Agriculture
Sweet Spring festival kicks off the season at Greendale Acres
CHILLIWACK - Spring is set to bloom in Chilliwack as Greendale Acres Farm kicks off its seasonal festivities with the return of the Sweet Spring Flower and Animal Festival.The festival, running from March 27 to May 11, will welcome visitors of all ages to the farm to celebrate the beauty and bounty of spring.Visitors c...
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MLA Warbus
Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA to host office opening
CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack-Cultus Lake MLA Á'a:líya Warbus is inviting constituents to an open house at her new community office on March 26. The event runs from 4 to 6 p.m., giving residents a chance to meet Warbus and her team. "With so many new MLAs elected last October, it was no small task to get u...
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Chilliwack RCMP seek public assistance to locate missing man
CHILLIWACK - Police are asking for the public's help in locating Jeffery Charles Zehr, 51, who was reported missing on March 11.Zehr, who also goes by Charlie, is described as a Caucasian man, five-foot-eight with a grey beard.Police and family are concerned for his well-being.Anyone with information on Zehr's whereabo...
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PM Mark Carney expected to call federal election on Sunday
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to call a federal election on Sunday for a vote as early as April 28. Sources would not confirm the specific date of the vote, but federal campaigns must run at least 37 days. This will be Canada's 45th federal election. Canada's political parties have been mobilizing cam...
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Special Weather Statement
Highways leading to the Interior from Hope could see significant snow Thursday night
HOPE - A taste of winter is expected to linger on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt and from Hope to Princeton on the first night of spring.Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Highway 5 from Thursday night to Friday morning, warning that significant snowfall could accumulate.A simila...
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Chilliwack Chiefs clinch top spot in BCHL Coastal Conference
CHILLIWACK - The Chilliwack Chiefs clinched first place in the B.C. Hockey League's Coastal Conference with a dominant 8-2 win in Victoria Tuesday.Chiefs captain and Colorado College commit Mateo Mrsic led the way with a goal and three assists. Goaltender Quentin Miller, a Montreal Canadiens draft pick, made 37 saves o...
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British Columbia
One of 126 urban deer tests positive for wasting disease in B.C.
VICTORIA - One of 126 urban deer culled in southeastern British Columbia to determine if they were sick has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The government culled the animals in Cranbrook and Kimberley last month to determine if the disease was spreading in the urban deer population. Five other cases of chr...
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Trade war windfall for B.C. food bank - hundreds of kilograms of unsold U.S. produce
The trend toward buying Canadian has created a silver lining for a food bank in Nanaimo, B.C., which has been flooded with hundreds of kilograms of American produce. Peter Sinclair, executive director of Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, says a food recovery program allows them to accept surplus or unsold items ...
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Special Weather Statement
Highways leading to the Interior from Hope could see significant snow Thursday night
HOPE - A taste of winter is expected to linger on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Merritt and from Hope to Princeton on the first night of spring.Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Highway 5 from Thursday night to Friday morning, warning that significant snowfall could accumulate.A simila...
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B.C. Greens want answers about New Democrats' emergency powers legislation
British Columbia's Green Party says the NDP government needs to "explain why" its proposal for broad-reaching emergency cabinet powers is needed before its two members support the legislation. Interim Leader Jeremy Valeriote said in a statement that while he understands the "urgency of the situation"...
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Feds give millions to B.C.'s STEMCELL Technologies and HTEC for facility construction
VANCOUVER - The federal government says it's pumping nearly $100 million into two B.C. firms to support the construction of a hydrogen fuel facility and two "cutting-edge biomanufacturing facilities" for vaccines and other treatments. The Ministry of Innovation, Science and Industry says North Vancouver-based...
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Body of missing Langley, B.C., senior found months after she went missing: RCMP
LANGLEY, B.C. - Mounties in Langley, B.C., say the body of an 82-year-old woman has been found several months after she went missing. Jane Whitehouse was reported missing on Oct. 25 last year. Police said she was last seen that day in the suburb of Aldergrove. Her empty grey Dodge Grand Caravan was found a few days lat...
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Canada
Liberals vow to cut GST for first-time homebuyers purchasing homes for $1M or less
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will scrap the GST for first-time homebuyers who purchase a home with a sale price at or below $1 million. Carney promised the measure during his leadership campaign and it also matches a similar promise made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre last fall. Carn...
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Poll suggests Canadians are growing more alarmed by U.S. tariffs and aggression
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are feeling increasingly alarmed by U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump and American economic aggression. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 14 to March 16, suggests 41 per cent of respondents see those three factors as the most pressing thre...
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Ottawa lands Chignecto Isthmus deal with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
HALIFAX - The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links the two Maritime provinces. Ottawa announced Thursday it will contribute $325 million to the project, while the two provinces ...
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Ex-PM Stephen Harper says he's perplexed, heartbroken by Canada-India tensions
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper told a conference in India last month that he doesn't "entirely understand" why Canada has such a poor relationship with India, and suggested the Liberal party has become infiltrated by Sikh activists who want to carve a separate state out of India. "Frankly,...
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Trade war windfall for B.C. food bank - hundreds of kilograms of unsold U.S. produce
The trend toward buying Canadian has created a silver lining for a food bank in Nanaimo, B.C., which has been flooded with hundreds of kilograms of American produce. Peter Sinclair, executive director of Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, says a food recovery program allows them to accept surplus or unsold items ...
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Ex-student activist Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, with Québec solidaire, to leave politics
MONTREAL - Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, co-spokesperson of the left-wing Québec solidaire party who rose to prominence during the 2012 student strike, says he is stepping down from the party's leadership team. He resigned today as co-spokesperson and House leader, and says he will stay on as a member of the legislatur...
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World
Jury convicts 2 men of plotting to assassinate an Iranian American journalist in New York
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was financed by the Iranian government. The verdict was returned at a federal court in New York on Thursday, ending a two-week...
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Georgetown scholar detained over American wife's Palestinian ties, lawyer says
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered that Badar Khan Suri "shall not be removed from the...
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Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that's been a longtime target of conservatives. Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal id...
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Sports
Northern Super League's six clubs unveil kits, league prepares for launch
CALGARY - As the clock ticked down to the Northern Super League's launch, president Christina Litz made the rounds to check in on its clubs' final preparations. The reveal of each of the six clubs' kits Thursday was another signpost on the road to the Canadian women's professional soccer league that opens April 16 when...
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Francis enjoys solid start, Santander drives in three as Blue Jays beat Rays 4-1
DUNEDIN - Bowden Francis earned a win with by far his best outing this spring, Anthony Santander drove in three runs, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 on Thursday. Francis, who entered the game with a 9.00 earned-run average, pitched 4 1/3 innings of no-hit ball until giving up a single to Tanner M...
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Canadiens' Brendan Gallagher announces mother's death: 'Proud of her and her fight'
GARDEN CITY - Brendan Gallagher pounded his heart and looked skyward after scoring a goal earlier this week. The Montreal Canadiens forward revealed why Thursday. Gallagher said he's been playing through an emotional time since his mother, Della, died earlier this month after a long battle with brain cancer. "Real...
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