B.C.’s NDP government is pulling back on its plan to introduce legislation this week to pause or suspend sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). And the NDP will no longer risk an election by making it a confidence vote when the legislation is eventually introduced. With a one-vote majority […]
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Police in Kamloops believe that a man who has a Canada-wide warrant for being unlawfully at large could be travelling to and from Abbotsford. A press release on Monday (April 13) from the Kamloops RCMP states that Kurtis Justin Billy, 38, allegedly failed to comply with his curfew. Cpl. Dana Napier, spokesperson for the Kamloops
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Two men have been charged in the 2022 murder of Cory William Thomas in Maple Ridge. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, (IHIT), arrested Richard Angelo Pignatelli, 26, and Kyle Raymond Edlund, 27, both of Maple Ridge. Pignatelli was arrested on Friday, March 27, and the BC Prosecution Service laid one count of manslaughter with a
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One of the biggest music festivals in the Kootenays has been cancelled due to what its board of directors say are rising debts and an inability to make a profit. The Kaslo Jazz Etc. Fest announced Monday it is $250,000 in debt and is being forced to scale back this year’s event, with plans to
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A local rescue team is lauding Good Samaritans after plucking someone from the waters off Gyro Park in the early hours of April 11. Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue Station Oak Bay was tasked out for an urgent page of a person in the water about 100 metres off Gyro Park Beach. A 36-year-old
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