Hundreds of students at Alouette Elementary marked Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday, Feb. 25, with a Kindness Parade. Every class took part in the parade, walking from the school grounds on Isaac Crescent, escorted by members of the Ridge Meadows RCMP, to two local retirement homes on 224 Street to deliver cards and treats to […]

Students at Douglas Park Community School in Langley City marked Pink Shirt Day on Wednesday by handing out “kindness flowers.” School Principal Mark Touzeau explained it was a symbolic way of spreading kindness on a day devoted to stopping bullying. “Every student is provided with a flower,” Touzeau told the Langley Advance Times. “Some classes

As B.C. reckons with the events surrounding the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge that left nine dead, a program aiming to prevent future mass killings by paying people to turn in prohibited firearms is just getting up and running across Canada. The program allows people to get money — several thousand dollars in some cases

The Ridge Meadows RCMP is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 36-year-old man. Cedric Schroeder was reported missing on Jan. 20, and last seen on Jan. 13, in Maple Ridge. Police said they are concerned for his health and well-being as it is out of character for him to be out of

B.C. Premier David Eby is slamming the Senate committee studying Bill C-12 for proposing to remove several provisions of the bill that were put in place to strengthen immigration laws and “close gaps that are being exploited by organized crime groups involved in extortion.” “I think it’s important to take a step back and recognize