One discipline down on her quest for history, two more to go. Vernon’s Shanda Hill is out of the water and ready to wheel out onto the bike course of the Taiwan Ultra Triathlon in the coastal city of Tainan, known for its temples, night markets, and rich Taiwanese culture. The course loops around the […]
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Another decade-old Indigenous land title case is causing alarm over its potential implications for private property rights in B.C. Filed in 2015, the same year as the landmark Cowichan Tribes legal challenge, this lawsuit was brought by the Secwepemc Nation to stop the Ajax gold and copper mine project near Kamloops. Despite the province denying
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There are three Remembrance Day ceremonies taking place in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. Thousands are expected at the Maple Ridge ceremony which starts at 10:30 a.m. with a parade that begins outside the Royal Canadian Legion, on 224th Street, at Brown Avenue. Legion Branch 88 is one of the largest in Canada with more
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Diane Gendron arranges some souvenirs from the early days of SkyTrain, including a core from the SkyTrain bridge deck and a piece of cable, on the dining table of her Langley home. “This is a piece of the cable that holds the SkyTrain bridge up,” Gendron explained. She also owns a model of the first
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“My favourite mushroom in here is spirit gummy bear,” biologist Amber Peters said as she ascended into the dense forest from the west shores of Lake Revelstoke, her dog Akash in tow. She was referring to toothed jelly fungus, just one of hundreds of colourful fungi species found in the damp old-growth stands around Frisby
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