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Abbotsford nurses create Canadian Forensic Health Corporation

The Canadian Forensic Health Corporation, made up of (left to right) Kirstin Simpson, Adrienne Fershau, Tiffany Kafka, Susan Short and Cole Bruce, are changing the game for the forensic nurse occupation. (Submitted)

Tiffany Kafka, Susan Short, Kirstin Simpson, Cole Bruce and Adrienne Fershau teaching new generation

by Ben Lypka
4h ago

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Homicide team IDs man in fatal YVR shooting as police grapple with spate of gang violence
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45-metre cell tower proposed for Simpson Road in Abbotsford
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Abbotsford’s Phulka drops match at Olympics qualifier
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Vaccination clinics now open to 18+ in Abbotsford
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‘It’s not the police’s responsibility to deal with mental health calls’: Vernon RCMP

by Caitlin Clow
and Jennifer Smith

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Thompson Rivers University campus is in Kamloops, B.C. (KTW file photo)

Thompson Rivers the 1st B.C. university to supply free menstrual products

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Setting up enduring power of attorney or committeeship

Through fundraisers like Jean Up, BC Children’s Hospital Foundation supports the hospital's world-leading experts who are working relentlessly to improve the lives of children like India.

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A family navigates childhood cancer through the pandemic

Trudeau won’t say whether Canada supports patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines

Protesters attempt to stop clear-cutting of old-growth trees in Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew. (Will O’Connell photo)

VIDEO: Workers, activists clash at site of Vancouver Island logging operation

Jose Marchand prepares Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination doses at a mobile clinic for members of First Nations and their partners, in Montreal, Friday, April 30, 2021. The National Advisory Committee on Immunization is coming under fire after contradicting the advice Canadians have been receiving for weeks to take the first vaccine against COVID-19 that they’re offered. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Trudeau says he is glad he got AstraZeneca, vaccines are only way out of pandemic

FILE – Pharmacist Barbara Violo shows off a vile of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the Junction Chemist, an independent pharmacy in Toronto, Friday, March 12, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Looking for the nearest COVID shot? Tech entrepreneur creates texting software in B.C

B.C.’s COVID-19 decrease continues, 515 new cases Tuesday

426 seriously ill people in hospital, up from 415 Monday

by Tom Fletcher

updated 4h ago

A make-shift memorial is seen outside a business where a multiple fatal shooting occurred in Acworth, Ga. Robert Aaron Long, 22, accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Prosecutor plans to seek death penalty in Atlanta spa shootings

A man accused of killing 8 people, 6 of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at 3 Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday

by Associated Press

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Mother of 2 shot by police in critical condition, says B.C. First Nation chief
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Money running out for fresh fruit, vegetables, milk in B.C. schools
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Watchdog worries federal benefit for parents of missing, murdered kids going unused
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Experts divided on urgency to vaccinate teens from COVID-19 before September
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Experts now predict 33.6% rise in B.C. home sales for 2021
- updated 3h ago

Fraser Valley Bandits team with Fraser Health to encourage vaccination

Professional basketball team urges those qualified to receive shot to ease life back to normalcy

by Ben Lypka

9h ago

Football player Christian Covington in photo posted to twitter.com/Chargers.

Surrey-raised NFLer Covington charged up to join Los Angeles team

Christian Covington, son of CFL Hall-of-Famer Grover Covington, grew up in the Sullivan Heights area

by Tom Zillich

9h ago

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