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Surrey man accused of running ‘terror camp’ near Mission

A Surrey man is accused of running a “terror camp” near Mission that’s plotting attacks in the Punjab, according to an India news report. By CHERYL...

Hardy Grewal, Subway franchise kingpin, donates $1M to Concordia

Son of Indian farmers came to Canada with $7, former cabbie now owns 2,100 fast-food franchises By Roberto Rocha, CBC News Hardeep Singh Grewal, the son of Punjabi sugar-cane farmers,...

Your kid’s prom just got even more expensive

POLLY MOSENDZ, WASHINGTON POST   Parents are accustomed to being treated like human cash machines during prom season, spending close to $1,000 to guarantee that a...

Surrey shootings: Mayor Linda Hepner ‘angry’ about recent violence

RCMP investigating 3 shootings in past 3 days linked to what police call a new drug conflict in the city   CBC News Surrey Mayor Linda Hepner...

Ex-soccer coach sentenced to 7 years for seeking sex with preteen

Kendra Mangione, BC.CTVNews.ca Writer A former B.C. soccer coach has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to travelling to the U.S. to...

Mass-murder researchers consider April the beginning of ‘the killing season’

BY MICHAEL S. ROSENWALD, WASHINGTON POST Mass-murder researchers and terrorism experts do not like turning their calendars to April. For them, it marks the beginning...

Province to review the organic matter recycling regulation

VICTORIA - British Columbians will have a chance to engage with governmentas part of a comprehensive review of the organic matter recycling regulation(OMRR), to...

36 NRI names removed from ‘Blacklist’ after CM Badal writes to PM

New Delhi, March 28 A “blacklist” maintained by the Central government imposing visa restrictions on Sikhs settled abroad has been pruned, reportedly following Prime Minister...

Toronto police to honour their old adversary Rob Ford at his funeral on Wednesday

Richard Warnica It will be in many ways a fitting end to a relationship that was by turns strained and strange — both combative and...

Man pays $400 a month to sleep in wooden box in friends’ San Francisco living room

Yanan Wang, Washington Post By now, the high price of rent in and around San Francisco has become at once a familiar lament and an...

British ship believed carrying enough plutonium to make 40 a-bombs leaves Japan for U.S.

The Associated Press TOKYO — An armed British ship believed to be carrying enough plutonium to make about 40 atomic bombs left a port in...

Flight attendant caught with 31 kilos of cocaine kicks off Gucci heels and runs away barefoot in L.A. airport

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are searching for a flight attendant they say ran from a security screening at Los Angeles International Airport, leaving...

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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...