Judicial decision
Court upholds Abbotsford bylaw around homeless encampments
ABBOTSFORD - A spokesperson for the City of Abbotsford says the municipality welcomes a decision Thursday by a B.C. Supreme Court judge that upholds the city's bylaw and closes the homeless encampment at Abbotsford City Hall. According to a statement Thursday (Oct. 17) from the City of Abbotsford, Supreme Court Justice...
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Helicopter incident
Chilliwack Fire dispatched Thursday morning after helicopter hits building at Chilliwack Airport
CHILLIWACK - Multiple Chilliwack Fire Department engines were dispatched for an apparent helicopter crash at the Chilliwack Airport Thursday morning. According to a recording of the emergency call provided by Chilliwack resident Julie Hiscock, Chilliwack Fire Dept. Engines 1, 4, 1-2, and 4-2, along with Rescue 1, were ...
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Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson exits vs. Kings with upper-body injury
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India again rejects Canada's claims it works with gangs targeting Sikh separatists
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Abandoned homeless camp
Trailer towed into Chilliwack River Valley earlier this year turns into an abandoned mess
CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack cleanup volunteer Ross Aikenhead says a trailer that was towed into the Chilliwack River Valley and dropped off earlier this year has now turned into an abandoned homeless camp rife with junk and unsightly blight, prompting him to ask regional and provincial authorities to step in with some kind...
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Atmospheric river system set to drench B.C. starting Friday
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada is warning of an incoming atmospheric river weather system that will bring "prolonged heavy rain" to British Columbia's south coast this election weekend. It says the "first significant storm of the season" is set to hit around noon Friday and last through Sunday, brin...
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Truck crashes along Highway 1
Truck winds up in a ditch along e/b Hwy. 1 west of Chilliwack Wednesday afternoon
ABBOTSFORD - DriveBC says motorists heading eastbound on Hwy. 1 east of Abbotsford Wednesday afternoon can expect delays after a truck wound up in a ditch. According to a brief social media post at 3:49 p.m. Wednesday, first responders are dealing with a vehicle incident eastbound between Cole Road and No. 4 Road. The ...
Oct 16, 2024
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Vehicle crash
BC Highway Patrol seeks dashcam footage in head-on crash that closed tunnel for hours
METRO VANCOUVER - BC Highway Patrol officers are appealing to the public for any dashcam footage leading up to a crash in the Massey Tunnel that shut down traffic for several hours Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 15).According to a statement from Corporal Michael McLaughin of BCHP, the collision happened Tuesday afternoon at 3...
Oct 16, 2024
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British Columbia
Three teenage girls charged in violent B.C. transit attacks
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Three teenage girls have been charged with assault after two separate violent attacks took place on Metro Vancouver's transit system. Metro Vancouver Transit Police say the assaults happened on July 11, the first of which was on board a SkyTrain while it travelled from New Westminster to Surrey....
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India again rejects Canada's claims it works with gangs targeting Sikh separatists
OTTAWA - India's foreign ministry says Canada is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims its government officials have worked with criminal gangs in the extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens. But Canada is not the only country that has accused Indian officials of plottin...
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Supreme Court won't hear spy service analyst's appeal over discrimination case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear the case of a Canadian Security Intelligence Service employee who filed a discrimination lawsuit against the spy agency. It is the latest legal setback for Sameer Ebadi, who uses a pseudonym due to the sensitive nature of his intelligence work. In June 2022, Fede...
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CP Railway adjusts safety measures following B.C. train crash: safety board
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board says a mistake by a Canadian Pacific Railway supervisor set off a crash between a freight train and a railway work vehicle in Cache Creek, B.C. The board's report says the supervisor was inspecting the main tracks on Dec. 29, 2022, in a vehicle that can operate on both r...
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Snow warnings along B.C.-Yukon border as southern B.C. braces for atmospheric river
VANCOUVER - Environment Canada has issued the first snowfall warnings of the season along the British Columbia and Yukon border, with accumulations up to 20 centimetres expected in some areas. The weather office says the snow will spread through southwestern Yukon starting today and will persist until Saturday. It says...
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No shortage when it comes to B.C. housing policies, as Eby, Rustad offer clear choice
British Columbia voters face no shortage of policies when it comes to tackling the province's housing woes in the run-up to Saturday's election, with a clear choice for the next government's approach. David Eby's New Democrats say the housing market on its own will not deliver the homes people need, while B.C. Conserva...
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Canada
Amber Alert issued for five-day-old baby in Saskatchewan
RCMP in Saskatchewan have issued an Amber Alert after a newborn baby was allegedly abducted from a health centre in the community of Montreal Lake. Police say they were told this afternoon that five-day-old Koda Moccasin had been taken from the community, roughly 100 kilometres north of Prince Albert. The baby boy was ...
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Here are the key numbers in the deal proposed by three tobacco giants
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay billions of dollars to provincial and territorial governments as well as smokers across Canada as part of a corporate restructuring process set off by a legal battle over the health effects of smoking. Here are the key numbers of the proposal, based on a court filing as well as...
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Tobacco giants would pay out $32.5 billion to provinces, smokers in proposed deal
Three tobacco giants are proposing to pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to some 100,000 Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle. The companies - JTI-Macdonald Corp., Rothmans, Benson & Hedg...
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RCMP say girl's death in Alberta lake could be criminal
WABAMUN, Alta. - Mounties say they're treating the death of a five-year-old girl pulled from an Alberta lake as a criminal matter. RCMP said Sunday that two people had been found after a canoe overturned on Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton. They said bystanders recovered the girl from the lake and, despite life-saving eff...
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India again rejects Canada's claims it works with gangs targeting Sikh separatists
OTTAWA - India's foreign ministry says Ottawa is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims it is behind widespread crimes in Canada. The federal government ordered India's top envoy to leave the country on Monday after the RCMP said it had credible evidence that Indian agents played a r...
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Saskatchewan Party's Moe pledges change room ban in schools; Beck calls it desperate
REGINA - Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising a directive banning "biological boys" from using school changing rooms with "biological girls" if re-elected, a move the NDP's Carla Beck says weaponizes vulnerable kids. Moe made the pledge Thursday at a campaign stop in Regina. He said it w...
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World
Republicans say they're appealing a Georgia judge's ruling that invalidates seven election rules
ATLANTA (AP) - National and state Republicans on Thursday appealed a judge's ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia's State Election Board are "illegal, unconstitutional and void." The Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party are appealing a ruling from Fulton C...
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Republicans say they're appealing a Georgia judge's ruling that invalidates seven election rules
ATLANTA (AP) - National and state Republicans on Thursday appealed a judge's ruling that said seven election rules recently passed by Georgia's State Election Board are "illegal, unconstitutional and void." The Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party are appealing a ruling from Fulton C...
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Alabama executes man who killed 5 and asked to be put to death
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) - Alabama executed a man Thursday who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016 and dropped his appeals to allow his lethal injection to go forward. Derrick Dearman, 36, was pronounced dead at 6:14 p.m. Thursday at Holman prison in southern Alabama. He ple...
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Sports
Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson exits vs. Kings with upper-body injury
MONTREAL - Montreal Canadiens defenceman Mike Matheson exited Thursday's game against the Los Angeles Kings with an upper-body injury. Matheson logged 7:35 in ice time during the first period but did not return to Montreal's bench to start the second period with the game tied at 1. When or how Matheson sustained the in...
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Canada's Pendrith shoots 61 in first start since the Presidents Cup and leads in Las Vegas
Taylor Pendrith took two weeks off after the Presidents Cup and didn't miss a beat, matching his career-low on the PGA Tour with a 10-under 61 that gave him an early three-shot lead in the Shriners Children's Open on Thursday. Pendrith missed only one fairway and one green at the TPC Summerlin, both on the same hole. H...
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Leonard won't play for Los Angeles Clippers to start the season while rehabbing knee, report says
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) - Kawhi Leonard won't play for the Los Angeles Clippers to start the season because of ongoing rehabilitation from inflammation in his right knee, according to a report. Citing unidentified sources, ESPN reported Thursday that Leonard will be sidelined indefinitely. He hasn't played during the pr...
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