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Province approves disaster relief for flooded Cowichan Valley communities as hundreds flee

 
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Heavy flooding hit the Cowichan Valley Friday morning, leading to evacuation notices affecting hundreds of residents and the declaration of a state of emergency by the municipalities of Duncan and North Cowichan, and the Cowichan Tribes.
 
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Welfare clients' personal records found in government employee's home

 
The B.C. government is investigating a major security breach after police discovered the personal records of 1,400 income-assistance clients in the home of a government employee, the Times Colonist has learned.
 
 

Hornby Island musician's death a homicide, RCMP say

 
Results from a forensic autopsy on the 25-year-old woman found that foul play is suspected.
 
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Second World War veteran Doug Grant, also formerly of the Victoria Police Department, at his home in Oak Bay. Among other experiences, Grant was a Prisoner of War in a Japanese POW camp for several years, and was on the outskirts of Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945.

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Second World War veteran Doug Grant, also formerly of the Victoria Police Department, at his home in Oak Bay. Among other experiences, Grant was a Prisoner of War in a Japanese POW camp for several years, and was on the outskirts of Nagasaki when the second atomic bomb was dropped on August 9, 1945.

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