Residential school views
Hope-area First Nation chief says he's willing to go to jail over residential school bill/views
HOPE - Chawathil First Nation Chief Aaron Pete says he's willing to go to jail after a Senate human rights committee passed an amendment that would jail people whose statements promote "hatred" by downplaying the impacts of residential schools. According to IPolitics, a Canadian political news site, senators ...
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Sentencing
34-year-old prolific offender sentenced for property crime spree in Sumas Prairie: Abbotsford PD
ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford say a 34-year-old prolific offender who was connected to a series of property crime-related offences in the Sumas Prairie area in early 2025 has been sentenced. According to a statement from Abbotsford PD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker, police in Abbotsford observed a troubling trend du...
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Residential school views
Hope-area First Nation chief says he's willing to go to jail over residential school bill/views
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BC Ferries to implement 5% fuel surcharge across all routes starting June 16
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Fraser Valley
Bodies of missing paddleboarders recovered from lake in B.C. park
SQUAMISH - Mounties in Squamish, B.C., say the bodies of two people who went missing while paddleboarding on Browning Lake in Murrin Provincial Park last weekend have been found. The Sea to Sky RCMP say in a news release that police received a report a...
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Scofflaws on the road
Maple Ridge Mounties cracking down on illegal e-dirt bike riders by issuing fines, steep penalties
MAPLE RIDGE - Mounties in Maple Ridge say they are cracking down on scofflaws who ride electronic dirt bikes and other types of motorcycles with no insurance and no driver's license. According to a news release from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, Mounties in Maple Ridge say they have conducted "numerous" ...
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Fatality
Agassiz RCMP confirm 1 person deceased after getting report of bridge jumper Monday
AGASSIZ - A spokesperson for the Agassiz RCMP detachment has sadly confirmed that a person suspected of jumping from the Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge on Monday has been located deceased. According to a statement from RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, Mounties were called to the Agassiz-Rosedale Bridge on Monday afte...
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Road rehabilitation
Chilliwack City Council to vote on repairing multiple city roads at cost of $2.7 million
CHILLIWACK - The City of Chilliwack plans to repair multiple roads across the city as part of its annual asphalt rehabilitation program if a motion passes later today. According to item 7.1 on today's council agenda, the city plans to spend $2,726,865.75 toward repairing multiple roads throughout Chilliwack. Those road...
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British Columbia
BC Ferries to implement 5% fuel surcharge across all routes starting June 16
VICTORIA - BC Ferries has become the latest transportation service provider to levy a fuel surcharge in the wake of high oil prices triggered by conflict in the Middle East. The operator says in a statement that a temporary, five per cent surcharge wil...
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Sentencing
34-year-old prolific offender sentenced for property crime spree in Sumas Prairie: Abbotsford PD
ABBOTSFORD - Police in Abbotsford say a 34-year-old prolific offender who was connected to a series of property crime-related offences in the Sumas Prairie area in early 2025 has been sentenced. According to a statement from Abbotsford PD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker, police in Abbotsford observed a troubling trend du...
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Construction
After multiple delays from the province, City of Chilliwack secures site permit for long-awaited Prest Road project
CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack councillors had reason to celebrate at their meeting Tuesday after learning that the City of Chilliwack has finally secured a site permit to move forward with the long-awaited Prest Road widening project. Kara Jefford, deputy director of engineering for the City of Chilliwack, told councillors t...
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Bodies of missing paddleboarders recovered from lake in B.C. park
SQUAMISH - Mounties in Squamish, B.C., say the bodies of two people who went missing while paddleboarding on Browning Lake in Murrin Provincial Park last weekend have been found. The Sea to Sky RCMP say in a news release that police received a report a...
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Opinion
YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Working for British Columbians in the spring legislative session
During this year's spring Legislative session, my colleagues and I focused on securing B.C.'s future in uncertain times by working to strengthen the economy, support vital public services, and bring down costs for families. British Columbians and Canadians have been through a lot these past few years on account of U.S....
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Wildfire in B.C. central Interior prompts evacuation alert
WILLIAMS LAKE - The Cariboo Regional District has issued an evacuation alert for properties due an out of control wildfire. The notice says the alert covers 22 parcels and nearly 180 square kilometres of land as the so-called Swede Creek Wildfire burns...
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Canada
Activists call on feds to put pressure on Israel over treatment of Gaza aid flotilla
OTTAWA - Canadian activists detained by Israel last month while taking part in an aid flotilla trying to reach Gaza say Canada isn't doing enough to call out treatment by Israeli officials that Ottawa has called appalling. Prime Minister Mark Carney an...
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Conservative MP says First Nations votes will be critical in Alberta referendum
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Billy Morin says he will spend the summer talking to Indigenous leaders about encouraging people to vote in the Alberta referendum. Albertans are set to vote in October on whether they want to stay in Canada or prefer to hold a...
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Quebec's first tornado of 2026 touches down in Saguenay region, researchers say
MONTREAL - Researchers say Quebec's first recorded tornado of 2026 touched down in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region on May 25. The Northern Tornadoes Project at Western University says the tornado damaged a roof, snapped a tree and toppled a recreationa...
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Slashing development fees is not a cure-all for housing affordability: CMHC
OTTAWA - Slashing municipal development charges would not be enough on its own to make homes affordable again across Canada, says a new analysis from the federal housing agency. Development charges are fees cities impose on developers that are mainly u...
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Groups call on Ottawa to reverse course on environmental policy
OTTAWA - Some of Canada's largest environmental groups are on Parliament Hill today urging Ottawa to reverse course on what they're calling rollbacks of environmental policy. Representatives of 14 groups say Ottawa has gone too far in undermining envir...
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Ottawa tells CRTC to change course on increasing streamers' financial contributions
OTTAWA - Ottawa is directing the CRTC to back down on its recent decision to triple streamers' financial contributions to Canadian content, and will instead provide $600 million to the sector, Culture Minister Marc Miller said Wednesday. The decision c...
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World
Tropical Storm Amanda is the first of the Pacific hurricane season, meteorologists say
MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Amanda formed Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean, marking the first tropical cyclone of the season, the National Hurricane Center said. Amanda was located about 1,475 miles (2,375 kilometers) west-southwest of the ...
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FBI fatally shoots a man holding hostages in a California office building, police say
. (AP) - A man holding hostages inside a building in California that houses a bank and a school district office has been shot and killed by the FBI, police said Wednesday. All the hostages are free and none was harmed, the Bakersfield Pol...
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UK Royal Navy says 3 members died in a helicopter crash during a training exercise
LONDON (AP) - Britain's Royal Navy said Wednesday that three of its members died in a helicopter crash earlier in southwest England during a training exercise. The helicopter went down in the county of Devon in England at 4 a.m. ...
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Sports
Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski reaches French Open mixed doubles final
PARIS - Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and American partner Evan King advanced to the mixed doubles final at the French Open on Wednesday with a 7-5, 6-7 (6), 10-5 victory over Croatia's Nikola Mektic and American Asia Muhammad. The unseeded Dabrowski and...
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U Sports to introduce women's flag football as a pilot sport
ST. JOHN'S - Canadian university sport will introduce women's flag football as a pilot sport. U Sports and Football Canada will collaborate on flag football's introduction and execution for the 2027-28 season. A pilot sport is re-evaluated after five ...
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Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka goes out of the French Open after quarterfinal defeat to Diana Shnaider
PARIS (AP) - Top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka wasted a lead of a set and two breaks to lose 3-6, 7-5, 6-0 to Diana Shnaider in the French Open quarterfinals on Wednesday. The four-time major winner led 4-1 in the second set and was two points f...
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