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  • Penticton students help launch ‘Friendly Streets’ initiative
    This is the first of many street painting projects planned for Penticton, which includes community collaboration, asphalt art and other creative elements.
    Canada
    May 3
  • Man attacked vehicle with hatchet: Winnipeg police
    According to police, an armed man was spotted Monday around 2:30 a.m., damaging a vehicle on Weitzel Street.
    Crime
    Apr 30
  • RCMP ask for public’s help after armed robbery in Selkirk, Man.
    RCMP are looking for a man after an armed robbery at a store on Main Street in Selkirk, Man. Mounties said he had a handgun, demanded money and then ran away.
    Crime
    Apr 8
  • Man charged after stabbing on Oshawa street: police
    Durham Regional Police said officers responded to an armed person call at around 11:20 p.m. on Thursday in the Simcoe Street South and Bagot Street area.
    Crime
    Apr 1
  • Court strikes down parts of Ontario panhandling law as unconstitutional
    The case was launched in 2017 by the Fair Change legal clinic against the Safe Streets Act, the second constitutional challenge against the law that has been in force since 2000.
    Canada
    Apr 3
  • Downtown Eastside artist featured at Emily Carr University exhibit
    The art exhibition is the culmination of a course on the impact of graffiti culture launched by a B.C. university professor.
    Education
    Apr 7
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  • Banksy art exhibition debuts in London, Ont. next month
    Banksy, regarded as one of the most valuable artists of our time, has an exhibit making its Canadian debut in London, Ont.
    Canada
    Mar 28
  • ‘They’re people, they matter’: N.B. artist creates mural to honour those who died while homeless
    The mural has now become a collaborative art piece, where members of the homeless population leave messages for each other, or tributes for those who have died.
    Canada
    Apr 23
  • Life in the forest: How Stanley Park’s longest resident survived a changing landscape
    Christenson Bailey could go weeks in Stanley Park without speaking to another person. He spent his time meditating, studying the forest, and making art.
    Canada
    Apr 18
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  • Feel-good Friday: Global BC’s highlights of the week
    An iconic arm-wrestler, Canada's first Filipino immigrant's B.C. roots and an exhibit by a Vancouver graffiti artist are among the good news stories we're sharing this week.
    Trending
    Apr 12
  • Calgary Event Centre designs could be public this summer: committee chair
    On Monday, Calgary's Event Centre Committee is set to meet for the first time since February to privately discuss preparations for a development permit.
    Canada
    May 2
  • Feel-good Friday: Global BC’s highlights of the week
    We met a man this week who has lived for more than 30 years in Stanley Park. Christenson Bailey has made himself a home among the trees but now he is looking at a new future.
    Trending
    Apr 19
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  • Central Edmonton residents call for ban on knife sales at corner stores: ‘They’re designed to kill’
    A group of central Edmonton community leagues and organizations say knives are too easily bought in convenience stores, and want the city to crack down.
    Crime
    Apr 3
  • Unique leather shop in Plateau-Mont-Royal to close after rent triples
    It's hard not to marvel at what Dan Rogers' store front has to offer: part improptu art gallery, part custom leather atelier. it's a staple of the Petit-Laurier neighborhood.
    Canada
    Apr 1
  • Door-kicking suspects sought in 5th incident targeting North Vancouver home
    Officers say a house on Mahon Avenue near 15th Street, owned by seniors, has been targeted five times by various acts of vandalism involving youth.
    Crime
    Feb 19
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  • Ambitious health, housing overhaul in the works for Portage Place site
    The site of the beleaguered mall is set for an ambitious redevelopment, anchored by the Health-Care Centre of Excellence -- a planned 300,000-square foot, 12-storey tower.
    Canada
    Apr 5
  • Banksy confirms mural that appeared overnight in London is his work
    Banksy took credit for the massive art piece on his Instagram after rumours swirled about the origin of the mural.
    Trending
    Mar 18
  • Police raid magic mushrooms stores in Cambridge and Kitchener again
    Waterloo Regional Police say they conducted raids at magic mushrooms stores in Cambridge and Kitchener for the third time in less than a month.
    Crime
    May 3
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  • Edmonton police charge man in 3 armed robberies involving handguns, shotgun
    A 39-year-old man has been charged with several firearms- and robbery-related offences following three armed robberies in Edmonton late last month.
    Crime
    May 2
  • Russia hits Kyiv in missile strike, Ukraine says
    A three-story building in central Kyiv was badly damaged in a Russian missile attack on Monday that saw missile debris fall in three other districts of the city, officials said.
    World
    Mar 25
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