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    John Horgan

    NDP claims historic election victory

    Air Date: October 25, 2020
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    Accusations of racism at polling station

    Accusations of racism at polling station

    Air Date: October 25, 2020
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    Stunt driver Travis Pastrana successfully jumps a canal in Annapolis, Maryland on Oct. 22. 2020. (Credit: Ward Carroll via Storyful)

    Stunt driver clears a waterway in a car over speeding boat

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    Animals play peek-a-poo from inside pumpkin

    Watch this group of animals peek out from inside pumpkins

  • B.C. Premier-elect John Horgan smiles during a post-election news conference, in Vancouver, on Sunday, October 25, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

    Horgan promises to work across party lines after winning majority

    Premier John Horgan says his majority New Democrat government is open to exploring new ideas that can help shape British Columbia regardless of their political or geographic origins.

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  • NDP Leader John Horgan celebrates his election win in the British Columbia provincial election in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS / Jonathan Hayward)

    B.C. election results for Vancouver Island; Horgan wins majority government

  • In this file photo, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes his way to a press conference during the COVID pandemic in Ottawa on Friday, Oct. 16, 2020. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick)

    Trudeau congratulates Horgan on NDP's election victory in British Columbia

  • Josie Osborne has been elected MLA for the Mid Island-Pacific Rim party: (CTV News)

    Popular Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne elected MLA for Mid Island-Pacific Rim

  • Carfentanil is shown: (St. Thomas Police, Ontario)

    RCMP issue warning after highly toxic carfentanil found in North Island drug supply

  • Sven Spichiger, Washington State Department of Agriculture managing entomologist, walks with a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest in a tree behind him Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, in Blaine, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

    Crews vacuum 'murder hornets' out of nest in Washington near Canadian border

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    Businesses fear lockdown as COVID-19 cases soar

    Businesses fear lockdown as COVID-19 cases soar

    Air Date: October 23, 2020
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    First Nations protests block highway near Victoria

    First Nations protests block highway near Victoria

    Air Date: October 23, 2020
    Sea to Sky Highway in Howe Sound near Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, B.C. (shutterstock.com)

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    Sawatsky Sign-Off- Halloween Hug

    Sawatsky Sign-Off: Halloween Hug

    Air Date: October 22, 2020
    Southern resident killer whale J-46 is pictured off the coast of Seattle: (Brittany Philbin)

    'She certainly does look pregnant': Another endangered B.C. orca may be expecting

    Roughly 127 tonnes of marine debris has been removed from B.C.'s rugged coastline by tourism operators and B.C. First Nations: (Small Ship Tour Operators Association of British Columbia)

    B.C. tour operators remove 127 tonnes of trash from shores of Great Bear Rainforest

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    People get their temperatures tested at the T&T grocery store to help curb to spread of COVID-19 in Markham, Ont., on Monday, April 20, 2020. Temperature checks and masks are part of a handful of increased protective measures companies like Air Canada, T&T Supermarket and Longo's are launching as provinces across Canada slowly start to reopen in the middle of the pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

    Ontario sets new daily COVID record, surpasses 1,000 cases

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    New hospitalizations record in Winnipeg as the virus spreads

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    Walmart fire

    Two arrested in series of fires set at Walmart stores

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    President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Pickerington County Fairgrounds in Circleville, Ohio, Saturday Oct. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Phil Long)

    Trump's 'waving the white flag' by ignoring the virus: Biden

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    CTV National News for Oct. 25: Sobering COVID-19 milestones

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    Indigenous fishers adjust lines on their boat in Saulnierville, N.S. on Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2020. Tensions remain high over an Indigenous-led lobster fishery that has been the source of conflict with non-Indigenous fishers. THE CANADIAN PRESS /Andrew Vaughan

    Concerns over the mediator appointed in N.S. lobster dispute

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    "It’s bigger than Christmas for me. Halloween is my favourite day of the year!" Adam meets a Mill Bay woman who’s turning her annual Halloween display into a celebration of gratitude.

    Air Date: October 22, 2020

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    High winds that triggered warnings across Vancouver Island brought down trees and knocked down power to tens of thousands of BC Hydro customers in mid-October.

    Vancouver Island Windstorm: Oct. 13, 2020

    High winds that triggered warnings across Vancouver Island brought down trees and knocked down power to tens of thousands of BC Hydro customers in mid-October.

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    Sawatsky Sign-Off: Ari's Quest

    Air Date: October 19, 2020
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    “It was quite beautiful. He would stay with me and swim with me.” Adam finds out how a woman in Saanich befriended a swan in Sooke.

    Sawatsky Sign-Off: Romeo the Swan

    Air Date: October 16, 2020
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    Oh, Snap! Beauty shots from around Vancouver Island

     
    Thousands of people came together at Victoria's Centennial Square to hold a demonstration in support of the Black Lives Matter movement: June 7, 2020 (Stephanie Roussinos)

    Scenes from Victoria's anti-racism demonstration: June 7, 2020

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