Jumbo Valley to be protected, ending decades-long dispute over proposed ski resort

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Canada to bolster screening of central China passengers for virus at 3 airports

Additional measures will include messaging on arrivals screens in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver

Trudeau, ministers head to Winnipeg for cabinet retreat, western outreach

Beginning Sunday, the Prime Minister and his 36 ministers will be holed up in Winnipeg for three days

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Announcer hopes to breathe life into Plains Cree language with hockey broadcasts

Clarence Iron hopes that the six games on APTN will help First Nations people across Canada reconnect with their Indigenous language

Kootenay teams heading for curling provincials

Team Buchy and Team Nichols won the senior playdowns.

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Opinion

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Stephen Hume writes about the lack of discussion on the province’s dwindling salmon population

    COLUMN: Exhibit refutes notion of an unruly Columbia River

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      Community

      Crows, pirates and Segways: L.V. Rogers students make projects out of passions

      The Grade 12 students presented their capstone projects Wednesday

      VIDEO: Missing cat reunited with Vancouver Island family after three months

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      Entertainment

      Costumers for ‘Riverdale,’ ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ net award nominations

      Canadian Alliance of Film and Television Costume Arts and Design awards set to air March 1

      Canadian polar bears’ ‘ingenious’ survival seen in BBC Earth series

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