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  "description": "Your Langley Roundup for June 2: a Douglas Park memorial marks five years since the Kamloops 215 announcement, the Township recognizes Pride Month, Langley City eyes a transit-linked Glover innovation district, B.C.'s gender pay gap holds at 85 cents, and the Canucks name Manny Malhotra head coach.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T22:54:32.000Z",
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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\nIt's a proper summer day in Langley, with clear skies and the temperature sitting around 28C.\n\nSoak it up, because the rain rolls back in midweek and Friday is shaping up to be a wet one. I\n\nn today's roundup: about 100 people gathered at Douglas Park to mark five years since the Kamloops 215 announcement, with speakers pushing back hard on residential school denialism.\n\nThe Township has recognized Pride Month, and Langley City is weighing a transit-linked innovation district along Glover Road. We also dig into B.C.'s stubborn gender pay gap, free all-ages events at Campbell Valley Park during National Indigenous History Month, and the Canucks tapping Manny Malhotra as head coach after his Calder Cup run in Abbotsford.\n\n### Langley memorial marks five years since Kamloops 215\n\nPhoto by chris robert / Unsplash\n\nAbout 100 people gathered at Douglas Park on May 27 to mark five years since the Kamloops 215 announcement.\n\nIn 2021, the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation said ground-penetrating radar found what appeared to be the remains of 215 children at a former residential school.\n\nSpeakers, including the families of survivors and a local Anglican priest, pushed back hard on those who deny the harm done at these schools, with Rev. Clarence Li calling on people of faith to believe survivors and become allies.\n\nOrganizer Cecelia Reekie, the daughter of a survivor, urged the community to keep searching for the truth and to help Indigenous people carry a grief that was forced on them.\n\nRead More\n\n### Township of Langley Recognizes Pride Month\n\nJune is Pride Month, and the Township of Langley has issued a statement celebrating the contributions of 2SLGBTQI+ communities and affirming diversity and inclusivity as core values.\n\nPride remains more than a celebration. Across Canada and internationally, 2SLGBTQI+ people continue to face legislative attacks on their rights, particularly targeting trans and nonbinary youth.\n\nLocal recognition matters, and community members will be looking for that recognition to be backed by tangible support: inclusive policies, funded programming, and a clear willingness to stand against hate when it shows up in Langley.\n\nRead More\n\n### Langley City plans transit-linked Glover Innovation District\n\nLangley City Council received a presentation on the Glover Road Innovation District Plan, a land use blueprint for the area connecting the future Langley City Centre SkyTrain station to the Kwantlen Polytechnic University campus.\n\nThe plan was co-developed with KPU and KPU Communities Trust and envisions gateway plazas, green boulevards, hub buildings for entrepreneurs, and ground-level retail along Glover Road and Logan Avenue. It supports a mix of uses including agri-tech, food manufacturing, creative arts, and research.\n\nNotably, the plan would convert some mixed-employment land to general urban, requiring Metro Vancouver Regional District approval. The City says it would swap land elsewhere to prevent a net loss of employment-designated parcels.\n\nWhether this district genuinely serves a broad public, including affordable space for startups and community uses, or becomes another premium development corridor will depend on the details that follow Council's endorsement.\n\nNext steps include updating the Official Community Plan and securing regional approval.\n\nRead More\n\n### Indigenous Tools, Pollinators Highlighted at Free Campbell Valley Park Events\n\nCampbell Valley Park in Langley is hosting two free, all-ages events spotlighting Indigenous tools and pollinators.\n\nThe events arrive during National Indigenous History Month, which the Township is also marking with free presentations led by Karen Gabriel, a Traditional Knowledge Keeper from the Kwantlen Nation.\n\nThese kinds of programming offer accessible entry points for learning about Indigenous knowledge systems and ecological stewardship on the lands where Langley residents live.\n\nAdvance registration is required for the Kwantlen Nation presentations.\n\nRead More\n\n### B.C. Women Still Earning 85 Cents on the Dollar, Pay Transparency Report Finds\n\nPhoto by PiggyBank / Unsplash\n\nWomen in B.C. earned 85 cents for every dollar men made in 2025, according to the province's third annual Pay Transparency Report. The gender pay gap has narrowed slightly to 14.5%.\n\nWhile the trend is moving in the right direction, a gap of this size still means significant lost income over a career, particularly for women in lower-wage sectors who can least afford it.\n\nPay transparency laws are a start, but closing the gap requires more: affordable childcare, pay equity enforcement, and addressing the systemic undervaluation of work in care, retail, and service industries where women, and especially racialized women, are overrepresented.\n\nThe report is a useful benchmark. The question is whether employers and policymakers treat it as a call to action or a statistic to file away.\n\nRead More\n\n### Canucks Name Manny Malhotra as Head Coach After Calder Cup Run in Abbotsford\n\nThe Vancouver Canucks have named Manny Malhotra as their 23rd head coach in franchise history, promoting from within after he led the AHL's Abbotsford Canucks to a Calder Cup championship in 2024-25.\n\nMalhotra's path to the top job ran through the Fraser Valley, where the Abbotsford farm team has been developing talent since relocating from Utica in 2021.\n\nThe hire gives the Canucks a coach who knows the organization's prospect pipeline intimately. Fraser Valley hockey fans can take a small bit of pride in knowing the championship run happened in their backyard.\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 June 2nd, 2026",
  "updatedAt": "2026-06-02T22:54:33.230Z"
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