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In a year already full of film and TV releases, there’s still much to come. For the fall and winter months, streamers and traditional broadcast networks are locked in an original-content race — all looking to command eyeballs and bump up audience numbers in an already-overstuffed industry. The good news? …

For the second year in a row, dozens of dead fish have washed up on the shores of Stanley Park’s Lost Lagoon. The Vancouver Park Board and Stanley Park Ecology Society are still studying the cause of the die-off, but say it’s likely because of poor water quality in the …

As most people in James Smith Cree Nation were still sleeping, violence erupted.  The killings began in homes around the northern part of the community before sunrise — at least three attacks, followed by five more in the central village and two in the south, said Chief Robert Head, tracing …

Director Jean-Luc Godard, the godfather of France’s New Wave cinema, died on Tuesday aged 91, newspaper Liberation and other French media said, citing relatives of the filmmaker. Godard was among the world’s most acclaimed directors, known for such classics as Breathless and Contempt, which pushed cinematic boundaries and inspired iconoclastic …

In a blunt and blistering resignation letter, Green Party President Lorraine Rekmans announced she has quit in frustration and says the party’s dream “is dead.”  Laying it out over three pages, Rekmans called her tenure as party president “turbulent.”  Rekmans took the job a year ago; the Greens were in meltdown after an attempt to …

The province is asking for help with a mystery after 11 dead adult white sturgeon were found last week on the Nechako River in northern B.C. The unusually high number has scientists asking people to report and submit photos of dead sturgeon sightings on the Nechako and Upper Fraser Rivers. Samples …

At first, Teresa Shum and her husband, Mark, thought the situation was funny. The Markham, Ont., couple received a notice in February from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) that one of Mark’s tax credits was declined due to his marital status being changed to widower. “We were really taken by surprise,” Shum …

Police have identified a man who was shot and killed in Surrey, B.C., over the weekend. RCMP said Troy Michael Regnier, 37, was shot multiple times outside a home in the 16600-block of 19 Avenue around 11 p.m. PT on Saturday. First responders found Regnier injured outside the house, but he later died as …

Powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on his loyalists in the government zone to withdraw after nearly 24 hours of fierce clashes with security forces and paramilitary groups. In a televised speech Tuesday, al-Sadr gave his supporters, hundreds of whom stormed the government palace and have been holding an ongoing …

Peel Regional Police are investigating after a multi-vehicle collision in Brampton killed one woman and left 15 others injured. Police say 10 cars and a tractor trailer were involved in the collision shortly after midnight on Saturday morning near the intersection of Queen Street and The Gore Road. As a …