Clik here to view.
Surrey seeks shutterbug to photograph pockmarked pavement
The City of Surrey is looking to hire a transportation-happy shutterbug to photograph 1,104 kilometres of local roads this summer. The snapshots — to be taken every five metres of public roadway — are...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. Election 2017: John Horgan tours Liberal-dominated Okanagan
B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan took his campaign through the Okanagan on Saturday in Liberal-dominated ridings his party could find challenging to swing when voters go to the polls Tuesday. During a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. Election 2017: Clark moves to prop-up Metro ridings against NDP
B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark distilled the provincial election campaign down Saturday to a vote between “hope or despair” during a fiery speech in North Vancouver. Clark, flanked by her four North...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ART SEEN: Beginning and Ending in conversation about photography at Capture...
Beginning: Did you get to any Capture 2017 exhibitions? Ending: I got to some but not as many as I wanted. Beginning: Same here. Of those that you did see, what stood out for you? Ending: I have to say...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Teen killed in Cloverdale crash identified as a former Whitecaps youth player
A teen who was killed in a multi-car crash earlier this week in Cloverdale has been identified as a promising Whitecaps FC residency player. On Wednesday evening, Surrey RCMP responded to 64th Avenue,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
California sea lion found badly hurt at Spanish Banks now in the care of...
An injured California sea lion continues its recovery after being rescued Friday from Spanish Banks Beach. The adult male sea lion was found Friday by several passersby at the beach, where the animal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
B.C. Liberals, NDP and Greens agree mining is important
When the earth-and-rock dam that held back millions of cubic metres of mine waste and effluent at Imperial Metal’s Mount Polley mine failed in 2014, it left the mining industry in B.C. and Canada...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Daphne Bramham: How do secular societies strike a balance between religious...
Where religious freedom begins and ends is increasingly bedevilling secular, pluralistic societies, including ours. Despite constitutions and charters of rights, no single freedom is absolute. Rights...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transgender teen Levi Nahirney, two years after coming out
Two years ago, Postmedia News introduced readers to North Vancouver’s Levi Nahirney, who shared his decision to come out as transgender. He told The Vancouver Sun at the time that he’d broken the news...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Transgender teen: Cadets develop policy in-line with Armed Forces
Canada’s first known transgender judge was a cadet when he was young. A transgender contestant on The Amazing Race Canada transitioned while he was in cadets. And now Cadets Canada has an official...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cache Creek search crews still looking for fire chief who went missing after...
The community of Ashcroft, reeling from devastating floods, turned out in force as waters receded over the weekend to search for missing Cache Creek Fire Chief Clayton Cassidy. Sadly, the search...
View ArticleClik here to view.
NDP leader John Horgan campaigns on Granville Island
Mark Nichols has never voted NDP, but as he walked through Granville Island on Sunday, a chance encounter with leader John Horgan may have changed his mind. Nichols, 30, and his wife Georgia spent...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wings and prayers: Airport chaplain's role practical as well as spiritual
A vase of beautiful, fragrant orchids on the reception desk greets visitors to the Vancouver airport Chaplaincy, tucked away in a quiet corner of the international arrivals level at YVR. The flowers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clark criss-crosses Metro Vancouver suburbs in campaign blitz
On the final Sunday of her election campaign, B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark criss-crossed the Lower Mainland to rally Liberal-friendly ridings and shake every hand in sight. “Hi, I’m Christy,” a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
300 guitars go on the auction block in Surrey
Three hundred guitars went on the auction block in Surrey on Sunday, drawing about 1,000 interested bidders. The collection belonged to Dr. Barry Rich, a retired doctor diagnosed with bipolar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Canada 150: George Manuel inspired a generation of indigenous leaders
To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. “The land from which our culture springs is like the water and the air, one and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dan Fumano: Will rocky relationship between park board, aquarium end up in...
The head of the Vancouver Aquarium said he’s not ruling out the possibility of taking the Park Board to court over the future of whales and dolphins in Stanley Park, with tensions between the two sides...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Accounting firm's study shows signs of debt stress among B.C. consumers
Charis Sweet-Speiss’ descent into credit-card debt was long and gradual and she knew her spending habits spelled trouble. But she maintains at the end it was “way too easy” to end up owing $67,000 on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Vaughn Palmer: Elections decided by people who show up to vote
VICTORIA — When former B.C. MLA Frank Calder passed away a decade ago, he was remembered as a great leader of the Nisga’a and the first aboriginal person elected to a legislature anywhere in the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
City applies for injunction to remove homeless campers on Main Street
The city of Vancouver has applied for an injunction to remove a homeless camp occupied by about 50 people in a vacant city-owned lot on the edge of the Downtown Eastside. In an application filed Monday...
View Article