See full schedule for Surrey’s Canada Day event Friday, July 1, with fireworks to follow Arkells

Fireworks will fill the sky above Surrey’s Canada Day event starting at 10:15 p.m. Friday, July 1, at Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre in Cloverdale. (Submitted photo)
Event returns to Bill Reid Millennium Amphitheatre after a two-year pause due to pandemic

Terry and Darrell Fox. (Submitted Photo)

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A colder, wetter spring may not necessarily mean an influx of mosquitoes in Nanaimo and elsewhere in B.C., says an entomologist at the University of B.C. (Stock photo)

B.C. mosquito boom may not hatch despite buzz about colder spring: expert
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There’s an app for that: Manitoba pot delivery biz first of its kind in Canada
Vancouver Island town plans celebration for Mike, B.C.’s famous bartending dog

Vancouver Island town plans celebration for Mike, B.C.’s famous bartending dog

Two Save Old Growth protesters blocking Highway 1 at the Columbia River Bridge in Revelstoke. The group says it will end its highway protests as of June 29. (Josh Piercey/Revelstoke Review)

Protesters say B.C.’s old growth forest battle will no longer be blocking your commute
A woman reacts as she waits for a train trying to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. Russian troops launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine, sending shockwaves around the world. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

B.C. commits to pay ‘hardship assistance’ for Ukrainians fleeing war
Protesters with the Meat the Victims organization ran onto the Excelsior Hog Farm property in Abbotsford on April 28, 2019. The trial is now underway for three people who have been charged in relation to the incident. (Ben Lypka/Abbotsford News)

Abbotsford farmer says 2019 protest at hog farm was ‘hard to deal with’
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    Pro-choice protestors outside Kelowna’s courthouse on June 26, 2022 following the overturn of a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that unduly restrictive state regulations on abortion are unconstitutional (Brittany Webster - Black Press)

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    Abbotsford’s Keeping Road is the subject of a paranormal investigation by a YouTube channel. (YouTube photo)

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    The artwork on the Wolf Tower was designed by Tseshaht artist Willard Gallic Jr. (ELENA RARDON / ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS)

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    Semiahmoo First Nation Chief Harley Chappell gives remarks at the Chief Bernard Robert Charles Memorial Plaza on National Indigenous Peoples Day. (Photo: Sobia Moman)

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    B.C. Attorney General David Eby and Minister of Mental Health and Addictions Sheila Malcolmson announced a $150 million settlement with Purdue Pharma Canada on June 29. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)

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    Delta-based seniors agility program granted $5,000

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    Kwantlen Park Secondary grad Hamzah Sami with the 2009 Nissan Rogue SL he won during a recent dry-grad event. (Submitted photo)

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    ‘It was very surreal, I tell you that much,’ says Hamzah Sami, winner of 2009 Nissan Rogue

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    Obituaries

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    Karoline Voelpel

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    Johane Fortin

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    Pivot Theatre members at the Fraser Valley Zone Festival where awards were won for Best New Theatre Company, Best Costume Design (Margaret Shearman) and Best Sound Design (Kevin Ibbotson). (Photo: Facebook)

    Surrey’s Pivot Theatre wins awards for ‘My Blue Heaven’ comedy, now set to play Vernon

    Theatre company’s second annual yard sale July 9 at Newton Cultural Centre

    Picture of the Vancouver art gallery from 2014. (Kay Yamagishi/Flickr)

    Sustainability and world class art to meet in new Vancouver Art Gallery building

    Federal government kicks in $29 million to help fund ‘passive house’ arts centre in downtown Vancouver

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    Sports
    The BC Summer Games will be held in Prince George this month. (Submitted graphic)

    More than 200 Surrey, Delta athletes to compete at BC Summer Games in Prince George

    The athletes are an average age of 14

    The Abbotsford Canucks have signed former Kamloops Blazers captain Quinn Schmiemann to a two-year deal. (Abbotsford Canucks photo)

    Abbotsford Canucks sign former Kamloops Blazers captain Quinn Schmiemann

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    The benefits of municipal policing can be boiled down to two primary points: local accountability and responsiveness, argues Surrey Police Chief Norm Lipinski. (SPS photo)

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