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The sound of hundreds of gunshots ringing out throughout the night is haunting the small town of Edgewood, and world wide. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) euthanized more than 300 birds at Universal Ostrich Farm late Thursday, Nov. 6. Protesters and supporters of the farm shared multiple videos online of guns being fired in […]

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