After two victorious games during their home-opening weekend at Langley Events Centre, the Vancouver Bandits are heading out on the road for three games in Ontario and one in Kelowna during the upcoming week. And they’ll be doing it with #44 Grant Shephard, a 6-foot-10 forward – who happens to hail from Kelowna – back […]
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The man who killed 70-year-old Michael Jones in his Chester Avenue residence in 2023 has been found guilty of second-degree murder after Justice Veronica Jackson delivered her verdict at a hearing on Thursday (May 28). On March 6, 2023, Jones was found with life-threatening injuries to his head, and on March 15, he died in
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A Sooke electronics repair and retail business says a recent wave of break-ins has left it struggling to stay afloat, with the owner reporting about $30,000 in combined inventory loss and property damage over the past six weeks. Alexander Kingston, owner of Gadget Tree, said the store has been targeted four to five times since
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The B.C. legislature closed the spring session on Thursday with two of the same items dominating the conversation as at the start in mid-February: the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) and a provincial budget that seems to have pleased nobody in the province. The budget squeaked by with the Speaker casting
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A group of Abbotsford youth recently gave a helping hand to the feet of the Lower Mainland’s homeless population, handing out more than 150 pairs of shoes in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. To complete this project, the Abbotsford Smile Foundation partnered with the UBC Bhangra Club, with both of these groups being founded and led by
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