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VANCOUVER — Drummer Jon Card, who played stints with Canadian punk rockers D.O.A., SNFU, The Subhumans and Personality Crisis, has died at the age of 63 in Vancouver.

SURREY, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — British Columbia is moving ahead with the transition to an independent police service in Surrey after the mayor and council refused to part ways with the RCMP.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government is granting a one-time $430 benefit to the roughly 20,000 seniors in its support program for elderly low-income renters. sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

SAANICH, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — British Columbia Premier David Eby says the government has asked the auditor general to review the province's grant programs after allegations of conflict-of-interest from a clean-technology company.

SAANICH, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — British Columbia's government is spearheading a new public development project on Vancouver Island aimed at bringing more affordable homes closer to transit access.

VANCOUVER — A woman has been arrested over what Vancouver police say is a series of assaults against "random strangers" in the city.

CHETWYND, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Mounties in northern British Columbia are asking for any information about a head-on crash that killed two teenagers and seriously injured another man.

COQUITLAM, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Police in Metro Vancouver say an underwater recovery team is working to locate a vehicle submerged in the Fraser River and determine whether it was occupied.

LANGLEY, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ — Mounties in Langley, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, say they are cancelling the Amber Alert issued for a four-month-old boy who was allegedly abducted by his mother on Thursday. Police say in a statement that the child was located and is safe and sound.

VICTORIA — Family members of a British Columbia Indigenous man who died after being arrested nearly seven years ago were "absolutely shocked" to learn that the manslaughter charges against two of the Mounties involved have been stayed, Dale Culver's