Former BC Liquor store on Vedder Road
Former BC Liquor store on Vedder Road repurposed
CHILLIWACK - A retail storefront on prime real estate in Chilliwack that once operated as a BC Liquor store has been repurposed into a completely different type of business. CEFA Early Learning has posted signs outside 7544B Vedder Road stating it will be opening soon and is now accepting new applicants. A fenced enclo...
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Coffee kiosk coming to Cottonwood
Coffee kiosk coming to Cottonwood in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - A coffee kiosk is slated to open soon at the Cottonwood Centre mall in Chilliwack. A coffee kiosk with branded signage is now stationed inside a secondary entrance to Cottonwood, on the Sephora and Club 16 side of the mall. The name of the new business is E11ven Cafe & Protein Bar. The company is curre...
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ABBOTSFORD - The Texas Stars held a 2-1 lead midway through the second period, but three unanswered goals by the Abbotsford Canucks-including the go-ahead tally in the third-earned them the series win Sunday night in the Western Conference Finals at the Abbotsford Centre. The Abbotsford Canucks erased a 2-0 deficit Sun...
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CHILLIWACK - Three Chilliwack Fire Department engines were paged for the report of a vehicle into a building Monday morning (June 9). According to scanner traffic, a vehicle struck a building at 8858 Ashwell Road, Kwaw-Kwaw-Apilt Cannabis, in Chilliwack just before 9 a.m. While three fire engines were paged, one attend...
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Eby says it's not him blocking Smith's oil pipeline, it's lack of money and proponent
British Columbia Premier David Eby says it's not him standing in the way of Alberta counterpart Danielle Smith's longed-for oil pipeline from Alberta to B.C.'s north coast - it's that there's no proponent, no money and "no project right now." It's Eby's latest rebuff to the idea, coming after Smith said on Su...
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B.C. to restore housing aid to families with sick children in Vancouver hospitals
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B.C.'s youth unemployment rate second-highest in Canada with 16.6 per cent in May
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Boating BC head warns against false sense of security in wake of deadly crash
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Judge upholds obstruction conviction for B.C. Mountie in Dale Culver case
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Federal government slow to reduce, modernize its office space
OTTAWA - A new report by Canada's auditor general says the federal government has been slow in its effort to reduce its office space. The report finds that Public Services and Procurement Canada has had plans to reduce its office space footprint since 2019 but there has only been a two per cent reduction because full-s...
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Ottawa too slow to process First Nations status applications: AG report
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Government failed to follow procurement, security rules in GCStrategies
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Israel says the UK is sanctioning 2 Cabinet ministers
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8 people and suspected gunman reported dead in a shooting at a school in the Austrian city of Graz
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Israel says Greta Thunberg is being deported after Gaza-bound ship she was on was seized
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Right To Play International asks people to play and share their stories on Wednesday
As two of Canada's most experienced Olympians, Miranda Ayim and Erica Wiebe have made careers out of playing sports at the highest levels of competition. But some of their most formative memories are of playing as children with almost no stakes. "We basically would have a neighbourhood-wide game of tag where we we...
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Edmonton Oilers superfans cross ocean, paint body in blue and orange to watch games
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Defence lawyers continue submissions at hockey players' sex assault trial
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