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  • 1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Shannon Paterson

    In the days since 11 people were killed and dozens more were injured at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival in Vancouver, several large makeshift memorials have popped up around the grass field at the school where the tragedy took place. RJ Aquino with Filipino BC says preliminary discussions are now underway for a permanent memorial on or near the field at John Oliver Secondary, to remember the victims. “It’s just a matter of what it looks like, what shape it’ll take.

  • 1 week ago | ctvnews.ca | Shannon Paterson

    William Fong has a love for Lego, and a love for transit. The first time he combined those passions was in 2015, when he built a replica SkyTrain out of the little plastic bricks. It was so well received, he went on to build replica transit buses and street cars. This year, he was ready to try something even more challenging. “I wanted to build something completely different from what I have. I wanted to build something big, I wanted to build something local again.

  • 2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Shannon Paterson

    Helgi Bjarnason brought his mom Vicky to the Lapu Lapu Day festival while she was visiting Vancouver for a taste of their Filipino heritage. They had only been there for a few minutes when tragedy struck. “I was holding her hand as I heard the car screeching behind. I looked, I saw it, and I tried to pull her,” said Bjarnason. “I didn’t get to say goodbye, or look out, or watch, move, nothing. No words.

  • 2 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Shannon Paterson

    The Le family lived just blocks from where the Lapu Lapu Day festival took place in south Vancouver on Saturday. That evening, Richard Le, his wife Linh Hoang, and their five-year-old daughter Katie decided to walk to the event. Sixteen-year-old Andy, Le’s son from his first marriage, made the fateful decision to stay home that evening.

  • 4 weeks ago | ctvnews.ca | Shannon Paterson

    When Jennifer Pont and her husband arrived at Two Eagles golf course in West Kelowna on Monday, they knew it would be a leisurely round. “There was a tournament earlier that day that had bumped everybody’s tee times ahead,” Pont said. She took the delay in stride, but when she walked off the 17th green, she heard a commotion ahead on 18. “At first, I wasn’t sure if people were just yelling, having a good time. You know, it’s late into the round so usually people have had some pops by then.

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