15 hours ago Wild Christmas sees B.C. Ferries cancel sailings over ’severe’ forecast

VANCOUVER — B.C. Ferries has cancelled many sailings on Christmas Day after Environment Canada issued dozens of wind and heavy rain warnings for British Columbia’s south coast. The ferry firm said the “severe” forecast meant all sailings between Tsawwassen and Duke Point in Nanaimo, B.C., on Wednesday had to be axed, while trips between Tsawwassen […]

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17 hours ago Edmonton remand homicide victim was soldier discharged with mental health issues

The man killed at an Edmonton jail last week was a young military veteran struggling with mental health issues, his grieving girlfriend says. Nathaniel Burchat, 25, died in hospital after suffering a head injury during an “altercation” on Dec. 18 at the Edmonton Remand Centre, police say. Brooke Murray, Burchat’s girlfriend, said she was stunned […]

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20 hours ago Amber Heard speaks out on Blake Lively sexual harassment complaint against Justin Baldoni

Amber Heard is weighing in on Blake Lively’s sexual harassment complaint against Justin Baldoni. Last week, Lively, 37, accused her It Ends With Us director and co-star Baldoni, 40, of harassment during the making the movie, which adapted Colleen Hoover’s bestselling 2016 novel and explores themes of domestic violence and emotional abuse. In the complaint, […]

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20 hours ago Woman sent to hospital in critical condition following Christmas Eve highrise fire

Fire started in bedroom but cause not yet known

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26 hours ago Squirrels were filmed feasting on tiny rodents. Scientists are perplexed.

First, the predators ripped off the rodents’ heads. Then they dug their teeth into their prey’s torsos, feasting on meat, organs and cartilage. The predators? Squirrels, the populous mammals who have long been known to mostly eat nuts, seeds and plants. While studying ground squirrels in Northern California this past summer, biologists expected to observe […]

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26 hours ago Here’s why American Airlines briefly grounded all U.S. flights on Christmas Eve

The FAA is expecting about 30,000 US flights on Dec. 24 across all carriers

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27 hours ago Trudeau could stay or go. Either way, Canadians should brace for a spring election

OTTAWA — Canada appears to be barrelling toward a spring election now that the NDP is vowing to vote down the government early next year — whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stays on or not. Political watchers are abuzz over the possible scenarios that could play out in the coming year following last week’s drama […]

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37 hours ago ‘It’s not about you’: String of dangerous drivers spurs warning from Burnaby RCMP

RCMP said they responded to two serious crashes in the last week alone, one on Boundary Road that left two people dead, and another that left a pedestrian in critical condition. 

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37 hours ago Rodgers acknowledges Jets could release him after season as he contemplates future

Aaron Rodgers is still contemplating his playing future. The star quarterback knows if he returns to the field, it might be out of hands whether it’s with the New York Jets. The 41-year-old Rodgers said last week that he’ll take some time after this season, his 20th in the NFL, to determine what he wants […]

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