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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...

What’s new for this tax-filing season?

Vancouver, British Columbia, March 30, 2016…The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) would like to remind Canadians of new or improved tax relief measures and online...

More funding for MEND: Healthy living program expands

KAMLOOPS - Families with children throughout British Columbia soon will have more help in achieving healthy lifestyles and healthy weights with $2 million to...

Child Care Subsidy fix to support more families

VICTORIA - Child support payments will no longer impact eligibility for parents already receiving or applying for child care subsidies, starting April 1, 2016,...

Impaired-driving charges laid against Balraj Cheema in head-on collision

By Vikki Hopes - Abbotsford News Impaired-driving charges have been laid against a man in relation to a head-on crash last September that seriously injured 21-year-old Jocelyn Visser...

Sexual Assault by Indo-Canadian man at 32500 South Fraser Way Business

Abbotsford: Police in Abbotsford is seeking public help to identify a Punjabi man wanted in sexual assault incident that took place at a South...

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...

Land Gold Women puts focus on honour killings

Louis B. Hobson- Calgary Herald This year’s Oscar for best documentary short went to Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness. It focused...

A drink a day may not keep the doctor away

By kelly Sinoski & Randy shore, Vancouver Sun If you’ve been toasting recent headlines that declared alcohol a life-extending elixir, you might want to put...

Former Liberal MLA Barry Penner named ICBC chairman

VICTORIA – Former Liberal MLA Barry Penner is the new chairman of the Insurance Corporation of B.C. Penner will start the job March 31, on...

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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...