Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey players win MVP awards

A pair of Ridge Meadows Minor Hockey Association players were standouts in a year-end PCAHA event. Aidan Chabot was named game the MVP at the Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association’s U21 Scholarship Tournament. His Flames team won the scholarship tournament, going undefeated through three round-robin games, and winning the final at the Surrey Sports and […]

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‘Time for something new’: B.C. hockey player’s hometown exit cause for reflection

The meeting ended, the phone rang, and by five o’clock that night, Landon Mackie was already on a ferry. That is how fast life changed for the Langford-raised forward. On Jan. 22, the Victoria Grizzlies traded their captain to the Salmon Arm Silverbacks in exchange for 20-year-old forward Maddux Martin. Two weeks later, the move

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Speed skater Maltais wins Canada’s first medal at 2026 Milan Cortina Games

Team Canada has its first medal of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games. Speed skater Valérie Maltais, whose hometown is La Baie, Que., won bronze in the women’s 3,000-metre long track event at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium. She finished with a time of 3:56.93. Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida won the gold in 3:54.28, with

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FireSmart funding running dry has B.C. fire chiefs worried

Surprised and devastated. That was West Kelowna Fire Chief Jason Brolund’s initial reaction to hearing about changes to the FireSmart program due to a lack of funding. The FireSmart Community Funding and Supports (FCFS) program closed its intake application on Jan. 30, according to the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM). “To hear that the funding

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