The people of Barriere may be surprised to learn that the Sovereign of a small Swedish island is living quietly amongst them. Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement. Bronwen Bird of Barriere is not actually the queen of the island called Storberget in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of Sweden, but she

A tiny tail poked out from a small hole at the bottom of a shed at Vancouver Island Air on the Tyee Spit in Campbell River on May 30. This tail inevitably launched a three-day campaign to rescue a mom cat and her kittens from underneath a shed at the float plane operation. “The shed

Maple Ridge’s Citizen of the Year for Lifetime Achievement has directed her $2,500 win from the Maple Ridge Community Foundation be given to the Second Haney Girl Guides. Angie Rowell met the girls at Maple Ridge Cemetery where they were engaging in community service by volunteering to clean the headstones. They were joined by a

The Liberal government has introduced legislation that would impose age restrictions on social media platforms and new rules for AI chatbots. The federal government introduced the Safe Social Media Act, Bill C-34, in Ottawa on Wednesday (June 10). The proposed bill includes an age restriction preventing children under the age of 16 from having accounts

Nearly every municipality, regional district, and First Nation across the Okanagan and Similkameen watersheds has signed on to a syilx-led initiative to restore and protect the region’s waters for the next seven generations. But the multi-government effort is missing two key players: the cities of Kelowna (kiʔláwnaʔ) and West Kelowna, representing a combined population of