Riparian restoration projects in east Metro Vancouver Regional Parks will be the topic explored at the Kanaka Education and Environmental Partnership Society’s, (KEEPS), annual general meeting. Guest presenter will be Janice Jarvis, a retired Biologist for Metro Vancouver Regional Parks, who will be presenting “A Legacy of Restoration”. Metro Vancouver manages a system of regional […]

Dear Editor, [RE: Lessons of COVID lost, March 20, The News] I must take exception to your opinion that Canadians learned no lessons from COVID. Lessons we learned: 1. Our democratically elected are quite prepared to lie to us when it suits them. The origins of COVID were hidden. The vaccine was not safe nor

Pity poor Pierre Poilievre. Just a few months ago, the Conservative Party leader seemed secure in his position, with an 87.4 per cent approval vote at his party’s leadership review. He must have been looking forward to Canadians tiring of Prime Minister Carney. The shine wears off most leaders within a year, and with only

A group who calls themselves the Craft Ladies have donated thousands to the Ridge Meadows Seniors Society, (RMSS), and other local deserving groups. Mary Koenders, 86, chairman of the Ladies Tuesday Craft Group, who meet out of the RMSS Maple Ridge Seniors Activity Centre location, said they raised $4,000 from sales of their crafts throughout

“It’s a bit of a mixed emotion, to be honest.” That was Ken Beattie, the executive director of the BC Craft Brewers Guild’s reaction in response to the federal government’s announcement of a two-year extension of alcohol excise duty relief. This was announced on April 2 at Barnside Brewing in Delta by Jill McKnight, the