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Dear Editor, Recent climate policy rollbacks make this a scary time to be young. Across Canada, governments are abandoning policies meant to protect people from escalating climate harms. In Ontario, Premier Ford’s Bill 68 guts some of the last remaining climate policy we have, scrapping Ontario’s climate target, timeline, and its obligation to report back […]

Let’s see the community Through Your Lens. We want to see Pitt Meadows & Maple Ridge as you see it. Send us a photo showing how you view the community, and it could be featured in a future edition of the Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows News. Please include the photographer’s full name and tell us where

Dear Editor, I recently attended the “Be Emergency Ready” workshop being offered, for free, by the City of Maple Ridge. I’m writing to celebrate this service and say ‘thank you’ for a workshop that was so well delivered. Creating an emergency preparedness kit and plan for my family has been on my to-do list for

Surrey Police are searching for a missing 13-year-old boy who didn’t return home for Christmas. Police are asking for public assistance to find Kado Swetz, who didn’t return home as anticipated on Dec. 25. Police say it is “out of character” for Kado to be stay out of contact with friends and family. Kado is

There won’t be any babies born on New Year’s Eve at Peace Arch Hospital. The hospital’s maternity unit is on diversion again from Monday, Dec. 29 at 8 a.m. to Thursday, Jan. 1 at 8 a.m., Fraser Health has just announced. The closure is part of a previously announced series of diversions at the hospital