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Dear Editor, [RE: LETTER – Taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize garbage pickup, Feb.18, www.mapleridgenews.com] I read with interest the letter from a reader regarding their thoughts on municipal garbage collection. I am a former sanitation worker for a large municipality, and I spent over a decade operating and loading garbage and recycling trucks. I have always been […]

Victoria’s most famous sleeping beauty is keeping his fans waiting. Roger the yellow-bellied marmot has yet to pop his head up from his winter hibernation at his longtime home in the grounds of Victoria’s Fairmont Empress Hotel. Estimated to around 18 years old, the seasoned snoozer has already outlived the typical 15-year life expectancy of

An Alberta driver has been sentenced more than two years after a crash that destroyed a tow truck and Mercedes. Dalvir Singh Jhattu, 38, was sentenced April 8 to a six-month conditional sentence order, 90 days of house arrest, a 12-month Canada-wide driving ban and conditions that include no possession or consumption of alcohol, drugs

Until a last-minute deal with the First Nations Leadership Council on Sunday afternoon, Premier David Eby says he was fully prepared to introduce legislation to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA) on Monday. Instead, he was convinced to commit the B.C. government to jointly working with First Nations

The province is opting into the federal government’s time-limited policy changes to the temporary foreign worker program to help address immediate labour shortages in rural B.C. communities. B.C. will be opting into the proposed variance that allows rural employers to retain existing low-wage temporary foreign workers beyond the currently 10 per cent cap, the Post-Secondary