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  Canada's top admiral says navy staff, resource needs in 'critical state'

  Canada's understaffed and resource-stretched navy is in 'a critical state' and might not be able to carry out its basic duties next year, the top admiral said in a YouTube video released this week.

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  Charges laid after deadly hit-and-run in Squamish

  A man is facing several charges of dangerous driving in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman and left another woman with life-altering injuries last year in Squamish, B.C.

• B.C. planned to send 50 cancer patients per week to the U.S. It has sent a fraction of that

  Leah Rowntree was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in April, shortly before B.C. announced it would send patients like her to Bellingham, Wash., for radiation therapy. On Tuesday, Rowntree had her first radiation treatment. But she chose to pay for it in Houston, Texas, not trusting the B.C. system to get her into treatment in the province—or in Bellingham—in time.

• B.C. teacher who sent 'sexually explicit photos' to former student fired

  A high school teacher from Nanaimo, B.C., who was fired after sending sexual selfies to a former student has also been banned from teaching for five years.

• Boeser scores twice as Canucks beat Ducks 3-1

  A year ago, Brock Boeser was nearly a healthy scratch on the night the Vancouver Canucks honoured those fighting cancer.

• Charges pending after 44 dogs, cats seized from 'shockingly unsanitary' B.C. home

  Animal welfare workers in British Columbia will be recommending animal cruelty charges after 44 neglected dogs and cats were seized from a derelict and garbage-filled home on a small, southern Gulf Island near Nanaimo.

• Victoria couple's $5M lottery win means 'beers, pizza and champagne' for the family

  The Vancouver Canucks might be having a winning season, but when Stacey Donison heard her husband shouting joyfully from the kitchen, it had nothing to do with the hockey game he was watching.

• Fog advisory reissued for B.C.'s South Coast, Vancouver Island

  A fog advisory was reissued for much of B.C.’s South Coast and Vancouver Island Tuesday afternoon, with Environment Canada warning of "near-zero visibility" throughout the region.