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Nanaimo the best city for quality of life in B.C. — or so says a new global ranking

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Nanaimo's downtown walkway and harbourfront

The results are in: Nanaimo has the best quality of life in British Columbia. Assuming you believe a website based on user surveys, at least.

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U.S. plane used in boat strike was disguised as civilian aircraft, contrary to Pentagon regulation

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The plane used by the U.S. military to strike a boat accused of smuggling drugs off the coast of Venezuela last fall was painted to look like a civilian aircraft, a move that appears to be at odds with the Pentagon's manual on the laws of war.

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Staples Canada did not fully wipe personal information from resold laptops, says privacy watchdog

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A large red and brown building is shown in a strip mall setting with cars parked outside. The word 'Staples' is affixed to the building's exterior.

The federal privacy watchdog has found Staples Canada did not fully remove personal information from returned laptops that it later resold.

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McDonald's Canada to freeze price of small coffee, drop cost of value meals for one year

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McDonald's Canada will freeze the price of a small cup of coffee at $1 for at least a year and drop the price of its McValue meals to $5 for the same duration, its CEO announced on Tuesday.

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Malaysia, Indonesia become 1st countries to block Musk's Grok over sexualized AI images

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A phone displaying images of Elon Musk and logos for his social media app X is seen next to logos for his artificial intelligence company xAI and Grok, the generative AI chatbot developed for the social media app.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk's company xAI, as concerns grew among global authorities that it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images.

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Trial begins for journalist suing RCMP for arrest at pipeline protest camp near Prince George, B.C.

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Photojournalist Amber Bracken and The Narwhal say RCMP violated Charter rights when they unlawfully arrested and detained Bracken at a Coastal GasLink pipeline protest camp on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern B.C. in 2021.

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