When Lorelei, a mother of twins in the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows School District, saw one of her children’s classmates threaten another student by running his finger across his neck, she complained to the school. The Friday before, that same student had punched the girl he threatened, and knocked over her desk. When staff told Lorelei, […]

Southbound trips across the border are still far below 2024 levels in B.C., despite a recent modest increase reported by Statistics Canada. When the federal agency reported a 9.5 per cent increase in Canadian-resident return trips in May of this year, it was seen in some news reports as an easing of the travel reluctance

A celebration of cultures will be taking over Memorial Peace Park in Maple Ridge. This year marks the ninth annual Canadian Multiculturalism Day, put on by the Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows Katzie Local Immigration Partnership, and there will be a whopping 18 culture pavilions. Triple what they had in the past, said Carolina Echeverri, with

For several years now, advocates in the legal profession have been calling for the B.C. government to create new rules restricting the use of non-disclosure agreements in cases of sexual assaults, harassment or abuse. In 2024, the Canadian Bar Association’s B.C. Division sent Attorney General Niki Sharma a letter urging changes. Sharma responded at the

A high-performance equestrian coach based in Kelowna appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on June 23 for day one of his criminal trial. Sebastien Devrainne, originally from France, has pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual touching, sexual exploitation and making sexually explicit material available to minors for incidents that are alleged to have occurred as