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This is a June 10, 2015, photo of Mylan Hicks, who was shot and killed outside a nightclub where he and his Calgary Stampeder teammates had been celebrating a CFL victory. The Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld the sentence of the man who was convicted in the death of Hicks. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo

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Betty White would have turned 100 on Jan. 17, 2021. (File photo by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Ronald Leopold, executive director Anne Frank House, gestures as he talks next to the passage to the secret annex during an interview in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. A cold case team that combed through evidence for five years may have solved one of World War II’s enduring mysteries: Who betrayed Jewish teenage diarist Anne Frank and her family? Their answer, outlined in a new book, is that it most likely was a Jewish lawyer called Arnold van den Bergh. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

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George Wilfred Mitchell

Dec 9th, 2021

Friedrich William Kropp

Dec 9th, 2021

Tadeusz Klimczak

Dec 2nd, 2021

Delia Rose Burkart

Sep 8th, 2021

Ortrud Margaret Buchal (nee Schonhardt)

Sep 7th, 2021

Ana Maria Dos Santos Rego Perestrelo

Aug 27th, 2021

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On June 15, the B.C. government relaxed COVID-19 restrictions.

Now allowed:

Personal outdoor gatherings up to 50 people and personal indoor gathers of five other people or one household.

Church services up to 50 people or 10 per cent capacity of the building for larger congregations.

Outdoor organized gatherings of 50 people and indoor organized gathers of 10 people with COVID safety plan in effect.

Indoor and outdoor dining for up to six people not restricted household or bubble.

Gradual return to workplace.

Indoor low intensity group exercise allowed with limited capacity, outdoor games and practices for both adults and youth group/team sports.

Province-wide travel.

READ MORE: Province-wide travel back on in B.C.’s COVID-19 restart plan



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