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Flu vaccine to underperform again

Epidemiologist expects less than ideal protection against resurgent H3N2 flu strain but better than 'zero' last year

Oct 1, 2015 12:00 PM Read more >

VIP patient snooping among health privacy breaches

Privacy commissioner's report urges health authorities to tighten safeguards

Sep 30, 2015 5:00 AM Read more >

Curriculum training cuts into teaching time

School districts have to find two days of non-teaching time this year, on top of professional development days

Sep 29, 2015 5:00 AM Read more >

ELECTION 2015: NDP won't be guided by Leap Manifesto, Cullen says

Call for radical social, environmental reform would scrap trade deals, accelerate climate action

Sep 28, 2015 4:00 PM Read more >

Cities debate marijuana dispensary authority

Not all are ready to follow Vancouver, Victoria in defying federal law to manage purportedly medical pot stores

Sep 27, 2015 6:00 AM Read more >

Province to fund urban deer projects

Communities seek ways to neuter, chase away or kill aggressive, unhealthy deer to protect people and crops

Sep 25, 2015 2:00 PM Read more >

Clark spends on rural communities, fire prevention

Surplus money to boost forest fire prevention, small-town economic diversification and 'guns and gangs' strategy

Sep 25, 2015 8:00 AM Read more >

Horgan promises Crown land for housing

NDP leader raps B.C. Liberals for selling land to developers, promises to scrap local government auditor

Sep 24, 2015 2:00 PM Read more >

Local politicians split over environmental 'rights'

Right to clean water, air and food narrowly supported by UBCM majority, critic says it's 'David Suzuki propaganda'

Sep 23, 2015 1:00 PM Read more >

Online voting gets tepid thumbs up at UBCM

Call for modernization for 2018 elections narrowly passes amid fears over e-voting privacy, manipulation

Sep 23, 2015 5:00 AM Read more >