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Hundreds gather in Holland Park National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Hundreds attended a truth and reconciliation day event in Holland Park on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (Photo: Anna Burns)

The event was a reminder of those who did not make it home from residential schools

by Anna Burns
8h ago

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Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation lives in Williams Lake, B.C. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

Ashton Pede went to the Vernon hospital Friday night, Sept. 30, after allegedly being attacked by a bus driver during a B.C. Hockey League game. (Contributed)

Penticton Vees bus driver allegedly attacks fan outside Salmon Arm arena

by Logan Lockhart

updated 27 mins ago

Isaac Bosma, 9, of Chilliwack shows his cow during a 4-H competition at the 150th annual Chilliwack Fair on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022 at Chilliwack Heritage Park. Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022 is World Farm Animals Day. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

Unofficial holidays: Here’s what people are celebrating for the week of Oct. 2 to 8

by Jenna Hauck

5h ago

Front companies being used to launder illicit cannabis cash: intelligence agency

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Life on the edge: Will Arnett narrates new Netflix docuseries on Vancouver Island

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FILE - Tesla Motors, Inc. CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Paris Pantheon Sorbonne University as part of the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris on Dec. 2, 2015. An early prototype of Tesla Inc.'s proposed Optimus humanoid robot slowly and awkwardly walked onto a stage, turned, and waved to a cheering crowd at the company's artificial intelligence event Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

Tesla robot walks, waves, but doesn’t show off complex tasks

by The Canadian Press

7h ago

Elder Leonard Bastien, left, and Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, sign a co-stewardship agreement as they announce a new path forward regarding the stewardship of Manitou Asiniy or Manitou Stone, in Edmonton, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Creator’s Stone meteorite to be returned to its historic site after over 150 years

by The Canadian Press

7h ago

Water streams past buildings on the oceanfront after Hurricane Ian passed by the area, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Sanibel Island, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Dozens dead from Ian, one of strongest, costliest US storms

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

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Hurricane Ian leaves, 2.5 million without power in Florida

Vancouver police are asking for help identifying the suspect in a possibly hate motivated assault on a woman Sept. 27. (Photo courtesy of VPD)

Assault on woman in Vancouver may have been racially-motivated: police

A man walks past a damaged building after a Russian attack in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Kremlin gets ready to annex 4 regions of Ukraine on Friday

Provinces, territories face calls to make Day for Truth and Reconciliation a holiday

First Nations Leadership Council deeply concerned B.C. had not made Sept. 30 a statutory holiday.

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

A woman walks through Pearson International Airport in Toronto on March 16, 2020. As of Saturday, October 1, 2022, travellers to Canada will no longer be required to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 — and wearing a mask on planes and trains is no longer mandatory, though it is still recommended. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Canada has now ended its COVID-19 travel restrictions, mask mandates

Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos warned restrictions could be back again if needed

by The Canadian Press

9h ago

Surrey Connect to end FOI request fees, Surrey Forward to create 4 new BIAs

Election promises continue to roll out as vote approaches Oct. 15

by Tom Zytaruk

Gordie Hogg speaks during an all-candidates meeting for City of Surrey mayoral candidates Wednesday evening. The event was hosted by the South Surrey and White Rock Chamber of Commerce and Peninsula Homelessness to Housing Task Force (PH2H) at Gracepoint Community Church. (Alex Browne photo)

Surrey mayoral candidates unanimously support UNITI project as housing model

McCallum announces change of heart on project during Wednesday night all-candidates forum

by Alex Browne

With the approval of a third COVID-19 vaccine – this one from AstraZeneca – health officials in B.C. are now saying most adults could receive their first dose by mid-summer rather than by the end of September as they intially estimated.

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