‘Non-stop tires’: Quebec garages slammed ahead of Dec. 1 winter tire deadline

Residents and farmers in the Fraser Valley are hoping for water levels to continue falling as they begin to take stock of the damage inflicted by floods that burst over the Nooksack River’s banks earlier this week, drowning farmland in B.C.’s southern interior near the U.S. border.It’s a grim weekend for Matt Dykshoorn’s brother and father, whose chicken barns were submerged in floodwaters this week, killing their flock of chickens despite frantic sandbagging efforts to save the birds.