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While the GoodLife Fitness Victoria Marathon is still eight months away, 19 winners — charities chosen by organizers to be included in the event’s Times Colonist Charity Pledge Program — were announced Wednesday.

The Information Commissioner of Canada has been asked to probe the Harper government’s efforts to prevent media and the public from obtaining information from federal scientists.

THURSDAY, FEB. 21 Pacific Baroque Festival 2013 presents Welcome to All the Pleasures: The Music of Henry Purcell. Two performances, A Little Consort, 11 a.m. and Purcell’s Fantasy, 8 p.m. at Alix Goolden Hall, 907 Pandora Ave. Tickets at pacbaroque.

The B.C. government continues to siphon hundreds of millions of dollars out of B.C. Hydro and the Insurance Corp. of B.C., in a bid to balance the provincial budget with profits that don’t really exist, the Opposition says. B.C.

B.C. snowbirds who holiday out of the province will be able to stay away longer without losing their basic medical coverage, the government said Wednesday.

He may have been a day late, but Len Barrie was not short on good humour and confidence as he came to court for the first day of a trial for unfiled taxes.

The B.C. government plans to drastically reduce the average amount of money it spends on adults with developmental disabilities over the next three years, budget documents show.

The Royal B.C. Museum hopes a blockbuster summer exhibit helps it weather a $300,000 reduction in provincial funding. The museum’s provincial grant will be reduced to $11.86 million in 2013-14 from $12.

The Pacific salmon is now B.C.’s official fish.

TORONTO - Ontario's highest court has signalled that the right of police officers to look through someone's phone depends on whether there's a password.