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Unionized shipyard workers back on the job at Seaspan in North Vancouver

Unionized shipyard workers back on the job at Seaspan in North Vancouver

A tentative deal has been reached between Seaspan and the union representing striking tugboat captains. Pickets have come down at Vancouver Shipyards and Vancouver Drydock in North Vancouver.
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Air quality in parts of the Lower Mainland currently equal to smoking 5 cigarettes a day

Air quality in parts of the Lower Mainland currently equal to smoking 5 cigarettes a day

An app shows how the air quality is equivalent to smoking cigarettes in places like Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, and around the world.
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How some B.C. youth can get $600 per month for rent

How some B.C. youth can get $600 per month for rent

B.C.'s rent supplement program meant to avoid homelessness will provide $600 a month to youth transitioning from government care to their first house.
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Older and Wiser: Seniors should start preparing for winter now

Older and Wiser: Seniors should start preparing for winter now

It may still feel like summer outside, but winter will be here soon enough, and it's important for seniors to be ready, writes columnist Margaret Coates
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B.C. communities record some of the worst air quality in the world

B.C. communities record some of the worst air quality in the world

A station near Hope recorded fine particulate concentrations so bad it far outranked the most polluted major cities in the world.
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Keith Baldrey: Municipal vote results tamp down talk of snap election in B.C.

Keith Baldrey: Municipal vote results tamp down talk of snap election in B.C.

BC NDP leadership might want to think twice about going to the polls again before 2024, given voters’ anti-incumbent mood.
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Olympian Brodie Seger reboots helmet design contest to fight ALS

Olympian Brodie Seger reboots helmet design contest to fight ALS

Here's your chance to design the ski helmet for the upcoming World Cup season for North Vancouver's Brodie Seger
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Time Traveller: Second World War forces North Van shipbuilding boom

Time Traveller: Second World War forces North Van shipbuilding boom

New techniques were developed in the 1940s to rapidly increase the speed of production at Burrard Dry Dock
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Letter: Give thanks to our strained yet gallant front-line workers at Lions Gate Hospital

Letter: Give thanks to our strained yet gallant front-line workers at Lions Gate Hospital

We should still be banging pots and extending our hearts to these brave caregivers, because the medical system was floundering long before COVID, this letter writer says
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New faces join returning trustees on North Van, West Van school boards

New faces join returning trustees on North Van, West Van school boards

There will be three new trustees on the board of SD44 and one new trustee in SD45.
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