There were an estimated 500 people in Memorial Peace Park as the City of Maple Ridge hosted a viewing party for Team Canada’s opening game for the FIFA World Cup tournament on Friday, June 12. People who walked into the park were impressed with what the city had put together – the 20-foot screen, a […]
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Police had a home surrounded in Maple Ridge on Friday, June 12. According to a witness the incident happened just after 10 a.m. on Hinch Crescent, by the intersection of 227 Street and 122 Avenue. Glenn McCunnie said that was when his roommate noticed at least half a dozen police SUV’s go by their house
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Another hotel in Greater Victoria is making headlines after entering a world ranking. Abigail’s Hotel in Victoria has been named Canada’s best hotel and the seventh best in the world by TripAdvisor. It was recognized as the best hotel in Canada for the second year in a row, and is the only Canadian hotel to
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A new study commissioned by the B.C. government’s gambling regulator suggests that nearly one-fifth of British Columbians engaged in moderate- to high-risk gambling behaviour in the past year. In response, B.C. is calling on the federal government to create a national framework of advertising controls to tackle the “normalization” of gambling, particularly among youth. Nina
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There were fewer than 200 people watching from the Columbia Valley Community Centre as Bosnia-Herzegovina and Canada had their opening FIFA World Cup match on Friday (June 12), but the vigorous cheers made it seem like as many as a thousand. Bosnians from all over the Lower Mainland had travelled out to Lindell Beach to
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