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Instead of hitting the polls for next month’s municipal elections, Ontarians living in hundreds of communities will be clicking their mouse buttons as they cast their votes online.

The Agricultural Land Reserve’s boundaries should not be readily adjustable. That’s what the City of Delta told a provincial committee that’s looking at revitalizing the ALR and Agricultural Land Commission.

The fire hall officially opens to the public on Sept. 15.

A lawsuit filed by Delta against a company the city alleges caused significant ecological damage to Burns Bog will finally be heard in court next year. A B.C. Supreme Court trial is scheduled for Jan. 28, 2019.

A Syrian refugee family of seven people is currently homeless in the Burnaby area – and the call is being put out to anyone who can provide them with a home.

Rain and cooler temperatures have reduced the wildfire risk in most parts of the province, so the BC Wildfire Service has rescinded campfire bans in specific regions effective at noon today.

A confirmed measles case has prompted Fraser Health to issue an alert to passengers on a recent B.C. Ferries sailing, as well as to students at a Metro Vancouver high school. Fraser Health says the infected passenger was onboard the 7 p.m.

It comes after two summers of conducting their “The World is Not Your Ashtray” campaign.

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B.C. Green Party Leader Andrew Weaver is urging the province to undertake its own made-in-B.C. environmental assessment of the Trans Mountain pipeline. “It is clear that B.C.