Students lugging water around Fort Langley a lesson in empathy

Langley Fine Arts School students walked more than two kilometres through Fort Langley on Thursday as part of the Walk for Water. (Heather Colpitts/Langley Advance Times)
Grade 6 and 7 students at Langley Fine Arts School took part in the Walk for Water Thursday

Kelvin Redvers, left, is seen being ejected by a security guard, right, from the Cannes red carpet, in Cannes, France, in a May 22, 2022, handout photo. Redvers, a Dene filmmaker, says he was turned away from a Cannes Film Festival red carpet for wearing moccasins. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kelvin Redvers, *MANDATORY CREDIT*

Indigenous filmmaker says he was refused entry on Cannes red carpet for his moccasins
Flowers are seen near a mosque where a shooting left six people dead and eight others injured on Jan. 30, 2017 in Quebec City. The Supreme Court of Canada struck down a Criminal Code provision Friday that meant multiple murderers might have to wait 50 years or more to apply for parole. The unanimous high court decision came Friday in the case of Alexandre Bissonnette, allowing him to seek parole after serving 25 years behind bars for fatally shooting six people at the Quebec City mosque in 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

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Canopy Growth reports Q4 net revenue down 25 per cent from year ago

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Hikers beware: Avalanche hazards persist in mountain national parks

Hikers beware: Avalanche hazards persist in mountain national parks

A person navigates to the online social media pages of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on a cell phone in Ottawa on Monday, May 17, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Smaller telecoms cautious on Ottawa’s new CRTC policy directives
A cyclist heads west on Industrial Way in Chilliwack soaking up the springtime sun on Thursday, April 29, 2021. World Bicycle Day is Friday, June 3, 2022. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress file)

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Dr. Jason Archambault, a urologist and Head of Surgery at Langley Memorial Hospital, uses the white light scope currently used to treat bladder cancer. The hospital foundation hopes to purchase a Blue Light Cystoscopy, which has proven to significantly improve identification of bladder tumours – even those otherwise difficult to detect.

Hospital Foundation shines a light on vital technology needed for Langley
    Summer is for play and fun, but there is time for more. For most kids, they can build lasting seasonal memories and also have time to keep up skills they will need when the new school year begins.

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      A new calf was discovered in J-pod on March 1. Researchers have since determined it’s a girl. (Courtesy Center for Whale Research)

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      Equipment from the San Antonio Fire Department is parked outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, after a gunman entered the school and killed 19 children and two adults. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has added his voice to a global chorus of grief following the shooting deaths, but emotions in the U.S. have already turned to unbridled anger. (William Luther/The San Antonio Express-News via AP)

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      This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - AP, CDC - Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner

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      Kamloops Indian Residential School survivor Camille Kenoras holds eagle feathers as she laughs during a ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary of the TkÕemlœps te SecwŽpemc announcement of the detection of the remains of 215 children at an unmarked burial site at the former residential school, in Kamloops, B.C., on Monday, May 23, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

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      Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson rises during Question Period, on April 7, 2022 in Ottawa. Wilkinson says he held talks this week with several European countries, including Germany, about the potential for shipping them clean Canadian hydrogen, to help wean them off Russian oil and gas. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

      Canada could help wean Europe from Russian oil and gas by shipping clean hydrogen

      The talks took place at a meeting of G7 energy and environment ministers in Berlin

      Airline ground crew walks past Air Canada planes as they sit on the tarmac at Pearson International Airport in Toronto on Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Tarmac delays on arriving flights skyrocket at Pearson airport. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

      International flight delays at Pearson airport jump by factor of 275

      Head of the Canadian Airports Council says staff levels are the top obstacle to airport bottlenecks

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      Melanie Mark, MLA elect for Vancouver-Mt Pleasant, speaks with media after becoming the first First Nations woman to serve in the legislature as she looks up at family and friends during a swearing in ceremony at legislature on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

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      ‘The recovery of the tourism industry is bringing a new challenge for operators in B.C.’

        A family of four will see their grocery bills rise by $500 next year, according to a Canadian University study. (Photo courtesy of USDA.)

        WEB POLL: Are higher grocery costs affecting how you shop?

        Inflation is raising the price of food

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          Dykeman enjoyed a ride on a merry-go-round with students of West Langley Elementary. (Tanmay Ahluwalia/Langley Advance Times)

          Langley MLA joins kids on merry-go-round

          Megan Dykeman visits two of four new local school playgrounds, noting one more still in the works

          Coffee farmers in Uganda, who work with Kingsley Griffin enjoying the first batch of coffee that they all grew together. (Contributed photo)

          ‘Labour of love’: White Rock company selling coffee from and for Uganda

          Charity event to raise money to build school library in Uganda set for June 11 to 12

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          Obituaries

          Patricia ‘Pat’ Lang (nee Stratkauskas)

          May 19th, 2022

          Judith Lynn ‘Judy’ Ruhland (née Matheson)

          May 17th, 2022

          David Copley

          May 16th, 2022

          Nancy Christine Shatzko (née Haliburton)

          May 14th, 2022

          Marion E. Hocking

          May 11th, 2022

          Barrie Dean Wootton

          May 4th, 2022

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          Sports
          Stacey Northey makes a turn during barrel racing at Langley Riders arena in 2020. According to rodeocanada.com, an entity called Valley West Stampede Society, led by former Cloverdale Rodeo board executive Rich Kitos, is set to bring a rodeo to Langley in September. (Ron McCarthy/Special to Black Press Media)

          Rodeo set to move to Langley for Labour Day weekend

          Former Cloverdale Rodeo Association VP Rich Kitos listed as committee contact

          Langley Thunders defeated the New Westminister Salmonberries 10-8 in Junior A lacrosse action at Langley Events Centre on Thursday, May 26. (Ryan Molag, Langley Events Centre/Special to Langley Advance Times)

          Junior A Langley Thunder 4-0 in the season

          Local lacrosse team comes back with power-play goals in third to defeat Salmonberries

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          Defence counsel Megan Savard questions Jacob Hoggard at his sex assault trial in Toronto, Tuesday, May 24, 2022 as his wife Rebekah Asselstine (left) and Justice Gillian Roberts (top left) look on in this artist’s sketch. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould

          Crown alleges Jacob Hoggard is ‘sexual opportunist’ who didn’t take no for an answer

          Defence says Hedley singer disrespectful towards women, but is not a ‘sadistic serial rapist’

          Actor Johnny Depp arrives in the courtroom for closing arguments at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va., Friday, May 27, 2022. Depp sued his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel in Fairfax County Circuit Court after she wrote an op-ed piece in The Washington Post in 2018 referring to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool)

          At long last, jury gets closing arguments in Depp trial

          Johnny Depp’s lawyers asked a jury Friday “to give Mr. Depp his…

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          A real estate sign is pictured in Vancouver on June, 12, 2018. The regulator for British Columbia’s real estate sector has recommended that the province adopt a so-called “cooling-off” period of three business days to protect people buying a home, through legislation tabled this spring. THE CANADIAN PRESS Jonathan Hayward

          B.C. financial regulator advises three-day ‘cooling-off’ period for homebuyers

          B.C. Financial Services Authority: with exceptions, buyers should not be allowed to waive period

          During a day off from working as a Hawaii hotel housekeeper, Luz Espejo poses for a photo in her neighborhood in Honolulu on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The hotel in the tourist mecca Waikiki where she works is among the many other hotels across the United States that are limiting daily housekeeping service, making what was already one of the toughest jobs in the hospitality industry even more grueling. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

          Housekeepers struggle as US hotels ditch daily room cleaning

          Industry says it is responding to what guests want

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          Adam Hoerdt is seen with his bicycle and caravan Thursday morning in Fairfield. The second leg of his cross-Canada cycling fundraiser for ARVC will take three months and is tasked with raising $75,000 for an electrophysiologist fellowship in Toronto. (Evert Lindquist/News Staff)

          Cross-Canada journey launches from Victoria for under-researched heart condition

          Man who lost wife to ARVC hopes to raise $75,000 with second three-month leg of cycling trek

          Images from the 20th Sullivan Challenge race in Kimberley in 2021. Paul Rodgers photo.

          20 years of world’s longest running skateboard race in Kimberley celebrated in new film

          Kimberley-made film about local downhill skateboard race two decades in the making

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          April 6, 2022 - Chef Jason Lizert 's Sea Bass at his new restaurant Maestro at Manteo at Eldorado Resorts.. Don Denton photograph.

          Mediterranean twist

          “Elevated and unexpected” at Maestro’s

            (L-R) Max Carbone, Anna Carbone and Dean Desrosiers of Century 21 Assurance Realty have a kitchen discussion in a Kelowna home. Don Denton photography.

            Selling and living the Okanagan life

            “Enable prosperity” is the goal at Century 21 Assurance Realty

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              Langley Home Show fun for the whole family.

              Langley’s one-stop home renovation show returns May 27-29

              Find everything you need for Spring home improvements at the 2022 Langley Home Show

                Hometown Heroes Lottery spokesperson – and Vancouver fire fighter – Sebastian Sevallo shows off one of this year’s Grand Prize homes, in Lake Country.

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