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Some worried only thing B.C. has been concentrating on is electrified vehicles in bigger centres
The Port Alberni Fire Department extinguished a grass fire near the train tracks at Stamp Avenue and Roger Street. (PHOTO COURTESY PAFD)

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Kevin Wenstob and Sarah Flemming of 'Big Timber'. (History Channel photo)

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Parks Canada says reservation system appears to be meeting ‘high demand’ for camping

In the third part of our series on fraud, we look at Matthew Brooks, convicted of a $6 million bank fraud, whose home was targeted in a drive-by shooting that was never solved. Others lost millions to Brooks just before and during a lengthy RCMP investigation. (Roxanne Hooper/Langley Advance Times)

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    Beef of the Week: To the fitness centre. I had to shut my bank account down to stop your over-billing. The bank said they had seen this from four customers just this month and that the fitness centre makes up a different story every time. They are really live up to the stereotype of a shady gym.

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    Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland arrive to deliver the federal budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. The Royal Canadian Legion is asking the Trudeau government for more details about its promise of more money to address longstanding delays and backlogs for ill and injured veterans. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

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      Beef of the Week: To the fitness centre. I had to shut my bank account down to stop your over-billing. The bank said they had seen this from four customers just this month and that the fitness centre makes up a different story every time. They are really live up to the stereotype of a shady gym.

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