Aggressive deer fatally injures dog in family’s yard in Oak Bay, B.C.

BEAVERLODGE, Alta. – Three people are dead after an early morning highway crash involving three vehicles in northern Alberta.

RCMP say a crash was reported shortly after 5:15 a.m. on a highway northwest of Grande Prairie.

Police say a 21-year-old man and 48-year-old woman from one vehicle died at the scene.

They say a 44-year-old man in another vehicle was also pronounced dead.

The driver of the third vehicle wasn’t injured.

RCMP say poor visibility is believed to have contributed to the crash.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 1, 2024.

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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says his home was defaced with “hateful” graffiti on Halloween night.

Sim says in a statement that he can’t fully express the pain of seeing the words sprayed across his home, and it’s absolutely heartbreaking that the vandalism has taken away a place where his family has felt safe.

Photos shared by the mayor’s office show large spray-painted messages in English saying “Ken Sim hates poor people,” and “we hate Sim city,” while the Chinese messages use expletives and one translates roughly to “cover the family with a shovel.”

The statement says Sim’s family has faced multiple hate-fuelled attacks this year, including the threat of a bomb placed under Sim’s vehicle and a protest of dozens of people who surrounded his home.

Sim’s statement says these acts of hate happen all too often and not just to him and his family, but to others across the city.

He says the attacks on his family have crossed a line that no one should ever have to face.

“But we are stronger than hate. My family, like so many others, will not let these actions define us,” Sim says in the statement.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published on Nov. 1, 2024.

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PENTICTON, B.C. – British Columbia’s Interior Health Authority has been fined nearly $275,000 after workers were exposed to an unknown substance at a hospital in Penticton.

A notice posted online by WorkSafeBC, the province’s worker protection agency, says the $274,073 fine imposed in August was the result of an incident in which two workers were sickened after a noxious odour was detected in a patient’s room.

It says the employees became ill after entering the room in response to a service request, while eight other workers were also treated for exposure.

The notice does not say what the substance was, but it says WorkSafeBC determined the employer’s procedure for responding to illicit substances had not been adequately communicated to workers.

It says the workers had not received training on the process to follow, and recommended respiratory protection had not been communicated.

The notice says the health authority has repeatedly failed to implement written procedures to eliminate or minimize the risk of worker exposure to chemical agents that could cause adverse health effects.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 1, 2024.

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