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CHILLIWACK, B.C. - British Columbia is spending $3 million to expand a program that partners health-care workers with policein mobile teams to respond to mental health-related calls.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic watchdog group has called for a U.S. House committee to rescind an invitation to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after the Democratic presidential candidate was filmed falsely suggesting COVID-19 could have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people.

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - British Columbia Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says he’ll announce Wednesday whether Surrey will be allowed to revert to policing by the RCMP or be forced to continue the transition to a municipal force.

ST. JOSEPH. Mo. (AP) — The Powerball jackpot rose yet again to an estimated $1 billion after no winning ticket was sold for the latest drawing.

ISLAMABAD (AP) — In a major blow to Pakistan’s former prime minister and top opposition leader Imran Khan, dozens of his followers quit his party on Monday to launch their own ahead of parliamentary elections expected later this year.

TORONTO - Canadian film and television workers are feeling the sting of twin strikes by Hollywood writers and actors.

TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Monday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:

A retired senior immigration official has launched a petition to demand the government abandon its plan

What if an opposition party fixated on unseating Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives held a leadership race and people were actually interested?

One B.C.-based publication reports not being able to post on Instagram for days.