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Wildfires in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, force thousands to evacuate.
2024-05-12

Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou reaches a deferred prosecution agreement, pleading not guilty to multiple fraud charges. Meng's extradition case was subsequently dropped and she was released after spending nearly three years under house arrest in Vancouver, Canada, reportedly travelling to Shenzhen, China.
2021-09-24

The discovery of 751 unmarked graves at the site of Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan, Canada, is announced, weeks after the remains of 215 children were found at a similar residential school in British Columbia.
2021-06-24

British Columbia reports Canada's first case of the Nigerian variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a young person from the Interior Health region who is currently self-isolating.
2021-02-12

400–500 people are left stranded at the Sasquatch Mountain Resort in British Columbia, Canada, after the road to the resort was damaged from landslides caused by heavy rain. Train service between Vancouver and Seattle was also suspended until Monday due to mudslides.
2020-02-1

Scientists announce through the "Nature" journal, the discovery of 13 deep-space fast radio bursts (FRBs), named FRB 180814, by the CHIME radio telescope in British Columbia, Canada.
2019-01-9

Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated from western Canada as firefighters continue to battle wildfires in Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. [http:--www.startribune.com-some-progress-in-quelling-wildfires-raging-in-canada-312734511- (AP via "Star Tribune")]date=August 2019
2015-07-8

A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits 94 km south of Port Hardy in the Canadian province of British Columbia at around 8:10 pm PDT. Seismic activity was felt as far as Kamloops.
2014-04-23

Voters in Canada's British Columbia Province go to the polls to select members to the province's Legislative Assembly.
2013-05-14

The XXI Olympic Winter Games competitions begin in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
2010-02-12