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Metro Vancouver’s chair could step down amid a wastewater scandal, Cariboo has issued evacuation orders due to wildfires, and Vancouver has announced a free Summer Lights fireworks show on July 31. Metro Vancouver chair Jerry Dobrovolny could leave his post Metro Vancouver, the regional government that brings together 21 municipalities, appears to be on the verge of major personnel changes. As Global News learned, in a closed meeting of the board on Thursday, district directors instructed the...

Fairmont Chateau Whistler has been named Canada’s best resort by Travel + Leisure. Pamela Anderson showed off her slice of paradise in her garden on Vancouver Island. A Burnaby resident won $2 million in the lottery and plans to invest it in buying a home. Fairmont Chateau Whistler named Canada’s best resort by Travel + Leisure For travellers hoping to spend the summer away from the hustle and bustle but don’t want to leave British Columbia, the country’s top resort is just two hours by car...

The Canadian retailer London Drugs is cutting 80 jobs, a Burnaby resident has won $2 million and plans to buy a house, and a campfire ban is returning to the South Coast of British Columbia due to hot weather. A wave of layoffs at London Drugs: what lies behind the cut of 80 jobs In early July 2026, the Canadian chain of pharmacies and everyday goods London Drugs announced a major restructuring that will affect nearly all of its stores in British Columbia. According to an internal memo obtained...

Canada is accelerating the expansion of the Port of Vancouver to tap into Asian markets, a move that has sparked disputes with Indigenous communities. Rare thunderstorms with large hail are expected along the south coast of British Columbia. In downtown Vancouver, 161 rooms in the Regent emergency hotel will be demolished to make way for social housing. Canada accelerates expansion of the Port of Vancouver: a new strategy to reach markets beyond the US The Government of Canada has announced...

The Vancouver Whitecaps FC has proposed taking over the management of BC Place Stadium, a move that could address revenue and scheduling problems. At the same time, the mayor of Vancouver criticized the province for placing new involuntary-treatment beds in other cities, leaving Vancouver with a disproportionate burden. Vancouver Whitecaps make a bid to run BC Place: a lifeline for fans After months of anxiety about the future of the Vancouver Whitecaps, a glimmer of hope has finally emerged....

In today’s digest: Vancouver Mayor criticizes the government over a shortage of involuntary treatment spaces, two earthquakes with no tsunami threat, and a medical emergency on a BC Ferries ferry that caused delays. Title: Vancouver mayor accuses B.C. government of ignoring the city’s needs for involuntary care Over the past few days, a political dispute has erupted in the Canadian province of British Columbia over how resources are allocated for involuntary care for people with serious mental...

In British Columbia, the nurses’ strike is expanding to Vancouver Island, Metro Vancouver is easing water restrictions to Stage 2 after a key water main repair, and firefighters are investigating a suspicious fire in a multi-unit building on Broadway. BC nurses’ strike expands to Vancouver Island The nurses’ strike in British Columbia, which began July 2, is gaining momentum. While picketing was previously focused on the province’s largest hospitals in Vancouver and Surrey, the protest has now...

In the digest: BC nurses expand their strike on Vancouver Island; an Indigenous community criticises the lack of consultation over a new pipeline; the Whitecaps return to BC Place for a key match against LAFC. BC nurses expand picket lines on Vancouver Island According to information published by CTV News, members of the British Columbia Nurses’ Union (BCNU) have expanded their strike pickets on Vancouver Island. A photo taken July 7, 2026 shows protesters outside Vancouver General Hospital in...

In this roundup: a fishing vessel wreck off the coast leaves six dead, a nurses’ strike with mediators appointed, and the arrest in France of a Vancouver-area resident wanted in the United States over alleged links to international organized crime. “Two boats went out together”: tragedy off Vancouver raises questions about negligence and rescue New information is shedding light on the circumstances behind the tragic deaths of six people off British Columbia, after the small charter fishing...

Three very different news items — about the US Congress, the biggest media deal in Hollywood, and a long-running criminal case — are really about the same thing: in the American system, decisions are rarely quick, and any major turning points almost always run into procedural barriers, legal disputes and battles over interpretation. Somewhere the question is whether the House will remain in session in Washington until the end of the week; somewhere it’s whether a merger of two media empires...

Taken together, these pieces show not just three separate stories, but a broader backdrop of the times: the world is living with a high level of uncertainty, where military risks, natural disasters, and even sports rumors are part of the same logic—an unstable logic in which any event rapidly shifts the balance of power, expectations, and interpretations. In one case, it’s the deaths of American service members in the Middle East and the derailment of a fragile ceasefire; in another, it’s the...

If you look at three very different news stories together, you can immediately see how differently the modern information stream is structured: one story is about a sudden threat to a child’s life and the fragility of everyday safety; another is about an international escalation, where leaders’ decisions can change the course of a conflict; and the third is about sports, which long ago stopped being only sport and has become a battleground for cultural and political disputes. These pieces are...

Across three different sources — from Detroit Free Press, ClickOnDetroit and KATV — a single common picture emerges: extreme weather has stopped being a rare, unavoidable event and has become a stress test for cities, infrastructure, and the warning systems themselves. In Michigan, smoke from Canadian and Minnesota wildfires is blanketing Detroit, worsening air quality; in Texas, heavy rains turn rivers into a deadly threat again; and in Arkansas, local outlets are running stories covering...

At first glance, these three pieces are about entirely different things: Iran’s strikes on American targets in the Middle East, the detention of a man by ICE officers at Las Vegas airport, and Donald Trump’s evening address in which he once again tries to rewrite the story of the 2020 election and tighten control over the electoral system. But viewed more broadly, they share one theme: the struggle for power through the demonstration of vulnerability. In one case, it is the military...

The common thread in these materials is not so much the specific events, but the collision of systemic risks with the human factor. In one case, it’s a natural disaster, where speed of response, coordination, and trust in official warnings come to the forefront. In a second, it’s domestic violence and the collapse of private security, when the law-enforcement system tries to stop a conflict from escalating. In a third, it’s the potential misuse of official access in the world of financial...

Five minutes can turn a familiar route into a risk zone, and a quiet street into a scene of police roadblocks. All three reports are about more than just incidents: they show how quickly and forcefully local events interrupt the work of roads, services, and ordinary city life. One story involves a fatal crash on I-95 in Florida, another is a police standoff in Kentucky, and the third is a water main break in Pennsylvania that shut down a key bypass route. At first glance these news items seem...

Almost all the materials you sent appear, at first glance, to be about different things: motocross, a media business, a political campaign, and a hockey transfer. But if you string them together into a single line, the overall story turns out to be surprisingly similar. In all three sources, the focus isn’t just yet another piece of news about a signing, an endorsement, or a move—it’s a broader struggle for institutional trust: who people believe in, who can strengthen the system, and how...

If you look at these three pieces together, they are united not by a shared plot, but by a broader theme: how news becomes a tool for managing attention. In one case, it concerns an appointment in the national security sphere, where behind dry wording lies a struggle for control over intelligence and the electoral agenda. In another, it’s an NHL hockey transfer presented as the club’s shrewd bet on a veteran player who is also “healthy.” In the third, it’s a road incident that instantly turned...

On Monday morning, oil quotes lost their initial rise and fell below the $90-per-barrel mark. Brent futures dropped to $87.9, while West Texas Intermediate fell to $81.8, although earlier in the session they had reached their highest levels since June. The reversal was driven by statements from Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the possibility of resuming talks with the United States, taking into account Tehran’s interests, which eased concerns about disruptions to supplies through the...

Journalist Carlos Montero has released declassified data from the United States Central Intelligence Agency regarding elections in Venezuela. According to the documents that were published, American intelligence finds no evidence of vote-rigging and concludes that the election results in favor of the incumbent were driven not by manipulation, but by deep-seated political and social processes within the country. The information was shared via the social network X and sparked lively debate among...

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced that the ninth wave of strikes on Iranian targets has been completed, saying they were aimed at new areas. In Washington, officials stressed that the attacks were a response to the deaths of American servicemembers, while leaving the door open for diplomatic solutions. The bombardments targeted military command centers, air-defense systems, coastal radar, missile and drone launch sites, as well as communications networks—all aimed at reducing Iran’s...

Sunday marked another flare-up in the military standoff: Iran’s armed forces said they carried out drone strikes on American military facilities in Kuwait. In response, Bahrain and Kuwait said their air defence systems intercepted Iranian aerial attacks, and explosions were heard in a number of cities. The actions formed part of an escalation that began after a series of mutual accusations and strikes. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced that it shot down a US...

Acting President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez made a public call for the creation of a new civic ethic grounded in love, mutual understanding, and a willingness to help those in need—she said this principle is key to overcoming the current challenges and restoring the country. The statement was delivered during a formal awards ceremony honoring rescue teams and the country’s canine units that were recognized for their work in eliminating the aftermath of an emergency in the state of La Guaira....

Military confrontation between the United States and Iran has sharply escalated despite the signing, on June 18, of a memorandum of understanding between the parties. An investigation by Al Jazeera showed that the main reason behind the collapse of the “truce” was disagreements over how to interpret its provisions, as well as rapidly unfolding events in the area of the Strait of Hormuz. Political contacts continued, but they failed to prevent a slide toward the most dangerous scenario since the...

The world is reacting to Washington’s moves with increasing nervousness: headlines are increasingly filled with doubts about the reliability of U.S. promises, accusations of political favoritism, and hints that American influence does not work as a guarantee of security, but rather as a tool of pressure. Against this backdrop, some players openly resist the logic of sanctions and military signaling, while others build their own political positions—while distancing themselves from U.S. rhetoric...

The United States continues air strikes on Iran for the seventh night in a row. Tehran says the attacks are aimed at civilian infrastructure in the southern and central parts of the country. In response, Iran is broadening its threats—from blocking the Strait of Hormuz to striking vital facilities in neighboring states. U.S. President Donald Trump has promised large-scale ground and air operations, and Iranian military officials have said they are moving to a “phase of total offensive,”...

Senior analyst on threats for Latin America Jeff Ramsey said that a CIA report on possible vote manipulation in Venezuela is not conclusive and does not confirm large-scale electronic fraud. According to him, although U.S. intelligence flagged “serious concerns,” the same data suggests that other factors better explain the voting results. Ramsey stressed that the document does not prove that the falsification attempt was successful, thereby refuting widespread suspicions.

Imagine your mom works all day—clearing tables in a café, washing dishes, smiling at customers—and then comes home in the evening and realizes that the money still isn’t enough for a decent dinner. Not because she’s working badly. Because that’s just how the rules are set up. This is exactly what was happening to thousands of people in the American city of Seattle—and that’s why one of the most unusual stories about how ordinary people can change the law began there. A woman with a microphone...

Imagine this: one morning, your family loses everything. Your job, your money, your apartment. You need somewhere to live — right now, today. All you have are your hands, a little pile of old boards, and a strip of land by the water. What would you do? Exactly this kind of choice faced thousands of people in Seattle almost a hundred years ago. And they did something astonishing. When everything collapsed In 1929, America suffered a major disaster — one people call the Great Depression. It isn’t...

Imagine you live in a quiet neighborhood where neighbors know each other by name, tomatoes and sunflowers grow in the yard, and a beautiful lake shimmers nearby. And then—construction cranes, trucks, and an entire city of glass and concrete rise right outside your window. Roughly what residents of the South Lake Union area in Seattle felt when Amazon moved in. But this story isn’t about how a big company broke everything. It’s about how ordinary people—moms, dads, kids, gardeners, and...

Imagine a huge, freezing cannery where the air reeks of fish, your hands get numb even in summer, and the workday never ends on time. In places like these—Seattle’s fish canneries—hundreds of young men from the Philippines worked in the 1930s. They were far from home, almost without money, and they knew little to no English. And yet, one day they told their bosses a firm “no.” That small word changed the city forever. Who were these young men—and why did they end up in Seattle? In those years,...

Imagine that every year you have to walk home the same way—through the forest, across the river, past old trees. You know the route by heart, the way your mother, your grandmother, and your great-grandmother do. And then one day, right in the middle of the road, someone builds a huge concrete wall. And says, “Don’t worry—we built a small stairway on the side.” That’s roughly what happened to Seattle’s salmon more than a hundred years ago, in 1917. What are locks, and why were they built In...

When you hear the words “Battle for Seattle,” you immediately imagine something out of a movie: cannons, ships, heroic soldiers. And yes—some of that really happened. But the real story—one that is almost never told—is completely different. It’s the story of how a tiny town survived not because of an army, but because of friendship and trust among people who, it seemed, had no reason to be friends at all. A Town the Size of a School Picture January 1856. Seattle isn’t a vast modern city with...

In Seattle’s prettiest park stands a tall brick tower. If you climb its spiral staircase — with 106 steps, no less — you can see the whole city at a glance: mountains, the bay, rooftops stretching as far as the eye can see. Tourists photograph it every day. But almost nobody knows exactly who built it — and what courage it took to do it. The Park, the Tower, and a Great Thirst In the early 1900s, Seattle was growing fast. Every month, thousands of new residents arrived in the city — people...

Imagine living with a large, close-knit family—your mom, your grandmother, your brothers and sisters. You eat together, play together, talk in your special language. And then one day boats arrive—and half your family is taken away somewhere far off. Forever. That’s exactly what happened to the orcas of Puget Sound in Washington State more than fifty years ago. And the most surprising part is that people did it out of love—though that love turned into a great tragedy. A Family That Never Breaks...

Imagine that one day you had to leave very far away — so far that your mom or grandma’s favorite food simply stopped existing. Not because it was banned, but because the grass used to make it doesn’t grow in the new country. That’s what happened to thousands of Vietnamese families who arrived in Seattle after the war — and they found a solution worthy of true engineers. When the favorite soup stayed on the other side of the ocean After the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, many families were...