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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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 has been 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 v...
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City of Abbotsford seeks feedback on new housing rules that allow up to 4 homes on a single detached lot
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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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Abbotsford MLA Mike de Jong bolts provincial politics to run for federal Conservatives
ABBOTSFORD - Seasoned British Columbia politician Mike de Jong announced this past week that he is seeking the nomination to represent the Conservative Party of Canada in the Abbotsford-South Langley riding. De Jong, who was first elected as a B.C. Liberal in a Fraser Valley byelection in 1994, told The Canadian Press ...
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Nurses rally in Merritt
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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
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B.C. woman tries to coax trapped killer calf out of tidal lagoon with her violin
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Officer says B.C. hostage was lying on top of captor before police gunfire erupted
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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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Métis groups will trudge on toward self-government as bill faces another setback
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Flights divert around western Iran as one report claims explosions heard near Isfahan
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Commercial flights began diverting their routes early Friday morning over western Iran without explanation as one semiofficial news agency in the Islamic Republic claimed there had been "explosions" heard over the city of Isfahan. The incident comes as tensions remain high i...
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O'Neill scores twice, Montreal completes late comeback over Minnesota in PWHL action
MONTREAL - Kristin O'Neill scored twice, and Montreal pulled off an epic comeback for a 4-3 win over Minnesota on Thursday night in the Professional Women's Hockey League. Down 3-2, Montreal pulled the goalie for an extra attacker with 2:49 left in the game - and it paid off. Laura Stacey fired a one-timer past Maddie ...
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