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A banner of text reading 'Investor Showcase Tuesday April 14 2026 UBC Robson Square innovation UBC', overlaid on top of a crowd sitting in a theatre
Tumbler Ridge Secondary School is pictured on Feb. 11, the day after a school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., left eight people and the shooter dead. Credit: Ben Nelms/CBC
Looksmaxxing influencer Braden Peters, who is known by the nickname Clavicular, models in the Elena Velez fashion show during New York Fashion Week on Feb. 12 in New York City. Credit: Theo Wargo/Getty Images
A close up of a hand holding a phone upon which the OpenAI symbol is displayed alongside the text 'ChatGPT'. Green binary code is displayed in the background behind the hand. Credit: Sebastien Bozon/AFP
A close up of someone holding a naloxone nasal spray. Credit: CBC Saskatchewan
Rescuers work from a boat to free a humpback whale from fishing gear. Credit: DFO
B.C. Premier David Eby, seen here in a file photo during a visit to Tumbler Ridge, is urging the federal government to create a national standard for when AI companies must report users plotting violence on their platforms. Credit: Ben Nelms/CBC
An image of a snow-covered Peace River valley at sunrise. Credit: Tom Summer/CBC
An empty hospital bed. Credit: Zoshua Colah/Unsplash
Francisco Peña, principal investigator of the Confluence of Religious Cultures in Medieval Historiography project, examines an illuminated manuscript along with Arianna Ormrod. (Photo: Tal Vardi)
Pollution rises from a coal-fired power plant in Topeka, Kan., on Jan. 3. Since a 2008 legal finding that greenhouse gases harm Americans, the U.S. has reduced the role of coal in electricity production, switching to cleaner sources. (Charlie Riedel/The Associated Press)
A view of Nitobe Memorial Garden with cherry blossoms in the foreground Credit Getty
A close up of birth control pill packets. Credit: Shutterstock
This image shows the waterfront at Victoria with boats in the foreground and the Empress Hotel in the background. Credit: Michael McArthur/CBC
Simon Donner, second from left, a climate scientist and professor at the University of British Columbia, stands with three other panellists behind a podium (CBC Kids News)
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performs at the Atanasio Girardot Stadium in Medellin, Colombia, on Jan. 23. (Jaime Saldarriagaa/AFP via Getty Images)
The emergency department of the Rockyview General Hospital is pictured in Calgary on March 20, 2025. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)
A recent study found that sports bras selected by female runners impaired their breathing when they were running on treadmills. (Photo: Getty)
Three polar bear cubs gather around their tranquilized mother. She had a litter of three cubs — an unusual brood size — and the smallest cub only weighed five kilograms. (Jon Aars/Norwegian Polar Institute)
An image of the Palisades nuclear power plant Credit Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Two sea lions lie on sand with a blue sky background. Credit (Rémi Demarthon/Galápagos Sea Lion Project)
A researcher works at a laboratory bench using instruments and samples during experiments related to developing stem cell‑based immune therapies.
Fireworks exploding in front of a snowy mountain and over a brightly lit town at night. Credit: Jamie Fenn/Unsplash
A man fishes in the waters of the Indian Ocean in the Hamarweyne district of Mogadishu in November. (Feisal Omar/Reuters)
A wooden bench with rain falling down on it. Credit: Liv Bruce/unsplash
A brown rat sits in a rock wall, behind a stick and a plastic bag. credit: Zoshua Colah
A photo of the midsections of holiday shoppers walk in downtown Montreal in December 2023, wearing coats and carrying shopping bags. Credit: Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press
The Icons for the smartphone apps DeepSeek and ChatGPT are seen on a smartphone screen in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)
A collection of wrapped gifts in colourful paper with ribbons and string. Credit: freestocks/Unsplash
Ian Walters pedals on an exercise bike at the Similkameen Recreation Centre in front of an aquamrine wall with 'Your Only Limit is You' written on it in white letters. Credit: Tiffany Goodwein/CBC
An image of Narcan nasal sprays in packets, sitting in a white plastic box. Credit: Trevor Pritchard/CBC
A picture of Alberta premier Danielle Smith and Matt Jones, minister of hospital and surgical health services. Credit: @ABDanielleSmith/X
Conservation North director Michelle Connolly stands on a road and speaks to demonstrators holding signs during a Prince George rally on Nov. 18. Credit: Hanna Petersen/CBC)
Paul Kershaw sitting in front of a garden. Credit: Paul Kershaw
A medical diagram of breasts with notes written in blue pen. Credit Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty
A picture of the back of Pemberton Search and Rescue manager David MacKenzie in a red jacket looking at a phone, standing near trees. Credit: Alanna Kelly/CBC
Tania Willard, installation view at the Sobey Art Award exhibition, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Oct. 3, 2025 – Feb. 8, 2026. (National Gallery of Canada)
A rescued sea otter at the Lisbon Aquarium (Oceanário de Lisboa) examines its paw Credit: Andrew Trites (University of British Columbia) Note: SINGLE USE ONLY
A female adult barn owl being held in a human's hand. The species is one of several classified as endangered by Ontario. Credit ETIENNE TORBEY/AFP/Getty Images
An image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS taken on July 21 when it was 446 million kilometres from Earth. It shows a black screen with white/blue lines around a blue circle with a blue halo around it. (Image credit: STScI)
An intravenous mixture sits in a sterile area of a wellness clinic, prior to being given to a customer. Medicinal bottles sit in the background. (Lauren Pelley (CBC))
Large bottles with filtered water are seen on the kitchen table at a family home in MD. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)
In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014, file photo, gold bars are stacked in a vault at the United States Mint, in West Point, N.Y. The price of gold has been climbing in 2025, and one B.C. expert says it's because central banks are buying up the precious metal. (Mike Groll/The Associated Press)
An image of a group of people holding wine glasses full of red wine and clinking them together, above a dinner table.
Image shows people making their way through downtown Ottawa walking down a colourful staircase some holding umbrellas over their heads on a sunny day, as temperatures soared well above seasonal norms. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
A composite image of TikToks about the personal curriculum trend by creators Elizabeth Jean (@xparmesanprincessx), left, rikkilee.co (@diaryofthatgirll), centre, and For the Love of History💙💛 (@4theloveofhistory), right. (Elizabeth Jean (@xparmesanprincessx), rikkilee.co (@diaryofthatgirll), For the Love of History (@4theloveofhistory)/TikTok, CBC)
A large crowd of participants at the Intergenerational March to commemorate Orange Shirt Day at UBC. The group is gathered on a grassy hillside, with many wearing orange shirts to honor Indigenous children who were sent to residential schools in Canada. The setting is lush with tall grasses in the foreground and trees surrounding the area, evoking a sense of collective remembrance.
A long-spined sea urchin is seen attached to a rock off Lebanon's north coast in 2021. Urchins are among the shelled creatures affected by ocean acidification. (Ibrahim Chalhoub/AFP via Getty Images)