Services: Digest for September 17, 2024

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Single-lane-alternating traffic extended on Highway 7 near Mission

Monday 16 September 2024 05:43 AM UTC+00 | Tags: transportation-and-infrastructure
Drivers are advised of an extended lane closure on Highway 7 between Murray Street and Stave Lake Street as crews address emergency utility work.
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  • transportation-and-infrastructure

Province commits to early pensions for wildfire fighters

Monday 16 September 2024 02:00 PM UTC+00 | Tags: finance
B.C. is negotiating earlier pensions for wildland firefighters helping align their benefits with those of other public-safety occupations while they protect communities from increasingly challenging wildfire activity.
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  • finance

Coroner's inquest scheduled into the death of Lindsey Izony

Monday 16 September 2024 02:30 PM UTC+00 | Tags: public-safety-and-solicitor-general
The BC Coroners Service will hold an inquest into the death of Lindsey Taylor Izony in Prince George, beginning Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.
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Groups targeting racism can now apply for grants

Monday 16 September 2024 03:00 PM UTC+00 | Tags: attorney-general
Community-based organizations across B.C. can now apply for grants to support projects that tackle racial inequity and foster inter-cultural understanding in the province.
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Funding supports community healing in southern B.C.

Monday 16 September 2024 04:00 PM UTC+00 | Tags: indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation
Indigenous women and girls in southern B.C. will receive increased community-led support through $1 million from the Giving Voice project.
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  • indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation

Funding supports community healing in northern B.C.

Monday 16 September 2024 04:05 PM UTC+00 | Tags: indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation
Indigenous women and girls in northern B.C. will receive increased community-led support through $1 million from the Giving Voice project.
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  • indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation

Funding supports community healing on Vancouver Island

Monday 16 September 2024 04:10 PM UTC+00 | Tags: indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation
Indigenous women and girls on Vancouver Island will receive increased community-led support through $1 million from the Giving Voice project.
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  • indigenous-relations-and-reconciliation

Province working with communities on building more housing with zoning extensions

Monday 16 September 2024 04:33 PM UTC+00 | Tags: housing
The Province has granted extensions to 21 B.C. local governments to provide them more time to amend zoning bylaws and upgrade infrastructure for some, or all, of their community.
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B.C.'s Growing Communities Fund supporting Pitt Meadows Athletic Park expansion

Monday 16 September 2024 06:20 PM UTC+00 | Tags: municipal-affairs
From City of Pitt Meadows: https://www.pittmeadows.ca/our-community/news/media-releases/bcs-growing-communities-fund-supporting-pitt-meadows-athletic
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