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  Vancouver city council votes to give police and firefighters millions of dollars to address budget shortfalls

  Vancouver city council voted Tuesday to give the Vancouver Police Department and Vancouver Fire Rescue Services millions of dollars to make up for budget shortfalls related to payroll expenses.

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  Boeser scores twice as Canucks beat Ducks 3-1

  A year ago, Brock Boeser was nearly a healthy scratch on the night the Vancouver Canucks honoured those fighting cancer.

• Winter weather forecast: A warm start thanks to El Nino, but then what?

  Chilly nights and snow-covered slopes may not be easy to come by in much of Canada during the first part of the winter season, according to the winter outlook from one of Canada's prominent forecasters.

• B.C. planned to send 50 cancer patients per week to the U.S. It has sent a fraction of that

  Leah Rowntree was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer in April, shortly before B.C. announced it would send patients like her to Bellingham, Wash., for radiation therapy. On Tuesday, Rowntree had her first radiation treatment. But she chose to pay for it in Houston, Texas, not trusting the B.C. system to get her into treatment in the province—or in Bellingham—in time.

• Construction beginning on project that aims to ease Highway 1 gridlock in Fraser Valley

  Preliminary work is now underway to widen a section of Highway 1 through the Fraser Valley.

• UBC cooking competition aims to show bugs are great to eat

  There was only one rule contestants had to follow at a cooking competition held at UBC on Tuesday: the dishes had to include bugs.

• Frank the Tank, a tortoise found wandering a B.C. field, gets a new home

  Adoption requests came from as far away as New Zealand, but Frank the Tank, a 17-kilogram tortoise found wandering in a Richmond bok choy field last month, will be staying in British Columbia.

• 1 dead after small plane crashes near B.C.-Alberta border

  A small plane crash in rural B.C. near the Alberta border has claimed the life of a local pilot, according to RCMP.

• B.C. teacher convicted of sexual exploitation banned from the profession for life

  A B.C. high school teacher has been handed a lifetime ban from the profession after he was convicted of sexual exploitation, according to the British Columbia Commissioner for Teacher Regulation.

• Vancouver City Hall steps up security for council meetings

  Security for council meetings at Vancouver City Hall has been stepped up, at least in part because of an increase in harassment, threats and violence directed at elected officials.

• Auditor general raises concerns about B.C.'s bookkeeping for 16th time

  British Columbia's auditor general is repeating himself over concerns about the way the provincial government keeps its books, just as the Ministry of Finance's quarterly report projects a $5.6-billion deficit.

• Victoria couple's $5M lottery win means 'beers, pizza and champagne' for the family

  The Vancouver Canucks might be having a winning season, but when Stacey Donison heard her husband shouting joyfully from the kitchen, it had nothing to do with the hockey game he was watching.

• B.C. growth forecast drops for 2023 but deficit projection improves

  British Columbia's economy is forecast to grow one per cent in 2023, a drop from the 1.2 per cent predicted earlier by the Ministry of Finance.

• Gang-affiliated inmate who shot rival in the face dies in custody in B.C.

  A Saskatchewan drug dealer who was serving a lengthy sentence for attempted murder in a maximum security prison in B.C.'s Fraser Valley has died.