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Owner of missing diamond-covered eagle loses latest round in insurance fight
VANCOUVER - A legal battle over a missing diamond-encrusted eagle statue valued at nearly $1 million will continue, more than four years after the artwork was stolen during a robbery in Delta, B.C. In...
Nov 30, 2020

Owner of missing diamond-covered eagle loses latest round in insurance fight
VANCOUVER - A legal battle over a missing diamond-encrusted eagle statue valued at nearly $1 million will continue, more than four years after the artwork was stolen during a robbery in Delta, B.C. In...
Nov 30, 2020

Mo Farsi adds to trophy cabinet, wins Canadian Futsal Player of the Year Award
Mo Farsi added to his trophy cabinet Monday when he was named Canadian Futsal Player of the Year. Last week the 20-year-old from Montreal, a defender with Cavalry FC, collected the Canadian Premier Le...
Nov 30, 2020

Highlights of the federal government's fiscal update
OTTAWA - Key elements from the federal government's fiscal update, delivered by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland Monday afternoon: The pandemic response from Ottawa. The total cost of the federal re...
Nov 30, 2020

'Widespread and insidious problem' of racism towards Indigenous peoples in health care system
VICTORIA - Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond launched her investigation and review of the province's healthcare system back in June, and in that time she heard from over 9,000 people.Indigenous people in Briti...
Nov 30, 2020

Liberals take step on national child-care system, promise plan coming in 2021 budget
OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing millions of dollars in new spending as a down payment on a planned national child-care system that the Liberals say will be outlined in next spring's budge...
Nov 30, 2020

Ottawa beefs up loans for hard-hit sectors — but big airlines not included for now
Ottawa is rolling out a wave of new funding for pandemic-battered industries including tourism, the arts and regional aviation, with smaller companies top of mind - and large airlines notably absent. ...
Nov 30, 2020

Spending too little worse than spending too much, Freeland says in fall update
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's first fall mini-budget finds new funds for families and businesses and scratches a longtime provincial itch over transfer payments as she tries to find a ...
Nov 30, 2020

CKPG wins BCAB for 'City in Crisis' series
PRINCE GEORGE - A big honour for the CKPG-TV newsroom.The British Columbia Association of Broadcasters (BCAB) has awarded CKPG an award for excellence in news reporting for its five-part series in Nov...
Nov 30, 2020

Navy will decommission warship damaged in suspected arson
SAN DIEGO - The Navy said Monday that it will decommission a warship docked off San Diego after suspected arson this summer caused extensive damage, making it too expensive to restore. Fully repairing...
Nov 30, 2020