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Welcome to Gravysmith: Behind rapper Yung Gravy’s small-town B.C. takeover

Live there long enough and you’ve probably seen some of those faces before in small-town Vancouver Island. Maybe one was attached to somebody wrapping a choice cut of beef for you at Ladysmith’s Bouma Meats, or serving up a plate of curried chicken to your table at the Haida Way diner in Chemainus. But before

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‘Nature’s great migration’: salmon spawn showing positive trends on B.C. coast

Spawning season is underway on the B.C. coast. Throughout November, chum and coho salmon are spawning, and according to the Pacific Salmon Foundation’s State of the Salmon report, both species are making a comeback. “It’s just a really cool opportunity to see these species come back and spawn in your backyard,” said Eric Hertz, foundation

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BC Highway Patrol issues almost 8,000 speeding tickets in October campaign

A lot of people probably wish that summer — and summer weather — was still here, and in October nearly 8,000 drivers in B.C. were presumably trying to defy the calendar by driving as if road conditions were ideal. Unfortunately for them, speed limits matter even more than usual when days get shorter and weather

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