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  "description": "Langley City eyes a 30 km/h residential speed limit while the Township opens public input on its Transportation and Mobility Strategy. Plus: a $575K fine after a worker's death, Saturday's free repair café, the Kitselas Treaty, and the ongoing toxic drug crisis killing four British Columbians a day.",
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  "textContent": "💚\n\n****Support Local News—Spread the Word****\nThe best way to help __The Langley Union__ grow is simple: share this newsletter. Forward it to a friend, mention it to your family, or post it on social media and encourage others to subscribe.\n\nHappy Thursday, Langley!\n\nClear skies and sunshine are setting the tone today, with temperatures climbing toward double digits and an even warmer weekend on the horizon (we might actually see 20°C by Sunday).\n\nLangley City is weighing a drop in residential speed limits to 30 km/h, a small but meaningful shift toward safer streets for everyone who isn't behind a windshield.\n\nThe Township, meanwhile, wants your input on its draft Transportation and Mobility Strategy at an online open house on April 29.\n\nWe also cover a $575,000 fine against a Langley construction firm over a fatal 2012 trench collapse, a free repair café this Saturday at the Langley Senior Resources Centre, and the province's move to ratify a long-overdue treaty with the Kitselas Nation.\n\nThe toxic drug crisis continues to claim roughly four lives a day in B.C., and Lytton residents are warning about the financial toll of rebuilding after climate-driven wildfire.\n\n## Sign up for The Langley Union\n\nGet daily news updates and feature community stories from the only independent source that is 100% owned and operated in Langley, BC.\n\nSubscribe\n\nEmail sent! Check your inbox to complete your signup.\n\nNo spam. No paywalls. Unsubscribe anytime.\n\n### Langley City Considers Dropping Residential Speed Limits to 30 km/h\n\nPhoto by Joshua Hoehne / Unsplash\n\nLangley City is looking at a proposal to cut the maximum speed limit on residential streets from 50 km/h to 30 km/h, a move that would bring the city in line with a growing number of municipalities prioritizing pedestrian and cyclist safety.\n\nLower speed limits are one of the most effective and least expensive tools cities have to reduce traffic fatalities, particularly for children, seniors, and people with disabilities who navigate neighbourhood streets on foot.\n\nThe proposal comes as Langley continues to densify and add more residents to areas originally designed around car traffic.\n\nCouncil has not yet voted on the change, but the discussion signals a welcome shift toward treating streets as shared public space rather than throughways for vehicles.\n\nRead More\n\n### Township of Langley Wants Your Input on Its Transportation and Mobility Strategy\n\nThe Township of Langley is hosting an online open house on Wednesday, April 29 to gather public feedback on its draft Transportation and Mobility Strategy. Registration is required.\n\nFor a municipality long shaped by car-centric planning, this is a real opportunity for residents to push for better transit, safer cycling infrastructure, and more walkable neighbourhoods.\n\nThe strategy will guide how the Township invests in getting people around for years to come. That makes community input essential, especially from renters, transit riders, and people who do not drive.\n\nThe Township's latest newsletter also flags several upcoming community events, including the 64th annual Langley Walk on May 3 in Fort Langley and BC Youth Week activities running May 1 to 7 for teens aged 13 to 18.\n\nRead More\n\n### Langley City Council Pursues Emergency Preparedness Funding, Marks Day of Mourning\n\nLangley City Council approved an application for $69,800 through the Community Emergency Preparedness Fund at its April 13 meeting. If successful, the grants will connect the city's Emergency Operations Centre to the Alertable notification system, fund staff training, and purchase communication equipment.\n\nCouncil also received a presentation from the New Westminster and District Labour Council ahead of the annual Day of Mourning on April 28, which honours workers killed and injured on the job. This year's focus includes mental health, bullying, harassment, and workplace stress. Langley City will observe a moment of silence at 11:00 a.m.\n\nOn regional matters, Council directed staff to respond to proposed land use changes in Maple Ridge and Surrey, including a proposal affecting the Hazelmere Golf Course lands, an area that has faced repeated development pressure.\n\nCouncil also appointed Lana Kirkwood as the Indigenous community representative and Liam McCarney as a youth representative on the Arts, Recreation, Culture and Heritage Committee.\n\nRead More\n\n### Langley Construction Firm Fined $575K for Worker's Death. Is That Enough?\n\nPhoto by Ümit Yıldırım / Unsplash\n\nA B.C. Supreme Court judge has fined Langley construction company J. Cote and Sons $575,000 after a 2012 trench collapse killed 28-year-old Jeff Caron and seriously injured Thomas Richer.\n\nThe court found the company criminally negligent, citing a \"collective failure\" by senior officers to ensure worker safety at the Burnaby jobsite.\n\nCrown prosecutors had asked for a $1-million fine.\n\nThe payments will be spread over five years, starting in 2027, raising hard questions about whether any dollar figure can truly answer for a life cut short and another forever changed.\n\nRead More\n\n### Free Repair Café Returns to Langley Senior Resources Centre This Saturday, April 18\n\nGot a broken toaster, a ripped jacket, or a dull kitchen knife?\n\nLangley Environmental Partners Society is hosting another free repair café this Saturday, April 18.\n\nVolunteer fixers will tackle clothing mends, small appliances, bikes, toys, and more from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Langley Senior Resources Society centre on 51B Avenue.\n\nRepairs are free, donations welcome, and LEPS is looking for more handy volunteers to join the team.\n\nFore more info, please email education@leps.bc.ca. You can also reach out to them if you'd like to volunteer as a fixer!\n\n### B.C. Introduces Legislation to Ratify Kitselas Treaty\n\nPhoto by QY Liu / Unsplash\n\nThe province has introduced legislation to ratify a treaty with the Kitselas Nation, a milestone that Premier David Eby acknowledged is long overdue.\n\nModern treaties are a critical step toward recognizing Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, returning governance and resources to nations that have been dispossessed by colonial policy for generations.\n\nThe Kitselas Nation, located near Terrace in northwestern B.C., has been in treaty negotiations for decades. Ratification would provide the Nation with greater control over its lands, resources, and governance structures.\n\nThe legislation now moves through the provincial legislature for approval.\n\nRead More\n\n### Toxic Drug Crisis Continues to Kill Four British Columbians Per Day\n\nPhoto by Egor Ivlev / Unsplash\n\nThe B.C. Coroners Service reports that 115 people died from toxic drug poisoning in February 2026, an average of roughly four deaths every single day.\n\nThe numbers remain staggering, and they reflect the ongoing failure of governments at every level to treat the poisoned drug supply as the public health emergency it is.\n\nA separate report from the First Nations Health Authority reveals that 289 First Nations people in B.C. died from toxic drugs in 2025. First Nations communities continue to be vastly overrepresented in the data, a direct consequence of colonialism, displacement, and systemic underfunding of culturally safe health services.\n\nThese are not inevitable deaths. They are the predictable result of criminalization, inadequate safe supply programs, and political reluctance to fund harm reduction at the scale the crisis demands.\n\nRead More\n\n### Lytton Residents Fear Financial Ruin After Wildfire Devastation\n\nResidents of Lytton, B.C., who rebuilt their lives after a catastrophic 2021 wildfire are now facing a different kind of disaster: potential financial ruin for the tiny village itself.\n\nLong-time residents like Ross and Judith Urquhart, who have called Lytton home for half a century, left only long enough to rebuild. Now the community's fiscal survival is in question.\n\nLytton's devastation was not simply a \"natural disaster.\" The village recorded Canada's highest-ever temperature just before the fire, a direct consequence of the climate crisis. Recovery has been painfully slow, hampered by bureaucratic delays and insufficient government support.\n\nThe story of Lytton is a warning about who bears the cost of climate breakdown: small, under-resourced communities, including the Lytton First Nation and Nlaka'pamux people whose territory this is, while fossil fuel corporations continue to profit.\n\nRead More\n\n* * *\n\n###  What did you think?\n\nHelp us improve! Take a quick 60-second survey to share your thoughts on this article.\n\n Take the Survey ",
  "title": "Langley Roundup: News for April 16th, 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-16T23:22:54.370Z"
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