Jay Durant

Reporter, This is BC

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• Squamish Nation lacrosse icon casts eye to the next generation

  The Squamish Nation will be gathering on Friday for the grand opening of the Kw'eshḵw'shétsutay̓ playing place - a facility built to honour and keep the legacy of lacrosse alive.

  Perspectives

  Jun 17
• 15-year-old rocker setting out to tour B.C. Indigenous communities

  At age 15, James Vickers has just released his first album with gigs to follow in Indigenous communities around British Columbia, including some with deep family roots.

  Canada

  Jun 3
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• B.C. artist takes designs to ‘new heights’ with animations for Las Vegas Sphere

  Voskakis is an electrician by trade, but the rest of his time is spent at his other job: creating complex visual elements for clients all around the world.

  Entertainment

  May 27
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• B.C. pipers pack ‘hearts and souls’ for tour honouring liberation of Netherlands

  Pipers from across British Columbia have gathered in the Netherlands for a tour marking the 80th anniversary of the country's liberation and VE Day.

  Canada

  May 6
• B.C. man completes dream adventure on Canada’s most northern island

  “We’re talking frostbite not in minutes, we’re talking frostbite in seconds. You put your hand out and I could see it going white.”

  Lifestyle

  May 1
• B.C. fire-stunt shop celebrates Academy Award win

  From flamethrowers to full-body burns, for the past 20 years, Fire For Hire has been setting film and television scenes ablaze.

  Canada

  Apr 29
• B.C. man’s home-built roadster finishes runner-up in prestigious U.S. competition

  Burnaby's Ken Green builds roadsters by hand and recently finished as runner-up at a prestigious car show.

  Canada

  Mar 6
• ‘Feared’ B.C. wrestler hopes her story will inspire other indigenous children

  “I was slapped with programs as I was coming out many times because people were just fearful of me getting so close to them with the snake,” Dawn Murphy told This is BC.

  Lifestyle

  Mar 5
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• B.C. man behind 80s laser light craze shows no sign of slowing down

  “Every show would sell out. I think we sold out Dark Side of the Moon for an entire year,” said McCaw. “Radiohead to Pink Floyd to Pink.”

  Lifestyle

  Feb 26
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• Family release album of B.C. teen music prodigy killed in tragic car crash

  Nell Smith was set to release her debut album when she was killed in a car crash last October.

  Entertainment

  Feb 6
• Vancouver musician gets creative to highlight Chinatown’s history

  A Vancouver musician is devising different ways to showcase the history of Chinatown. Shon Wong is drawing on his own family and other generations that came before.

  Canada

  Feb 4
• Sunshine Coast mountain biker making waves on the world stage

  Twenty-year-old Gracey Hemstreet is a star on the World Cup circuit, and it all started in Sechelt at the Coast Gravity Park her dad built.

  Sports

  Jan 30
• Around the continent in 169 days: B.C. man finds his passion in the Arctic

  In 2000, while with the RCMP, Burton was captain of the St. Roch II, retracing the voyage of the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

  Canada

  Jan 21
• More than a 3 hour tour: S.S. Minnow, a piece of TV history, still afloat in Nanaimo

  Decades after 'Gilligan's Island' went off the air, one of the four boats used as the S.S. Minnow is still afloat in British Columbia.

  Entertainment

  Jan 7
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• B.C. actor holds boot camp to learn Hallmark movie tricks of the trade

  Many of the films are shot in B.C. and local actors feature prominently in the popular productions. Twenty-one Hallmark movies were shot in Vancouver last year.

  Entertainment

  Dec 24, 2024
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• Brothers spend decades probing mystery, curse of lost B.C. gold mine

  The two brothers were just kids when they got hooked on the tale of a lost British Columbia gold mine.

  Canada

  Dec 19, 2024
• B.C. man turns from managing wealth to welding, with dramatic results

  But Holyk has found a different hobby offering a much-needed break from his work days as a wealth manager.

  Lifestyle

  Dec 10, 2024
• Meet the B.C. rider inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame

  Kaila Mussell is used to being a pioneer. She's the first and only professional female saddle bronc rider in the history of North American rodeo.

  Canada

  Dec 5, 2024
• B.C. UFC fighter says she couldn’t pursue her dreams without her community

  There is power in numbers and that’s what has helped push Jamey-Lyn Horth to the pinnacle of her sport. And her community is behind her every step of the way.

  Sports

  Oct 24, 2024
• ‘Not a dry eye’: Vancouver hospital staff help patient wed his bride, days before his death

  Joshua Morven and Sarah Bright knew they wanted to get married, even though Morven was sick in the intensive care unit at Vancouver General Hospital.

  Health

  Sep 30, 2024
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• From a backyard chicken coop to a global powerhouse: B.C.’s Norco bikes turns 60

  Norco is turning 60 years. In those decades the B.C. company has grown from a Burnaby chicken coop to one of the world's biggest bike brands.

  Consumer

  Sep 26, 2024
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• B.C. filmmaker chronicles life of ‘forgotten soldier’ killed in WWI

  Fred Lee, has no known grave and died at the Battle of Hill 70 in 1917.

  Lifestyle

  Aug 21, 2024
• ‘A taste like nothing else’: Indigenous-owned cannery is last on B.C.’s coast

  St. Jean’s Cannery & Smokehouse based in Nanaimo still hand-packs products, just like founder Armand St. Jean once did after starting the business in his backyard.

  Economy

  Aug 15, 2024
• B.C. Olympic racewalker back as coach and competitor

  B.C. racewalker Evan Dunfee is back at the Olympics, not only to compete individually but also to pair up with a young athlete he's been coaching at UBC for a new event.

  Sports

  Jul 23, 2024
• B.C. brothers find success with 1 of the biggest hotrod shops in Canada

  It was actually some years later in life before they came together. While fixing up their own cars in the driveway the brothers decided it was time to build something new.

  Features

  Jul 16, 2024