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Ferries woes hobble Tsawwassen-Swartz Bay run

BC Ferries cancelled a number of sailings on the Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay route as the long weekend got underway Friday due to mechanical issues, including a hoped-for return to service at 4 p.m. PT.

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B.C. premier’s criticism of polls shocks company

B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s denouncement this week of the Angus Reid polling firm is shocking and unprecedented, a company spokesman says.

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Coast guard closes 3 B.C. communications centres

The federal government has confirmed it will close three coast guard communication centres in Vancouver, Comox and Tofino by 2015. This follows news Thursday that would also close the Kitsilano lifeboat station in Vancouver.

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Fishermen rescued after 10 days on B.C. island

Three fishermen stranded on a B.C. island for 10 days after their boat sank have been rescued.

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Chinese smuggler who fled to B.C. gets life sentence

The man once considered China’s most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached into the highest echelons of the Communist Party and involved a decade-long extradition fight in Vancouver.

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Minister threatens to fire defiant B.C. school board

B.C.’s Minister of Education says he will fire the Cowichan School Board if it insists on submitting the $3.7 million deficit budget it passed Wednesday night.

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Canadian-owned horse goes for 2nd jewel in Triple Crown

Canadian-owned I’ll Have Another is not the favourite for Saturday’s big race at Pimlico, but he could be the 12th horse since the last Triple Crown to win the first two jewels.

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Kamloops hostage-taker killed in fiery explosion

One man is dead following a hostage taking in Kamloops, B.C. on Thursday night that ended with an explosion destroying a family home.

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Facebook shares seesaw around $40

Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg took the company public on Friday but the stock price briefly flirted with crossing below its IPO price.

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Karlheinz Schreiber prison release upheld

The release of German-Canadian former arms lobbyist Karlheinz Schreiber from a Munich prison has been confirmed by a German court, according to a media report.

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Student leaders, unions slam proposed Quebec law

It has been a long night for Quebec politicians, who have been debating special legislation aimed at cooling tensions in the 14-week student strike since Thursday evening.

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Man in restroom uses stun gun on Halifax lounge worker

A night on the town had a shocking ending early this morning when a man allegedly used a stun gun on a Halifax bar worker after he was caught in a restroom stall with a woman.

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G20 ‘kettling’ commander among 45 officers to be charged

Misconduct charges are expected against 45 Toronto police officers involved in the G20 summit two years ago, including five senior officers, one of them the commander who gave the notorious order to “kettle” protesters.

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Healthy foods can cost less

Most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less than foods high in fat, sugar and salt, U.S. agriculture department study says.

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Brian Stewart: Will Canada follow the U.S. into China’s seas?

China’s rapidly expanding navy has provoked a shift in U.S. strategic interests to the Western Pacific and Canada is probably going to be dragged along, Brian Stewart writes. Beijing is not amused.

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Romney vows quick approval of Keystone XL pipeline

Mitt Romney is vowing to approve TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline on his first day on the job if elected president of the United States in November.

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Partial solar eclipse in Canada on Sunday

Canadians will be able to view a partial solar eclipse on Sunday, though the viewing gets better the further west in the country you are.

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Inside Camp David, the secretive presidential retreat

G8 leaders, including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, are convening at Camp David in Maryland. Take a virtual tour of the highly secretive facilities.

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800-year-old cedar taken from B.C. park

A giant 800-year-old red cedar tree has been poached from a provincial park on southern Vancouver Island, but the culprits who repeatedly returned to the site to hack it down may never be brought to justice.

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Fire ants invading B.C. gardens

European fire ants are turning up in B.C. gardens for the first time since arriving in North America 100 years ago.

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