For the 12th year, a memorial march will be taking place in Maple Ridge to bring awareness to the missing and murdered Indigenous women locally and across the country. But, for the founder of that march, the meaning of the event is much more. Yvonne Desabrais started the march in Maple Ridge in the memory […]
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The Canadian charges against Dances With Wolves actor and self-described medicine man Nathan Chasing Horse remain unresolved despite his recent conviction in the United States. Chasing Horse, also known as Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, 49, was convicted by a jury in Nevada on Jan. 30 of 13 charges out of the 21 sworn against
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Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke met with federal leaders in Ottawa this week to ensure the federal government understood “the severity of the extortion crisis in Surrey” – but there’s no word on the declaration of a national state of emergency. There have been 46 reports of extortion, 11 extortion-related shootings and 29 victims (17 of
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A former Vancouver man could be facing a minimum of 20 years in a U.S. jail after he was convicted for trafficking opioids on a dark-web platform that led to the overdose deaths of two U.S. Navy members. Paul Anthony Nicholls, a British national, was convicted on Jan. 29 in Georgia for one count of
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The Ridge Meadows RCMP is inviting anyone and everyone to “get bold and cold” for Special Olympics BC. The annual Polar Plunge is coming up on Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to noon at Alouette Lake South Beach. The fundraiser will be a collaboration between Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and Coquitlam RCMP detachments, and will
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