Published in the October 2026 Blueridge Bulletin:

• Federal court rejects Tsleil-Waututh injunction to stop Burrard Inlet dredging
• Retired North Vancouver police officer writes crime thriller based on true events
• Feeding Birds in Your Backyard Could Be Spreading a Deadly Virus, an Expert Warns – H5N1 (avian flu) is a real problem, and it can infect more that just birds
• Photos: Canadian Coast Guard and Navy ships on display in North Vancouver – Hurry! Open on Saturday, Sept 26
• Potash giant Canpotex investing $500-million in Vancouver port terminal to increase exports
• 2 Mercedes drivers fined for driving on new North Van pedestrian bridge to take photos – it’s hard to believe someone would actually do this
• Garden to table: Leave the leaves this fall
• Cheese and Meat Festival returns to North Vancouver Saturday – on Sept 26
• 36-unit townhouse project coming to North Vancouver’s Maplewood area
• Provincial snap election called for October 24th. We will have information about candidates and how to vote as it becomes available.
• Common food allergies for dogs and how to avoid them
• District of North Vancouver staff warn maintaining services could require 7.5% tax increase
• Metro Vancouver Receives Fifth Award for Excellence in Financial Reporting – specifically for their 2024 financial report
• Great Dane stretchered off mountain near Revelstoke, B.C., in unusual rescue – this is here because our neighbourhood is full of dog lovers
• Dog missing after fire destroys Deep Cove waterfront home
• Photos: Barge full of sand and gravel runs aground off North Vancouver
• Mario Canseco: Around 65% of B.C. residents say their community is getting noisier, poll finds – is it noisier where you live?
• Could pilots from another major Canadian airline go on strike? Here’s what to know – Porter Airlines pilots ask for government intervention
• North Vancouver’s Chemtrade sues competitor over ‘astroturfing’ campaign
• Blueridge Good Neighbour Day: Twenty-five years of showing up
• These North Shore mountains are older than you think
• ‘Rare opportunity’: Undeveloped residential property lists for $10M in North Vancouver – this is on land off Riverside that backs up against Lennox St., Mowat Pl., and Berton Pl.
• The first week of school is hard on everyone, including your dog
• Scrabble Players, Gird Your Loins – new Canadian dictionary in the works, starting with Q
• Bears and People
  • North Vancouver RCMP shoot bear in Lower Lonsdale
  • More North Shore bears coming into urban areas
  • Bears and fruit trees: Managing attractants in the fall – our local fruit trees are a regular problem. Consider the North Shore Fruit Tree Project if you cannot harvest them yourself
  • How to clean up the messy human problem endangering bears – not local news, but relevant to our own bear interactions
• Roche Point Park
  • North Vancouver’s Roche Point Park gets official park status – this headline is misleading. At the meeting in question, the bylaws needed did receive second and third readings, but they are not yet fully passed. There will be a final vote, possibly at the next meeting in October.
  • DNV considers permanent protection for 63-acre Roche Point parklands – the public hearing for this was held on Sept 8. Few people spoke at all, and everyone that did was in support of the park. The next step is scheduled for the DNV Council meeting on Sept 21.
• Year-Round Daylight Time
  • No falling back: B.C. establishes new time zone abbreviation
  • B.C. adopts Pacific time, PCT, for new, year-round daylight time zone
• Healthcare
  • North Shore family doctors recruiting patients in stark reversal of historical trend
  • B.C. family physicians raise alarm about fragmented medical records
  • Connect Every Visit – a website advocating for interconnecting heathcare systems and allowing visitor to contact their MLA on the topic – run by the BC College of Family Physicians
  • After years of family doctor shortages, the North Shore has room for 20,000 new patients – if you don’t have a family doctor, now is the time to find one!
  • B.C. college licensed 1,200 internationally trained docs last year: minister
• Transit Job Actions
  • Sep 22: Metro Vancouver bus and SeaBus strike averted as workers approve new deal
  • Sep 22: Coast Mountain Bus Company transit workers ratify new collective agreement, strike averted – Unifor statement
  • Sep 20: Metro Vancouver transit operators to vote on tentative deal, threatens full strike
  • Sep 13: Metro Vancouver bus drivers reach tentative contract deal: company
  • Sep 11: Union representing Coast Mountain Bus Company workers returning to bargaining table
  • Sep 2: Unifor escalates job action at Coast Mountain Bus Company over unsafe running time
• Local General Election
  • Where to vote early in North Vancouver and West Vancouver’s 2026 local elections
  • Will Duelling Elections Confuse Municipal Voters?
  • 2026 Election: Advance Voting on October 7, 10, and 12 – from the DNV
  • Editorial: This municipal election, give newcomers their shot
  • Here’s how to vote in the 2026 North Shore civic elections
  • Vote for the trails: Mountain bike association urges North Shore residents
  • Safe seats: Why elections don’t seem to change the North Shore’s councils – all the more reason to get out and vote
  • See who is running – the DNV website now has some candidate statements and links to their websites and social media feeds
  • Editorial: And they’re off! Civic elections call for voters to engage
  • Here are the 90 candidates running in municipal elections on the North Shore
  • 2026 General Local Election
• El Niño and Fall/Winter Predictions
  • Winter to wait on the sidelines as El Nino extends fall: The Weather Network outlook
  • Supercharged El Niño heading for record strength; Canada’s winter may ‘take a holiday,’ climatologist says
  • Metro Vancouver weather: Fall forecast warmer, drier than average
• Jazz Aviation Flight Attendant Strike
  • Jazz Aviation reaches tentative contract with flight attendants
  • Jazz Aviation says negotiations with its flight attendants have reached an impasse
  • Jazz Aviation flight attendants vote in favour of strike mandate
• Metro Vancouver Leadership Change
  • Metro Vancouver Announces Leadership Transition – press release from Metro Vancouver
  • Metro Vancouver parts ways with chief administrative officer
• R2 Bus Route Extension to Metrotown begins September 7, 2026
  • New R2 service links North Shore, Burnaby
  • North Shore RapidBus connecting Park Royal to Metrotown starts Sept. 7
• Fire News
  • Campfire ban to be lifted in parts of Vancouver Island after rain
  • Campfire prohibitions to be rescinded in Coastal Fire Centre
• North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant
  • Metro Vancouver projects $1.9B finance cost for $3.8B North Shore plant – these costs are already included in the annual payments Metro Vancouver residents are paying
  • Coquitlam mayor sues Metro Vancouver for alleged defamation following data breach
  • Outgoing Coquitlam mayor sues Metro Vancouver for defamation – related to the North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant