Captain Arpit (Ari) Mahajan was born in Chandigarh, India and moved to Canada at the age of seven. He grew up in Delta, British Columbia and began his path in aviation when he earned his private pilot license in 2011. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces the following year under the Regular Officer Training Plan […]

LAST SUNSET She was waiting for him to arrive. They had been separated for over a year with divorce imminent. The cottage was sold. She had been packing when he unexpectedly phoned. “How about a drink for old time’s sake?” he asked. She hesitated. What harm would or could it do? “Oh, okay,” she responded.  […]

Monica Hoover June 10, 1928 – July 4, 2019 Monica was born in Ponoka, Alberta, the 4th of six children. She often regaled the family with stories of growing up on the prairies in the “Dirty Thirties”. Three of the kids riding their horse bareback to the one room schoolhouse, sharing a pair of shoes with […]

John William Robert Porteous January 6, 1947 – Penticton, BC – June 4, 2019 – Windsor, Ontario I lost my best friend, my rock, my husband, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. My children lost their father. My grandchildren lost their ‘Gramps”. John passed away at home surrounded by family and special friends after a long challenge […]

When comedian Rick Mercer touches down in St. John’s he usually heads straight to Signal Hill for a “gawk.” “It was a bit of a foggy day so I knew I wouldn’t see anything from the top,” he said. Instead of going straight up the hill to Cabot Tower, Mercer decided to drop by the […]

The BC Coroners Service has published an updated report on suicide deaths in B.C. up to the end of 2017. There were 572 deaths by suicide in 2017, down slightly from the previous three years, which all reported more than 600 deaths by suicide. More than half of those who died by suicide in 2017 were […]