Credit to Author: Ken Bradshaw| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 19:46:35 +0000
Hume was awarded the Bruce Hutchison lifetime achievement award by the Jack Webster Foundation in 1994 and the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal in 2002 for contributions to public life.
Read moreCredit to Author: Dana Gee| Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:11:32 +0000
The filmmaker had a keen eye for complex topics and characters
Read moreCredit to Author: Stephanie Ip| Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 15:50:51 +0000
Last July, Glen Todd extended an interest-free $1-million loan to fund purse money and keep races going at east Vancouver’s Hastings Racecourse over the summer of 2021, while the industry continued to battle pandemic-prompted business woes.
Read moreCredit to Author: Lora Grindlay| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 19:41:18 +0000
“It obviously came as a shock,” Rigg told the Times Colonist in October 2020 after his diagnosis of brain cancer, but he chose to focus on the “incredible, truly amazing, support” he received.
Read moreCredit to Author: John Mackie| Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2022 22:34:10 +0000
Ziggy was very charming, good-natured and unpretentious, and brimming with stories. He always seemed to have a guitar, and always seemed to have a new musical project on the go.
Read moreCredit to Author: Patrick Johnston| Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2022 03:26:14 +0000
His showdown with Roger Bannister at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Vancouver came to be known as the “Miracle Mile”.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:17:30 +0000
Fonyo’s niece said he had what appeared to be a seizure in a hotel room in Burnaby on Friday and paramedics could not revive him
Read moreCredit to Author: Lora Grindlay| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 22:37:32 +0000
Social-justice advocate dies at age 97. In 1962, he became the world’s youngest Catholic bishop.
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Credit to Author: Nick Eagland| Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 03:10:45 +0000
Loved ones held a packed memorial Saturday at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Vancouver.
Read moreCredit to Author: The Manila Times| Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2019 10:24:03 +0000
BENGUET Lone District Rep. Nestor Fongwan, Sr. passed away on Wednesday night, his son said. He was 68. “My father is now with his creator,” his son, Board Member Nestor Fongwan, Jr. posted on Facebook. The family has not disclosed details on the cause of the lawmaker’s death but his remains would be brought to Guadayan, […]
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