The Desi Pride Block Party returns for a second year to celebrate the South Asian, queer, and BIPOC communities. The block party will take place at the Punjabi Market on July 25 from 4:00 to 9:00 pm.

Free performances, food, and sunshine is still in store for Surrey. (Northwest/Wikimedia Commons, Sukhmani Sandhu) World Cup events may have come to an end, but summer is going strong in Surrey.

But some portraits were of women’s athletes. I didn’t grow up with women’s sports teams. I grew up in the era of the Vancouver Canucks’ infamous 2011 Stanley Cup run, which a true fan will never let ...