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Dawson Creek youth in contention to be named Junior Ranger

Nine-year-old Zayden Harper is in the running for the 2026 Junior Ranger online competition.

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Vets, MPs call on feds to launch honour review board to award Canadian Victoria Cross

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‘Desperately missed’ victims honoured as B.C. marks 10 years of toxic drug emergency

VICTORIA — Paula Beardy said her grandson Sheldon Beardy was a good kid. He would have turned 28 on Monday. But his mother died last year, and after attending her memorial service in August, Sheldon also died of a drug overdose. Paula Beardy said Sheldon used to stay with her

B.C. health officer Bonnie Henry is disappointed by reversal of decriminalization

VICTORIA — Politicians and health experts are looking back at the successes and mistakes made during in the decade of a public health emergency into the toxic drug crisis in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday that the government's decision to roll back the decriminalization trial

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