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Welcome to Say What?, our recurring columnist duel wherein important issues are debated and petty scores get settled. In today’s edition, reporters Tom Zytaruk and Tricia Leslie face off over the important question: To procrastinate, or not to procrastinate? * TOM ZYTARUK: PROCRASTINATION IS BEYOND DANGEROUS Tempus fugit, my friend. Tricia most fittingly argues the […]

The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs is stepping into the growing fray over two new First Nations treaties currently before the provincial legislature, calling for a pause until outstanding land claims by other tribes are resolved. “Reconciliation cannot be achieved through incomplete or unilateral processes,” Grand Chief Stewart Phillip said in a Wednesday news release.

A senior Langley RCMP officer has been convicted for the second time of assaulting a suspect, kicking him in the head while he was lying on the floor of a cell, according to just-released ruling from the B.C. Supreme Court. Justice Terence Schultes handed down his verdict on Nov. 26 last year, but it was

A five-year jail sentence — one year more than the mandatory minimum — was imposed on a woman convicted of manslaughter with a firearm. Lona Lynette Cole, 53, learned her fate in BC Supreme Court in Quesnel on April 9, almost a year after Justice Marguerite Church found her guilty of killing her intimate partner,

Police arrived to arrest an accused murderer at a Coquitlam residence in the week before last Christmas, and somebody flung a handgun and a bag of drugs and cash out a window. The Director of Civil Forfeiture recently filed a claim to keep cash recovered during that arrest of Alan Mohammed Taheri. Taheri, 31, is