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What the loss of the Bay means for Vancouver | CBC News

Hudson's Bay, Canada's oldest company, started its liquidation this week." The Bay building is almost 100 years old, it's Class A heritage, and I think it's an incredibly important building to the downtown," said Vancouver Coun. Mike Klassen. While the Bay initially filed for creditor protection with the intention of restructuring, the majority of its stores are now shutting down and have begun clearing their inventories.
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TransLink announces 4% fare increase for 2025 | CBC News

The TransLink board of directors has approved an average fare increase of four per cent, which will take effect on July 1, 2025. It's the highest increase since the start of the pandemic, with single-zone fares increasing 15 cents from $3.20 to $3.35. Two-zone fares will increase by 20 cents to $4.85, and three-zone fares will rise by 25 cents to $6.60. Fare increases were cancelled in 2020 as the pandemic hit and held at an average increase of 2.3 per cent per year from 2021 to 2024.
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Why 3 First Nations leaders say talk about Canadian sovereignty should include Indigenous perspectives | CBC News

Mark Carney visited Nunavut on Tuesday on his first official trip as prime minister. While there, Carney said, "Canada is strong when we recognize Indigenous Peoples as the original stewards of this land, who remind us of the deep roots from which we grow and underscore the values to which we aspire." During the same visit, he announced military investments to strengthen Canada's presence and sovereignty in the Arctic. Talk about Canadian sovereignty — in the context of threats by U.S. President Donald Trump — and questions about what this means for Indigenous sovereignty and reconciliation are what brought together a Thursday morning panel discussion with Indigenous leaders Kory Wilson, Melanie Mark and Val Napoleon on CBC's The Early Edition.
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Best Bird in B.C. contest returns for a second year | CBC News

The Wildlife Rescue Association's Best Bird in B.C. contest is back for a second year, with 32 birds and five rounds of voting. Wildlife Rescue co-executive director Linda Bakker considers last year a "huge success," with people actively engaged in picking their favourite birds — ultimately choosing the Anna's hummingbird as last year's champion. This year, the Wildlife Rescue team was looking at doing something different and asked its staff and volunteers to vote on what types of birds they'd lik...
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B.C. to cancel secondary-suite incentive program | CBC News

The B.C. government is cancelling a secondary-suite incentive program that it started in 2023 to entice homeowners to build additional units. In a statement, the government blamed "uncertain financial times" for the decision, and said it won't be accepting any new applications after March 30. It added that the federal government has committed to implementing a similar program, and that the province didn't want to duplicate efforts. B.C. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon told CBC News that they're revie...
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Snow farming might help the ski industry survive global warming | CBC News

Following last winter, one of the warmest on record, some ski hills and nordic centres may want to look into snow farming — the practice of stockpiling snow to extend the season. Canada was one of the pioneers in a technique now used around the world, which actually has nothing to do with crops or livestock. Snow farming can mean a few different things, from redirecting snow in the winter to stockpiling it over the summer. But unlike artificial snowmaking, these techniques work even if there isn't...
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Delta, B.C., council writes letter to province over 'unacceptable' weekend ER closures | CBC News

Delta council has written to the province after the Metro Vancouver community's emergency room was closed for two consecutive nights over the weekend. Fraser Health said that the closure on Saturday and Sunday nights at Delta Hospital was due to physician staffing challenges. Mayor George Harvie called an emergency council meeting on Monday night to discuss the ER closures, and councillors unanimously adopted three motions.
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The power of the Indigenous vote in U.S. elections | CBC Radio

On Nov. 5, 2024, America elected the forty-seventh President of the United States of America. In the months leading up to the U.S. election, there was a lot of analysis about the Black vote, the Latino vote and a variety of other swing voter groups. Meanwhile, mainstream media coverage on the Native American vote was limited. A few days after the election, CBC's Unreserved gathered a panel of voting rights activists to hear their message to voters.
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This veteran decolonized Remembrance Day events to honour Indigenous military service | CBC Radio

[I produced this segment] If you attend a Remembrance Day service at the Beausoleil First Nation, expect a decolonized ceremony. Instead of O Canada to start things off, an honour drum song will be offered. Jeff Monague was the driving force behind this and other ceremonial changes, because "history has basically erased us as veterans," he told Unreserved's Rosanna Deerchild.
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Now is not the time to balance the budget, says finance minister, as B.C. posts $5B deficit | CBC News

British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget.

Katrine Conroy released the audited financial statements for the fiscal year ending March 31, which peg the province's deficit at $5.035 billion.

That's lower than the most recent $5.9 billion forecast last quarter, but higher than the $4.2 billion originally predicted when the 2023 budget was tabled last year.
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B.C. First Nations life expectancy plunges by 6 years, says report | CBC News

Average life expectancy among First Nations people in British Columbia has dropped by more than six years between 2017 and 2021, according to a report released Wednesday by the First Nations Health Authority and the office of the provincial health officer.

The report says Indigenous life expectancy in B.C. fell from 73.3 years in 2017 to 67.2 years in 2021. Life expectancy for First Nations males declined by 6.8 years, and 5.2 years for females, for an overall decline of 6.1 years, the report said.
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New UBC student housing project to add over 1,500 beds to Vancouver campus | CBC News

B.C. Premier David Eby announced Tuesday that the province and the University of British Columbia will partner to create housing for more than 1,500 students at UBC's Vancouver campus.

The estimated $560-million project will be funded with $300 million from the province and $260 million from UBC, Eby said at a news conference.

In a press release, the university called the funding "the most significant provincial contribution to a single building project in UBC's history.
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4 arrested and released in shooting at Prince George house | CBC News

Four suspects in a shooting in Prince George, B.C., have been arrested, RCMP said Tuesday.

Just before 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, police say officers responded to multiple reports of shots being fired in front of a residence in the 700 block of Ahbau Street.

Police discovered that one man had been driven away from the scene with possible gunshot wounds, but later located the single victim at the hospital and said that his injuries were non-life-threatening.
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