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Quebec’s video game industry will be affected by the controversial language law

Quebec video game companies will be affected by a controversial new language law. The aim of Bill 96 is to strengthen the language laws of the French-speaking province, ensuring that French is the main language spoken in everything from business to health care. However, it is feared that this will take those who do not …

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Explosive devices detonated in the landfill; an officer in the ICU after the shooting at Saanich’s bank

The RCMP’s bomb disposal unit removed “extremely dangerous” explosives from a suspicious vehicle at the scene of a robbery at an armed bank and a shooting, transported them to the Hartland landfill and destroyed Wednesday early in the afternoon, according to police. The RCMP’s bomb disposal unit removed “extremely dangerous” explosives from a suspicious vehicle …

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Vancouver’s KiSS FM has been playing Rage Against the Machine on repeat. Because?

Route links Local news The playlist for a song comes a day after hosts Kevin Lim, Sonia Sidhu and Tara Jean Stevens announce their departures from the radio station. KiSS 104.9 FM has been playing a single song all day Wednesday. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Postmedia Content of the article Vancouver radio station KiSS …

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Saanich police update condition of injured officers and confirm removal of explosive devices – Victoria News

Three members of the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT) injured in an exchange of gunfire outside a Saanich bench on Tuesday remain in hospital recovering from extensive surgeries, while three other injured officers have been released. The updated status of the six male officers, three from the Saanich department and three from Victoria, was …

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The Paris terrorist attacker is sentenced to life imprisonment without parole

The only survivor of a team of Islamic State extremists was convicted on Wednesday of murder and other charges and sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2015 bombings and shootings in Paris that killed 130 people in the deadliest peace attacks in French history. The special court also convicted 19 more men …

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2 agents undergo surgery, third in hospital after fatal shooting at Saanich bank 2 agents undergo surgery, third in hospital after fatal shooting in Saanich bank 2 agents undergo surgery, third in hospital after the deadly shooting at Saanich Bank

Police in Saanich, BC, are keeping an area near a bank evacuated while continuing to investigate a possible explosive device related to a deadly shooting with two suspected bank robbers. The two suspects were shot dead when police responded to the robbery and six officers were injured. Cap Const. Dean Duthie says two officers were …

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Ontario increases the amount landlords can raise their rent to the highest level in a decade

Ontario is more than doubling the maximum rate a landlord can increase a tenant’s rent next year, setting the highest rent increase pattern in the province in a decade. On Wednesday, the province announced that Ontario’s rent increase pattern for 2023 is 2.5 percent. Previously, landlords could increase rents by 1.2 per cent in 2022, …

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