The Province
DETERRING RUSSIA
PUTLOS, Germany — Thousands of NATO troops including from Spain and Turkey joined an exercise last week on Germany's Baltic coast that defence officials labelled a show of readiness to deter Russia. Naval and special forces practised seizing a beach...
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NO ANSWERS
More than eight months after a bus jumped a curb near the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal, killing a four-year-old Vancouver boy and severely injuring his mother, the family says it is still in search of answers and accountability. “This is not about...
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BUCKSKIN GLOVES REVIVED
The first place David Robinson ever saw a man cry was at a boxing club. The boxer got knocked around sparring. The round ended and things moved on. “Tears after wins or losses are not unusual,” said Robinson, who was just a kid at the time. “There...
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OVERTIME HERO
MILAN — Lost all your hair yet? Hockey is a game of bounces, you'll be shocked to know. It's all a heart-pounding thrill ride. And there's just something about Canadian male hockey players taking on the Czechs that makes for non-stop tension. Often...
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TAX HIKE COMING
B.C.'s finance minister delivered a budget Tuesday that includes billions in new taxes and cuts to the public sector, even as the deficit and provincial debt climb to new highs. Brenda Bailey said the measures were necessary to reduce the deficit over...
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SPECULATIVE TAX
A Richmond resident who was hit a few years ago with the speculation and vacancy tax only to have the charges reversed says the province has issued new liens against his property. It's a case that has left Tony Chan exasperated, confused and...
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KILLER WAS `HUNTING'
The two police officers who were first through the doors of Tumbler Ridge Secondary on Tuesday faced gunfire as they made their way up a flight of stairs to the library. In an update Friday, RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald said police believe...
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`BESTIES FOREVER'
Thursday marked the beginning of the spring session of the B.C. legislature, but the traditional speech from the throne outlining government priorities was cancelled. Instead, Lieutenant-governor Wendy Cocchia read the following brief speech about the...
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`PLEASE PRAY FOR MY BABY'
Eight people were killed and 27 injured in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, in northeastern B.C. on Feb. 10. The 18-year-old suspect appears to have shot herself, RCMP said.
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`HE WAS A LEGEND'
Jim Robson was the best of us. The Vancouver Canucks' first playby-play man upon their entry into the NHL in 1970 until his retirement in 1999, remains the benchmark voice of the franchise, the soundtrack for generations of hockey fans in B.C. His...
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COLD-WATER RESCUE
After getting lost on the Baden Powell Trail in North Vancouver last week, Haksung Lee found his way to a rocky shore. He purloined a kayak in the hopes of paddling down Indian Arm to get back to his car, parked in front of Honey Doughnuts in Deep...
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AI MOVES TO SPACE
NEW YORK — Elon Musk has vowed to upend another industry just as he did with cars and rockets — and once again he's taking on long odds. The world's richest man said he wants to put as many as a million satellites into orbit to form vast,...
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CANADA ON THE PODIUM
MILAN — Canadian speedskater Valérie Maltais said she promised herself she would take two years to get in the best shape possible and become the best skater she possibly could before hanging up her skates for the final time. On Saturday, her gruelling...
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A FAMILY AFFAIR
Brodie and Riley Seger aren't just skiing for medals at the Milan-Cortina Olympics. They're skiing for their dad Mark, their mom Patricia, and for hope. The North Vancouver brothers will compete for Canada in the downhill and super-G events. When...
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FIREWORKS REVIVED
Fireworks will erupt over English Bay again this summer, after Vancouver council voted on Wednesday to spend up to $2 million for a oneday fireworks event. Fireworks erupted in council as well, as opposition councillors questioned spending so much...
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`NEW NORMAL' BUDGET
British Columbians are being warned to brace themselves for possible large cuts to government spending that could be coming to programs and supports for families, seniors and those with mental-health or substance-use challenges, with advocates saying...
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ATLANTIC OAR BUST
Kyle Wills is planning to row across the Atlantic Ocean, solo, to help raise awareness about brain cancer. His friends think he's bonkers. “I've heard the word insane more times than I can count,” said Wills, 33. But Wills is determined to set out...
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AVIAN FLU MIRACLE
That Halloween, Joselynn Armstrong dressed as a pirate fairy and wore her brown hair loose over her shoulders. It was rainy on Oct. 31, 2024, but Joselynn went trick-or-treating. Later, when she started to feel sick, she blamed the rain. Joselynn's...
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WHEN FIFA GOT ITSELF INTO A PICKLE
His name was Pickles. He was beloved by an entire nation until he accidentally hung himself from his choker collar chasing a cat up a tree. The story of a furniture-chewing mongrel who helped solve — partly — a crime that gripped the world in 1966 is...
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DISCIPLINE REVIEW
Surrey councillor and mayoral hopeful Linda Annis has laid out her plan to tackle the city's escalating extortion shootings, with an emphasis on heightening police presence and capabilities. Annis, along with her Surrey First slate, made her...
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CONCRETE CATS
The Lions Gate Bridge is arguably Vancouver's best-known symbol. And the lion statues at the southern entrance to the bridge are an integral part of the span, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever made the crossing. Wouldn't it be great if you...
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HOUSE MONEY
The B.C. government alleges 12 Lower Mainland properties worth more than $37 million were used in a sophisticated money laundering operation by an international drug trafficker who has vanished. The director of civil forfeiture filed the lawsuits...
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WAITING GAME
A Kelowna woman with end-stage liver failure is drawing attention to her challenges in navigating B.C.'s transplant system, which has kept her waiting for over a year to get life-saving surgery. Lyndsay Richholt said her doctors told her she had six...
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COMMENT PULL BACK
Premier David Eby, Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke and Surrey Coun. Mandeep Nagra expressed alarm Wednesday after B.C. RCMP Assistant Commissioner John Brewer labelled the city's recent extortion-related shootings “not a crisis,” warning the comment...
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TRAGIC JOURNEY
The parents of a B.C. teenager found dead on an Australian beach say Piper James loved life and planned to return home after her trip to train to become a pilot. But James's decision to take a morning swim on a beach on K'gari, formerly known as...
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Heavy fog to blanket parts of Metro through Tuesday
The heavy fog that has blanketed much of the Lower Mainland since the weekend is expected to continue until at least Tuesday afternoon. Environment Canada has issued a yellow warning for fog in most parts of Metro including Vancouver, Burnaby, New...
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MIRACLE CURES
This past spring, a biotech company announced the first use of a new gene-editing technology in people to fix an errant gene that causes a severe immune disorder. In June, a baby born with a life-threatening metabolic disorder was allowed to leave the...
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PEAK SURVIVAL
Four hikers were rescued Tuesday after spending three nights atop a mountain in Golden Ears Provincial Park in blizzard-like conditions. Brent Boulet, president of Ridge Meadows Search and Rescue, said the outcome could have been much worse had the...
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HARD DAY IN COURT
An Abbotsford couple were tied up in their beds, murdered and had their Visa card, cheques and a pressure washer stolen, the prosecution said Monday as a trial for three men charged in the May 2022 killings got underway. Prosecutor Dorothy Tsui said...
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CHINA BIRTHRATE SPUTTERS
BEIJING — Twenty-five-year-old Grace and her husband are set on staying child-free, resisting pressure from their parents and society to produce offspring, even as China strives to boost its flagging birthrate. A decade since China scrapped its...
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VSO WALKS BACK THREAT TO ARTIST
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has reversed course after earlier threatening legal action against a young violinist who signed a confidentiality agreement, then spoke out against the organization. On Tuesday, the VSO issued a public statement...
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EBY ASIA BOUND
Premier David Eby said Tuesday he is hopeful a trade mission to India next week will further diversify a provincial economy being battered by U.S. tariffs, even as a new report from consulting firm Deloitte projects B.C. will see minimal growth in...
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HISTORIC SLUMP
Metro Vancouver's tepid housing market recorded its lowest number of home sales in two decades, according to the board that represents the region's real estate agents. Economic uncertainty, combined with a market with ultraexpensive homes that are no...
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WHAT'S NEXT FOR TRADE UNDER TRUMP?
WASHINGTON — Tis the season for renaming — everything from a cultural hub dedicated to a beloved slain president to new destroyers to 2025 itself. No, U.S. President Donald Trump hasn't labelled the year with his name, but his trade representative, in...
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MADURO BAGGED IN U.S. RAID
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. would run Venezuela until a leadership transition could be organized, hours after a US operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power and delivering him to U.S. soil late...
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COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN
A reluctance by authorities and a provincial watchdog to release basic details about two fatal collisions involving Surrey police vehicles and pedestrians shows a lack of transparency when police are being investigated, observers say. “There's a...
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Top 10 absurd, batty, time-wasting calls to 911
A bad haircut, a broken dishwasher or a hornet buzzing around the house may feel like a crisis at the time — but they are not reasons to call 911. These woes are among B.C. E-Comm's 2025 list of top 10 “unusual” calls, which call takers receive more...
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LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY
Every day, Surrey's AJ Sico sits in a wheelchair inside a South Vancouver care facility, his body still bearing the marks of a spring evening that has forever altered his family. “I never expected to see my adult son like this,” says his mother,...
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SILENCING HONG KONG
HONG KONG — After four months of restless waiting, filmmaker Kiwi Chow received a dreaded, but not altogether unexpected, message: Hong Kong censors had banned his new movie from reaching the big screen. The 46-year-old's career, which took off in...
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PAYING AND PLAYING IT FORWARD
Emerson Murray's professional basketball career took him around the world, but it is in a noisy gymnasium in Surrey filled with teenagers working to refine their skills where he now finds his greatest sense of pride. On a recent weekday morning, music...
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STOCKINGS FILLED!
The Christmas spirit arrived just in time for a mom and her two young children living in a transition home for families fleeing domestic violence in Richmond. Angela Toussaint, program manager at Atira Women's Resource Society's Cadence Second Stage...
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TWO DEAD IN RV FIRE
Two people are dead following a fire inside a recreational vehicle Sunday night in Surrey, despite a neighbour jumping into action to help. Sukhwinder Saroya lives next door to the home where the RV fire happened around 9 p.m. Sunday in the 12200...
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UKRAINE'S LOST GENERATION
KHARKIV, Ukraine — With his shadow of a moustache and baseball cap, Bohdan Levchykov would be your typical teenager anywhere if he didn't embody the tragedy of what has happened to a generation of young Ukrainians after nearly four years of war. His...
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JUSTICE DELIVERED
George David's half-finished carvings don't tell the story they were meant to. The Indigenous artist, a member of the Tofino-area Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation on Vancouver Island, was murdered in Washington state in 2016. On Dec. 15, an Arkansas woman...
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DOUBLE WHAMMY
A grim cleanup effort is underway in Abbotsford, where an estimated 175,000 birds died in last week's flooding — the latest crisis to hit B.C.'s poultry farms. While the emergency is not expected to affect chicken or egg prices or the availability of...
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`HE'S A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY'
Mike Pearson knew something was wrong when he didn't see a man he knew as Tom where he normally hung out in Vancouver's West End neighbourhood, not far from all his worldly possessions. “Number 1, he didn't like leaving his stash of gear at all,” said...
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SNOW STARVED
It's mid-December, and it's unseasonably warm in parts of B.C. “Today, I'm at the Kelowna campus at UBC, and the temperature is plus 10 Celsius,” UBC earth and environmental sciences professor Michael Pidwirny said on Monday. “Well, that's 11 degrees...
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VANCOUVER VILLAGES
The city envisions a future of village hubs that will feature a variety of small shops, services and amenities within a five-minute walk of lowrise buildings up to six storeys.
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BACK IN TIME
BEIJING — Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a pavilion, as the melodious strumming of the Chinese zither played in the background. These customers have paid to “time...
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ON THE MOVE
As she put her five-year-old to bed, Patti Gerbrand got this question: “What if our house floats away while we're sleeping?” The Abbotsford mother said Thursday she was trying to keep calm for her kids while preparing to evacuate to higher...
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PROCEEDS OF CRIME SEIZED
The province is seeking forfeiture of a Richmond condo, a BMW sedan and cash worth more than $1 million, allegedly linked to drug labs in the Lower Mainland. A special federal RCMP unit raided the Richmond condo and a Surrey property in September...
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HITMAN ATTEMPTS ESCAPE DAY AFTER SENTENCING
A day after a B.C. Supreme Court judge wished Wolfpack hitman Dean Wiwchar well in changing his life for the better, the killer allegedly attempted to escape from Surrey jail, Postmedia has learned. Justice Kathleen Ker sentenced Wiwchar Friday to 20...
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DEEP DISS PIZZA
As the pizza warms, the scent of dough and cheese fills the shop. Less than $4 and one-minute later, a glistening slice is packaged in a white bag and ready to eat. Freshslice founder Ray Russell opened his first pizza shop in Vancouver in 1999....
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SHADOW FLEET
Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the tropical South Pacific to cover their tracks, an AFP analysis of sanctions data has revealed. Nestled next to a pizza shop in...
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MESSI CAPS OFF ANOTHER TITLE
Even after losing in heartbreaking fashion in the MLS Cup final on Saturday — 3-1 to Inter Miami at Chase Stadium in Florida — we must not lose sight of what a truly remarkable season this has been for the Vancouver Whitecaps. The year began full of...
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RUSTAD RESIGNS TO AVOID `CIVIL WAR'
The interim leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, Trevor Halford, is being called a calm and articulate progressive Conservative, who is well-liked by his colleagues. That description comes from former MP and Surrey mayor Dianne Watts. “He really...
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IS HE PARTY LEADER OR NOT?
John Rustad says he's still the leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, despite his own party's board giving him the boot. In a statement on Wednesday, the Conservative party said Rustad has been removed as leader because he had lost the confidence of...
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FIRE IN THE SKY
Surrey city council is asking the provincial government to restrict how fireworks are used and obtained across B.C. due to safety concerns. Coun. Rob Stutt put forward a notice of motion at the regular Nov. 17 meeting for the city to ask the B.C....
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OVERDOSE BURNOUT
Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services is limiting the number of shifts firefighters work at its Downtown Eastside firehall due to the overwhelming number of overdose calls personnel must attend. According to a recent agency post on social media, there...
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DARK AND COLD
KYIV, Ukraine — Wartime Kyiv after sunset now means dark streets and passing silhouettes, with the only light from the occasional faint glow of luminous dog collars. As Ukraine reels from being presented with a U.S. plan that may force it to...
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FROM GAME DAYS TO HOLIDAYS
Winter warmth and styles to celebrate. The Canucks Signature Collection blends timeless athletic design with refined contemporary looks for every member of your team.
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PIPELINE A PIPE DREAM
B.C.'s governing party and coastal First Nations have come out firing against the new agreement between Ottawa and Alberta that paves the way for one or more bitumen pipelines from the oilsands to B.C.'s north coast. Premier David Eby has spent the...
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`HEADING TO EXTINCTION'
A record-low Interior Fraser steelhead return is a conservation crisis that must be addressed before the species of trout is wiped out, the B.C. Wildlife Federation said Thursday. “Steelhead are heading to extinction faster than all the other fish,...
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LIGHTS OUT
After more than three decades, Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks, one of the city's highest-profile and most popular public events, has fizzled out due to escalating costs and dwindling government and private funding. Vancouver's Honda...
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$46M BUDGET BOOST
The budget for the PNE's new amphitheatre, which is under construction and set to host Vancouver's official FIFA World Cup watching parties next summer, has been increased again to a new total of $183 million, almost triple the original estimate. City...
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CHINA'S NUCLEAR PLAN
U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement this month that the United States would restart nuclear weapons testing on an “equal basis” with other countries — alluding to unverified claims that Moscow and Beijing are conducting secret tests and...
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SALUTE TO SERVICE
The last surviving Chinese Canadian soldier from the Second World War died in B.C. last month, just shy of his 100th birthday, but there were still surviving Chinese Canadian veterans to honour at the Remembrance Day service in Vancouver's...
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WHO IS SETTING FIRE TO THE AMAZON?
SAO FELIX DO XINGU, Brazil — “Red John” is an old acquaintance of landowners and ranchers in the Brazilian Amazon. He helps clear pastures cheaply, but also leaves blackened earth and charred trees in his wake — threatening the planet's largest...
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WORDS ON THE STREET HONOUR VETS
This year, Nov. 11 comes 80 years and a month after the Second World War ended with the formal surrender of Japan, a moment among many that will be honoured at the dozens of Remembrance Day ceremonies across the Lower Mainland this year. Here is a...
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TEEN SHOT DEAD
A 19-year-old man killed in a targeted shooting in Burnaby on Wednesday night was suspected of having ties to the drug trade, homicide investigators have confirmed. Connor Sheriff was gunned down just after 6:30 p.m. in a parking lot outside the...
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SCHOOL DAZE
A 65 per cent cut to international student targets, announced in Tuesday's federal budget, could impact class sizes, program availability and graduation timelines for post-secondary students across B.C., said experts. With many colleges and...
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