Bryce Mathew Watts, Taskforce Lead on Innovation, Digitization, and the Future of Work, joins fellow Canadian delegates at the G20 YEA Summit in Johannesburg: Sherpa Meganne Visette, Diversity Taskforce Lead Kathy Pelerin, and Sustainability Taskforce Lead Nina Lantinga. Supplied photo

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Kitimat entrepreneur brings small-town voice to global summit in South Africa

Bryce Mathew Watts shares rural innovation and Canadian insight at G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance

Police executed warrants on three Burns Lake residences on Oct. 30, resulting in the arrests of eight individuals and the seizure of suspected drugs, firearms and cash. (Photo courtesy of Frank Peebles)

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Police raid 3 Burns Lake residences; arrest 8; seize drugs, guns and cash

The operation was the result of a lengthy police investigation

Kelowna is the first city in Canada to be designed as a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Creative City of Gastronomy. (City of Kelowna)

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Kelowna becomes 1st Canadian city with UNESCO honour

Kelowna joins San Antonio, Texas and Merida, Mexico as the only North American cities with the honour

This greenhouse owned by Charnwood Flowers of Chilliwack was made possible with funding from a business accelerator program for new farm operations. (Charnwood Flowers)

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New B.C. farmers grateful for fund helping them grow more flowers

‘We were able to use the funding to build a cold-frame greenhouse,’ says Charnwood Flowers co-owner

Karen Espersen with the birds that CFIA wants killed at Universal Ostrich.

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Fate of Edgewood ostriches in court next week

Supreme Court of Canada set to decide leave application Nov. 6 between farm and CFIA

The BC Nurses’ Union wants violence-prevention measures implemented at the Cowichan District Hospital following an incident on Oct. 25 when a car crashed through the hospital’s emergency-room doors. (Citizen file photo)

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Nurses call for safety measures following car crashing into Vancouver Island ER

Calls for changes comes after car crashes through emergency doors at CDH

Surrey Chief Constable Norm Lipinski and Mayor Brenda Locke on September 15 announced a $250,000 reward fund hoping it will help land convictions related to extortions of South Asian businesses in Surrey. (Tom Zytaruk/Surrey Now-Leader)

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Surrey asks feds, B.C. for 150 more cops to tackle extortion crisis

‘We are living it every single day – the fear, the intimidation, the violence,’ Mayor Brenda Locke said

“The Stand” delves into the 1985 conflict in which the Haida people defended their old growth forests by forming a human chain to block commercial logging companies on Lyell Island. Photo: Submitted

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Haida film marks 40th anniversary of old-growth logging blockade

“The Stand” by Christopher Auchter is now streaming for free on nfb.ca

An aerial view of the quA-ymn solar project in Highland Valley, taken in August 2025, shows some of the 39,000 solar panels at the site. (BluEarth Renewables)

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B.C.’s largest commercial solar farm now in operation near Logan Lake

The quA-ymn solar project is located on 24 hectares of reclaimed land at Highland Valley Copper

The Association for Mineral Exploration is raising concerns about The Heritage Conservation Act Transformation Project. (File photo)

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Minerals association raises concerns about proposed heritage legislation

Exploration group wants more consultation on the Heritage Conservation Act Transformation Project