Canucks Nation is not in a good mood. Never mind the hockey club’s pedestrian 8-9-1 start to the NHL season, but now the Vancouver Canucks will be without the services of goaltender Thatcher Demko for the next “two-to-three weeks with a minor injury” according to a post on X by NHL insider Frank Seravalli. Demko […]
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Every year Tofino’s Warren ‘Whitey’ Bernard is “absolutely astounded” by the number of people that turn out, for Remembrance Day ceremonies. “People do have to think back, certainly in the situation that’s out there today in the larger world away from our little towns. We’ve got to think about what’s happening in the real world
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The typhoon that is weather-related, the organizers saw coming. The typhoon that is Vernon ultra athlete Shanda Hill, announcing her retirement from all ultra triathlon competitions mid-race in Taiwan, nobody saw coming. On her Facebook page early Wednesday afternoon, Nov. 12, Hill announced her official retirement. “My dear friends and supporters, it would not be
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A ‘shocking’ process of killing more than 300 ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood is drawing complaints and criticism over the animals’ ‘unnecessary suffering.’ Animal Justice, Canada’s leading national animal law organization, has filed a formal complaint with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) over its conduct during the Nov. 6 cull. Reports of
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An eight-year-old girl is dead after a fall from a highrise balcony in Yaletown Tuesday (Nov. 11). Officers were called to a residential building near Nelson Street and Expo Boulevard just after 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday after the girl fell from an upper balcony, Vancouver police said in a news release Wednesday. First reponders provided
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