Rentals – be they short- and/or long-term – have caught the attention of a Vernon councillor. Kari Gares put forth a pair of motions that – with council’s unanimous blessing (though councillors Brian Quiring and Kelly Fehr were absent from the regular meeting Monday, Jan. 26) – will make their way in the spring to […]
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An unsettling act of sexual assault alleged against horses by a strange man has left the owner, and broader community, shaken. Abigail Equestrian, a professional training facility on L&A Road in the BX, says an unknown man trespassed early Saturday, Jan. 24. “He was in with my horses in the middle of the night and
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When Cameron Lizotte put scissors to his own hockey jersey, he knew he was cutting into more than fabric. The 28-year-old former OHL defenceman turned fashion designer is the mind and hands behind The Great Canadian Hockey Jersey, unveiled this week by Rogers as part of its national This Is Our Game campaign. Handcrafted from
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Surrey Memorial Hospital is one step closer to providing robotic-assisted surgery with the arrival of the da Vinci Xi Robotic Surgery system. It is expected to be used in surgeries in the spring. “With the aid of the da Vinci Xi system, we can expand minimally invasive thoracic and foregut surgery, and we can do
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The pack of 10 dingoes that were found surrounding the body of Campbell River backpacker Piper James on an island in Australia are being humanely euthanized. James left Canada on a months-long backpacking trip in October 2025 with a friend. She had recently arrived and started working at a local business on K’gari Island, a
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