‘People go crazy’ for local strawberries

Luscious local strawberries are here.
B.C.’s annual home-grown strawberry harvest is the best, brightest sign that summer in the Lower Mainland has finally arrived.
Deep, ruby red and bursting with an intense flavour, B.C.’s melt-in-your-mouth strawberry varieties are allowed to ripen on the vine so they ripen from the inside out – unlike the pulpy, tasteless Californian [...]

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Save the trees, crack a cold beer

Raise a toast to the Mountain Pine Beetle – scourge of B.C.’s forests – by settling into the cheapest six-pack in the province. Turns out the nasty little critters are good for something.
A brewing company in northern B.C. has taken a cue from that old beverage adage, If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade. But [...]

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What you’re worth at 14

Fifty bucks and an apology letter is all it takes to get away with taking sexual advantage of an underage girl in British Columbia.
A White Rock man who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 14-year-old girl last August has been ordered to apologize to her in writing, take respectful relationship training and stay away from drugs [...]

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White Rock hauntings, redux

Now that a striking character home in White Rock has been demolished, I can’t help but wonder what’s happened to the two ghosts that were reputed to have haunted the former Marine Drive architectural landmark?

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White Rock’s ghosts: homeless after the wrecking ball?

What happens to ghosts when the building they haunt gets torn down – or undergoes an extreme makeover?

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