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Riding profile: Comox Valley typically votes Liberal, but it's no guarantee
Courtenay :: Canada | 22 days ago
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The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Apr. 30 2013, 11:00 PM EDT Undated handout photo of Kassandra Dycke, NDP candidate for the Comox Valley riding...Liberal to Victoria in the past three provincial elections, the riding has never been a guarantee
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Vancouver Island girl rescued from bank vault after hide-and-seek game goes awry
Courtenay :: Canada | 26 days ago
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A 12-year-old Vancouver Island girl was rescued from an underground bank vault earlier this week after a game of hide-and-seek went terribly wrong. Firefighters, police officers, locksmiths, city workers and even former bank employees came together
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B.C. police smoke out man accused in series of cigarette heists
Courtenay :: Canada | 4 months ago
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Mounties have arrested a man they believe was responsible for a six-month cigarette-theft crime wave in Metro Vancouver, southern Vancouver Island and the Interior. Police say a man appeared to be targeting store owners who had just made large
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Avalanche injures one in central Vancouver Island
Courtenay :: Canada | 4 months ago
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B.C. The Canadian Press Published Tuesday, Jan. 08 2013, 7:32 PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Jan. 08 2013, 7:32 PM EST One person has been injured in an avalanche on Mount Washington on central Vancouver Island. Corporal Darren Langan says the
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Rare Asian citrine wagtail drawing a crowd of bird-watchers to Vancouver Island
Courtenay :: Canada | 6 months ago
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Birders are all a-twitter following the sighting of a very rare bird in a farmer's field in Courtenay this month. The citrine wagtail is a small songbird that breeds in north central Asia and winters in South and Southeast Asia. Until now there have
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Bryce Courtenay has only months to live
Cape Town :: South Africa | 9 months ago
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The South African-born author and former advertising executive shot to prominence with his first book, The Power Of One, in the late 1980s. Courtenay, 79, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1995, was diagnosed with stomach cancer last
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Gun-wielding skipper charged after uttering death threats while under the influence of drugs
Courtenay :: Canada | 10 months ago
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Andrea Woo Vancouver The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Jul. 31 2012, 8:31 PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Jul. 31 2012, 8:35 PM EDT A Courtenay skipper accused of threatening to kill his two crew members while high on drugs aboard a fishing boat
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Vancouver Island man wins court battle over motorized bicycle tickets
Courtenay :: Canada | 1 year ago
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When Shawn Gordon Ryan took his motorized Schwinn bicycle for an evening ride near Courtenay last summer, he believed he was in full compliance with the law. Royston and ticketed for driving a motor vehicle without a licence and without any insurance.
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Stranded skier rescued from Courtenay mountainside
Courtenay :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Search and rescue volunteers carried out a dramatic 16-hour rescue mission spanning Christmas Eve and Christmas Day after a skier became stranded on a cliff in waist deep snow on a Courtenay mountainside. The skier, a Courtenay man in his early 20s,
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Vancouver Island man charged in child porn probe launched by Toronto police
Courtenay :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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A 23-year-old Vancouver Island man is facing child pornography charges as the result of an international child porn investigation launched by the Toronto police last year. Kevin Myrfield of Courtenay is accused of five counts of possessing child
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