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Nathan Pachal and Langley City First: the record behind the promises
Mayor Nathan Pachal's Langley City First slate is running seven candidates in the 17 October Langley City election. Here is its record and platform on housing, SkyTrain, public safety, the Innovation District and Invest Langley City, where it fits our values, and where it falls short....
Progress for Langley: the record behind the promises
Progress for Langley holds a 5-4 majority on Township council and is asking voters for four more years. Here is the slate's platform in its own terms, the record behind it, and our concerns on debt, housing, transit and shared services....
Progress for Langley trustee candidate urged families to leave public schools. Now she wants a board seat.
Norma Jean Maxwell helped build a portal for families leaving public schools and urged parents to pull their kids out. Now the Progress for Langley candidate wants a seat on Langley's school board. She also opposed LGBTQ+ lessons and compared some masking teachers to Nazis....
Orange Shirt Day asks more of us than a shirt
Orange Shirt Day honours residential school Survivors and the children who never came home. As DRIPA faces repeal calls and Langley heads into two October elections, we ask readers to carry these hard lessons to the ballot box....
Delaney Mack and Achieving for Langley City: what the slate promises, and what her council votes show
Delaney Mack's Achieving for Langley City is running on lower taxes and public safety. We looked at the record: votes against new housing, a call to put amalgamation to a referendum, and a vote against the budget that funded four first responders. None of the six candidates answered our questions....
Why we celebrate Labour Day
The eight-hour day, the weekend, paid maternity leave, the right to refuse unsafe work. None of it was given to Canadian workers. All of it was won, usually by people who broke the law first and changed it after. A Labour Day reminder of what the barbecue is actually for....
A Farewell to the Little Red House (1887 - 2026)
For almost 140 years, the Little Red House stood alone in a Glen Valley field. On August 27 it burned down. This is the story of the people who built it, lived in it, and slowed down to look at it, from Murdoch McIver's 1876 homestead to the last photograph....
BC Day and the manufactured Cowichan panic
A year after the Cowichan ruling, politicians are still telling British Columbians their homes are at risk. The decision says the opposite. Here is what the court actually found at Tl'uqtinus, where DRIPA really came from, and why blaming Indigenous people for a colonial theft is an old BC habit....
The blood supply is collapsing. Show up.
Canadian Blood Services says the national blood supply has fallen nearly 20 per cent since June 1. Hospital demand is outpacing donations by thousands of appointments a week. Donating is one of the few acts left that reminds us we belong to one another....
Editorial: The boycott is working. Now let's double down
The White House just admitted the boycott is working, then punished Canada for it with new 50 per cent tariffs. Our answer: double down. Here are the Langley businesses and BC getaways that keep every dollar home, from farm stand sourdough to car-free islands and Indigenous-owned hot springs....
What's really going on with the Langley City code of conduct dispute
A councillor is taking Langley City to court, the legal budget has hit $500,000, and an election is months away. But the loudest versions of this story are the least accurate. Drawing entirely on the court filings, the bylaw, and the investigator's reports, here is what actually happened, in order....
At Trinity Western, the Closet Has Outlived the Covenant
Seven years after Trinity Western University lost its Supreme Court fight over the Community Covenant, the campus has fallen quiet. For queer students, that quiet is not progress. The documented record and anonymous testimony point in one direction: things have gotten worse....
Canada Day 2026: what's happening across Langley
Canada Day 2026 events across Langley City and Township: McLeod Athletic Park's fireworks return, Douglas Park's Wednesday market and concert, Fort Langley's Farm Museum activities, and self-directed options in Aldergrove and Murrayville....
Editorial: Langley City should join the call for a low-income transit pass
Langley City Council votes Monday on Mayor Nathan Pachal's motion asking the province to expand the BC Bus Pass Program to all low-income Metro Vancouver households. It costs the city nothing. It commits no new spending. Council should pass it. Here's how to tell them....
Should the Langleys amalgamate, and what does the evidence actually say?
Township Mayor Eric Woodward seems to want the Langleys reunited. Three decades of evidence, including Ottawa's costly experiment, suggests amalgamation would deliver none of the promised savings while raising costs for City residents and diluting representation for rural Township residents....