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Housing, growth, crime among issues tackled at Langley City council all-candidates meeting

Langley City council candidates debated in two groups at a Chamber of Commerce event on Wednesday, Sept. 30. (Screencap/Special to the Langley Advance Times)

All the council candidates running turned out for the event

by Matthew Claxton
2h ago

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Orange Shirt Day founder Phyllis Webstad from the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation lives in Williams Lake, B.C. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

Orange Shirt Society founder hopeful for future of Indigenous families
- updated 10h ago
Decades old tradition to celebrate everything cranberry returns this Thanksgiving weekend
- 11h ago
Langley RCMP and ICBC reminds people to #LeaveYourPhoneAlone
- 13h ago
City mayor says council calls her a ‘thief’ during election debate
- updated 15h ago
Ultimate Girls’ Weekend back as West Coast Women’s Show returns to Tradex in Abbotsford

B.C. Lions’ James Butler, left, tries to fend off Ottawa Redblacks’ Alonzo Addae as he carries the ball during the second half of a CFL football game in Vancouver, on Friday, September 30, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Vernon Adams Jr. shines as B.C. Lions thump Ottawa Redblacks 34-19

by The Canadian Press

8h ago

“A Mother’s Cry” is so revered in Nisga’a culture that only the Gitmaxmak’ay Nisga’a Society dancers are permitted to perform musical narration, as seen at Salmon Fest in June 2022.

‘A Mothers Cry’ heard across B.C.’s northwest captures the pain of separation and loss

by K-J Millar

updated 10h ago

Front companies being used to launder illicit cannabis cash: intelligence agency

Cannabis 19+

Life on the edge: Will Arnett narrates new Netflix docuseries on Vancouver Island

West Coast Traveller

AFN National Chief RoseAnne Archibald speaks at a Miyo-wiciwitowin Day event at Mosaic Stadium in Regina, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says today’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is about the survivors who suffered in Canada’s residential schools and the children who never made it home. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Michael Bell

Canadians reflect about residential schools on Truth and Reconciliation Day

by The Canadian Press

updated 11h ago

Maple Ridge school board candidate Brian Dominick does not deny this was him in a video outside the Vancouver Art Gallery speaking to a crowd of people. (Screen grab)

Lower Mainland school board candidate on video preaching about exterminating the ‘global, elitist parasite’

by Colleen Flanagan

16h ago

Glen Chisholm, manager of Otter Co-op’s Langley Food Store. Photo courtesy Otter Co-op.

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Neighbours helping neighbours: Otter Co-op gives back to families + the community

Donna thought people at her regular meetings were simply talking too quietly, but after getting fitted for hearing aids at Ears Hearing Clinic in Langley, it was much easier to participate.

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How hearing aids helped Donna stay involved in her community

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Hurricane Ian leaves, 2.5 million without power in Florida

In this Feb. 9, 2018, file photo, a radiology technician looks at a chest X-ray of a child suffering from flu symptoms. Radiologists in B.C.. say hundreds of thousands of patients are waiting for medical imaging. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

‘Hundreds of thousands’ waiting for medical imaging in B.C., radiologists say

A bed in need of cleaning is moved in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at St. Paul’s hospital in downtown Vancouver, Tuesday, April 21, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

B.C. may move hospital patients to free up beds ahead of projected COVID, flu surge

Family of B.C. teenager killed by driver sees next to nothing thanks to ICBC’s no-fault insurance

‘The no-fault scheme is so unfair that the government was scared to tell the public what it is’ – lawyer

by Paul Henderson

14h ago

Daniel Corr of Abbotsford is suing two women who he says defamed him on the social media platform TikTok when they publicly accused him of sexual assault. (Instagram photo)

Abbotsford man sues over TikTok sex assault accusations

Lawsuit seeks damages from two women for alleged defamation

by Vikki Hopes

15h ago

LETTER: Langley voter has some questions about municipal election slates

Voters encouraged to look closely at ballots when making their choices

The first group of Langley Township council candidates at Monday’s all-candidates meeting. With 28 names on the ballot, the debate had them speak in three groups of 10 to eight each. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

More than two dozen Langley Township council candidates debate

Chamber-hosted event lobs questions at groups of contenders as vote nears

by Matthew Claxton

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