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Lytton wildfire evacuees search for loved ones as many remain unaccounted for
MERRITT (NEWS 1130) – A number of people remain unaccounted for, after a wildfire forced the entire village of Lytton to evacuate Wednesday. Residents were forced to drop everything and leave at a...
View ArticleTrudeau promises to help B.C. achieve $10-a-day child care
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising federal money to help B.C. bring the cost of child care for parents down to $10 a day in the next five years. Trudeau made the...
View Article‘You can’t prepare’: UBC survey on stillbirth, neonatal death aims to help...
Editor’s note: This article is about stillbirth and neonatal loss, which can be a difficult subject for some readers. VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A national standard of care for parents grieving the loss...
View ArticleAbbotsford pumpkin patch already ready for Halloween
ABBOTSFORD (NEWS 1130) — Summer is officially over and fall is now here. For many, that means the days of playing in a pumpkin patch are fast approaching. Well in Abbotsford, those days are already...
View ArticleFamily visits through robots? Researchers test new tech in B.C. long-term care
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) — A team at UBC has come up with a way to allow friends and family to visit loved ones in care homes without stepping foot inside. The mobile Telepresence Robot project has been...
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‘They’ve lost everything’: Merritt family loses girl to crash days after...
There’s an outpouring of support for the family of a little girl who died in a car crash just days after she and her loved ones were forced to leave Merritt because of flooding in that city....
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Hope family who offered free food to motorists stranded by mudslides receives...
The family behind a small pizza business in Hope who offered stranded travellers and motorists free food during this month’s devastating floods has gotten a lot of help themselves, in the form of...
View Article‘She would hug us’; Surrey family continues to mourn year after mother dies...
Nearly a year after a Surrey mother was killed saving her twin daughters by pushing them out of the path of a runaway delivery van, her family is still trying to piece together their lives. On Dec. 15,...
View ArticleAdvocate calls on B.C. to make rapid COVID-19 tests available for families...
B.C. Seniors Advocate is calling on the province to make COVID rapid tests more accessible, so people can test themselves before visiting their loved ones. Isobel Mackenzie says frail seniors living in...
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Protestors accuse Vancouver CBSA office of Islamophobia in handling cases of...
This story contains content that may be disturbing for some viewers. Asylum seekers from Egypt who’ve been living in Metro Vancouver for years, say one Canadian Border Services Agency agent has denied...
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