B.C. firm’s remote watercraft taking care of ‘the dangerous and the boring’

Autonomous boats built in downtown Nanaimo are creating ripples across the marine technology sector. Shift Coastal Technologies is the brainchild of biologist-turned-entrepreneur James Spencer, who saw a need for marine vehicles that could get into dangerous shorelines that would be risky for crewed boats. Prior to developing autonomous vehicles, Spencer worked as a consultant with […]

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Meet Lance and Jagger, the only official search dog unit in Northwest B.C.

The time and money spent training a B.C. search dog unit is significant, but the only K9 handler in the Northwest for a search and rescue team says it is absolutely worth it. Lance Barrowman and his dog Jagger volunteer with the Houston Search and Rescue group. Barrowman has been involved with various search and

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Shock and cautious optimism: B.C. Venezuelan community reacts to arrest of president Nicolas Maduro

Shock. A very, very cautious optimism. And concern about the future. That was the reaction by many members of the Venezuelan community in B.C. to the capture of that country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife in Caracas by U.S. soldiers. Meriely Arias, a director of the Venezuelan Canadian Society of B.C. (VCSBC) first learned

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