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  "brief_date": "2026-06-30",
  "collected_at_utc": "2026-06-30T14:00:57.826258+00:00",
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    "Global BC": "https://globalnews.ca/bc/feed/",
    "CHEK News": "https://www.cheknews.ca/feed/",
    "CityNews Vancouver": "https://vancouver.citynews.ca/feed/"
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      "category": "B.C. politics",
      "headline": "Findlay’s first B.C. Conservative leadership appointments put loyal MLAs in key roles",
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        {"publisher": "CBC British Columbia", "title": "New B.C. Conservative leader promotes loyalist MLAs to key leadership positions", "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-conservative-new-leadership-positions-9.7253522?cmp=rss", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T12:00:00+00:00"},
        {"publisher": "Global BC", "title": "New B.C. Conservative leader Findlay fills leadership team with loyalists", "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11944232/bc-conservatives-leadership-team-loyalists/", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T11:39:01+00:00"},
        {"publisher": "CityNews Vancouver", "title": "New Conservative leader Findlay fills new leadership with loyalists", "url": "https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/29/new-conservative-leader-findlay-fills-new-leadership-with-loyalists/", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T00:22:23+00:00"}
      ]
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      "category": "Energy, environment and federal-provincial relations",
      "headline": "Alberta plans to release details of a one-million-barrel-per-day pipeline proposal to the West Coast",
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        {"publisher": "CBC British Columbia", "title": "Alberta to unveil details of 'million-barrel-per-day' oil pipeline route to West Coast on July 2", "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alberta-bc-oil-pipeline-9.7253528?cmp=rss", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T02:35:14+00:00"},
        {"publisher": "Global BC", "title": "Alberta to detail ‘million-barrel-per-day’ pipeline to West Coast Thursday", "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11944229/alberta-pipeline-west-coast-announcement/", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T12:34:07+00:00"}
      ]
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      "category": "Health care and labour",
      "headline": "B.C. nurses issue 72-hour strike notice after rejecting a tentative contract",
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        {"publisher": "CBC British Columbia", "title": "B.C. Nurses' Union issues 72-hour strike notice, says action signals members' growing frustration", "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-nurses-union-72-hour-strike-notice-9.7253139?cmp=rss", "published_utc": "2026-06-29T21:21:56+00:00"},
        {"publisher": "CHEK News", "title": "B.C. nurses issue 72-hour strike notice after rejecting tentative contract", "url": "https://cheknews.ca/b-c-nurses-issue-72-hour-strike-notice-after-rejecting-tentative-contract-1333332/", "published_utc": "2026-06-29T19:56:32+00:00"},
        {"publisher": "Global BC", "title": "B.C. nurses issue 72-hour strike notice", "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/11943316/bc-nurses-72-hour-strike-notice/", "published_utc": "2026-06-29T19:49:53+00:00"}
      ]
    },
    {
      "category": "Youth safety and technology",
      "headline": "B.C. mother calls for stronger oversight of social-media self-harm content after teen’s death",
      "sources": [
        {"publisher": "CBC British Columbia", "title": "Social media sites pushing self-harm content, says mother of B.C. teen who died", "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mother-bc-teen-social-media-algorithms-9.7253381?cmp=rss", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T00:33:52+00:00"}
      ]
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      "category": "Climate, public health and emergency planning",
      "headline": "Five years after B.C.’s deadly heat dome, advocates call for stronger protections",
      "sources": [
        {"publisher": "CityNews Vancouver", "title": "Advocates mark five years since B.C.’s deadly heat dome calling for reforms", "url": "https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/06/29/advocates-mark-five-years-b-c-deadly-heat-dome-calling-reforms/", "published_utc": "2026-06-30T01:44:29+00:00"}
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    },
    {
      "category": "Water and local government",
      "headline": "Vancouver Island communities tighten water restrictions as dry conditions continue",
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        {"publisher": "CHEK News", "title": "Water restrictions tighten in Ladysmith as lake levels continue to fall", "url": "https://cheknews.ca/water-restrictions-tighten-in-ladysmith-as-lake-levels-continue-to-fall-1333330/", "published_utc": "2026-06-29T19:44:05+00:00"},
        {"publisher": "CHEK News", "title": "Stricter water restrictions take effect across Cowichan Valley", "url": "https://cheknews.ca/stricter-water-restrictions-take-effect-across-cowichan-valley-1333307/", "published_utc": "2026-06-29T17:44:52+00:00"}
      ]
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      "category": "B.C. AI and fraud prevention",
      "headline": "UVic researchers develop training to help people spot AI-generated faces",
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