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Analysts are bracing for a steep decline in real estate transactions for the month of August when the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver releases its latest home sales data on Friday. The numbers...
The judge who will lead a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women says her own losses have helped her understand the immense toll of the problem in Canada. Marion Buller formally...
Health Canada plans to restrict six chemicals used to make fentanyl as part of Ottawa's attempt to address what it calls the national opioid crisis. Health Minister Jane Philpott says a bill brought...
The family of an elderly husband and wife in British Columbia who were forced to live in separate care homes say the health authority overseeing the couples' care is moving forward with plans to...
Royal Bank says the first half of this year marked the biggest six-month drop in housing affordability in the Vancouver area since at least the early 1990s. The bank says its cost-of-ownership...
Most immigrant support groups say this fall's expected surge in Syrian refugee families will be far more manageable than the impromptu turmoil that characterized the first wave of arrivals, which...
A reclusive reptile that has been living in a storm drain below the streets of Victoria now has a new home. A tweet posted Thursday night by the City of Victoria shows a city worker holding the snake...
Workers at Vancouver's supervised-injection site have been faced with a higher-than-normal number of drug overdoses this week. A spokeswoman with Vancouver Coastal Health Authority says it's unclear...
Apparent laziness caused by the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana persists even when the same amount of pot's medicinal component is added, a new study suggests. Lead author Mason Silveira, a...
Visitors forced to flee from a campsite in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley ahead of a raging wildfire on Sunday night will have a chance to retrieve abandoned items. The Central Okanagan Regional District...
