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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Jennifer Aniston may have played a terrible manager in the 2011 comedy "Horrible Bosses," but in real life the actor turned-director/producer says she's a total "pushover" when in charge.

LONDON - Margaret Thatcher's life began in a simple grocer's shop but it was the complexity of her legacy that was marked Wednesday at a funeral that drew thousands from around the world.

A memorial service honouring the crew of HMCS Esquimalt — the last Canadian warship lost to enemy action during the Second World War — was held at Esquimalt Memorial Park on Tuesday. The ship was torpedoed near Halifax on April 16, 1945.

Premier Christy Clark tried to use her first campaign stop Tuesday to boost the fortunes of local B.C. Liberal candidates, as a new poll showed her party slipping below the B.C. Greens in popularity on Vancouver Island.

B.C. New Democrats are very inclusive. They’ll take just about anybody who wants to be a candidate. The party’s loose approach to picking candidates has been shown several times over the years. The B.C.

Four doctors poised to walk out of a senior-focused Victoria clinic next month say they requested an emergency meeting with the Vancouver Island Health Authority but have not had a response.

An injured hiker was brought to safety in a rescue operation that saw a Langford volunteer firefighter hurt when his all-terrain vehicle went down a hill backward.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 Randy Bachman: Vinyl Tap Tour — Every Song Tells a Story, 7:30 p.m. at the McPherson Playhouse. Tickets at rmts.bc.ca or tel. 250-386-6121. K-OS with Rich Aucoin, 8 p.m., at Sugar Nightclub, 858 Yates St.

The RCMP has revised the list of survivors of a helicopter crash Saturday near Bute Inlet. Initial reports indicated that four men and a woman survived the crash.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has overturned the one-day jail sentence for an impaired driver who killed a motorcyclist on the Trans-Canada Highway on Canada Day 2011.