Cowichan Tribes’ affordable-housing project complete

Lauren Miller, Cowichan Tribes special projects coordinator in its capital projects department, stands in front of the First Nation's new 32-unit affordable housing project facing Boys Road. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
Housing project largest built by First Nation so far
Federal Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland talks to a sales associate to buy a new pair of shoes in Ottawa on Monday, March 27, 2023. Freeland will table the federal budget on Tuesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Grocery money, clean tech tax breaks expected in federal budget Tuesday
RCMP march during the procession for Edmonton Police Service constables Travis Jordan and Brett Ryan in Edmonton, Monday, March 27, 2023. The officers were killed in the line of duty on March 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Funeral for two Edmonton police officers shot and killed responding to call
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Do Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows need more cannabis stores?
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Investigators survey the scene following a fire in Old Montreal on Sunday, March 19, 2023, that gutted a heritage building. Several people are still unaccounted for. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Two final bodies pulled from rubble after Old Montreal fire, five bodies identified
The Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation is asking residents to keep an eye out for nesting Canada geese so that staff can replace their eggs with ones that have been frozen to help control the population. A Canadian Goose is silhouetted against the Vancouver skyline as it walks along the seawall in Stanley Park, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Vancouver looks to frozen eggs to help control Canada goose population
Brett Smyth has resigned from North Saanich council. (File photo courtesy of Brett Smyth)

B.C. municipal councillor resigns after calling mayor ‘Mr. Hitler’
West Shore RCMP detachment vehicles are seen behind the detachment in Langford March 29, 2022. (Black Press Media file photo)

‘Check your kids’ phones’: Police urge vigilance as West Shore child porn cases double
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Frederick Lea Hardy’s name carved into the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France, April 2022 is shown in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Sarah Worthman

Punishment of First World War soldiers for sexual orientation detailed in new study

Supporters of TikTok hold signs during a rally to defend the app, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, at the Capitol in Washington. The House holds a hearing Thursday, with TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew about the platform’s consumer privacy and data security practices and impact on kids. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Gap grows between TikTok users, U.S. lawmakers on potential ban

Then-Minister of Jobs, Economic Recovery and Innovation Ravi Kahlon answers questions from members of the media at the legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023. The British Columbia government says it will be providing 330 new homes for people living on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside by the end of June. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

B.C. to provide 330 new homes for people living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

Insolvency trustee Doug Hoyes encounters a lot of Canadians with money troubles, but he’s become particularly sympathetic to the plight of young people who find themselves financially underwater. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

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Spouses of CFB Esquimalt are calling out a new pay structure that takes away monthly help for any expense other than housing and targets to mainly benefit the lower ranks. Pictured is Rear-Admiral Bill Truelove presiding over the changing of command from Commodore Bob Auchterlonie to Captain (Navy) Jeffery Zwick CFB Esquimalt on board the HMCS Calgary, in Esquimalt B.C., on June 24, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

CFB Esquimalt spouses say families effectively seeing pay cuts with new structure

Long-awaited replacement aims to help lower ranks afford housing

Robin Bousquet was arrested near Nakusp on March 27. (RCMP photo)

One of B.C.’s ‘most wanted’ arrested near Nakusp: Charges date back to the ’90s

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Seattle Mariners’s Julio Rodriguez reacts after stealing second base during the 13th inning in Game 3 of an American League Division Series baseball game against the Houston Astros, Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

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B.C. Lions head coach Rick Campbell watches from the sideline during the second half of a CFL football game against the Edmonton Elks in Vancouver, on Thursday August 19, 2021. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

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The Easter Eggspress is back at the BC Forest Discovery Centre in Duncan April 8-10, 2023. (Citizen file)

Coming up in Cowichan: Easter Eggspress is back at Forest Discovery Centre

Spring Tea Saturday in Mill Bay

”Spring is here and in preparation of Spring and delightfully daffy daze, the DDD committee presented the Town of Lake Cowichan with this banner to fly during Daffy Daze scheduled for April 1-13. Left to right is Michaela Davidson who sold the welcome flags to all the businesses (Davidson said the response and support was exceptionally good). Representing the Town of Lake Cowichan is Councillor Hazel Beech and Pat Foster. Delightfully Daffy Daze Committee chairman, Kim Poitras and committee members, Rhinda Munslow and Maureen Loebus.” (Lake News/March 25, 1998)

Flashback: Valley Fish and Game Club banquet, potential mill closure, choking baby saved

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Robert Clement Godfrey

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Robert Dennis Lang

Nov 15th, 2022

Bertha “Bertie” Ida Lillian Egan

Oct 9th, 2022

Cecelia Theodora (nee Heal) Atchison

Sep 13th, 2022

David Ridley

Aug 18th, 2022

Anthony Harold Green

Jul 20th, 2022

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FILE - Jonathan Majors arrives at the American Black Film Festival Honors on March 5, 2023, at 1 Hotel in West Hollywood, Calif. Majors was arrested Saturday, March 25, in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment after a domestic dispute, authorities said. Representatives for Majors said in a statement to The Associated Press that “he has done nothing wrong.” (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

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