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Tail end of tropical storm Debby to dump heavy rain on Eastern Canada
Remnants of tropical storm Debby merging with another low pressure system over the Great Lakes could bring up to 100 millimetres of rain to parts of Eastern Canada on Friday.
Update on federal dental-care program expected today
Health Minister Mark Holland is expected to provide an update on the federal government's dental-care program today.
Landslide waters to reach B.C.'s Lower Mainland today
High waters that flowed over top of a massive landslide in British Columbia's Chilcotin River are churning in the Fraser River towards British Columbia's Lower Mainland today.
Water breaching Chilcotin River rock slide to reach Fraser River on Tuesday
Connie Chapman with the province's water management branch says the pulse of water after the dam breached yesterday morning will make its way toward the Fraser River, and modelling shows it will reach the community of Hope sometime today.
Warnings issued for Fraser, Chilcotin River banks as water tops dam
The B.C. government says it's "extremely unsafe" to be near the banks of the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers both upstream and downstream from a massive landslide after water started flowing through the slide early Monday.
First Nation chief says it's not the first time a slide has blocked Chilcotin River
Officials have said the water collecting behind the slide south of the city of Williams Lake could reach a level where it will start flowing over the debris, or it will erode the material, setting off a release.
PBO suggests Liberal estimate of largesse from capital gains tax increase was overblown
That's two billion dollars less than the federal government projected in its spring budget.
B.C. port union to hold strike vote over automation dispute
A union representing foremen at British Columbia's ports says it is being forced to take an industry-wide strike vote after one employer refused to bargain about automation issues directly and it also wants the courts to weigh in.
Landslide clogging Chilcotin River could blow within a day, causing flooding as far as the Fraser River
A government statement says the landslide Wednesday blocked the river that feeds into the Fraser River, and a sudden release of water "may cause rapid rises in river levels downstream along the Fraser River" south to Hope, B.C.