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The West Vancouver school district is facing a lawsuit from one of its students over a sports injury she took in field hockey practice.

A Surrey man has been charged after a road rage altercation involving bear spray that took place last weekend in North Delta.

There were 55 fire-related deaths in Vancouver between 2001 and 2016. The leading cause of death during that timeframe was attributed to “smokers materials,” presumably cigarettes or embers from an ashtray.

VPD Photo Vancouver police are searching for a 58-year-old man who is wanted Canada-wide for failing to return to his Vancouver halfway house. Daine Vonbillings was last seen in the downtown halfway house at 6 p.m.

Photo Shutterstock Experience dazzling fields of yellow, orange and red sunflowers at the inaugural Chilliwack Sunflower Festival opening on August 22. The Chilliwack Sunflower Festival is being organized by the creators of Tulips of the Valley.

The statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, will be removed from the doorstep of Victoria City Hall on Saturday, says Mayor Lisa Helps.

Multi-million dollar remediation includes removal of thousands of creosote pilings, docks and a warehouse. Work has begun in Squamish to dismantle the remnants of an old pulp mill site to make way for the Woodfibre LNG project.

Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in Burnaby on Wednesday. Photograph By KELVIN GAWLEY Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh finally confirmed today all the wild speculation that he plans to run for Parliament in the riding of Burnaby South.

American and Canadian scientists are considering a Hail Mary effort to save an endangered four-year-old killer whale, known as J50, which appears emaciated, lethargic and has lost about 20 per cent of its body weight. J50, left, is seen in U.S.