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YVR to experience busiest day of the year 

YVR is expecting over 75,000 travellers to come and go on Friday, with 65,000 on Christmas Day and 68,000 on Boxing Day. Last year, the airport was hit with a snowstorm that left many passengers stranded resulting in chaos inside...

Dec 23, 2024 | Local

Poilievre calls on GG to recall House: What does this mean?

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has written to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, imploring her to “use your authority to inform the prime minister that he must” recall the House of Commons so a non-confidence vote can be held. This move comes...

Dec 23, 2024 | Local

Malaysia to resume search for missing flight MH370

The Malaysian government has confirmed it will resume the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which vanished 10 years ago, one of the most puzzling mysteries in aviation history. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, disappeared on March 8,...

Dec 23, 2024 | Local

Fans that really deserve the tickets: Swifties sing along outside BC Place

Vancouver came alive Friday evening for the first of Taylor Swift’s three concerts at BC Place to end her wildly successful Eras Tour. Swifties decked out in their sparkliest outfits and shiniest cowboy boots headed downtown to make up the...

Dec 9, 2024 | Local

‘My wife’s going bonkers’: Abbotsford residents fed up with overnight construction noise

Residents of a rural Abbotsford neighbourhood are fed up with the noise from a provincial project that has meant hundreds of dump trucks rumbling up and down their street in the middle of the night. “Between the hours of 10...

Nov 25, 2024 | Local

Widow of Chinese businessman who was executed for murder can sell her Vancouver house, court...

A murder in China and a civil lawsuit in B.C. have been preventing the sale of multiple Vancouver homes, but one of them could soon hit the market after a court ruling. The home in question – a six-bedroom, six-bathroom...

Nov 25, 2024 | Local

Vancouver Police Board member resigns over social media posts

A member of the Vancouver Police Board was asked to resign after social media posts surfaced that made her continued service on the oversight body “untenable,” according to the chair. Comfort Sakoma-Fadguba was serving as the board’s vice-chair when screen...

Nov 25, 2024 | Local

Hypothermic man found submerged and ‘clinging to piling’ in Cowichan Bay water rescue

A boater is grateful for the services of local rescue groups after being left stranded in the cold waters of Cowichan Bay after his vessel capsized. Crews were called to a report of an overturned boat in the bay, located...

Nov 25, 2024 | Local

Second Cup closes Montreal franchise over hateful incident

Second Cup Café has closed one of its franchise locations in Montreal following allegations of hateful remarks and gestures made by the franchisee in a video that was widely circulated online during a pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday. The franchise was...

Nov 25, 2024 | Local

Woman left ‘screaming for help’ after car journey with male driver, say Abbotsford police

Abbotsford police are requesting dash cam video and witness information after a frightening car journey with an unknown male left a woman “extremely shaken up,” police say. Officers were called to reports of a female screaming for help on the...

Nov 25, 2024 | Local