A fire at a seniors housing complex in Mission on Monday night (March 9) has left 142 residents displaced, according to Mission Fire Rescue Service. At a press conference on Tuesday (March 10), MFRS chief Mark Goddard said no serious injuries or fatalities were reported but 16 people were sent to hospital for smoke inhalation.
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A potential threat made against Chetwynd Secondary School has been deemed unfounded, according to RCMP. On March 6, Chetwynd RCMP received a report of a potential threat to the school via an anonymous email. The email detailed vague and unsubstantiated claims of ignored reports of a student attending school with a knife, said Cpl. Marika
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B.C. Premier David Eby is meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra in Victoria on Tuesday afternoon. It was Hoekstra who requested the meeting, but Eby said he plans to use the occasion to push trade-related issues that are important to B.C. Eby said the number one issue he plans to raise with Hoekstra
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It’s been a year since Canadians and Americans began gathering at Peace Arch Park in an across-the-border show of friendship and solidarity, in response to increasingly divisive comments coming out of the White House. With, sadly, no end in sight to the incentive behind Peace, Love and a Handshake, the determination of those who have
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Sixty six bathtubs full of invasive Himalayan blackberry was pulled from a local waterway, making room for native trees and shrubs to restore salmon-spawning habitat. On Saturday, Mar. 7, 44 community volunteers, including a group from the 2nd Alouette Girl Guides, and one from the 1st Pitt Meadows Scouts, who joined the Lower Mainland Green
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