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Victoria zooms forward with plan to slow down as council approves lower speed limits

Victoria drivers will soon need to ease off the gas as the city prepares to lower speed limits on most arterial and collector roads. City council unanimously approved a plan this week to reduce speed limit to 40 km/h on most major streets, with some dropping to 30 km/h.

Vancouver developer pays $8.5M for 99-year lease of school property

A majority of the board voted on Wednesday to pass bylaws to kickstart the disposal process of 1.6 hectares of "surplus" land just south of Sir Sandford Elementary School, that will be leased to Vittori Developments, a private company.

Charges recommended after SPCA seizes 59 dogs from puppy mill in Quesnel, B.C.

The B.C. SPCA is recommending charges against a Quesnel, B.C., woman after the society says it found nearly 60 dogs and over a dozen birds living in squalid conditions on her property. 
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My Japanese grandpa questions my decision to return to B.C. — the place where he lost so much

Nick Yoshida lived through the horrors of the Japanese internment during the 1940s, and since being forced from the province of British Columbia, has refused to go back. His granddaughter, Nicole Ing, shares her thoughts and feelings after she moved from Toronto to Vancouver, a place that holds so much pain for him and so much possibility for her.

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