CBC - British Columbia (37 minutes ago)
A man is facing more than 60 charges following a months-long investigation into break-ins and thefts across the Lower Mainland, according to Surrey RCMP. The investigation began in early June after police noticed a pattern of break-ins at homes in multiple cities, the police force said in a statement.
ReadVancouver Sun - Local (8 hours ago)
Energy is the backbone of every economy. With it, economies grow, without it, they are stagnant. Africa is energy impoverished. According to the International Energy Agency, "African economies that were already hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic are further challenged when you factor in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which sent food, energy and other...
ReadVancouver Sun - Local (9 hours ago)
"When you ask people why they don't ride transit, usually it's not because it's too expensive, they're not riding transit because it doesn't go where they need it to or it's too crowded or doesn't come often enough," Denis Agar, executive director, Movement.
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (13 hours ago)
Some stories are better if you don’t know much going in. So, no spoilers. All you need to know is this: An American university is suing a woman who lives in Kitchener, Ont. It’s trying to recover millions of dollars from her that it claims she received as a result of fraud. The woman in […]
ReadCBC - British Columbia (19 hours ago)
Mat Auryn has been fighting for two years to stop the sale of books by mysterious authors he says blatantly plagiarized his work. He's one of many writers in the realm of spirituality and occult literature who has noticed a recent proliferation of self-published books on Amazon by authors who don't appear to actually exist.
ReadCBC - British Columbia (A day ago)
A criminal investigation into a June 2021 fire that all but destroyed the village of Lytton, B.C., was unable to determine what caused the blaze, RCMP say. The fire killed two people and wiped out much of the village and part of the Lytton First Nation.
ReadCTV - Vancouver (A day ago)
It's been 420 days since 22-year-old Abbey Bickell was killed in a car crash in Burnaby, a stretch full of heartbreak for her family as they not only grieved her death, but anxiously waited for progress in the police investigation. Wednesday, they finally got some good news.
ReadVancouver Sun - Local (A day ago)
Mediated talks between the union representing HandyDART workers in Metro Vancouver and its employer, Transdev, are set to resume today as a strike that has stopped most services drags into a second week. No timeline has been set for the length of the negotiations, but Joe McCann, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1724, […]
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (A day ago)
When Monisha Sharma looked into swim lessons for her daughter, she decided to take an unconventional route to save costs. Rather than enrolling in a formal program, the Toronto woman joined together with a group of neighbours who pooled funds to hire a private instructor at a recreation centre. Sharma figured swimming and soccer, which […]
ReadCityNews - Vancouver (A day ago)
The list is long and varies from school to school. Some of it is structural—leaky roofs and mice infestations, repairs that never get made, and poor ventilation. Some of it directly impacts learning—staffing shortages, a lack of equipment like textbooks and markers, and not even one-on-one care for students with special needs. Add it all […]
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