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

Three clean-energy projects in B.C. are among the $16 million in funding announced by the federal government Tuesday (June 23). The federal government announced five projects would be getting the funding: three in B.C., one in the Yukon and one in the Northwest Territories. In B.C., the three projects are located in Penticton, Prince Rupert

Repeat property-crime offenders are now in the crosshairs of the province and RCMP. Public Safety Minister and Solicitor General Nina Krieger was joined by Sheila Malcolmson, MLA for Nanaimo-Gabriola, Insp. Donavan Tait, from the Nanaimo RCMP, and other officials in Nanaimo on Monday, June 22, to announce the province is investing $16 million over two