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Julian Assange's partner appeals to Trump to pardon him

Julian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, has tweeted President Donald Trump on Thanksgiving, appealing to him to pardon the WikiLeaks founder. Moris posted a photo of their two young children on Twitter Thursday and wrote: "These ...

Court strikes down consecutive life sentences; Quebec mosque shooter has sentence cut

Quebec's highest court has declared unconstitutional a provision of the Criminal Code that allows for life sentences to be served consecutively. The move reduces the sentence given to the man who killed six people in a Quebec City mosque in 2017. Alexandre Bissonnette, 30, was sentenced in February 2019 to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 40 years. With today's decision from the Quebec Court of Appeal, he will be eligible to apply for parole after serving 25 years. ...

Dr. Bonnie Henry says she doesn't have any time for those who think wearing a mask makes them ill, or is a limitation of personal freedom

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says she doesn't have any time for those who think wearing a mask makes them ill, or is a limitation of their personal freedom. Dr. Henry told a news conference yesterday that she object...

Former BC premier says provincial cabinet being sworn in later today can be larger than the 22 members

A former BC premier says he expects the provincial cabinet being sworn in later today will be larger than the 22 members before the NDP won re-election. Mike Harcourt says Premier John Horgan has some challenging choices to make ...

Vancouver council unanimously endorses drug decriminalization, seeks Federal approval

Councillors in Vancouver have voted unanimously to ask the federal government to decriminalize possession of small amounts of illicit drugs. Mayor Kennedy Stewart put forward the motion earlier this month saying it is time to de...

B.C. working on vaccine rollout plan as province records 738 new COVID-19 cases

Provincial health officials say they are working on British Columbia's plan to handle COVID-19 vaccines. Dr. Bonnie Henry, the provincial health officer, says Dr. Ross Brown of Vancouver Coastal Health will join the group working...

Numerous vaccine manufacturers closed their facilities or moved out of Canada in years when Conservative governments were in power: PM Trudeau

The prime minister is defending the fact that Canada does not have any vaccine-making facilities in operation. He admitted yesterday that Canadians will not get COVID vaccines as fast as other countries. But Justin Trudeau told t...

162 more overdose related deaths reported for the month of October in B.C.

The BC Coroners Service says the number of overdose deaths in each health authority is at or near the highest monthly total ever recorded. Chief coroner Lisa Lapoint says there were 162 overdose deaths in BC last month, more than double the 75 recorded in October last year. Lapoint says the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the supply of street drugs and is urging doctors and nurses to prescribe safer pharmaceutical alternatives. But advocates for drug users say medical personnel still are not prescribing those alternatives to the extent they should be. ...

Burnaby hospital outbreak; Five people have died and 55 patients have tested positive for COVID-19 so far

Five people have died and 55 patients have tested positive at Burnaby Hospital in an outbreak of COVID-19 that health officials believe was compounded by a recent fire at the facility. Fraser Health chief medical health officer Dr. Elizabeth Brodkin says 40 staff members are also infected, although the health authority is still trying to track the source of all those illnesses. The outbreak began at the hospital on November 9th, but as smoke billowed through hallways during the November 15th fire, patients were quickly moved to common areas and infection control measures could not be stringen...

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