BCHL
Chilliwack opens playoff series with Alberni Valley Friday
CHILLIWACK - The second round of the BCHL playoffs begin Friday night (Apr. 19) across the league, including a game at the Chilliwack Coliseum between the Chiefs and the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.The Chiefs haven't played since completing a four-game sweep of Langley on April 9. The Bulldogs needed seven games to defeat ...
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Forest fire north of Chilliwack Lake Rd.
Forest fire breaks out Thursday afternoon just north of Chilliwack Lake Road; fire appears to be out as of 5 p.m.
CHILLIWACK - Multiple Chilliwack Fire Department engines along with forestry personnel have been dispatched for a forest fire just north of 46145 Chilliwack Lake Road Thursday afternoon. The fire was reported to dispatch at 4:12 p.m., prompting at least six fire engines to be dispatched. Flames and smoke emanated from ...
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Shipping container stolen
Abbotsford Police investigating theft of a 40-foot shipping container, possibly in broad daylight
ABBOTSFORD - The Crime Reduction Unit of the Abbotsford Police Department is investigating the theft of a 40-foot shipping container from a rural property in Abbotsford earlier this week. According to a statement from AbbyPD spokesperson Constable Art Stele, investigators suspect the container may have been stolen duri...
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City of Abbotsford
City of Abbotsford seeks feedback on new housing rules that allow up to 4 homes on a single detached lot
ABBOTSFORD - The City of Abbotsford says it is seeking feedback from residents on new housing guidelines from the provincial government that allows each municipality in the province to allow up to four housing units on properties that were previously only permitted to house single detached dwellings and/or duplexes.The...
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Imagine High
B'nai Brith Canada says SD33 has apologized over video of Chilliwack teacher discussing Israel-Palestine conflict
**UPDATE: Fraser Valley Today has learned that the Imagine High student who recorded a teacher giving a lecture in class was suspended.** Original story below: CHILLIWACK - Canada's most senior human rights organization says it has received an apology from the superintendent of Chilliwack School District over a video ...
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Spring cleanup in Chilliwack
Volunteers invited to take part in spring cleanup this Saturday in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - Since 2002, the City of Chilliwack says Adopt-a-River cleanup events have collected over 115 tonnes of waste from the Vedder/Chilliwack River shoreline. Chilliwack-area residents will get their chance to help keep area rivers, waterways, and other public areas looking good with a spring cleanup happening t...
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British Columbia
Bigger boats, more nets, people arrive in Zeballos for new orca rescue attempt
ZEBALLOS - A large seine fishing vessel capable of casting a net strong enough to hold a nearly 700-kilogram killer whale calf has arrived in Zeballos to participate in the latest attempt to rescue the young orca stranded in a remote tidal lagoon. The flat-bottom aluminum vessel has a built-in crane-like device for lif...
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Three B.C. hunters fined and banned for unlawfully killing wildlife near Kamloops
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Three men from British Columbia's Lower Mainland have been fined and banned from hunting for 10 years each for "unlawfully killing wildlife," including a deer pregnant with two fawns. On Thursday, a Kamloops provincial court judge fined one man $8,000 and his rifle and spotlights were seized...
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Officer says B.C. hostage was lying on top of captor before police gunfire erupted
BURNABY, B.C. - The first police officer to enter a room where a woman was being held hostage in 2019 has told a B.C. coroner's inquest that he saw her lying on a bed on top of her captor, who was holding a knife to her throat with a gun in his other hand. Cpl. Chris Dibblee told the inquest jury that he almost immedia...
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'No immediate risk' from 2.5-million-litre effluent spill from B.C. fibreboard plant
QUESNEL, B.C. - British Columbia's Environment Ministry says a 2.5-million-litre effluent spill from a fibreboard factory in Quesnel doesn't pose any immediate risk to public safety. It says in a statement that Monday's spill from the WestPine Medium-Density Fibreboard plant into a gravel pit has been assessed and no w...
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Thousands of short-term rentals in B.C. go back to long-term May 1: B.C. government
LANGLEY, B.C. - British Columbia Premier David Eby says his government is tilting the rules towards families who need a home, and speculators should invest in that instead of short-term rentals and houses to flip. Eby made his comments today in advance of the rule changes on May 1 that limit short-term rental units to...
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Virtual-only meetings erode shareholder democracy, group warns
BURNABY, B.C. - An initiative led by the B.C. General Employees' Union that includes pension funds, asset managers and socially responsible investors is raising concerns about the use of virtual-only shareholder meetings and an erosion of shareholder democracy. In an open letter, the group says that in theory virtual-...
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Canada
In the news today: New attempt to save stranded orca
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Rescue team gears up for new attempt to save orca A large seine fishing vessel capable of casting a net strong enough to hold a nearly 700-kilogram killer whale calf has arrived in Zeballos, B.C., to...
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Bigger boats, more nets, people arrive in Zeballos, B.C., for new orca rescue attempt
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A large seine fishing vessel capable of casting a net strong enough to hold a nearly 700-kilogram killer whale calf has arrived in Zeballos, B.C., to participate in the latest attempt to rescue the young orca stranded in a remote tidal lagoon. The flat-bottom aluminum vessel has a built-in crane-like d...
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Ottawa to force banks to call carbon rebate a carbon rebate in direct deposits
OTTAWA - Canadian banks that refuse to identify the carbon rebate by name when doing direct deposits are forcing the government to change the law to make them do it, says Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. Guilbeault is taking the stand after Tuesday's federal budget promised to amend the Financial Administration...
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Officer says B.C. hostage was lying on top of captor before police gunfire erupted
BURNABY, B.C. - The first police officer to enter a room where a woman was being held hostage in 2019 has told a B.C. coroner's inquest that he saw her lying on a bed on top of her captor, who was holding a knife to her throat with a gun in his other hand. Cpl. Chris Dibblee told the inquest jury that he almost immedia...
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Thousands of short-term rentals in B.C. go back to long-term May 1: B.C. government
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Speaker of Ontario legislature stands by keffiyeh ban; Ford, opposition seek reversal
TORONTO - The Speaker of Ontario's legislature is standing by a ruling that bans people in the building from wearing keffiyehs, which he says are being worn to make a political statement, even after the premier and all opposition parties asked him to reverse it. The legislature has a long-standing rule that members can...
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World
Jury selection could be nearing a close in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York
NEW YORK (AP) - A third panel of potential jurors will be questioned Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, drawing jury selection a step closer to completion in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. After a jury of 12 New Yorkers was seated Thursday, lawyers are now expected to turn their attention t...
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Israel gave US last-minute warning about drone attack on Iran, Italian foreign minister says at G7
CAPRI, Italy (AP) - The United States told the Group of Seven foreign ministers on Friday that it received "last minute" information from Israel about a drone action in Iran, Italy's foreign minister said. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who chaired the meeting of ministers of industrialized countrie...
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2 suspects detained in Poland after last month's attack on a Navalny ally in Lithuania
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, the Lithuanian president announced on Friday. Volkov was attacked in March outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where he liv...
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BCHL
Chilliwack opens playoff series with Alberni Valley Friday
CHILLIWACK - The second round of the BCHL playoffs begin Friday night (Apr. 19) across the league, including a game at the Chilliwack Coliseum between the Chiefs and the Alberni Valley Bulldogs.The Chiefs haven't played since completing a four-game sweep of Langley on April 9. The Bulldogs needed seven games to defeat ...
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Olympic sports bodies criticize track and field's move to pay $50,000 for Paris gold medalists
GENEVA (AP) - Olympic sports bodies criticized World Athletics on Friday for promising to pay $50,000 for each track and field gold medal won at the Paris Olympics. Last week's move by the track body and its president Sebastian Coe broke with tradition because the International Olympic Committee does not pay prize mone...
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How to watch and what to expect in the 2024 Stanley Cup playoffs
The chase for the Stanley Cup is back underway, with the NHL's top 16 teams left to duke it out through four gruelling rounds. It's also arguably the most wide open the post-season has been in years, if not decades. Nearly everyone who qualified has a chance to win it all, with no prohibitive favourite as the first rou...
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