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Teacher shortages persisted this school year. What's being done to fill the gap for the next?

Kids facing one substitute teacher after another. French taught by a non-speaker. Uncertified adults supervising classrooms. What's behind teacher shortages that plagued this school year and what's being done to improve the situation for the next?

First Nations have plan to move problem grizzly but need go-ahead from B.C.

A legislator with the Tla’amin Nation says there is a plan — and funding — to trap the grizzly on Texada Island and move it 100 kilometres away to Bute Inlet, so far that it wouldn’t be able to swim back. But so far, they don’t have a sign-off from the province to proceed.
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Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's city hall gym is no more

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has quietly backpedalled away from a controversial fitness initiative. Last year, a city hall boardroom was taken over by the mayor's office and converted into a gym. Now, the gym equipment has been taken away, and as Justin McElroy reports, it's not the only pivot the mayor has made around his public persona in recent months.

Bankers, athletes, students are using drugs. This hotline tries to keep them safe

Since the National Overdose Response Service (NORS) launched nearly five years ago, it's been reaching drug users who wouldn't typically use consumption and treatment sites. 

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