One of the City of Maple Ridge’s top administrators has died. Mayor Dan Ruimy gave a tearful tribute to deputy chief administrative officer Stephane Labonne at Tuesday night’s (April 14) council meeting, after Labonne passed away from pancreatic cancer. “Stephane was not just a colleague, he was someone who made an impact on this organization, […]
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A Keremeos heavy equipment operator has filed a lawsuit against Interior Health and the doctors who allegedly failed to correctly diagnose an arterial blockage that led to the amputation of his leg. The civil claim, filed this April 1 in Vancouver by Steven Barker, alleges that multiple visits to the Similkameen Health Centre over issues
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The plan did not start with the baseball game. It started with a schedule, a bit of foresight, and a Calgary Flames logo on a hat. By the time the Clipper pushed off from Victoria’s Inner Harbour, Greg Cundal already knew exactly why he was on board. The nearly three-hour trip to Seattle was not
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The latest data from the B.C. Coroners Service shows 115 people died from toxic drugs in the province in February. The coroners service released the latest monthly data Wednesday (April 15), which showed a decrease from the 150 recorded deaths in January. The number of deaths in February equates to about 4.1 deaths per day.
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First Nations people in B.C. continue to be disproportionately represented in toxic drug deaths across the province, the First Nations Health Authority shared Wednesday. The First Nations Health Authority released the 2025 data on the toxic drug crisis’s impact on First Nations people in Vancouver on April 15. This year, the presentation focused on the
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