Ridge Meadows RCMP Superintendent Adam Gander, the officer in charge of the detachment, compiled a year in review of local policing efforts in 2025. He cited challenges and successes, and a four per cent increase in the number of calls for service, up to 27,164, or almost 75 per day. In Gander’s words: ”Our detachment […]
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The City of Pitt Meadows has been recognized as the third most livable city in Canada and the number one small city. This is according to a national daily newspaper’s 2025 Most Livable Cities ranking, which evaluated 454 cities across the country based on factors such as community, climate, economy, housing and healthcare. “Livability in
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Animal Justice is deeply troubled after learning that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s killing of more than 300 healthy ostriches in Edgewood last year, months after avian influenza was first detected on the farm, cost Canadian taxpayers at least $6.8 million. The massive sum was revealed this week in a response to a parliamentary inquiry
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New data released by B.C. Seniors Advocate Dan Levitt shows the province’s population of people over the age of 65 is growing nearly four times as fast as the number of new care home beds. “We are at the beginning of a rapid increase in the number of people 65 and over, and we know
B.C.’s police complaint commissioner is set to review why the police have not yet apologized for the 2019 incident in Vancouver in which a Heiltsuk man and his 12-year-old granddaughter were handcuffed outside a downtown Bank of Montreal branch where they had tried to open an account using status cards. A disciplinary process concluded in
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