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Cory Oskam

Transgendered teen athlete becomes an advocate

Cory Oskam looks like your typical teenage goaltender.


 
 
Karina LeBlanc visited Honduras with UNICEF Canada

LeBlanc: A rose among the Thorns

Maple Ridge’s Karina LeBlanc was the last player to leave the field Sunday. She was signing autographs for young girls. Talking to soccer moms. Beaming into TV cameras.


 

Making a case for plastic bag ban

Editor: -- An open letter to the people of Chilliwack:


 

NUMBERS DON'T JIVE

Re: "Auditor general issues report: John Doyle critiques Evergreen Line," Friday, March 29.


 
34 Puñaladas

34 Puñaladas tango from the dark end of the street

- 34 Puñaladas, April 7 at 8 p.m., Presentation House Theatre. Part of Capilano University's Global Roots Series. Tickets $30/$27 at tickets.capilanou.ca.


 
Abbotsford Heat

Baertschi bolsters Heat

With Mikael Backlund healthy and the Calgary Flames needing to open a roster spot for the playmaking Heat graduate, Sven Baertschi was assigned to Abbotsford on Saturday and joined the club for their game in Rochester, N.Y. Sunday.


 
Josh Nicholls

South Delta alumni sign with NHL teams

The last time the South Delta Bantam A1 Storm advanced to the provincial championships was back in 2007. The success of those players continues to this day.


 

Opportunity knocks for Heat players

There are no details, dates, or rosters in place yet. But T.J. Brodie knows, for sure, this upcoming Calgary Flames training camp will feel a little different.


 

Big-headed performers face death in Grim and Fischer

Kate Braidwood loves being able to don a mask and morph into a feisty granny or a sad old man.


 
Newly acquired Trinity Western University Spartan Matt

Former Chiefs' sniper returns to LEC as a Spartan

A forward with a knack for racking up points will soon be playing on familiar ice.


 
Trinity Western University Spartan Matt Ius

Pitt forward tries on a Spartans jersey

A forward from Pitt Meadows with a nose for the net will soon be playing on familiar ice.


 
Tyler Wotherspoon

Wotherspoon suits up for Canada

Surrey's Tyler Wotherspoon will be skating with the best players in the world over the Christmas break after he earned a spot with Canada's National Junior Team.


 

Brossoit, Wotherspoon chase Team Canada jobs

Two Surrey hockey players are making alternate plans for Christmas after being selected to attend the National Junior Team selection camp.


 

In Vancouver, soccer is a game of chants

SOCCER fans do some weird things. -- "Honey, have you seen the Ziploc bags?"


 

Black Friday - literally!

It was 12: 15 a.m. and I found myself trapped in a corridor of people at least 75 metres long and 25m wide.


 

Author reads from book on fabled hockey league

And so did Seattle and Victoria-in a league created a century ago.


 
Megan Ellis of Burnaby

Slow and steady wins the race

There is something about the moral from The Tortoise and the Hare fable that suits Megan Ellis.


 
Burnaby's Megan Ellis

Slow and steady wins the race

There is something about the moral from The Tortoise and the Hare fable that suits Megan Ellis.