LEGACY AWARD
UFV honours supporters across five decades with Legacy Awards
CHILLIWACK - The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) recently wrapped up its golden anniversary celebrations by honouring the people who helped build it over the last five decades. At a special ceremony hosted by UFV President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Joanne MacLean, Legacy Awards were presented to various honourees, ...
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COTTAGE AND WORTHINGTON
End-of-Life room in Abbotsford long-term care facility gets new sofa
ABBOTSFORD - An Abbotsford long-term care facility has received a comforting addition to a room that regularly sees some of the worst days in families' lives. Cottage and Worthington Pavilion now has a new sofa in its end-of-life room after a donation from the Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation (FVHCF). "Grief a...
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HOUSING SUPPORT
67 new homeless shelter spaces opening in Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORD - The B.C. government is working to open more doors for Abbotsford residents who have nowhere else to go. At 2539 Montvue Ave., 30 shelter spaces are now complete, and people can start moving in in June. Renovations for the Sparrow Shelter at 1661 McCallum Rd. will also begin this summer, with the shelter ex...
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BC HIGHWAY PATROL
BC Highway Patrol ramps up efforts for Victoria Day long weekend
LOWER MAINLAND - The familiar red, blue and yellow stripes of the BC Highway Patrol (BCHP) cars will be everywhere this May long weekend. Police are set to ramp up their efforts as part of the month-long High Risk Driving and Motorcycle Awareness campaign. Motorists will see roving patrols, unmarked police cars and che...
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CHILLIWACK FIRE
Residents urged to stay safe after several apartment fires in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - The Chilliwack Fire Department is urging residents to stay fire-safe after extinguishing a recent trail of apartment blazes. Throughout the first few months of this year, many residents have been displaced due to a number of fires in apartment buildings, homes and other private properties. The Fire Departm...
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Tax evasion
Fraser Valley bookkeeper caught cooking the books: CRA
FRASER VALLEY - The Canada Revenue Agency says a Fraser Valley bookkeeper has pleaded guilty to willfully evading remittance tax and making false statements about tax returns. According to a news release, Aeddy Leung of Surrey received a conditional sentence order for two years less a day and two years probation on Apr...
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British Columbia
Vancouver officer charged a year after pedestrian strike in Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER - The BC Prosecution Service says a Vancouver police officer has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act for driving without reasonable consideration for others, a year after a pedestrian was hit in the city's Downtown Eastside. The prosecution service says Const. Aaron Carter faces the charge after B.C.'s p...
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Search underway for B.C. woman missing after empty boat washes ashore
NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo, B.C., say a search is underway both at sea and on land after a woman's sailboat was discovered washed ashore and empty. Mounties say 34-year-old Amber Nitchman is the registered owner of the 10-metre white sailboat that was found Thursday near Bayshore Drive and Hammond Bay Road off Nanaimo...
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City and police say Vancouver festival planning followed rules before attack
VANCOUVER - Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces. The barriers were ordered in February, about two months before the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people, when an SUV plowed through a crowded street. But police sa...
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Bryde's whale washes ashore in only known sighting of the animal in B.C.
PORT MCNEILL - Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert says there's likely no connections to the deaths. The Namgis First Nation says in a statement that a resident reported finding the whale Wednesday on a beach near Port McNeill, B.C., a...
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B.C. sending almost 100 firefighters to Ontario, after 42 deployed to Manitoba
VICTORIA - British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Muni...
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Rural B.C. officials receive 'gratitude' over landfill resolution before ostrich cull
NAKUSP - A member of a British Columbia regional district says a decision not to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of the birds has been met with "gratitude." The Regional District of Central Kootenay board resolved "to with...
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Canada
CP NewsAlert: Carney lands in Rome ahead of Pope's inaugural mass
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has landed in Rome ahead of Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass on Sunday. The event, which serves as a swearing-in of sorts for a new Pope, is drawing many international leaders and Carney is expected to have bilateral meetings with several of them during the trip. The Prime Minister's Of...
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Patients in Quebec's Nunavik region evacuated over persistent water shortages
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is evacuating patients from a health facility in the province's Far North because of persistent water shortages in a community. The Health Department says two patients were flown 1,600 kilometres south to the Montreal area from the Inuit village of Puvirnituq late Thursday, with more ex...
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Bryde's whale washes ashore in only known sighting of the animal in B.C.
PORT MCNEILL - Another dead whale has washed ashore on a British Columbia beach, the third over two weeks, but a marine wildlife expert says there's likely no connections to the deaths. The Namgis First Nation says in a statement that a resident reported finding the whale Wednesday on a beach near Port McNeill, B.C., a...
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B.C. sending almost 100 firefighters to Ontario, after 42 deployed to Manitoba
VICTORIA - British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manitoba border. Parmar says the deployment comes after B.C. sent 42 firefighters to Manitoba, where a blaze in the Rural Muni...
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Rural B.C. officials receive 'gratitude' over landfill resolution before ostrich cull
NAKUSP - A member of a British Columbia regional district says a decision not to allow the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to dispose of ostrich carcasses in its landfills pending further testing of the birds has been met with "gratitude." The Regional District of Central Kootenay board resolved "to with...
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N.S. health minister admits 'growing pains' with new free-parking policy at hospitals
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has become the latest province to discover that offering free parking at hospitals can become a hot-button issue. At the big hospitals in Halifax, tensions are growing as unauthorized motorists are routinely taking up too many spots, leaving health-care staff scrambling as they show up for work. P...
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World
A Russian drone strike in northeastern Ukraine kills 9 people, officials say
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - A Russian drone struck a passenger bus in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region on Saturday, killing nine people and injuring four others, Ukrainian officials said. The attack came just hours after Moscow and Kyiv held their first direct peace talks in years which failed to yield a ceasefire. "Th...
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Two dead and others injured in Las Vegas gym shooting, police say
LAS VEGAS (AP) - There was a shooting inside a gym, killing two people, with multiple other people injured, Las Vegas police said. One person died as gunfire erupted at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city's west side, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said Friday. "The suspect in this inc...
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1 person died, 2 others were pulled from wreckage after a storm crumbled part of a St. Louis church
One person died and two others were pulled from the wreckage of a partially collapsed church on Friday, after severe storms including a possible tornado swept through St. Louis. Several other people were reported injured after the Friday afternoon storms, which tore roofs off some buildings, ripped bricks off of siding...
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Sports
Late try gives New Zealand a 27-27 tie with Canada in Pacific Four Series rugby
CHRISTCHURCH - Sylvia Brunt scored with the clock in the red as reigning World Cup champion New Zealand rallied for a 27-27 tie with Canada in Pacific Four Series women's rugby play Saturday. Black Ferns fly half Ruahei Demant had a chance to win it but missed a difficult conversion from the sideline. It was a pulsatin...
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Matthews, Marner push Maple Leafs to victory and force Game 7
SUNRISE - Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner flung pucks back and forth as warm-ups concluded. The Maple Leafs star forwards were in their own world as fans banged on the glass in hopes of grabbing a souvenir. Toronto's dynamic duo always insists the outside noise in a hockey-crazed market falls on deaf ears. The chatter...
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Struggling slugger Anthony Santander stays on Blue Jays' bench in close 5-4 loss
TORONTO - Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider resisted the temptation to employ Anthony Santander as a ninth-inning pinch-hitter on Friday. Schneider gave his struggling slugger a day off partly to rest a sore shoulder and partly to reset after a series against the Tampa Bay Rays in which he went 1 for 12 with fiv...
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