December 2025

This past year as the Member of Parliament for Vernon–Lake Country–Monashee has felt like a decade packed into 12 months: exhausting, eye-opening, and one of the greatest honours of my life. I’ve spent it bouncing between Ottawa and the grounded, everyday reality of people back home in the riding who don’t care about the political […]

A Surrey home was hit by gunfire early in the morning on New Year’s Eve (Dec. 31) in what’s believed to be an extortion-related shooting. The RCMP Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit (SPOSU) is investigating the shooting at the home in the area of 187 Street and 54 Avenue, after being called to the area

Health Canada is warning consumers about multiple unauthorized drug products seized at two retail locations in Maple Ridge. The products were seized from Maxximus Supplements at 22214 Dewdney Trunk Rd. and from Cutting Edge Nutrition, located at 20306 Dewdney Trunk Rd., as they have not been authorized by Health Canada to be sold in the

Buttercup the dog and her human, Nick Catroppa, stood outside the Murrayville IGA on the afternoon of Tuesday, Dec. 23, with grocery store patrons stopping to meet their four-legged benefactor. His Rottweiler had paid for their groceries as a Christmas gift to complete strangers, Catroppa told them. The total amount came to almost $10,000 with

A house in Guildford has been shot at for a third time this month. No arrests have been made related to these shootings in the 11000-block of 140A Street. The most recent was at 3:05 a.m. on December 28, following the second at 7:45 a.m. on December 27 and the first at 8:21 a.m. December