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The 2021 B.C. heat dome timeline: delays led to deaths
Bob Mackin As spring turned to summer in 2021, “weather Twitter” was abuzz. Social media savvy meteorologists throughout the Pacific Northwest
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theBreaker.news Podcast: Heat dome warning was too little, too late
For the week of June 12, 2022: The long-awaited report from the B.C. Coroners Service, released June 7, said 619 people died due to excessive heat
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Indigenous woman’s remains found at Shaughnessy mansion under renovation
Bob Mackin The day after the annual remembrance for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, Vancouver Police confirmed they found the
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Ex-temple boss and Scheer operative who split with Trudeau dead after fall in Richmond
Bob Mackin A South Asian community political organizer and former general secretary of Vancouver’s Ross Street Sikh Temple died after falling down
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Few answers from top Metro Vancouver bureaucrat after one man dead, another missing in Capilano River dam release disaster
Bob Mackin An internal probe is underway to find out what went wrong at the Cleveland Dam on Oct. 1, but Metro Vancouver’s top official did not