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Rainbow refugees increasingly look to Canada for safety

Despite some progress in the last few years, 2SLGBTQ+ advocacy groups say more vulnerable people are fleeing to Canada for safety as countries roll back rights and protections.

Inside the bold B.C. campaign to crush child sextortion

Reports of sextortion continue to rise in Canada. That's why a group in B.C. is getting daring in ads, and with presentations in schools, to make sure kids know how to spot extortionists.

Check your policy some group benefits change, or vanish, when you turn 65

More Canadians are staying in the workforce past 65 and discovering they may lose some of their group benefits, even if they stay working. The industry's policy-makers say it's always been that way and people need to read the fine print of their policies.

Thousands of Ukrainians expected to arrive before visa deadline

The federal government says more than 960,000 Ukrainians were approved to come to Canadathrough theCanada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel. Thousands of Ukrainians are expected to enter the country before March31, the deadline for CUAETrecipients toarrive.

'A feeling of freedom': Injured Ukrainian soldiers learn to ski in Whistler for Invictus Games

Ukrainian soldiers say the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games in British Columbia gives them a chance to show what life after a combat injury can look like as their country enters the third year of war following Russia's invasion.

Schooled by AI: What parents should know about the programs reshaping early education

AI is coming for your children and it wants to teach them to read and write. Experts say the technology has a lot of promise but parents should get schooled up as well.

Oregon decriminalized drugs 2 years ago. What can B.C. learn from its rocky start?

Oregon become the first jurisdiction in North America to decriminalize drugs in 2021. It hasn't been smooth sailing, but there are some lessons in the challenges for British Columbia.

Fed up with bars that wouldn't play women's sports, she opened one that plays nothing but

The Sports Bra, a sports bar in Portland, Ore., that unapologetically shows only women's games is inspiring people to think about equality in sports.

As California faces droughts and floods together, farmers look to new water technologies

California has borne the brunt of a parade of wet weather since the end of 2022 but still struggles to store it amid an ongoing drought. Scientists and farmers are hoping to change that.

Forget Halloween here's the scary story of a fungus coming for B.C.'s bats

Biologists say most people's understanding of bats is based in myth and fiction. As part of Bat Week, they want the public to think about protecting these vital 'natural pest controllers.'