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Campbell River’s Crowtographer captures one of nature’s most misunderstood birds

National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Crows are my jam.

So reads the first line of Colleen Wilson’s Instagram account.

The Campbell River photographer isn’t alone in her obsession with the jet-black birds — both common as muck and extraordinary in equal measure.

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$900 Million For BC’s Aging Infrastructure

By Roy L Hales

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Good news for those concerned with the state of our province’s aging transportation system. The Federal, provincial and municipal governments are partnering to provide a total of $900 million for BC’s aging infrastructure.

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Metro Vancouver Will have Canada’s Longest Transit System

“You know that  it is a tradition in the tunnel boring industry to name the machine after woman,” British Columbia’s Premier, Christy Clark, began. “We are here today to christen this machine Alice, after  Alice Wilson who was the very first woman they ever hired in the Geological Survey of Canada.” Once the tunnel it bores is operational, Metro Vancouver will have Canada’s longest transit system.

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