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British Columbia also wants the United States to lift legislation that allows ships travelling between Washington state and Alaska to sail past the province's ports without stopping.

Provincial police force and Alberta pension plan not on the ballot.

Farm groups are also calling for emergency relief funding through the AgriRecovery framework, a federal-provincial disaster assistance program. The country's agriculture ministers discussed the issue at a virtual federal-provincial-territorial meeting on Thursday.

Soon-to-be-published research on chronic wasting disease has raised new fears about whether the illness could infect humans. 

"We can actually have a six-day leading indicator prior to an outbreak occurring just because of the way the biology works with regards to the virus. ... We'll pick it up in the wastewater before it shows up in clinical case numbers."

The company is now offering $20 in cash or 0.25 of a Brookfield Infrastructure share for each Inter Pipeline share, with a cap on the number of shares that are available.

Most of the orders cover huge areas of the central Interior, but residents of 41 properties in the Okanagan, west of Peachland, were ordered out before dawn as the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen said a new fire threatens safety.

“After everything nurses have been through in this pandemic on the front lines, to have (it) escalate to minus three, honestly, I don't think anybody was really expecting that. It just feels so disrespectful, so disheartening,” said Orissa Shima, the nurses’ union representative for the Sturgeon Community Hospital.

Shell Canada Ltd. has announced plans to build a large-scale carbon capture and storage project at its Scotford Complex near Edmonton, part of its strategy to become a net-zero emissions company by 2050.

The president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms is stepping away from the Alberta-based organization after admitting to hiring a private investigator to follow a Manitoba judge.