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Easing mortgage stress test better for first-time buyers: critics

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

The new federal budget includes a plan for Canada’s housing agency to offer interest-free loans to first-time homebuyers, but mortgage brokers, real estate agents and economists...

Canadian shipbuilders square off over future of multibillion-dollar plan

Liberals promise billions for dairy, chicken farmers affected by trade deals

Liberals promise tax credit, EI benefit to help workers

First Nations, cities support B.C.'s plan to require permits for pipelines

Paper Excellence completes deal for three mills

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B.C. not trying to stop Trans Mountain, but aims to protect environment: lawyer

Kevin Greenard: It’s tax time — will you do it yourself, or hire a professional?

Survey: Top CEOs report weaker economic outlook for 1Q

Gunmen fire on uranium convoy in Brazil; no injuries

Federal Reserve foresees no interest rate hikes in 2019

CP Rail designates first woman to head railway's board of directors

Uber expands its freight operations into Europe

Targeted methane emission cut rules estimated to save billions, says CERI study

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How the CRD budget rocks pocketbooks of homeowners with $644 million in spending

How to protect yourself from the trust trap

B.C. to start measles 'catch-up' campaign, offering shots at schools, clinics

6 Reasons Why Parksville Qualicum Beach Is The Most Relaxing Place In BC

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Scientists fear communications chill in polarized media landscape

Trans woman hopes funding cut will send message to Vancouver rape ...

Man injured in avalanche at ski resort in B.C. as temperatures create...

Conservation group says dead sea lion was found with gunshot wound in...

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B.C. Book Prizes packed with Vancouver Island nominees

Victoria singer-songwriter’s song featured on American Idol

Jay-Z, Dead & Co, the Killers to perform at Woodstock 50

Jerry Lee Lewis cancels shows, is recovering from stroke

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In the news today, March 21

'It has to send a message:' Broncos families await sentencing for truck driver

MPs continue voting marathon as Tories protest shutdown of Wilson-Raybould motion

Legault government has long list of promises to fulfil with first budget today

Local

An ocean of plastic changes everything — even what we eat

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Walk along any beach on B.C.’s coast and you will likely spot bits of plastic. Go out into the middle of the Gulf of Alaska in the middle of winter and it’s there, too. “Even here on the . . .

Local

Woman sexually assaulted by man with a knife in Gordon Head area

Cindy E. Harnett ,  Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Neighbours are concerned after a report of a sexual assault with a weapon early Sunday at a normally quiet townhouse complex in Gordon Head. Saanich police said the attack happened about 2 a.m. . . .

Local

Second heart transplant for former soccer star Simon Keith

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

Victoria-raised former soccer star Simon Keith, who made world headlines as the first player to play pro soccer after a heart transplant, received a second heart transplant Sunday and a kidney . . .

National

Family searches for man who went missing while on healing journey near Tofino

Amy Smart / The Canadian Press

The evidence of Travis Damon Thomas's survival is scarce but his uncle says it's scattered around a remote island off the coast of Vancouver Island: a circle of footprints, the remains of a sea . . .

Local

This isn’t what voters wanted, councillor says of Victoria’s vision

Bill Cleverley / Times Colonist

From pioneering zero-waste initiatives to replacing non-native flowers with native plantings, Victoria’s strategic plan is full of a lot of expensive actions that residents never said they wanted, . . .

Local

Hundreds of tiny tremors recorded between Victoria and Seattle

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

It’s not the type of tweet you want to read just before bedtime. “Several hundred tiny tremors (not felt) between Victoria and Seattle in the past 24 hours,” Earthquake guy posted Tuesday night. . . .

Local

Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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