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  B.C. to open 'highly secure' involuntary care facilities

  B.C. will be opening “highly secure facilities” for people with addiction and mental health issues in the province, officials said Sunday.

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  Air Canada deal avoids shutdown, brings relief to passengers and business groups

  Travellers, business groups and politicians expressed fervent relief on Sunday after Air Canada and the union representing thousands of its pilots negotiated a new labour deal and averted a disruptive, countrywide shutdown.

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  DEVELOPING | Donald Trump was the subject of 'an assassination attempt,' FBI reports

  The FBI said Donald Trump was the target of “what appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday.

• Victoria man who stole from investors banned from market, BCSC says

  A Victoria man who pleaded guilty to theft following an investigation by B.C.'s securities regulator has now been banned from the investment market.

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  LIVE UPDATES | 2024 Emmy Awards: 'The Bear,' 'Fargo' and 'Hacks' win acting awards

  'Shogun,' 'The Bear' and 'Baby Reindeer' at the topo of the queue as the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards arrive on Sunday.

• 4 charged with manslaughter, forcible confinement in Burnaby 19-year-old's death: IHIT

  More than a year after a Burnaby man was killed during a home invasion, charges have been laid against four suspects for their alleged involvement in the fatal incident.

• B.C. Conservatives promise to end stumpage fees, review fire management if elected

  British Columbia Conservatives are promising changes they say will bring more "stability" to the province's struggling forestry industry.

• Coastal GasLink fined $590K following 'repeated non-compliance' with environmental rules

  British Columbia's Environmental Assessment Office fined the company responsible for a natural gas pipeline in northern B.C. for the sixth time this week.

• Dragon statue with 'significant sentimental value' taken from porch: Nanaimo RCMP

  Mounties in Nanaimo are asking for the public’s help to find a dragon statue that holds “significant sentimental value” for its owner.

• New book captures 'intimate look' at Terry Fox with journal entries, interviews

  When Barbara Adhiya first learned that Terry Fox had run the length of a marathon a day during his journey across Canada, she was shocked.

• B.C. woman reveals greatest life lesson after celebrating 100th birthday

  “There has to be love in your life and forgiveness,” Hilda smiles. “I think the only way out of the mess in the world is to start loving each other.”

• Canadian warship seizes 1,400 kilos of cocaine off Central America

  A Canadian warship has seized more than 1,400 kilograms of cocaine during an anti-drug-trafficking operation in Central America.

• Police investigating suspicious death in Nanaimo, B.C.

  Mounties have launched a suspicious death investigation after a man was found dead Thursday in Nanaimo, B.C.

• Son charged with 1st-degree murder after father's death on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast

  A 26-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the death of his father on the Sunshine Coast last year.

• Police watchdog called after suspect shot, woman injured in Merritt, B.C.

  British Columbia's police oversight agency is investigating after two people were injured – including a suspect who was airlifted to hospital with serious gunshot injuries – during an altercation with Mounties in the B.C. Interior.

• Canada to deploy military patrol plane, 50 personnel to Japan

  Canada will send a military patrol plane and approximately 50 personnel to Japan this month to support international sanctions on North Korea following that country's recent ballistic missile tests, Defence Minister Bill Blair announced Friday.

• Son charged with B.C. woman's murder: RCMP

  More than a year after a missing Kamloops, B.C., woman’s body was found, her son has been arrested and charged with her murder, Mounties announced Friday.

• 'Right on the edge of being extinct': Environmentalists, First Nation aim to stop B.C. ski resort in owl habitat

  The Cheam First Nation and the Wilderness Committee are calling on the province to enforce protections for an endangered owl as a ski resort is proposed near Chilliwack.

• Rescue operation frees humpback whale off northern B.C.

  A humpback whale was so entangled in fishing gear, ropes and buoys that it took four days for a Fisheries Department crew to unravel the mess, Paul Cottrell said.

• Former NHL enforcer Stephen Peat dies after being hit by car in B.C.

  Stephen Peat, the former Washington Capitals enforcer who fought concussion issues and was homeless at times after leaving hockey, has died from injuries sustained late last month when he was struck by a car while crossing a street. He was 44.