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Various chicken products are being recalled from the marketplace Canada-wide due to a possible listeria contamination. A variety of frozen, diced Gordon Choice brand products were recalled on Oct.

The City of New Westminster will spend up to $100,000 to create public art in Queen’s Park. City council recently supported a motion to increase the public art budget for the area around the future Sportsplex from $45,000 to $100,000.

What happened: Jobs in B.C. declined significantly on a monthly basis Why it matters: The province and the nation were on different paths in terms of jobs growth last month B.C.

An overwhelming majority of Coast Mountain Bus Company employees voted in favour of a strike mandate on Thursday, with 99 per cent supporting the motion.

This year, 39% of the pollution belonged to the top five polluters, with Nestlé accounting for roughly 12% of the branded plastic while Tim Hortons accounted for about 11%

How can the arts inspire social change? That’s the subject of a lunchtime discussion set for Tuesday, Oct. 22 at New Westminster City Hall. It’s set to run from noon to 1:30 p.m.

Participants tackle issues such as excessive digital use and comparison to others that lead to the Joy of Missing Out (JOMO) as opposed to the Fear of Missing Out (FOMO)

The City of New Westminster will consider local connections to the Komagata Maru incident. Raj Singh Toor, vice-president and spokesperson for the Descendants of the Komagata Maru Society, is seeking the city’s support to commemorate the incident.

Yesterday marked the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, and we realized we had forgotten to atone for one of the many terrible things we’ve done in the past, as is tradition at K&K.

How does $20,000 disappear? That’s the question at the bottom of a legal battle between a New Westminster notary public and the couple whose condo sale he facilitated.