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Sekyiwa “Set” Shakur poses atop her late brother Tupac Shakur’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame during a posthumous ceremony in his honor on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in Los Angeles. The late rapper and actor is pictured at right. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Tupac Shakur receives Walk of Fame star honor in the same month as birthday

Nanaimo RCMP have reported a man has died on June 7 after going into medical distress while swimming at Westwood Lake. (Black Press Media file photo)
Man dies after going into medical distress while swimming in Vancouver Island lake

Hope RCMP are looking into a serious spate of alleged hate crimes in Hope, just days into the community’s first Pride festival. (Kemone Moodley/Hope Standard/Megan te Boekhorst)
PHOTOS: Pride flag set on fire during night of alleged hate crime in Hope

Three-year-old Deerat Kaur Chahal enjoys some time at Skaha Park. Her family and her are being deported if a reprieve isn’t given. (Mark Brett / Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)
Okanagan MP, community rallies to keep young family from being deported

A combination of dried-out forests, potentially strong winds and lightning could make for a “very challenging” fire season in 2023, which has already turned to be unprecedented in many ways, provincial officials said Thursday (June 8) during a news conference. (Black Press Media file photo)
Officials warn of ‘very challenging’ fire season ahead in B.C.

Canada has had several big-name movies shot across the country, some of which may be surprising. (anncapictures/Pixabay.com)
10 movies you might not have known have scenes shot in Canada

FILE - In this April 25, 2019 file photo, Anna Sorokin, who claimed to be a German heiress, sits at the defense table during jury deliberations in her trial at New York State Supreme Court, in New York. Sorokin, who is currently under house arrest in New York, has a new podcast, “The Anna Delvey Show.” (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Under house arrest, fake heiress Anna ‘Delvey’ Sorokin launches podcast to rehab public image

A Corsi-Rosenthal air purifier built by Liz Hradil is seen at her home in Syracuse, N.Y. after the wildfire smoke covered much of New York Wednesday, June 7, 2023. The method involves taping four air filters together with a box fan. Experts say the DIY method is highly effective against filtering air indoors against wildfire smoke. (Liz Hradil via AP)
Social media helps invent, then circulate info on DIY air purifiers amid wildfire smoke

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FILE - The Iron Sheik arrives at the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles on July 15, 2009. The Iron Sheik, born Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, died Wednesday, June 7, 2023, at age 81. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)
The Iron Sheik, charismatic former pro wrestling villain and Twitter personality, dies at 81
Prince Harry arrives at the High Court in London, Tuesday, June 6, 2023. Prince Harry is due at a London court to testify against a tabloid publisher he accuses of phone hacking and other unlawful snooping. Harry alleges that journalists at the Daily Mirror and its sister papers used unlawful techniques on an “industrial scale” to get scoops. Publisher Mirror Group Newspapers is contesting the claims. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Prince Harry testifies the tabloids destroyed his childhood, but fails to recall specific stories
FILE - This May 14, 2018 file photo shows Chuck Todd at the 2018 NBCUniversal Upfront in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Chuck Todd leaving NBC political panel show ‘Meet the Press’ and being replaced by Kristen Welker
FILE - Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 20, 2020. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)
NASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects
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FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks as he announces a third run for President, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 15, 2022. Trump and his aides are bracing for a potential indictment in the classified documents investigation as prosecutors handling the probe were spotted at a Miami courthouse where a grand jury has been hearing from witnesses. Trump's lawyers have been told that he is a target of the investigation, the clearest indication yet that criminal charges could be coming soon, according to one person familiar with the matter. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)
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B.C’s Health Minister Adrian Dix, right, and Fraser Health CEO Dr. Victoria Lee at a health care announcement at Surrey Memorial Hospital in Surrey on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Anna Burns)
Dix plans summer tour as B.C. hospitals, health care facing ‘crises’
Vancouver Island Ferry Company’s Hullo vessels at the Damen Group facility in Vietnam. (CNW Group/Vancouver Island Ferry Company photo)
Nanaimo to Vancouver Hullo Ferries announces fare prices, service to begin in August
A Chilkat blanket, created in a Tlingit community in the 1800s, is seen in an undated handout photo. A man who is helping return the 140-year-old robe to the British Columbia First Nation where it was created says it’s as if the regalia called out to its people and they are bringing it home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Taku River Tinglit First Nation
B.C. First Nation buys back 140-year-old robe, paying almost $40,000 to bring it home
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Millions breathing hazardous air as smoke from Canadian wildfires streams south over US
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Feds warn 2023 on track to be the worst fire season ever seen in Canada
Bigg’s Killer Whales, more commonly seen off B.C. shores, are recorded in a hunting and feeding frenzy in the waters off California. (evanb_ocean for the California Killer Whale Project/Instagram)
VIDEO: B.C. Bigg’s whales spotted in hunting frenzy in California waters
Tim Hortons is launching a no-annual-fee credit card in the coming months that can be used through its mobile app. Tim Hortons signage is pictured in Ottawa on Wednesday Sept. 7, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Tim Hortons to launch credit card through mobile rewards app
The Matsqui Institution, a medium-security federal men’s prison, is seen in Abbotsford, B.C., Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017. An architect of the legislation governing Canada’s prison system says while most want retribution on killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo, it was some time ago that the country “gave up torture.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Canadians want revenge on Bernardo, but that’s not how prison works: ex-official
Premier David Eby said B.C.’s economy is doing well overall in pointing to labour shortages. But he acknowledged that some sectors are struggling following the release of a report critical of higher costs caused by government policies. Eby rejected calls for changes to the Employers Health Taxes, but added that government is working with the forestry sector and parts of the tourism/hospitality sector. (John Arendt - Summerland Review)
Report questions B.C.’s Employer Health Tax, but Eby says no plans for change
The Canadian Coast guard’s medium icebreaker Henry Larsen is seen in Allen Bay during Operation Nanook near Resolute, Nvt, Aug. 25, 2010. New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade
Construction cranes tower above condos under construction near southeast False Creek in Vancouver on February 9, 2020. Nine-in-10 Canadian construction companies say a chronic shortage of skilled labour is impacting their ability to bid on projects and meet project deadlines amid unprecedented demand. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Canadian construction companies say digital technology key to addressing labour shortages