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Vancouver Police investigators remained on the scene Sunday of a murder inside an apartment building in the 2400-block of Granville Street.

About 60,000 Canadian homes are still connected to municipal water supplies with lead pipes — the same contaminant plaguing Flint, Michigan's water supply

Three of the country's largest producers want the government to implement rules now for promoting the future recreational market

Canada could help developing countries in South and Southeast Asia with a problem common to modernizing economics: a shortage of skilled labour. That was one of the more interesting points in a report last week from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada calling on Ottawa to develop a comprehensive Asia strategy. Mostly, the Vancouver think-thank’s report holds few surprises. It calls for ratifying the Trans-Pacific Partnership, expediting trade deals with China and Japan, greater political engagement from Ottawa in Asian affairs... Читать дальше...

The Associated Press spoke to 100 players representing every team in the league

Russia is taking a pass on the annual summit to deal with nuclear terrorism. It says it will not take part in the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit to be held in Washington, DC starting March 31. Senior Russian officials took part in previous summits, which were held in Washington in 2010, Seoul in 2012 and […]

VANCOUVER — If the University of B.C. board or presidential hiring committee wants to learn from the loss of its last president, Arvind Gupta says he would be happy to talk with them. Gupta broke his silence this week, about six months after abruptly quitting as UBC president. He spoke out after UBC apologized Wednesday because documents that were meant to be censored were included in a freedom-of-information release about his departure.

Winnipeg Willow died Friday at the Prairie Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre in Winnipeg. She will be remembered for her love of kale, sweet potatoes, peanuts and carrots

The bombings are overshadowing an already shaky shaky start to a U.N. effort to broker a peace deal in the region

Djokovic joined Rod Laver and Bjorn Borg at No. 5 on the all-time list for most majors with 11

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - "Spotlight" wins for best movie cast at the Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas - MIT student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk' idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed.

A Hollywood beset by a crisis over diversity will convene Saturday night for the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, where the top film honour may be a toss-up between the ensembles of two fact-based tales: "The Big Short" and "Spotlight."

Police long believed Rocco Zito earned his money through gambling, loan sharking, drugs, fraud, counterfeiting and other criminal ventures

Seventeen snowmobilers were caught in the path of a 700-metre wide avalanche Friday as it swept down B.C.’s Mount Renshaw, killing five men visiting from Alberta.

Police spokeswoman Raquel Lopez says multiple people were injured but she couldn’t provide a number. She couldn’t say whether any gangs were involved