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By Christmas, sweeping changes to Canada’s impaired-driving laws will allow police to demand a breath sample from any driver they lawfully stop. It’s one of the things about Bill C-46 that most concerns Victoria lawyer Michael Mulligan.

After a loud and colourful 15-minute show, the Canada Day fireworks display in Steveston went sideways – quite literally.

The Richmond School District is abandoning plans to build a new City Centre elementary school in downtown Richmond as it wrestles with the reality that 39 schools — and not the 25 previously thought — require some seismic upgrades.

Richmond-based Canfisco hopes to present to a new Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans examining West Coast fishery regulations come next February, at the latest.

Last weekend, volunteers from Richmond’s emergency communications team participated in the annual American radio relay league field day at South Arm community centre.

During an interview after Wednesday's school board meeting, Richmond Board of Education Trustee Alice Wong told the Chinese newspaper Sing Tao Daily that she voted in favour of the SOGI policy “by mistake.

During the Steveston Salmon Festival parade, event organizers are expected to fire up the traditional open fire pits in the Steveston Community Centre parking lot, to cook sockeye fillets for about 3,300 festival goers.

This Canada Day long weekend, RCMP will be teaming up with ICBC to enforce stricter CounterAttack road checks across the province for impaired drivers. Every year, an average of 65 people are killed in impairment-related crashes in B.C.

The increase will help fund the largest transportation investment in Metro Vancouver history