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A scary Marriage Story, a classy Knives Out murder mystery and fighting DuPont in Dark Waters

MARRIAGE STORY: This is a superb and very affecting film but my advice? See it only if your marriage is secure. This one gets awfully rough, initially as it breaks down but then even more so when it ...
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B.C. slammed over announcing $1.5B Site C deal while project's future uncertain

BURNABY, B.C. — BC Hydro's decision to push forward with a $1.5-billion construction contract for the Site C dam megaproject has prompted an outpouring of opposition from First Nations, environmental ...
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Author Steven Galloway apologizes in first statement since UBC firing

Author Steven Galloway has issued his first statement since he was suspended a year ago by the University of British Columbia over what it has only described as "serious allegations." He was fired as ...
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New Movies

Also an Israeli-Palestinian comedy, a superb movie about Vancouver, a standard biopic about an anti-slavery activist in the US and an English king’s story that Shakespeare already told us ...
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Downton Abbey

And watch a refugee from Downton Abbey land as The Guest in New Mexico.
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The Blossom Tour

This weekend Milky Chance performed at the Commodore Ballroom. The band, which hails from Germany, is on a worldwide tour promoting their latest album named "Blossom". It has been three years since ...
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Chinese companies can sue BC for changing course on Northern Gateway, says policy expert

A Canada-China investment treaty known as FIPPA will stop BC from negotiating a greater share of profits and creating regulations related to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline for the ...
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Ottawa gives conditional approval to giant LNG project for B.C. coast

The federal government gave conditional approval Tuesday to the massive Pacific NorthWest LNG project planned for British Columbia's northwest coast. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, Natural ...
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First Nations blockade Clayoquot Sound salmon farm

This is a media release from UBCIC. Members of Ahousaht First Nations are currently blockading the attempts of Cermaq to install a new open-net salmon farm at Yaakswiis, north of Tofino BC. On ...
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'Over my dead body': northern BC residents overwhelmed by massive LNG push

In the Kispiox Valley 1,000 km north of Vancouver, where “No LNG” lawn signs seem to be everywhere, rancher Gene Allen had strong words for TransCanada pipeline contractors. The crews showed up on the ...
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Charitable Fraser Institute received $4.3 million in foreign funding since 2000

The Fraser Institute, Canada's leading right-wing think tank, received over $4.3 million in the last decade from eight major American foundations including the most powerful players in oil and ...
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Flow into the Filipino martial art of Kali

As you head down the stairs, the hypnotic clack-clack rhythm of the rattan sticks gets louder. Once your eyes adjust from the dark stairwell into the basement studio, you can make out several pairs of ...