMISH, B.C. — Conservation officers say they don't plan to capture a pair of bears that attacked two women Thursday in Squamish, B.C., saying the incidents appear defensive in nature. Sgt. Simon Gravel of the B.C.
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Greg D'Avignon to leave CEO post at Business Council of B.C.

Greg D'Avignon to leave CEO post at Business Council of B.C.

Longtime executive to head to be Canadian Strategy Group partner
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Two-fifths of TV episodes and films shot by women, directors' guild says

Two-fifths of TV episodes and films shot by women, directors' guild says

VANCOUVER — A new report from the Directors Guild of Canada suggests that roughly two-fifths of feature films and episodic television shot by its members were helmed by female directors.
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BC Lions' home playoff game - first in years - symbolic of turnaround season

BC Lions' home playoff game - first in years - symbolic of turnaround season

When I reached Duane Vienneau on Tuesday morning to talk about the BC Lions, the club’s new COO’s excitement was practically bursting from his voice.
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B.C. health science workers reach contract agreement with province

B.C. health science workers reach contract agreement with province

VICTORIA — A tentative contract agreement has been reached between the British Columbia government and the union representing 22,000 health-science professionals.
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Man shows up at B.C. hospital with gunshot wounds, but no crime scene

Man shows up at B.C. hospital with gunshot wounds, but no crime scene

Police are trying to find the shooting scene.
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Homicide detectives probe one of two Thursday shootings in Metro Vancouver

Homicide detectives probe one of two Thursday shootings in Metro Vancouver

SURREY, B.C. — RCMP in Surrey, B.C., say homicide detectives have taken over the case of a man seriously injured in the latest shooting in that city.
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