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  LIVE | Watch live now: The high-stakes Trump-Harris 2024 presidential debate is underway

  Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are meeting face-to-face in a high-stakes debate that comes less than two months before election day.

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  Taxi driver killed in Vancouver Island crash

  Mounties say a 66-year-old taxi driver is dead after his vehicle veered off the roadway and struck two trees on Vancouver Island.

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  Financial pressures difficult, but not the time for service, support cuts, says Eby

  British Columbia's estimated budget deficit is growing again, with the latest Ministry of Finance forecast pegging the province to be almost 9 billion in the red.

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  7-Eleven ordered to pay B.C. woman $907K for pothole injury

  A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ordered 7-Eleven Canada to pay a woman more than $900,000 in damages after she tripped on a pothole and broke her ankle in the parking lot of a convenience store.

• B.C. businesses seek concrete economic 'vision' from parties ahead of fall election

  Leaders from a wide array of businesses in British Columbia are urging the province's political parties to "deliver a clear and actionable plan" for revitalizing an economy that they say has pushed many residents into a "personal recession."

• Weather aids B.C. fire fight amid evacuation order, alerts in southeast

  The BC Wildfire Service says rain, light winds and cooler temperatures are expected to decrease fire behaviour in the province this week, just as a newly discovered blaze in the East Kootenays prompts an evacuation order and alerts for more than 50 properties.

• 2 hospitalized, suspects sought after 'extreme case of road rage' in B.C.: RCMP

  Mounties in B.C.'s Lower Mainland are searching for two people allegedly responsible for a road rage incident that sent a couple to hospital with serious injuries, saying the suspects could be in another province.

• BC United sources leak 'extremism' file on B.C. Conservative director

  Sources in the Official Opposition BC United party have leaked a file on the "extremism" of the B.C. Conservatives' executive director, Angelo Isidorou, less than two weeks after the parties' leaders announced a deal to work together.

• CTV News Reality Check: Why reopening Riverview wouldn't solve B.C.'s mental health crisis

  Every time British Columbians are rattled by an act of random violence like last week’s shocking homicide and maiming in downtown Vancouver, there are calls to reopen the Riverview Psychiatric Hospital, but that’s not the solution some think it is.

• B.C. to review conservation officer policies in push to reduce bear deaths

  In a move aimed at reducing the number of bears killed in British Columbia, the province is creating an expert panel to review how conservation officers carry out their work.

• Man charged after 4 youths attacked on Galloping Goose trail in Langford, B.C.

  A 32-year-old man is facing eight charges, including assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm after, after a group of young people were attacked on a popular pedestrian trail on southern Vancouver Island.

• Wildfire triggers 'tactical evacuation' in B.C. community of Baynes Lake

  A wildfire has triggered a "tactical evacuation" in the community of Baynes Lake in southeast British Columbia.

• Woman who died in B.C. jail cell had asked to be taken to hospital twice, report shows

  A woman who died from drug toxicity while in a B.C. jail cell asked to be taken to hospital twice in the hours after she was taken into custody in a case the province's police watchdog says again raises concerns over the treatment of intoxicated prisoners.

• Man dead after drowning at Cultus Lake, B.C.

  A Metro Vancouver man is dead after an apparent drowning incident at a popular recreational lake in the Fraser Valley.