admin_mntc

The latest job numbers from Statistics Canada for June show slightly increased hiring in B.C. overall, but also reveal major remaining demographic and regional disparities, including stubbornly high youth unemployment and rising joblessness in the Interior. “People are maybe tired of hearing about tariffs, but they have an impact,” said Ravi Kahlon, B.C.’s jobs minister. […]

Not all heroes wear capes. They often wear reflective-striped, protective firefighting gear, like the White Rock firefighters who showed up to rescue a baby seagull from a high rooftop Tuesday (July 7) evening. The baby gull was trapped in netting around a rooftop chimney on Magdalen Avenue early Tuesday evening, with a few locals posting

A 31-year-old construction worker from Chilliwack was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition after a house fire in Mission on Thursday (July 9). Mission Fire Rescue Service (MFRS) responded to the Cherry Avenue blaze at approximately 6 p.m. after reports of possible patients on scene. In a news release, Mission RCMP said that

Labour Minister Jennifer Whiteside has appointed two special mediators in the dispute between the B.C. Nurses’ Union and the Health Employers Association of B.C. Long-time mediator Vince Ready and Amanda Rogers were named special mediators Friday, July 10, eight days after job action began. Ready and Rogers will work with the two parties for 10

Former Maple Ridge Chamber of Commerce president Jerry Kok has announced he will run for mayor. Kok is the first to announce a challenge to incumbent Maple Ridge Mayor Dan Ruimy in the Oct. 17 local elections. Kok is a businessman, general manager of the Driving Unlimited Academy, and said he wants to help entrepreneurs