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Ryan Chilibeck tells the National about the moment he witnessed a pod of orcas rub their bellies on rocks off B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.

The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but media reports quoted a spokesman suggesting that the proximity of the protest camp wasn't a coincidence.

Tsawak-qin Forestry Limited Partnership and Tsawak-qin Forestry Inc have been logging in the old-growth area since August 2025, and police have made a total of 15 arrests as they enforce a court injunction allowing the logging.

An organization that offers free mental health support and substance use care for youth will be able to expand its services to a new building in downtown Vancouver, thanks to the donation of a multimillion-dollar building from a private foundation.

James Di Francesco, the director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, located just north of Victoria, says previous theoretical understandings were that galaxy clusters don't become so hot so quickly.

The goal of tuneless choirs is simply joy, confidence and connection. There are no auditions and, perhaps obviously, no experience required.

"We felt we were really underserving those women. So we just had dreamt this up, almost literally on a napkin, at a conference."

Now, after gaining knowledge, experience and strength, she shoes massive draft horses on a regular basis — a job not all farriers will do because of how physically challenging it is.

“It is three times as much work. It's a lot more steel to move," said MacDonald. "They're very large horses, so it's a lot harder on the body."

The rise of artificial intelligence has raised the possibility of declining job prospects in some sectors — particularly for younger workers — but Abigail Fulton, executive director of the Construction Foundation of B.C., says “skilled tradespeople will be the last ones voted off the island.”

"While we anticipate numbers to gradually fall over the years from this transportation change, the [province] has regulations to support the collection, or salvage, of loose logs in coastal B.C.," wrote a spokesperson for the Ministry of Forests in an email to CBC News.

The province said there are 53 active licensed salvagers who play an important role in collecting loose logs.

Police interactions with those identified by the program are down 50 per cent in the program’s 18-month life to date
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“The impact is far-reaching for people’s safety in their neighbourhoods and downtown cores, with violent offenders being better monitored and kept off our streets for longer,” Nina Krieger, minister of public safety and solicitor general, said in a statement.

Dolphins have often been considered “pesky critters” who steal fish from the orcas, according to Sarah Fortune, assistant professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Canadian Wildlife Federation chair of large whale conservation.

But that’s not what was happening — on deep, deep dives below, the dolphins and orcas were communicating.