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Flames start run at a third straight Stonehouse Cup championshp

The Ridge Meadows Flames got their first playoff win, and host game two of their best-of-seven series against Port Coquitlam on Friday night, Feb. 27. The Flames will meet the Trailblazers at 7:30 p.m. at Cam Neely Arena in the Pacific Junior Hockey League playoffs. The Flames started their pursuit of a third straight Stonehouse […]

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B.C. MLA says dysfunctional system led to Vernon hospital escape, death

Skeena MLA Claire Rattée took the province to task Thursday over the circumstances that led to the death of a 22-year-old man who escaped Vernon’s hospital in psychiatric distress earlier this month, saying “this is not a system that is functional right now.” Ezra Cool was fatally struck by a semi-truck in the early hours

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Okanagan residents win judicial review over provincial gravel pit approval

Summerland residents opposed to the Garnet Valley gravel pit can celebrate, after the permit was overturned through a judicial review that deemed the process “unreasonable.” Justice Gregory Koturbash handed down the 34-page decision to squash the permit approval on Feb. 26, following two days of hearings and submissions earlier in the month. The judicial review

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B.C. school trustee Laurie Throness resigns after $750K hate-speech ruling for Barry Neufeld

Laurie Throness resigned from Chilliwack School Board on Thursday (Feb. 26) stating he no longer feels “safe” in the wake of the $750,000 human-rights decision against former trustee Barry Neufeld for hate speech. Throness posted the decision to resign as trustee was “effective immediately” on his social media, noting that the Neufeld ruling from the

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B.C. Conservative MLA Neufeld calls for public inquiry into Tumbler Ridge

B.C. Conservative MLA Larry Neufeld, who represents the riding that Tumbler Ridge is located within, is calling for a public inquiry into the mass shooting that left nine people dead at a school and home in the rural northeastern community. Premier David Eby has indicated his willingness to hold either a public inquiry or a

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