Monthly Archives: August, 2016

Boy, 10, killed on world’s tallest waterslide suffered fatal neck injury: officials

JIM SUHR, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas waterslide billed as the world’s tallest remained off-limits Monday as authorities pressed to figure...

Bride asks her dad’s heart recipient to walk her down the aisle

By LINDSEY BEVER, WASHINGTON POST The day before her wedding, Jeni Stepien said she met the man who would walk her down the aisle – the...

Canada seized nearly $11.5M from Chinese travellers last year — more than double the 2013 amount

Ethan Lou, Reuters Canada has been seizing increasing amounts of undeclared or suspected criminal money from mainland Chinese travellers, border officials said, with the amount...

Mom facing ‘honour killing’ charge released

By Michael Mui, 24 Hours Vancouver Honour killing victim Jassi Sidhu’s mother has been granted bail by the B.C. Court of Appeal as she awaits the...

Indian man charged with sexually touching sleeping Virgin America passenger

NEWARK, N.J. - An airline passenger was charged with sexually touching a sleeping woman who did not know him aboard a flight from Los...

Walmart employees charged with fatally crushing suspected shoplifter

It was the middle of the night on Feb. 7, at a Florida Walmart Supercenter, when Kenneth E. Wisham, 64, allegedly decided to steal...

SFU becomes first Canadian research university to be accredited in U.S.

BY NICK EAGLAND Simon Fraser University just became the first Canadian research university with U.S. accreditation. The announcement came Tuesday that SFU had in recent weeks been...

Paralyzed Two-Year-Old Receives Gift of Hope

BCHF, BC Paraplegic Foundation and Fantasy Food 2000 Donate $10K to Julia Grassmick By Sujinder Juneja Two-year-old Julia Grassmick, recently paralyzed from the waist down, is...

Five farm workers injured in Delta crash

By GLEN SCHAEFER Delta police are investigating after five farm workers were injured when the van they were riding in was involved in a crash...

Working in a modern office a death sentence on par with smoking, European study warns

LAURA DONNELLY, THE TELEGRAPH   LONDON — Office workers must exercise for an hour a day to combat the “deadly” risk of modern working life, a...

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How to Safely Celebrate Easter and Passover

Though it may not be quite the same as past holidays, this Easter, Passover or any other event can still be filled with love,...

Magic Days Coming to Museum of Surrey

Surrey, BC – Lon Mandrake, magician, and son of the late famous Mandrake the Magician, will perform a little abracadabra at Museum of Surrey on...

TransLink completes modernization of 1980s-era SkyTrain technology

NEW WESTMINSTER: TransLink has replaced aging speakers and signs on the SkyTrain system by installing 280 new customer information screens and over 1,400 new...

Fraser Health declares COVID-19 outbreak at Abbotsford Regional Hospital

SURREY – Fraser Health has declared a COVID-19 outbreak at Abbotsford Regional Hospital after evidence of transmission in a medicine unit. Four patients at Abbotsford Regional...