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  • August 9 - 2 dead and 6 seriously injuried in a shooting at a Vancouver restaurant on the East Side. This marks one of the worst gang-related incidents in the city's history. (CBC News)
  • August 7 - Two Vancouver girls die in a house fire at the University of Victoria while visiting friends over the summer break. (CBC)
  • July 15 - BC Ferries removed the Queen of Oak Bay from the sailing schedule after it experienced mechanical problems enroute to Horseshoe Bay. (CBC Canada)
  • July 8 - B.C.'s highway workers on strike have requested that the Labour Relations Board expand their strike to include all government services in the province. (CBC Canada)
  • June 29 - Starving mountain pine beetles in BC have moved into spruce trees as the supply of pines disappears despite the fact that spruce trees are not nutritionally or chemically suitable for the beetles to reproduce. (CBC)