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2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts

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Simon Donner and Catherine Abreu have resigned from Canada's net-zero advisory body.

Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas projects.

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Nearly 25% of British Columbians used a food bank in 2025, report says

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A report from Food Banks BC found that more people with full-time jobs continued to need support from the food bank.



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Is it illegal to spoil Christmas? Police in Ontario get complaints about anti-Santa signs

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A man with a red suit and white beard waves

Police in Brantford, Ont., confirmed with CBC News that they received calls from upset residents, as well as online and in-person complaints, after a house along the parade route posted anti-Santa signs in its windows.

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Next they will come after your "birds aren't real" posters I see around
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ICBC to recall Kamloops man's 'FIVE-0' licence plate due to police reference

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A Ford truck features a B.C. vanity licence plate reading "FIVE-0". It has stickers added to the plate reading "Insured by Smith & Wesson."

A Kamloops, B.C., man's personalized licence plate is being recalled by ICBC due to its reference to the police. Jimmy Jay, however, says he's had the plates for almost a decade and thinks he should be grandfathered in.

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For the first time since 1988, the U.S. is not officially commemorating World AIDS Day

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The U.S. has marked World AIDS Day — the first global day dedicated to a health issue — since its creation in 1988. From left: President Joe Biden delivers remarks at a World AIDS Day event on the South Lawn at the White House on December 1, 2024. President George W. Bush with First Lady Laura Bush commemorate World AIDS Day on December 1, 2008 on the North Lawn of the White House.

Noting the decision not to mark the day, the State Department stated: "An awareness day is not a strategy." Activists in the fight to end the ongoing AIDS epidemic disagree.

(Image credit: Annabelle Gordon/Getty Images; Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

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Endangered Vancouver Island marmot population rebounds to 427

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A man wearing a facemask holds a marmot in his hands while at a tent.

When the Marmot Recovery Foundation first began releasing marmots into the wild in 2003, there were just 22 remaining.

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