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For the week of Sept. 24, 2023: 

Torrential rains and floods devastated the Interior and Fraser Valley during November 2021’s parade of pineapple expresses.

But provincial, regional and municipal authorities were not prepared. They could have and should have been. 

A researcher with the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives used the freedom of information law to investigate dike inspection reports from 2017 to 2021. 

Ben Parfitt collected more than 5,000 pages from the Ministry of Forests and communities at risk of flooding, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Merritt, Princeton and Richmond. 

He found no evidence that B.C.’s inspector of dikes issued any orders to improve protection for people and property. 

Hear the interview with Ben Parfitt on this week’s edition of thePodcast. 

Plus, headlines from the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Northwest and commentary on the latest in Canada’s year of foreign interference. 

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For the week of Sept. 17, 2023: 

Bill Vigars was right there with Terry Fox during the summer of 1980. The “summer of hope,” as the White Rock, B.C.-resident calls it.

Vigars was working for the Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario when he was sent to join Terry’s team in New Brunswick. He has written about the highs and lows of what became the most-important Canadian road trip in a new memoir called “Terry and Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope.” 

Forty-three years later, the foundation named for the late Fox has raised $850 million from the annual community and school walks, runs and rolls across Canada. 

Hear the second part of a two-part interview on this edition of theBreaker.news Podcast with Bob Mackin.

Plus, headlines from the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Northwest. 

Plus, commentary on the long-awaited foreign interference public inquiry and headlines from the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Northwest.

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For the week of Sept. 10, 2023: 

Many things divide Canadians, but few things unite us as much as the love for Terry Fox.

On Sept. 17, millions coast-to-coast-to-coast will walk, run or roll in memory of the Canadian hero and his dream to end cancer.

Bill Vigars of White Rock, B.C. was right there with Fox during the summer of 1980, the “summer of hope,” as he calls it. 

Vigars was working for the Canadian Cancer Society in Ontario when he was sent to join Terry’s team in New Brunswick. 

Vigars has written about the highs and lows of what became the most-important Canadian road trip, “Terry and Me: The Inside Story of Terry Fox’s Marathon of Hope” from Sutherland House Publishers.

Hear the first part of a two-part interview on this edition of theBreaker.news Podcast with Bob Mackin.

Plus, commentary on the long-awaited foreign interference public inquiry and headlines from the Pacific Rim and the Pacific Northwest. 

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