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Different name, same face. The Vancouver chapter of Extinction Rebellion has spawned another protest sub-brand that threatens to disrupt traffic Monday for an anti-shale gas march from Vancouver city hall to the CBC studios, via the Cambie Bridge.

VANCOUVER — A spokesperson for the BC Wildfire Service says 80 per cent of the 212 new fires sparked across the province since Wednesday were caused by lightning.

VANCOUVER — A high risk sex offender who disappeared from his halfway house has been found and rearrested by police in Vancouver.

Satellite is about size of two-litre milk carton

VANCOUVER — The BC Wildfire Service is warning that gusty winds will likely cause a wildfire that crossed into Canada from Montana earlier this month to grow.

Anyone interested in the float home is asked to make an appointment and advised not to go on the property without a realtor present. That cautionary advice may or may not be given because of the possible unannounced appearance of the wizard Gandalf.

BURNABY, B.C. — The union representing about 33,000 staff in the B.C. Public Service Agency has issued a strike notice to the government.

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia Premier John Horgan has called a byelection for the Surrey South electoral district.

Lilia (Lily) Zaharieva was one of the lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit over the provincial government’s refusal to cover a $250,000-a-year medication called Orkambi.

The 2021 discharge killed 318 cutthroat trout and seven coho salmon in a 150-metre section of Reay Creek in Sidney.