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Isabella Lepage earned her black belt in taekwondo, along with a group of 11 other students ranging in ages up to 45.
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Annika was diagnosed with Down syndrome at just 15 weeks in-utero, and is currently ambassador for both Canadian Down Syndrome Society and the Down Syndrome Resource Foundation.
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Originally from Williams Lake, blind man Scott Rees successfully swam across the Georgia Strait in just under 11 hours on July 23 to raise more than $125,000 for Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind.
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Nobody knows exactly how many quilts one 100-year-old Chilliwack woman has made, but it is a lot. Anne Schaefer doesnsa国际传媒檛 quite know when she started quilting but it was sometime after arriving in Chilliwack in 1952. Shesa国际传媒檚 been with the church for 70 years.
Until four years ago, the quilts would be packaged up and sent overseas to refugee camps. Now, they stay in B.C. and are sent to different societies and facilities, such as treatment centres, transitional housing programs and permanent housing programs.
Thirteen years after Erin Scott first played paintball, she became captain of Canadasa国际传媒檚 first all-womensa国际传媒檚 pro paintball team, the Northern Lights.
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At 82 years and 43 days old, Bruce Ives performed his record-breaking headstand.
He learned how to balance on his head more than 65 years ago from a high school physical education teacher in Leamington, Ont, and while in his 60s and playing with his grandchildren, he tried again. Since then, he has made it a tradition to do a headstand every year on his birthday, June 25.
She did the work. She earned the honour. All that remained was determining a way to give Valerie Bob the proper recognition.
Bob, 66, was bedridden with terminal cancer at the time of the ceremony, so traditional thinking went out the window to make the special moment still happen. Doctors Dorothy Christian and George Agnes from the Graduate Studies office at SFU came to her home on Penelakut Tribesa国际传媒檚 Tsussie Reserve to present Bob with her degree, with a circle of proud family members and friends in attendance.
Two young hip-hop performers and recording artists are bringing the movement out from underground as they gear up for a concert in the Kootenays at the end of the month.
That both Strange 2ruth and Ray the Nihilist are Indigenous gives the music they perform a special resonance. In many ways, rap and hip hop, coming out of the urban Black experience, is a natural fit for modern Indigenous musical expression. Itsa国际传媒檚 like the Blues, a voice of the Black experience that grew beyond cultural borders to become a music for everyone.
Seven-year-old Lucia Elizabeth Dell became the youngest-ever recipient of the B.C. Emergency Health Servicessa国际传媒� Vital Link Award in October.
She alerted her mother and lifeguards at a Nanaimo pool after noticing something was wrong with her grandpa.
