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In 2020 and 2021, Laurent Roy and Ian Petterson entered consent agreements with the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, for allegations around misappropriated medications. Petterson was fined $35,000 and Roy $25,000, and both were suspended as registered pharmacists for one year. (File photo)
Former Shuswap pharmacists charged with fraud, theft over alleged drug sales scheme
King Charles speaks to members of the Commonwealth community during the annual Commonwealth Day reception at Buckingham Palace in London, Monday March 13, 2023. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will hold a special ceremony marking the coronation of King Charles on May 6. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Daniel Leal/Pool via AP
Canada will hold special ceremony to mark May 6 coronation of King Charles: Trudeau
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New movie poster-style ads aim to ‘flip the script’ on gangsters in Metro Vancouver
Horses in the Brittany Triangle. (Photo/Wayne McCrory)
B.C.’s ‘cowboy cop’ investigating horse herd killed near Kamloops in ‘cruel act’
The family of Julian Jones, who was shot and killed by a Tofino RCMP officer in February 2021, speak at a gathering on the International Day Against Police Brutality on March 15, 2022. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)
B.C. exhibit honours Indigenous and Black lives lost to police violence
Marie-Claude Bibeau, minister of agriculture and agri-food (left) was taken on a tour of Lucent BioSciences Inc. at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby on March 15, as part of an announcement for funding for clean tech farming projects in B.C. (Government of Canada photo)
4 B.C. agri-businesses awarded $1.6M in federal funding for clean-technology projects
Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin speaks to members of the media following an acquittal in his case at a Gatineau, Que., courthouse on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Fortin, a senior military officer who was acquitted on a sexual assault charge late last year, has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Canadian government. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Senior military officer acquitted of sexual assault sues government, PM for $6M
Victoria MP Laurel Collins said she plans to table an unanimous consent motion in May calling on the government to act on the justice committee’s recommendations. (CPAC.ca)
B.C. push to end automatic sexual assault publication bans gathering momentum
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Honda recalling 500,000 vehicles to fix seat belt problem
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What can ChatGPT maker’s new AI model GPT-4 do?
Island Health demonstrated the technology at the Comox Valley Nursing Centre in Courtenay March 15 as part of a trial in a group of washrooms identified high-risk spaces for drug poisonings. Photo by Erin Haluschak
Washroom sensor trial underway on Vancouver Island to reduce drug poisonings
An RCMP officer wears a body camera at the detachment in Bible Hill, N.S. on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Alberta plans to require all police services in the province to wear the devices.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
Alberta poised to become first province to require body cameras for all police
A screen displays a patient’s vital signs during open heart surgery at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore on Nov. 28, 2016. The senator who pushed for Canada’s assisted dying regime to include people whose only condition is a mental disorder says the debate about that policy is now over. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Patrick Semansky
The issue of expanding assisted dying eligibility ‘has already been decided’: senator
James Magok Achuli, a refugee now studying international relations at UBCO while running on the varsity cross-country team. (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Running toward education: A former child soldier’s path to UBC Okanagan student athlete
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he thinks his party has more leverage to push for things it wants in the next federal budget. Singh speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
NDP want Liberals to expand GST rebate, fund school lunches in upcoming budget
The Transportation Safety Board says pilots in Canada need better guidelines for screening heart-related conditions. A plane is silhouetted as it takes off from Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, B.C., Monday, May 13, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Transportation Safety Board urges better medical screening guidelines for pilots
A man has been charged in relation to an incident on Friday (March 10) at the combined Wendy’s and Tim Hortons at the Fraser Valley Auto Mall. (Google Street View)
Man charged with yelling racial slurs and threatening Abbotsford restaurant customers
President Joe Biden meets Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Naval Base Point Loma, Monday, March 13, 2023, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checks
A woman hugs another returning on one of the few overseas flight arriving at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Tuesday, March 14, 2023. China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday after a three-year halt during the pandemic as it sought to boost its tourism and economy. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China to reopen to tourists, resume all visas Wednesday
Mohammed Ramzan, second right, right, outside Preston Crown Court, Lancashire, England, Tuesday March 14, 2023. A 22-year-old woman has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years after falsely claiming to have been the victim of an Asian grooming gang. Eleanor Williams, of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, was sentenced at Preston Crown Court on Tuesday after making a series of false rape allegations. Mohammed Ramzan, a business owner who Williams alleged trafficked her, told the court: “I have had countless death threats made over social media from people all over the world because of what they thought I was involved in.” (Peter Byrne/PA via AP)
Fake sex abuse claims get British woman 8.5 year prison term