Highlights

Ukuleles and fiddles strum for hospice

As the RCMP marks its 150th anniversary, a familiar, nagging question about the storied national police force is resurfacing: Should the Mounties withdraw from small communities across Canada to fully concentrate on big-ticket federal files?

Canadian financial institutions — banks, pension funds and private equity firms — fund the fossil fuel industry and are therefore helping fuel the climate crisis. Why won’t Ottawa hold them to account?

When it comes to onstage competition, dancers Andrea Villanueva, Eibhlin Minatsis, Connor Dixon, Caia Minatsis, Meg Greenfield and Mackenzi Harris represent dueling local studios.

‘I could see others healing. By watching others evolve and change, it helps me’: The Living With Grief public reading takes place on Wednesday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at the Gibsons and District Public Library.

Two dozen young musicians, dancers, and actors have been selected to represent the southern Sunshine Coast at the Provincial Festival of Performing Arts BC in Penticton later this month. 

"Flair did overbook flight F8223 and . . . Mr. Younus was denied boarding as a result."

Catch a falling star if you can, and by all means put it in your pocket, but don't try to cross international borders with it lest you run afoul of a little-known Canadian law.

The second annual Salmon Release Festival drew many to Chapman Creek Hatchery. Thousands of coho salmon were released into nature by the bucketfull, as families enjoyed a variety of activities on May 20.