🏛️ Government & Politics
- Interim B.C. Conservative Lorne Doerkson attended the B.C. Lions game with former premier Christy Clark on Friday night. Doerkson became interim leader Sunday after Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned, and Clark — premier from 2011–2017 — told reporters the election call earlier that week was “absolutely unheard of.” ↗
- North Vancouver man Wayne Peter Church received an 18-month conditional discharge after impersonating an RCMP officer. Church, 59, pleaded guilty to using emergency lights and representing himself as North Vancouver RCMP between Jan. 1 and March 1 last year; Judge Joseph Galati accepted a joint Crown-defence sentence after hearing Church has taken rehabilitative steps. ↗
- Mission RCMP say two separate Sept. 18 incidents involved a 7-year-old starting a home fire and a 4-year-old driving parents’ Cadillac into two parked cars. Police reported the 7-year-old connected a small blow torch to a propane cylinder and the fire department extinguished a small blaze; CCTV showed the 4‑year‑old started the Cadillac Escalade and struck two parked vehicles, with no injuries reported. ↗
📰 Also Today
- B.C. family still seeking answers one month after deadly Nepal flood. ↗
- Canadian citizen detained and questioned for hours at U.S. border crossing. ↗
- Squamish man uses motion-activated zombie to scare bears from garbage. ↗
- Lorne Doerkson outlines values as he leads B.C. Conservatives into election. ↗
- B.C. Conservatives’ interim leader attended Lions game with ex-premier Christy Clark. ↗
- Some TV meteorologists push to discuss climate change on-air. ↗
- Six decades of Treaty 8 material repatriated to Dane-zaa people in northern B.C. ↗
- Break-ins caused up to $60,000 in damage at Nisga’a cultural site near Terrace. ↗
- White Rock Mayor Megan Knight confirmed as B.C. Conservative candidate in Surrey South. ↗
- Driver arrested after two children were struck by an SUV in Kelowna. ↗