A Maple Ridge family has been given the green light to challenge the exclusion of siblings amongst family members who can claim damages under the B.C. Family Compensation Act for the police shooting death of their brother in 2019. Yin Yin Din and her brother Min Aung started an Family Compensation Act (FCA) claim on […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to the community of Tumbler Ridge for failing to alert the police to the online activity of the alleged shooter, Jesse Van Rootselaar, until after the killings. The apology came in the form of an April 23 letter addressed to the community and signed by Altman. “I am deeply

Golf does not usually deliver shock value like this, but Thursday was different. Standing on the tee at Olympic View’s second hole, Luke Bernakevitch pulled his driver on the slightly downhill 305-yard par 4 that dares players to flirt with trouble. Water guards the right side, a treeline paints the left, and a bunker sits

The bargaining association representing roughly 35,000 of B.C.’s unionized social services workers has a tentative deal for a new collective agreement. The deal between the Community Social Services Bargaining Association and the Community Social Services Employers’ Association will be backdated to March 31, 2025, when the previous agreement expired. The B.C. government announced the tentative

A man who was convicted of a violent assault in Abbotsford in 2021 has had his application rejected for a court-appointed lawyer for an appeal. The Court of Appeal for B.C. dismissed Amrinder Singh’s application on April 14, saying he would have no “realistic prospect” to win an appeal of his conviction; therefore, he would