Watch your drinks, Surrey police warn people who hire escorts

After several robberies involving drugging, Surrey RCMP are warning people who use escorts to watch their drinks. (Stock photo)
Surrey RCMP say several clients have been drugged and robbed in region

Lyna Smith is traveling across Canada with her Shar Pei, Monster Yogi Bear. (Rebecca Dyok photo — Quesnel Observer)

Ontario nuclear operator travelling on motorcycle across Canada with canine friend
The U.S. Coast Guard on Aug. 16 recovers most of a seine fishing net that detached from a vessel that sank off between Washington state and Greater Victoria on Aug. 13. (U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Northwest/Twitter)

Currents, depth continue to hamper fuel spill response near Victoria
Industry fears shortages at cannabis, liquor stores amid strike at B.C. distribution centres

Industry fears shortages at cannabis, liquor stores amid strike at B.C. distribution centres
A taste of Salt Spring, handmade with heart

A taste of Salt Spring, handmade with heart

A Vancouver Police Department patch is seen on an officer’s uniform in Vancouver, on Jan. 9, 2021. Vancouver Police say they are investigating a series of violent stranger attacks in the city’s Fairview neighbourhood and are trying to establish if they are related. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Vancouver police investigate three violent stranger attacks in Fairview neighbourhood
Omar Alghabra rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 20, 2022. The transport minister will testify today before the House of Commons transport committee on airport and airline delays that have wreaked havoc on travelers over the past several months.THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

COVID-19 to blame for Canada’s airport delays, says transport minister
Pope Francis, left, and Cardinal Marc Ouellet arrive at the opening of a 3-day Symposium on Vocations in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Feb. 17, 2022. The prominent Quebec cardinal is denying sexual assault allegations contained in a class-action lawsuit that was formally filed this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Gregorio Borgia

Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet denies sex assault allegations, says he is being defamed
Sunshine Hill Parent Participation Preschool in Delta was started by a group of moms in 1965 who wanted a preschool for their three- and four-year-old children that centred on play-based learning and wanted more control over their children's educational beginnings.

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    The latest census figures show a record high number of people in Canada now have a mother tongue other than French or English. People shop in Chinatown in Vancouver, Friday, February 5, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

    Census data shows linguistic diversity on the rise in Canada

    Moms Stop the Harm tied purple ribbons along Robson Street in Vancouver on Tuesday Aug. 16 to memorialize the 10,000 people who have died of toxic drugs in B.C. since a public health emergency was declared in 2016. (Cole Schisler/Black Press Media)

    VIDEO: Moms take to B.C. streets, tying purple ribbons to honour 10,000 lives lost to drug poisonings

    BCGEU union members take to the picket line at the BC Liquor Distribution Branch’s Delta distribution centre on Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (James Smith/North Delta Reporter)

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    A police officer and a service dog enter the Calgary Courts Centre on May 17, 2021. A Calgary man who bilked his clients out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme is scheduled to be sentenced today. Arnold Breitkreutz was convicted in June of fraud over five thousand dollars, for what the Crown described as a multimillion-dollar scheme in which investors believed they were putting money into safe first mortgages. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

    Calgary man convicted in multimillion dollar Ponzi scheme sentenced to 10 years

    Arnold Breitkreutz ordered to pay $3.1 million in restitution

    Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says Health Canada is authorizing a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children between five and 11 years old. Tam speaks during a technical briefing on the COVID pandemic in Canada, Friday, January 15, 2021 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

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    NACI: high-risk kids “should” be offered one and others “may” be offered one

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    White Rock & District Garden Club will be celebrating 75 years in operation at the end of August. Pictured are group members Cynthia Bliss (bottom-left), Mavis Taylor (top-left), Eileen Davidson (top-middle), Darlene Chamberlain (bottom-middle), Claire Murihead (top-right) and Donna Lawson (bottom-right). (Sobia Moman photo)

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    The White Rock & District Garden Club was established in 1947 and remains strong

    Sicamous residents Cathy and Ernie Baynes will celebrate their 72nd anniversary on September 2, 2022. (Lachlan Labere-Salmon Arm Observer)

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      ‘Press Breaker’ movie focuses on Surrey athlete who made basketball history in the U.S.

      OMNI TV air dates for film about Harleen Sidhu, the first South Asian Canadian woman to play NCAA Division 1 basketball

      Pressure is building on Canada Soccer to seal a compensation deal with the men’s national team as the countdown to the World Cup in Qatar ticks down. But some part of the negotiations could go beyond the November start of the tournament says Mark-Anthony Kaye, part of the men’s national team leadership group. Kaye (14) and Costa Rica’s Youstin Delfin Salas Gomez (16) vie for the ball during second half World Cup qualifier soccer action in Edmonton on Friday, November 12, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

      Negotiations with the Canadian men’s soccer team could go on beyond the World Cup

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      This image provided by Boston-based RR Auction, shows an authenticated Apple-1 Computer prototype from the mid-1970s that a Bay Area collector, who wishes to remain anonymous, made the winning $677,196 bid on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, the auctioneer said. The prototype was used by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in 1976 to demonstrate the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell, owner of The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California, one of the first personal computer stores in the world, Boston-based RR Auction said in a statement. (RR Auction via AP)

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      Members of the Royal Canadian Medical Corps evacuate Allied soldiers from the beach after the Dieppe, France, raid during the Second World War. THE CANADIAN PRESS

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      This image released by Disney+ shows Tatiana Maslany in a scene from “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law,” premiering Thursday. (Disney+ via AP)

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      David Patterson’s semi-abstract florals, such as Living Well, illustrate his “art as a universal voice” concept. (Contributed photo)

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      Chris MacClure and David Patterson’s work featured at GS Company, Semiahmoo Centre.

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      Surrey Police Service Chief Constable Norm Lipinski, left, and Assistant Commissioner Brian Edwards of the Surrey RCMP. (File photo: Lauren Collins)

      LETTER: Column on Surrey’s policing transition missed mark

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        Surrey council chambers in city hall. (File photo)

        OUR VIEW: Whale of a story for Surrey council, KTRIS

        Safe Surrey Coalition majority refused to apologize to seven KTRIS members for barring them from participating in council meetings last year

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