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The B.C. government has been fined for a “lack of planning, training, and communication” behind a 2023 planned ignition that put firefighters’ lives at risk in the North Shuswap. WorkSafeBC fined the province $759,388.84 for two incidents involving BC Wildfire Service. One involved the death of 25-year-old firefighter Zack Muise, who was killed when the […]

Consumer Protection B.C. (CPBC) has fined Amazon $10,000 and ordered it to pay $9,369 in legal fees for failing to deliver a package as promised. And the case could now set the standard for a company’s obligation under B.C.’s Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act to actually “deliver” goods ordered online. When the B.C. customer’s

A much loved festive children’s freecycle event is back in Maple Ridge with the addition of books. Until Friday, Nov. 21, the public are invited to drop off clean, gently used children’s clothing and books at the front foyer of Eric Langton Elementary School for the Community Children’s Clothing Freecycle. The freecycle began in May

A B.C. research team that helped pioneer Canada’s first homegrown CAR-T cell therapy for cancer is now taking on one of modern medicine’s toughest frontiers: solid tumours. At the Deeley Research Centre in Victoria, Dr. Julian Smazynski and Nicolette Fonseca are forging new frontiers in immunotherapy, using the body’s own immune system to fight the

Stanley Suddard was born on Oct. 3, 1943. Ten days later, Grant McQuarrie followed. Their mothers were friends, and so were the two boys. Growing up in the small rural community of Whitby, Ont., the two boys were “inseparable.” “Since we started walking, we have been friends,” said McQuarrie. “We ended up in school together,