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School District No. 46 (SD46) committed to consultation with the Sechelt Indian Band (SIB) about Aboriginal education this week, after SIB Chief Garry Feschuk paid the board a visit to ask for some specific reports on the subject.

If Mark Haden set policy in our country, harm reduction would be expanded and the war on drugs declared a failure. The present system is not working, he said.

Concerns about community school funding changes have subsided this week after School District No. 46 (SD46) consulted more with community school co-ordinators and local governments about the funding formula alteration.

A Gibsons teen has issued a plea for help after his friend, 17-year-old Muj Rodriguez, was paralyzed June 1 when he was crushed by a falling tree limb during an afternoon walk through the Mahan Road trails.

One day before June's second protest in front of his Sechelt constituency office, Conservative MP John Weston said his party could have done a better job of selling budget implementation Bill C-38 to Canadians.

The case against Nicholas Sean Forster, 19, of Sechelt, charged July 14 with dangerous driving causing death and failing to stop at an accident causing death in relation to the July 13 accident that killed 21-year-old Shelby Rowland, was adjourned fo

Spokespeople from the salmon farming industry said media assertions of the proposed Animal Health Act's potential impact on their industry were manifestly not correct.

New details have emerged regarding the final moments of Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) volunteers Angie Nemeth and Beatrice Sorensen, who died June 3 during a morning training exercise, after the tragedy's first responder told his

St. Mary's Hospital Foundation announced receipt of a donation of more than $1 million during a small ceremony held before their annual general meeting on June 11.

The District of Sechelt has now filled in a sinkhole that was about five-feet (0.4 metres) wide and 10-feet (0.92 metres) deep, discovered on Seawatch Lane last week, but the roadway remains closed as crews work to find a permanent fix.