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Surrey has given the go-ahead for eight companies to open a total of 12 cannabis retail outlets, the first to be licensed in the city since marijuana was legalized six years ago. Read More

A dedicated digital channel sounds like a pretty out-of-this-world birthday gift. And that's exactly what Canadian singer-songwriter Bryan Adams is receiving to ring in the big 6-5. Read More

Vancouver will be getting a new 1.2-hectare park at False Creek after the park board voted Monday night to approve the design. Read More

Premier David Eby is proposing an all-party committee investigate mistakes made during the B.C. election vote tally, including an uncounted ballot box and unreported votes in three-quarters of the province’s 93 ridings. Read More

Three cheers for the losers. Democracy cannot survive without them. Democracy is, after all, a method to both express and then peacefully resolve debate. Polish-American scholar Adam Przeworski once described it as “a system in which parties lose elections.” Read More

They say: A styling cream for curly hair that features a unique gel-cream texture. The silicone-free formula boasts mango butter and the brand's proprietary Replenicore-5 complex to strengthen, hydrate, fight frizz, add definition to curls, and more. Read More

The Jade Music Festival is an international event that has a simple mandate: Explore the world of Chinese-language music. Read More

Now in its fifth year, the Transform Festival is focused "on empowering Indigenous artists and encouraging collaboration with non-Indigenous artists," according to the media release. Among this year's performers is Venus, who hosts the festival’s opening bash on Nov. 6. Based in Vancouver, Venus is the first-ever Indigenous winner of Canada’s Drag Race and first performed with the festival in 2021. This is Transform’s first in-person festival since the pandemic and its first time at the Vancouver Playhouse. Read More

Metro Vancouver will begin construction this month on a new $495 million water supply tunnel in Stanley Park, one of six major projects to replace aging drinking water infrastructure in the region. Read More

One of Canada's most vital trade arteries is cut off as employers at most of British Columbia's ports lock out their workers in a dispute involving about 700 unionized foremen. Read More

A Surrey man charged in connection with B.C.'s largest synthetic drug lab bust has connections to the Wolfpack gang alliance, Postmedia has learned. Read More

Anna Cathcart’s life is a balancing act. Read More

A new study in B.C. shows what women have long known: Menopause brings significant impacts on physical and mental health, and has major social, economic and work-related repercussions. Read More

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Foil Arms & Hog are a Dublin-based comedy trio which has logged in over one billion views for its brand of irreverent sketch comedy. Its tours typically sell out across North America. Read More

A hearing to determine whether a killer’s 2014 conviction in the Surrey Six mass murder will be set aside because of police misconduct has begun in B.C Supreme Courts. Read More

VICTORIA — Premier David Eby says his NDP government will refuse to work with some of the newly elected B.C. Conservative MLAs who’ve expressed offensive views on racial and other matters. Read More

It's a toss-up whether Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will become the next U.S. president. Both have shifted their focus to key battleground states, where polls indicate a back-and-forth race. Read More

Last month, Mama Fatima Singhateh — who is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children — delivered a poignant message in the context of the UN’s General Assembly in New York. Read More

Betting on the 2024 U.S. Presidential election is picking up in B.C. before election day on Tuesday, according to PlayNow, the B.C. Lottery Corp.'s gambling website. Read More