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TORONTO - A teenager who choked herself to death in her prison cell was extraordinarily challenging in light of her severe mental illness but she was not unique, a psychiatrist testified Tuesday.

One young person ended up in a maternity ward, another was discharged to a homeless shelter. Even more got sent to adult psychiatric units where they suffered additional trauma. This is how B.C.

TORONTO - An inquest in Toronto is hearing a teenager who choked herself to death in prison was a textbook case of antisocial personality disorder.

Beavers are being blamed for considerable flooding of fields and forest at the park named for them, and people who live nearby want the Capital Regional District to rectify the situation.

OTTAWA - Bad advice from Conservative party headquarters appears to have caused headaches for Saskatchewan MPs, some of whom say they were caught off guard on the redrawing of the province's electoral map.

A motorcyclist suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries Monday afternoon after colliding with a car in the Douglas Street-Finlayson Road intersection.

VANCOUVER — Better prenatal diagnostic methods have led to more terminations of fetuses with congenital abnormalities, the reason why overall stillbirth rates in B.C. have risen by about a third in the past decade, a newly published study shows.

The B.C. Hospital Employees’ Union will make one more appeal to try to help 2,200 members ordered to repay the federal government for money given to them by the province — more than a decade after B.C. contracted out their jobs.

Victoria rower Adam Kreek and his mate Patrick Fleming were changing shifts on the research vessel they were rowing across the Atlantic when a rogue wave crashed over the stern, flooding their cabin. It was a shocking moment, just before 4 p.m.