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Canucks clean house, again

Canucks clean house, again

Dr. Sport: The Jim Benning/Travis Green era ended much as it began – with vague, confused communication.
#BCPOLI Hotstove: FOI, flooding, and a new BC Liberal Candidate?

#BCPOLI Hotstove: FOI, flooding, and a new BC Liberal Candidate?

If this week's BCPOLI Hotstove were a Jane Austen novel, it'd be called Floods and FOIpability.
The view from the rafters

The view from the rafters

Dr. Sport: At Rogers Arena, rival scouts are paying keen attention to the Canucks – and waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Must-see TV

Must-see TV

Dr. Sport: Watching Whitecaps coach Vanni Sartini is almost as entertaining as the games themselves.
Gino Gerussi: B.C.'s construction crooner

Gino Gerussi: B.C.'s construction crooner

The best music video you're ever going to see set on a construction site - and starring a construction worker.
ConnecTour Chronicles: Content to live with old mining town’s ghosts

ConnecTour Chronicles: Content to live with old mining town’s ghosts

Some of our group chose to sleep outside in tents rather than risk the ire of these troubled spirits. Two brave souls slept inside.
ConnecTour Chronicles: A brush with heat stroke and then hypothermia

ConnecTour Chronicles: A brush with heat stroke and then hypothermia

Transport trucks, cars and four-by-fours roared by us, some so close we were showered in road spray and rocked by the wind gusts.
ConnecTour Chronicles: One man’s gear is another man’s gold

ConnecTour Chronicles: One man’s gear is another man’s gold

Across from our campsite sat a gangly young man named Scott, who had been homeless for 10 years and was trying to find some normalcy.
ConnecTour Chronicles: Kindness comes in a bucket of ice and jug of water

ConnecTour Chronicles: Kindness comes in a bucket of ice and jug of water

As the searing heat began to wear us down, we sought refuge at an RV park on the Similkameen River, still churning furiously with the spring runoff.
Keep calm and carry on with bike tour planning

Keep calm and carry on with bike tour planning

There are 37 million stories about real people redefining their lives in the post-pandemic world. On May 15, Doug Firby is heading across the country to capture a few of them.