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A new feature documentary from Haida filmmaker Patrick Shannon is drawing a direct line between a village basketball team and the Haida Nation’s long fight over title of its lands and waters. Saints and Warriors follows the Skidegate Saints through the 2023-24 basketball season as the team tries to defend its dominance at the All […]

A group of about 15 people gathered outside Kelowna MP Stephen Fuhr’s office on Nov. 16 to protest what they believe is a “proposed huge increase in military spending” in the federal budget. Protester Mark Haley stated that the group opposed military increases and social spending cuts in light of the “dubious results of recent

The head of the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) says local government officials are not satisfied with what they’ve heard so far from the B.C. government on changes to the Heritage Conservation Act. “We’re asking the government to pause, we’re asking them to really spend a little bit more time on this,” UBCM President Cori

A series of free Christmas light tours are being offered by the Ridge Meadows Seniors Society. Anyone 55 years or older are welcome aboard the Seniors Community Shuttle bus for any one of the multiple tours starting Monday, Dec. 8. There are two tours to Lafarge Lake in Coquitlam, which will be independent walking tours.

With colder, wetter weather in the Lower Mainland forecast this winter, TransLink says bus and SkyTrain operators are better prepared for lousy conditions in coming weeks and months. Better bus tires and communications are among strategies announced by the transit authority at Surrey Transit Centre in Newton on Wednesday (Nov. 19), a day when TransLink