The War on Cancer: How Are We Beating It?
April marks the annual Canadian Cancer Society’s Daffodil Month and what an appropriate time of year it is. For many living with cancer on a daily basis, spring brings with it renewed hope and a fresh...
View ArticleProvince Letter of the Week: Time to rethink unenforceable pesticide bylaws
The infestations of weeds and bugs is getting unmanageable and starting to detract from the healthy living the pesticide-free municipalities thought they were achieving. The frivolous and...
View ArticleFOUR FOR 2012: Hyacks’ centre Venkatesh is a young man in the middle of his...
(THIS IS ONE STORY IN OUR ANNUAL ‘FOUR WHO MAKE A DIFFERENCE’, HONOURING THOSE WHO MAKE THE B.C. HIGH SCHOOL COMMUNITY SO SPECIAL) NEW WESTMINSTER — Always fully engaged, always looking forward, and...
View ArticleBy The Numbers: Terry Fox edition
Elaine O’Connor The Province 5,373 Number of kilometres run by Fox in 1980 Port Coquitlam native Terry Fox was just 22 when he set off to run across Canada in his Marathon of Hope to raise money for...
View ArticleHockey in Bangkok
So I am cycling around the World and happen to be riding across Thailand last month on my way to Singapore. I get an email from a Canadian that is following my journey, which is not unusual. The...
View ArticleBotchford, Tsumura earn Paul Carson Media Awards
Two of Province Sports’s finest have been identified as two of the province’s finest in the 2015 Paul Carson Broadcast & Media Awards. Canucks beat reporter Jason Botchford and high-school sports...
View ArticleThe Bandits: My Cycle Around The World
Cycle halfway around the Earth on your bike and you’ll see some amazing things. When I’m not working as a firefighter, I take my vacation and head out on another leg of my quest to cycle all the way...
View ArticleNaomi Lakritz: People should be able to be private for its own sake
When musician David Bowie died of cancer last week, fans expressed shock that he never went public about his illness and experts reached by the media have been parsing the reasons for his 18-month-long...
View ArticleWhether at the net or in barber’s chair, TWU Spartans’ Carpentier always...
LANGLEY — In the run-up to this weekend’s clash of Canadian women’s volleyball super powers between Langley’s No. 1-ranked Trinity Western Spartans and the No. 2-ranked UBC Okanagan Heat of Kelowna,...
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