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Massive fire continues on Halifax-bound container ship

HALIFAX – A second offshore support vessel has arrived off Canada’s east coast to help fight a fire that has been burning for days aboard a large container vessel bound for Halifax. “Several containers are still burning,” Tim Seifert, a spokesman for the international shipping company Hapag-Lloyd, said in an email Monday from Hamburg, Germany. […]

By Greg Meckbach | January 7, 2019

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Judges disagree on whether a sandbar is a highway

The definition of “highway,” which is often debated in coverage disputes, is not as broad as some might think, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia has ruled. Robert Adam took Insurance Corporation of B.C. to court after he was hit by a vehicle and injured on a sandbar on the Fraser River near Chilliwack. […]

By Greg Meckbach | January 4, 2019

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Flood watches in British Columbia result from heavy rain

VANCOUVER – Rainfall, wind, snow and winter storm warnings have been lifted for all of southern B.C. after a powerful system swept across the province leaving flooded or snow-clogged roads in its wake. On Vancouver Island, torrential downpours forced flood watches or high streamflow advisories for several waterways and the deluge also prompted a boil […]

By Greg Meckbach | January 4, 2019

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Half a metre of snow dumped on Newfoundland

GANDER, N.L. – Residents of Gander, Nfld. are digging out after one of the biggest snowfalls ever recorded there – nearly two feet. A powerful storm blanketed much of the province Wednesday, with St. John’s and some other communities getting more than 40 centimetres. But it was Gander in central Newfoundland that was hardest hit, […]

By Greg Meckbach | January 3, 2019

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