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TORONTO — Sheung-King and Martha Baillie were among the big winners at the Writers' Trust Awards ceremony Tuesday that saw many take the podium with emotional pleas to protect LGBTQ rights and end the war in Gaza.

Attempts by doctors to set up overdose prevention sites on hospital property in Nanaimo and Victoria were shut down Monday by the Island health authority, forcing the volunteers to move their operations across the street.

OTTAWA — The ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½ Border Services Agency says it will be adjusting hours at 35 land ports of entry in January -- a move it says will allow it to deploy officers at busier land crossings.

VICTORIA — There's been a near total shakeup of British Columbia's government cabinet, with few ministers retaining their jobs and some longtime backbenchers and newly elected members moving in.

VANCOUVER — One day after surprising fans at the pinnacle of Canadian football in Vancouver, Prince Harry got down to ground level with a game of sitting volleyball with schoolchildren in the city.

SURREY — Mounties in Surrey, ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½, say they are investigating a fiery overnight crash that killed two people and caused a partial shutdown of Highway 99. RCMP say officers responded to a report of a vehicle rollover at 3:38 a.m.

British Columbians are heading to Thailand for addiction treatment, driven by a public health system stretched to its limits and the high costs of private treatment centres.

The former pro soccer player leads an international group of sleuths who use metal detectors to find what has been lost

The CFIA says avian influenza is not a food safety concern, and there is no evidence to suggest that eating cooked poultry or eggs could transmit it to humans.

Faye Leung brokered the 1990 deal for premier Bill Vander Zalm to sell the Richmond Fantasy Garden World castle he lived in to Tan Yu, a Taiwanese billionaire, for $16 million.