The Canadian military has deployed transport planes, helicopters and several hundred troops to assist with the evacuation of Vancouver where, since Monday, flooding and mudslides have left much of the city cut off from both road and rail.
On Wednesday, British Columbia’s minister of public safety, Mike Farnworth, declared a provincial state of emergency for 14 days, with one confirmed death, and four people missing.
Meanwhile the most recent reports from the …

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