Aided by a grant from Michael Smith Health Research BC and the Surrey Hospitals Foundation, four Surrey Memorial Hospital respiratory therapists are finding ways to know when it’s actually safe to take a patient off of a ventilator. More in the Citizen: buff.ly/wEZcuC0 #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

Miss us at the Surrey Urban Farmers Market last weekend? This Saturday (Oct. 4), we'll be back there once again, for the last Market day of the year! Our main reporter Chris Campbell will be there all morning (at the very least!), lending his ears to you for one more day...

A Surrey business says its employees have been targeted with “death threats” over erroneous accusations that it is involved in the proposed culling of hundreds of ostriches on a B.C. farm due to the avian flu. Read more in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/RcYhl3A #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

The incident happened in 2019, according to the decision, which ruled on professional misconduct involving an Ontario lawyer who “knowingly” let the scammers launder $1.7 million of that money through his trust account. More in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/1xoST3I #SurreyBC #Courts #SurreyCitizen

Our welcome tour at the Surrey Urban Farmers Market in Royal Kwantlen Park continues - consider dropping by our table and saying hi to us if you're there tomorrow or next Saturday (Oct. 4!) 🍓 More info on the Market here: bcfarmersmarkettrail.com/market/surrey-urban-farmers-market/ #SurreyCitizen

Mayor Brenda Locke joined with firefighters to announce last Wednesday that Bright Nights will be a part of the second annual Noel Holiday Light Festival, to be held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 28 at the Cloverdale Fairgrounds. Read more in the Citizen: buff.ly/dfrxXBf #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

“In many respects, money talks,” said Surrey Police chief Norm Lipinski at Monday's press conference at Surrey City Hall about a new extortion tip line and $250,000 reward fund. Read more in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/eFSNJta #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

Surrey-Guildford NDP MLA Garry Begg won by just 22 votes and that result was used to fuel election hysteria, says a new report. Read more in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/KjaPDx1 #BCPoli #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

When Surrey Coun. Linda Annis announced her mayoral campaign last week, she took aim at Metro Vancouver costs and vowed an independent review and audit of the “failed” North Shore Wastewater Treatment Plant Project. Read more in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/ohI9Zxk #SurreyBC #BCPoli #SurreyCitizen

This Saturday, we're finally heading out on the town! Meet Chris Campbell of the Surrey Citizen at our table at the Surrey Urban Farmers Market on Sept. 13 - bring us your story ideas, or simply drop by and say hi.

"When you ask Surrey School Board chair Gary Tymoschuk about how many portable classrooms there are in the district, he says he hears the voice of former B.C. Premier John Horgan on the campaign trail vowing to get rid of them – all of them." More in the #SurreyCitizen: buff.ly/xuhMhlW #SurreyBC

A senior couple fighting to stay in their “significantly” below-market rental – despite it having a hole in the ceiling – has won a reprieve from the B.C. Supreme Court. More in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/SETuwIx #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

Student enrollment has grown by an average of 2,598 students over the previous two years, according to a Surrey School District report from 2024 – triple the average over the previous decade. More in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/OxFYE8A #SurreyBC #BackToSchool #SurreyCitizen

Last week, Surrey resident Harjit Bhasin and a group of others who put down deposits on a local townhouse development received a letter from the lawyer representing the developer saying that their contracts had been cancelled. More in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/PFDLJrK #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

The Surrey Citizen now has a Friday edition! Here's a taste of what you can expect every Friday in the Citizen newsletter - from our court-themed issue last week, a piece about the legal aftermath of a Facebook Marketplace purchase gone wrong: buff.ly/If2WxGL #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

A B.C. Supreme Court judge had harsh words for some of the litigants involved in a Surrey and Langley land dispute that dragged on for 78 days of trial time. Read more in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/SM6EarM #SurreyBC #LangleyBC #SurreyCitizen

A Surrey woman has won financial damages in B.C. Supreme Court, but will still likely be grappling with the emotional damage after falling for a real estate deal involving a Dubai housing development that never actually existed. More in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/sglbBod #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

After a decade of denials that foreign investment was a consequential part of the Metro Vancouver real estate market, developers in Surrey are pushing senior levels of government to turn on the tap of foreign money. Read more in the Surrey Citizen: buff.ly/rsUtpk7 #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

A new report highlights where people are coming to Surrey from, and where they are leaving us for. Read more about it in this week's Surrey Citizen: surreycitizen.com/surrey-sees-... #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

The Surrey Police Service is looking for a few good officers – and is offering big money and promising better working conditions to get them to sign on. The Surrey Citizen's Chris Campbell examines how in this piece from this week's issue of the Citizen: buff.ly/tMnCrVk #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

Citizen reader Richardjack57 brings us this first photo featured on the Citizen's Bluesky feed: a picture of kids enjoying the summer weather from a local pier, published in last week's #SurreyCitizen newsletter. #Photography

"If we’re in a market like now, then it’s honestly a waste of time." Learn about Surrey's land assembly market and how falling condo pre-sales are affecting it in this week's edition of the Citizen: surreycitizen.com/waste-of-tim... #SurreyBC #SurreyCitizen

Our reporter Chris Campbell wrote this piece for our sister publication @readtheridge.bsky.social last week, reminiscing about a recently-closed local movie theatre and his time at the now-defunct Times newspaper in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows. 🔗 Check it out via the (re)post below:

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