> Zheng said the grease accumulated so much over the summer that it broke off in chunks and damaged the district's wastewater treatment plant, costing about $25,000 to repair. > > "These fatbergs can really damage our infrastructure and require costly repairs. They can also cause sewer backups where you have raw sewage coming into homes and businesses."

> "Over time, people have been working on solutions and drilling down to what can actually save lives. You know, an increase in overdose prevention sites, apps that save lives, education around never using alone, education to young people who might be at risk and don't understand," she said.

> "Obviously the door is open and some people are infiltrating the system," André Lareau, an associate tax professor at Laval University in Quebec City, said in an interview. "But the CRA does not seem to have found the key to lock the door."

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> The British Columbia NDP appears to have fended off the Conservative surge by a razor thin margin and will form the next provincial government, CBC News projects. > > Whether the party forms a minority or majority government is still uncertain.

> The British Columbia NDP appears to have fended off the Conservative surge by a razor thin margin and will form the next provincial government, CBC News projects. > > Whether the party forms a minority or majority government is still uncertain.

> A tallying of mail-in and absentee voting ballots has widened the B.C. NDP's lead in two ridings, but the outcome for both districts won't be known until a full manual recount is completed on Sunday and Monday.

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> The election agency also says in a statement that screening of uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots has identified 65,000 votes provincewide that will also be tallied from Saturday until Monday, up from the previous estimate of 49,000.

> The election agency also says in a statement that screening of uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots has identified 65,000 votes provincewide that will also be tallied from Saturday until Monday, up from the previous estimate of 49,000.

> The NDP candidate for the riding — which encompasses the communities of Sooke, Metchosin and Port Renfrew along with a swath of southern Vancouver Island west of Greater Victoria — is leading by just 20 votes, according to the latest information from Elections B.C.

> Reviving the mining sector could be the solution to the region’s economic sluggishness, while others decry a coming environmental disaster.

> The Alberta government is launching a $7-million advertising campaign in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in what it says is an effort to throw cold water on the federal government's plan to implement an emissions cap on the oil and gas sector.

> Read the promises of British Columbia's three main political parties on the pressing issues in the 2024 provincial election. These will be updated as parties add to their platforms ahead of the election.

> Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has committed explicitly to sending more Canadian natural gas to Germany and other European countries.

> In a press release from earlier this month, the province says it has completed building the "Electric Highway," a network of 155 charging sites and more than 310 fast chargers that are located around 150 kilometres apart along all major roadways in B.C. This effort is part of its climate action plan, CleanBC.

"That was the methodology of the 1960s and 1970s. It was cheaper, quicker and easier just to put a river in a pipe in the ground and pave it and say, 'we'll deal with it later,'" Cosh said. "Now, it's later."