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Fraser Valley

Traffic advisory for Hope
Emil Anderson issues travel advisory for Hope ahead of possible anti-carbon tax protest Monday
HOPE - Emil Anderson Maintenance, the provincial contractor tasked with providing highway and bridge maintenance services in the Fraser Valley since 1996, has issued a travel advisory for the Hope area ahead of a possible anti-carbon tax protest scheduled for Monday, April 1. According to a memo posted on its Facebook ...
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Distracted Driving Awareness Month
Chilliwack RCMP nabs double-digit distracted drivers at Vedder/Luckakuck in less than 3 hours
CHILLIWACK - The Chilliwack RCMP's traffic unit says it teamed up with a rep from ICBC and the City of Chilliwack for an enforcement initiative designed to crack down on distracted drivers at a busy intersection in Chilliwack earlier this month. From a police perspective, their efforts paid dividends as police issued o...
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Harrison Tulip Festival
Harrison Tulip Festival announces opening date
AGASSIZ - Fraser Valley residents won't have to wait too much longer for the unsurpassed beauty of innumerable tulips resplendent in a sea of dazzling colours at the inaugural Harrison Tulip Festival in Agassiz this spring. The inaugural Harrison Tulip Festival will open for the season on Monday, April 8, made possible...
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BC Hydro bill reduction
BC Hydro customers to begin receiving affordability credit soon
CHILLIWACK - BC Hydro says a new B.C. Electricity Affordability Credit will begin appearing on customer accounts as early as next month. According to an email dated Thursday, March 28 from BC Hydro, the provincial government announced the creation of a new affordability credit that will provide the average BC Hydro res...
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IHIT deployed
IHIT suspects foul play in case of missing 28-year-old Fraser Valley woman
SURREY - Investigators from Canada's largest homicide unit have taken conduct of an investigation in connection with a 28-year-old Fraser Valley woman who went missing in February 2024. On February 23, 2024, 28-year-old Navdeep Kaur of Surrey was reported missing by her family to police in Surrey. Following a thorough ...
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Valley Huskers announce commitment
G.W. Graham senior Jack Bowman will continue his football journey in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - G.W. Graham senior Jack Bowman won't have to go south of the border or leave the province in order to continue his football journey once he graduates. The 6-foot-2, 280-pound offensive lineman and defensive tackle who earned Eastern Conference all-star honours this past season has committed to play for the...
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British Columbia

B.C. First Nation, Catholic Church announce 'sacred covenant' to be signed on Easter
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Vancouver's Catholic Archbishop says a 'Sacred Covenant' agreement has been reached with the First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., that announced the discovery the remains of more than 200 children at the site of a former residential school. Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the Catholic archdiocese of Vancou...
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Saskatchewan teachers hope to be back at bargaining table with government next week
REGINA - Saskatchewan teachers could return to the bargaining table as early as next week to work out their labour dispute with the province. Samantha Becotte, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers' Federation, says she's encouraged by a draft memorandum of understanding from the government. The document says the prov...
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On pre-budget charm offensive, Trudeau announces plans to expand $10-a-day child care
SURREY, B.C. - The federal government's pre-budget charm offensive is back for a second straight day - this time aimed at parents and child care providers. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government plans to provide more than $1 billion in low-cost loans, grants and student loan forgiveness to expand child care...
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Killer whale rescue tactics could involve plan to lift orca calf out of lagoon
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - Experts are reconsidering their options on a rescue plan for the young killer whale trapped by the tide in a remote lagoon off Northern Vancouver Island. Paul Cottrell, the marine mammal co-ordinator at the Fisheries Department, says they are thinking about changing tactics in efforts to convince the ...
Mar 28, 2024
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Republican committee to select Buck's likely replacement, adding a challenge to Boebert's campaign
DENVER (AP) - A panel of Colorado Republicans will select a candidate Thursday who will likely serve out the final months of U.S. Rep. Ken Buck 's term - and could pose a challenge to Rep. Lauren Boebert's bid for another term in Congress. It's an unusual and confusing twist in a closely watched primary race for a dist...
Mar 28, 2024
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Marine LNG jetty project in Delta, B.C., gets environmental assessment certificate
DELTA, B.C. - British Columbia's Environment Ministry says a marine jetty project in the city of Delta to facilitate liquefied natural gas exports has been issued an environmental assessment certificate. Environment Minister George Heyman and Transportation Minister Rob Fleming say they issued the approval after "...
Mar 28, 2024
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Canada

New study says fireworks have small effect on air quality, but doctors not impressed
MONTREAL - Almost a year after smog from wildfires led officials in Montreal to cancel two major fireworks shows, groups representing pyrotechnics companies have released a study that concludes the displays have a small effect on air quality. But doctors and an environmental health specialist warn the fireworks can sti...
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Half of Canadians support TikTok ban, with U.S. concerns 'trickling' north: poll
OTTAWA - A new poll indicates 51 per cent of Canadians support banning the social media app TikTok, after a U.S. bill aiming to do just that passed in the House of Representatives. Canada has ordered its own national security review of TikTok, something the Liberal government revealed following passage of the U.S. bill...
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Trudeau won't say if he has spoken to Housefather since Gaza motion
OTTAWA - Quebec MP Anthony Housefather remains undecided on his future more than a week after a House of Commons motion on Israel and Gaza left him questioning whether he will remain in the Liberal party. And Prime Minister Minister Justin Trudeau isn't saying if he has even been talking to Housefather to try and keep ...
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Four Saskatchewan family members died in murder-suicide, RCMP say
NEUDORF, SASK. - RCMP say four members of the same family found dead earlier this week in a rural Saskatchewan home were the victims of a murder-suicide. Mounties say a 67-year-old man and a 58-year-old woman, along with their 30-year-old son, were killed on the property near Neudorf, about 130 kilometres east of Regin...
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B.C. First Nation, Catholic Church announce 'sacred covenant' to be signed on Easter
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Vancouver's Catholic Archbishop says a 'Sacred Covenant' agreement has been reached with the First Nation in Kamloops, B.C., that announced the discovery the remains of more than 200 children at the site of a former residential school. Archbishop J. Michael Miller of the Catholic archdiocese of Vancou...
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Quebec minister to order probe after complaint about QMJHL English-only playoff garb
MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will ask the province's language watchdog to investigate after the leader of the Parti Québécois complained about a lack of French on a QMJHL team's playoff garb. On Wednesday night, PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon complained on X, formerly Twitter, about T-shir...
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