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Terrace: Unchecked crime, a “community in crisis”

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Written By Fran Yanor
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Cameron Golder was serving a customer in the clothing boutique where she works in downtown Terrace, B.C., when a man passed by the store’s front window. Dressed in dark clothing, he had two black eyes and wore a glove with chains across the knuckles. A stick jutted out of his backpack. “He looked rough,” Golder […]

Occupy Blue River: High-conflict protest, two rules of law

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Written By Geoff Russ & Fran Yanor
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Caution: The following story contains content and language that may be disturbing. In a filmed incident on Sept. 30, 2019, twin sisters, Amanda Soper and Nicole Manuel, approach two Trans Mountain workers at the gates of the company’s pump station in Blue River. One sister videos while the other verbally attacks in a hail of […]

Green gold: mass timber is modern alchemy

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Written By Jeff Davies
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Everyone in B.C. has an image of a lumber mill: hard-hatted workers at the controls, saw blades screeching, sawdust in the air, logs going in, lumber coming out, and yards full of two–by–fours, neatly stacked. But enter the Kalesnikoff Lumber mass timber mill at South Slocan, near Castlegar, and it’s a different kind of world. […]

Northern house prices rise – still more affordable than the south

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Written By Keith Norbury
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In August 2020, newly single Michelle Gordy went house hunting for a place of her own in Mackenzie. She and her ex-husband had recently sold the five-bedroom house they had bought new six years earlier in Lake Country near Kelowna. The house had gained so much value, almost double what they had paid for it, […]