121 intact pieces stamped with hotel’s insignia found in Vancouver forest On a cold, wet day in late December, Christian Laub and Julien Hicks slogged their way through a Vancouver forest in pursuit of a hot tip. Hicks, an actor by trade and newcomer to the hobby of bottle digging, had learned of an old abandoned car in the area. Hicks had enlisted Laub, a film location scout with years of bottle digging experience, who knew that where there was an old car, there was often antique bottles to be found. OnceRead more

Dances offer something to look forward to in the winter Indigenous communities are celebrating being able to host in-person cultural dances after three years of online virtual events. COVID-19 meant no big public events — including cultural events — but round dances and kahomni dances are now coming back. Elder Pete Bigstone, who usually celebrates his birthday by hosting a kahomni, had to put plans on hold for the past two years. A kahomni is a dance where two people will two step to songs made specifically for the dance and sometimesRead more

Body of Susan Cadieux, 5, found in January 1956 after she left a schoolyard with an unknown man WARNING: This article contains content about child sexual assault and may affect those who have experienced​ ​​​sexual violence or know someone affected by it. A group of amateur detectives in London, Ont., hopes their renewed interest and research into a 66-year-old cold case will shed new light on the death of a five-year-old girl. Susan Cadieux was playing outside St. Mary’s School at 345 Lyle St. on Jan. 6, 1956, with her two brothersRead more

Company says the pulp line at its Prince George Pulp and Paper Mill will be phased out by the end of March B.C. forestry giant Canfor Pulp says it is permanently closing the pulp line at one of its Prince George mills, which will result in about 300 jobs lost. The move comes as several forestry companies around the world are downsizing their operations due to changes in the market. Kevin Edgson says the lack of raw material for creating market pulp led to the decision. “In recent years, several sawmills have permanentlyRead more

Mounties acted ‘reasonably’ while enforcing injunction, B.C. legal defence says The RCMP denies it conspired with a natural gas pipeline builder and a private security firm in a campaign designed to harass Wet’suwet’en people off their unceded territory in northern British Columbia, court filings say. The RCMP, Coastal GasLink and Forsythe Security, named as defendants in a lawsuit three Wet’suwet’en members launched last June, all deny the allegations. The $6.6-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline project is designed to carry fracked natural gas to a $40-billion LNG terminal in Kitimat, B.C., for export toRead more