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Ski hills and other recreational facilities throughout B.C. are closing or limiting services due to extremely cold temperatures.  Environment Canada issued Arctic outflow warnings for parts of B.C. from Thursday to Saturday. Ski hills and other recreational facilities throughout B.C. are closing or limiting services due to extremely cold temperatures. …

They might be the most infamous ships in the history of British Columbia: three B.C. Ferries that were hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, couldn’t run as fast or efficiently as promised, and were partly responsible for sinking the NDP government of the 1990s. And now, they’re back. On …

A Calgary mother whose boyfriend murdered her three-year-old daughter after the girl interrupted his video game delivered a powerful victim impact statement Thursday, telling her ex that she is “ashamed” to have ever known him. “I hope her face haunts you til the day you die,” Helen Wordsworth told Justin …

A Regina woman says she was seriously hurt in the Dominican Republic last week, causing injuries and excruciating pain that sent her to hospital — and leaving the planned opening of her business next month in limbo.  Sunwing investigating after Mackenzie Wilker says engagement trip turned into a ‘horrendous’ experience. …

This month’s shutdown of the pulp mill in Terrace Bay, Ont., and temporary layoff of 400 workers has been a crushing blow that has left people anxious about the future, reflecting scenes that have played out in mill towns across Canada in recent years.  It’s long been the community’s main …

A contractor who allegedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars from multiple Ontario cottage owners for renovation projects but left major jobs unfinished has pleaded guilty to seven of 13 fraud-related charges against him. The judge-alone criminal trial of Scott Eisemann, 54, got underway Thursday at the Ontario Court of …

Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP intelligence official found guilty late last year of leaking secret information to police targets, will soon find out how long he’ll serve behind bars.  Crown suggests it wants a severe sentence, while defence argues Ortis has served enough time already. Cameron Ortis, the former RCMP …

Environment Canada has issued an extreme cold warning for not only the city, but the entire province of Alberta, forecasting temperatures as low as -40 C over the weekend, with wind chills threatening temperatures of -50 C in some places.  Friday’s forecast high of –31 C would make it the …

A store clerk who allegedly used a baseball bat to hit a man who attempted to rob his convenience store is now facing a charge of aggravated assault, Peterborough police say. In a news release issued Tuesday, the Peterborough Police Service said officers were called to a convenience store in …

A new study examining nearly a half century of logging in Ontario and Quebec warns the practice has left forests in the provinces severely depleted — and put the majestic woodland caribou at risk.  New study finds more than 14 million hectares cut in Ontario and Quebec since 1976. Canada …