March 18, 2024

Ridge residents pleased with outcome of meeting

People living near Colebrook Road came away from another meeting with Surrey's Mayor full of confidence crime issues will be addressed. Bob Campbell with the Panorama Ridge Ratepayers Association says Dianne Watts agreed to utilize all city resources to target problem homes. Campbell says those include derelict homes, or homes run by slum … [Read more...]

Residents living near Surrey’s Colebrook Road set to meet with Mayor again

People living on Panorama Ridge in Surrey will meet again with the city's mayor this week to discuss crime prevention.  Video cameras and lights have been installed on Colebrook Road in the area after four bodies were found there in a six week span this year.  Bob Campbell with the local ratepayers association says the move is just one … [Read more...]

Surrey Mayor meets with anxious residents

Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts met with members of the Panorama Ridge Residents Association Wednesday afternoon. They represent people living in the Colebrook Road area where two more bodies were found on the road earlier this morning -- bringing the body total to four since January. She says they spoke about measures to make resident's … [Read more...]

Surrey residents say they’re living in fear

RCMP say if you're a law-abiding citizen you have nothing to worry about. But people in Surrey living close to where two bodies were found this morning say they are living in fear. Resident Bob Campbell says bodies are being dumped on Colebrook Road, while drive by shootings, and killings have also happened on the ridge above. Campbell says … [Read more...]

WWC listens to residents concerns over pipeline expansion

The fight against climate change continues on the Lower Mainland, the latest event in east Vancouver.  The Wilderness Committee has hosted another town hall to talk about Kinder Morgan's plan to expand its Trans Mountain Pipeline which runs from Alberta to Burnaby. Spokesman Joe Foy says the group has hosted several meetings across the region, … [Read more...]

Dix: NDP government would allow compensation for pre-1974 Woodlands residents

An NDP Government would allow all victims of abuse at New Westminster's Woodlands School to apply for compensation. That announced by party leader, Adrian Dix. "And I think it's time to stop using legal technicalities against the survivors of Woodlands School and to bring this matter to a close." Only victims who went to Woodlands after August 1, … [Read more...]

Trilogy by Shea Homes® Offers Vancouver Residents Opportunity to Escape Gloomy Winters and Enjoy Resort Living in Sunny Arizona

Encanterra Country Club by Shea Homes, a developer of high-end resort communities designed for families and the baby boom generation will host a series of free informational sessions in Vancouver about buying vacation homes in Arizona’s #1 resort community, Encanterra Country Club. A hot-selling community for Canadians buying second homes, … [Read more...]

B.C. residents making more babies, living longer

An annual report from the British Columbia vital statistics agency shows more babies were born in 2011 than the previous year. The most common names for babies in 2011 were Liam and Emma.         Health minister Margaret MacDiarmid says she's not surprised B.C.’s birth rate is on the rise as more and … [Read more...]

Mission residents seek to have 24-hour driving prohibitions overturned

Two Mission residents are asking a BC Supreme Court Judge to overturn their 24 hour driving prohibitions.          Harmeet Dhaliwal claims she was driving below the speed limit on Stave Lake Road November 12 when she was pulled over by a police officer. She says the officer questioned her about smoking … [Read more...]

Poll: 60 percent of BC residents oppose Northern Gateway pipeline project

A new poll suggests British Columbians are more opposed to the Northern Enbridge pipeline project than ever before. Enbridge might have spent millions on ads, including one that omitted a 1,000 square kilometres worth of islands in Douglas Channel, but a poll conducted by Forum Research indicates 60 percent in this province now oppose the … [Read more...]