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Possible criminal charges pending against alleged SFU cheater

A 26-year-old woman is facing possible criminal charges after allegedly impersonating an SFU student in order to write an exam for her. Police were called to the university’s Burnaby campus just before 12:30 p.m. last Thursday, according to Burnaby RCMP.…

You Can’t Stop Love in Squamish

Local woman receives funding for documentary about her sister, who has Down syndrome and spreads love — and dance moves

Individuals with Down syndrome are so much more than that diagnosis. Anyone with a family member or friend with the condition knows this, but Squamish’s Andrea Helleman wants many more people to understand it.…

No Canada Day fireworks in Squamish for 2020

Council reduced funding to Downtown Business Improvement Association

The crowd-pleasing Canada Day fireworks will not be happening in 2020, following District council’s decision to lower their grant to the Squamish Downtown Business Improvement Association. Council voted unanimously in favour of lowering the amount of money granted to the Downtown Business Improvement Association, or DBIA, on Dec. 17.…

Sea to Sky man’s work featured in award-winning feminist documentary

Project Wild Women – shot partly in Whistler – wins best documentary at the 2019 Kenya International Sports Film Festival

A Squamish man has a role in an award-winning and empowering documentary about the burgeoning success of women from India in extreme sports. Project Wild Women won best documentary at the 2019 Kenya International Sports Film Festival, which was held in the last week of November.…

Audain Art Museum acquires new Emily Carr painting

Street, Alert Bay unveiled on Wednesday, Dec. 18

The Audain Art Museum has added a new Emily Carr painting to its permanent collection. Street, Alert Bay, painted in 1912, was unveiled at the museum on Wednesday, Dec. 18.…

Whistler lugers Corless, Nash enjoy historic World Cup debut

Germans top doubles race at Whistler Sliding Centre

Making one’s Viessman FIL World Cup debut at the age of 16 is impressive enough. To be trailblazers in the process, like the Whistler doubles team of Natalie Corless and Caitlin Nash, only adds to it.…

Impaired driver arrested after almost hitting snowplow, police say

Police Briefs: Banned driver arrested; PoCo man fails to heed cops’ warnings

Pemberton RCMP are thanking the public for its help in nabbing an impaired driver who almost struck a snowplow this week, police said in a release. At approximately 10:45 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 16, Pemberton RCMP received two reports of a vehicle being driven “very poorly” on Highway 99 near Portage Road.…

Protesters rally in support of First Nations’ Trans Mountain pipeline appeal (PHOTOS)

Trans Mountain pipeline protesters rallied on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery Monday, Dec. 16, as the Coldwater, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations begin court hearings at the Federal Court of Appeal.…

Sea to Sky Bears take gold at Abbotsford hockey tournament

A strong start — this is the first year the Bears have been playing

Local hockey players’ undefeated winning streak led to a gold medal win at a tournament in Abbotsford. The Sea to Sky Bears Bantam team, which has players from Squamish, Whistler and Pemberton, claimed victory at the Abbotsford Western Classic.…

Three B.C. residents have been identified as those killed in island plane crash

VICTORIA — All three people killed in a plane crash on Gabriola Island have now been identified as residents of British Columbia. The BC Coroners Service confirmed earlier this week that a man in his 60s from Mill Bay was on the plane and friends have said charter pilot Alex Bahlsen was among those killed.…

Climate change chosen as Canadian Press News Story of the Year for 2019

OTTAWA — In late September, hundreds of thousands of Canadians took to the streets across the country to demand more from their governments on climate change. It was one of the largest mass protests in Canadian history, adding maple flavours to an international climate strike movement founded around Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg.…

Solo wolves left alive as packs shot from air, trapped

Wolf culls designed to help threatened caribou

The B.C. government wolf management plan involves radio-collaring single wolves and then killing the rest of the pack while leaving the lone wolves alive. As part of 2015-18 plans to facilitate a seemingly successful mountain caribou recovery in the South Peace region, wolves were caught and radio-collared to allow their packs to be tracked.…

B.C. film sector caught in ‘streaming war’ crossfire

Local producers under increased pressure to meet booming demand for content

As the holidays approach and British Columbians catch up on TV shows queued up on streaming services, the province’s film and TV sector finds itself thrust into the crossfire of a war. Following the November launch of the Disney+ and Apple TV+ streaming services, this “streaming war” will see WarnerMedia Entertainment’s HBO Max and Comcast Corp.’s (Nasdaq:CMCSA) NBCUniversal enter the battle to compete with Netflix Inc.…

Poll: Majority of Canadians think food prices rising faster than household income

Survey found that vegetable prices were the top-ranked concern

HALIFAX — A new survey says most Canadians believe food prices are becoming less affordable — with the cost of vegetables identified as one of the main worries. The Angus Reid poll done for the agri-food lab at Dalhousie University found that 87 per cent of respondents agreed that food prices are increasing faster than their household income.…

LifeLabs hit in cyberattack, exposing health data of 15 million Canadians; ransom paid

Patients’ names, addresses, emails, logins, passwords, health cards and lab tests affected

Health data of 15 million Canadians was hit by a cyberattack on Canada’s largest medical laboratory diagnostic testing services company. LifeLabs reported a potential attack Nov. 1, spurring an investigation by the privacy commissioners of B.C. and Ontario, it was announced Dec. 17.…