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Cost of camping going up

It'll be more expensive to camp in a provincial park this year. Environment Minister Barry ...
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Kent under lockdown

Kent Prison in Agassiz has been locked down after a fight broke out in the ...
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VPD release video on Sawyer case

  Vancouver Police have released a video of the last moments of a well known ...
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BC Health care workers ratify deal

48 thousand health care workers have voted 77 percent in favour of a new two ...
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Canucks sign Kesler

The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Ryan Kesler to a six-year contract extension. Financial details ...
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A real 'buzz' in the air at City Hall

Bee hives will be installed on the roof of City Hall's East Wing. In a ...
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McKeever does it again

Canadian golden boy Brian McKeever wrapped up the day with his second Paralympic medal on ...
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We all need to know more about justice

Lawyers, reporters and Professors say Canada's justice system could benefit from better education. Oxford law ...
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Sports

Recent Sports Headlines

19.03.2010

SCORECARD:

Here are the sports results from Friday:

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19.03.2010

Olympic gold medallist says sexual abuse problem in competitive youth swimming

SAN JOSE, Calif. - An Olympic gold medallist says the governing body of the U.S. swim team hasn't done enough to address widespread sexual abuse in youth swimming.

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19.03.2010

Canadian Lauren Woolstencroft wins fourth gold medal at Vancouver Paralympics

WHISTLER, B.C. - Lauren Woolstencroft of North Vancouver, B.C., won the women's standing super-giant slalom race Friday for her fourth gold medal of the Paralympics.

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News

Recent National Headlines

19.03.2010

Liberals to push Harper on G8 abortion, contraception

OTTAWA - Liberals are hoping to pin down Prime Minister Stephen Harper over where he stands on abortion in his G8 maternal-health initiative for the Third World.

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19.03.2010

Canadian writer Peter Watts convicted in case stemming from stop at US border

PORT HURON, Mich. - A Canadian science fiction writer who authorities say refused to comply during an inspection by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers in December has been convicted in the case.

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19.03.2010

Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig dismisses items found in police raid

EDMONTON - Anti-oilpatch activist Wiebo Ludwig says there are innocent explanations for the articles police seized from his farm in northwestern Alberta in a recent raid.

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World News

Recent World Headlines

19.03.2010

Harper's press secretary pranked into accepting arson suspect as Facebook friend

OTTAWA - A top aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not making any new friends on Facebook.

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19.03.2010

Anna Nicole Smith estate to get none of fortune she said oil baron promised her

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court ruled Friday that Anna Nicole Smith's estate will get none of the more than US$300 million the late Playboy model claimed a Texas billionaire meant to leave her after he died.

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19.03.2010

Italian town of Cisterna di Latina marks World War II battle and roundup by the Nazis

CISTERNA DI LATINA, Italy - For American forces fighting their way north to Rome, it was the site of a heroic but hopeless stand, where only eight men out of two Ranger battalions escaped German troops.

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