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UBC med students are offering free coaching on staying healthy
Medical students at the University of British Columbia are offering free, online preventive-health coaching sessions…
Canada’s concern about illegal shark finning by fishing fleets in the North Pacific surging
A cruel, wasteful and illegal practice called shark finning is occurring — over and over…
Goats, not glyphosate: Critics see alternatives to Coastal GasLink’s herbicide plans
Backpacks full of chemical herbicides or goats and wildflowers? As TC Energy prepares its plans…
UN manifesto pitches preservation of critical microscopic creatures
Plankton, the key ingredient of the primordial ocean soup that allows all life to flourish,…
Meet Doug the beaver the watershed recovery engineer working near Kamloops
At the heart of Skeetchestn territory is the Deadman Watershed, a living landscape of roughly…
Retired RCMP officer convicted of killing his wife in Penticton up for parole
The family of a woman brutally killed by a retired RCMP officer in Penticton is…
iN PHOTOS: The BC lab keeping you safe from food poisoning
The petri dish shimmers with colour, flashing a rich, emerald-green iridescence under the fluorescent lights…
A tantalizing childhood cancer discovery in BC
BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute has found a way that kids’ immune systems might be…
Climate disaster survivors share mementoes sifted from the rubble
Nine months after her hometown in British Columbia burned to the ground, Meghan Fandrich walked…
Canada’s tobacco lawsuit could net a fraction of original claim
A Canada-wide lawsuit holding Big Tobacco accountable for the individual and public harms caused by…
Northwest B.C. just went Conservative for the first time — what happened?
The Bulkley Valley-Stikine electoral district — a 200,000 square kilometre area in northwest B.C. that…
How will the federal Pharmacare Act affect BC?
Canada has passed the Pharmacare Act, and provinces and territories need to act quick to…
This wildflower could fight antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis: UBC research
Researchers at the University of British Columbia are using a North American wildflower called bloodroot…
Greens could be tie-breakers on B.C. climate policy
If the BC Greens end up with the balance of power in British Columbia and…
Sinixt expansion ‘risks opening a Pandora’s box of transborder claims,’ says syilx Okanagan chief
Leaders from the syilx Okanagan Nation are raising concerns about the “ever-expanding transborder claims” of…