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Image Credit: SUBMITTED/Kevin Aschhoff July 28, 2021 - 6:20 PM Deep beneath the waves of the Interior’s many lakes are secrets only divers can explore. Kevin Aschhoff, owner of Oceantech Scuba has a few favourite dive sites but diving has led to more than that. The Interior area diver once helped solve a missing persons case. In 2010, Aschhoff and other drivers found a car had gone off the road in the 1970s and the young woman who was driving it, from Keremeos, had been pre...

The Globe and Mail Rod Mickleburgh Published April 15, 2021 Steve Ko/COURTESY OF CHINESE CANADIAN MILITARY MUSEUM Hundreds of Chinese Canadians volunteered to fight in the Second World War for a country that denied them the vote and further marginalized them with an ingrained system of racial discrimination. Many from British Columbia were trained as commandos to operate behind Japanese lines in the Pacific. Theirs was a story of bravery and courage. Yet few in Canada – not even in the Chi...