Whitecaps, City of Vancouver in talks over new soccer stadium
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have entered talks with the City of Vancouver about building a new soccer stadium. The Whitecaps ownership group issued a statement Friday saying the club and municipality are discussing the construction of a purpose-built venue at the PNE fairgrounds on the city's eastern edge. The ...
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Former B.C. teacher, 85, guilty of indecent assaults on his Grade 6 students
NORTH VANCOUVER - A B.C. provincial court judge has found an 85-year-old former elementary school teacher guilty of nine sex-related charges, most involving his former Grade 6 students. There were 12 complainants, all male, who said Brian Moore assaulted them when they were children, ranging in age from seven to 12 yea...
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RIVER INITIATIVE
Chilliwack group returns for river spring cleaning this weekend
CHILLIWACK - As the Soowahlie First Nation prepares to clean up one end of the Chilliwack River and its surrounding area this weekend, a local group is hosting a biannual Adopt-A-River campaign tomorrow (Apr. 5). The Chilliwack/Vedder River Cleanup Society (CVRCS) has teamed up with the City of Chilliwack and the Frase...
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CFSEU INVESTIGATION
Police seize cocaine, fentanyl, Tesla Model 3 in joint Lower Mainland investigation
FRASER VALLEY - Police have found a number of drugs, cash and guns after a week-long investigation across the Lower Mainland, including the Fraser Valley. Source: Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit - British ColumbiaAccording to a news release on Friday (Apr. 4), the Uniform Gang Enforcement Team found the items ...
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IIO INVESTIGATION
No police offence found in 2022 crash injuring 4 people near Agassiz
AGASSIZ - B.C.'s police watchdog has finished investigating a 2022 crash that left four people seriously injured in the Harrison Mills area near Agassiz. At about 12:40 a.m. on September 17, 2022, police tried to conduct a traffic stop on a Toyota Matrix possibly harboring people associated with several crimes in the F...
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MARCH JOBS REPORT
Abbotsford loses jobs as first month of U.S. tariffs hit Canadian workforce: StatCan
ABBOTSFORD - March labour figures from Statistics Canada are painting a clearer picture of the United States-imposed tariffs across the country. Abbotsford lost 700 jobs, while unemployment went up from 5.5 in February to 6.1 per cent last month- a 23.7 per cent jump from March 2024. On the other hand, Chilliwack has s...
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British Columbia
Vancouver voters look to fill two council seats in municipal byelection
VANCOUVER - Voters in Vancouver are heading to the polls today - but not for the federal election that's still weeks away from its conclusion. Vancouverites will instead cast their ballots in the municipal byelection to select two new councillors to fill seats vacated by the Green Party's Adriane Carr and OneCity's Chr...
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Whitecaps, City of Vancouver in talks over new soccer stadium
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have entered talks with the City of Vancouver about building a new soccer stadium. The Whitecaps ownership group issued a statement Friday saying the club and municipality are discussing the construction of a purpose-built venue at the PNE fairgrounds on the city's eastern edge. The ...
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Former B.C. teacher, 85, guilty of indecent assaults on his Grade 6 students
NORTH VANCOUVER - A B.C. provincial court judge has found an 85-year-old former elementary school teacher guilty of nine sex-related charges, most involving his former Grade 6 students. There were 12 complainants, all male, who said Brian Moore assaulted them when they were children, ranging in age from seven to 12 yea...
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Carney, Singh pledge support for CBC to defend sovereignty, fight misinformation
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Mark Carney and the NDP's Jagmeet Singh expressed support Friday for federal spending to ensure a strong national public broadcaster, a notion Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre dismissed as something Canada simply can't afford. On the federal election trail, Carney and Singh each said a healt...
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B.C. touts speed of major housing program to mark one-year anniversary
NORTH VANCOUVER - British Columbia's government celebrated the first anniversary of one of its cornerstone housing programs at the groundbreaking of a 179-unit rental building in North Vancouver, which it says went from concept to construction in 14 months. Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon says approximately 1,400 homes ar...
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B.C. police investigate after rock thrown through Tesla windshield strikes passenger
VANCOUVER - Police in Vancouver are investigating whether a Tesla was intentionally targeted when a rock smashed through its windshield, seriously injuring a passenger. A statement from the Vancouver Police Department says the woman was struck in East Vancouver on Sunday night. The statement says the pregnant woman had...
Apr 03, 2025
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Canada
Five years without answers for family of Canadian businessman held in Chinese jail
VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiazhuang, in China's Hebei province, to exercise as he spoke to his wife in Canada by mobile phone. "Suddenly, the cal...
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'We are not the gods': Fire-torn Jasper prepares for diminished summer tourism season
JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper's SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but the view will be different. The red cable cars will skim over thousands of trees poking up from the ground like charred ...
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Caught in the crossfire: Michigan concerned over automobile tariffs targeting Canada
DETROIT - Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and international border - one that's on the brink of being ripped apart. "Our economies in auto between Ontario and Mic...
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Federal leaders set to campaign across the country today
OTTAWA - Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C. while NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is in Atlantic Canada. Singh is set to make an announcement in St. John's in the morning, before travelling...
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Quebec's high court rejects random police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing
MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme Court of Canada. In a decision rendered earlier this week, the province's high court said the negative impacts of random...
Apr 04, 2025
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Recruiters say surge in U.S. doctors looking to move to Canada since Trump election
HALIFAX - Recruiters say there's been a surge of interest from American doctors considering moving to Canada since the election of U.S. president Donald Trump in November. Katrina Philopoulos, recruitment director for Nova Scotia Health, says 27 American doctors are in serious negotiations to move, which to date has re...
Apr 04, 2025
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World
Anthony, Howard, Redeem Team, Bird, Arison, Fowles, Crawford, Donovan, Moore in Hall of Fame class
Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard are going into the Basketball Hall of Fame later this year, not once but twice. And LeBron James and Chris Paul are part of the group that's headed to the Hall as well, even before their playing careers end. Anthony and Howard were announced Saturday as members of the Class of 2025, as...
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Israeli troops deploy to a new corridor across Gaza
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says troops have deployed to a newly established security corridor across southern Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced the new Morag Corridor to pressure the Hamas militant group and suggested it would cut off the southern city of Rafah, which Israel has ordered evacua...
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Senate GOP approves framework for Trump's tax breaks and spending cuts after all-night session
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans plugged away overnight and into early Saturday morning to approve their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks and spending cuts framework, hurling past a hard line of Democratic opposition toward what President Donald Trump calls the "big, beautiful bill" that's central to his a...
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Sports
Scotland beats Sweden in qualifier to set up semifinal with Canada at curling worlds
MOOSE JAW - There will be a new champion at the BKT World Men's Curling Championship. Scotland's Bruce Mouat edged defending champion Niklas Edin of Sweden 8-7 in the early qualification game at the Temple Gardens Centre. The top-ranked Scots will face Canada's Brad Jacobs in the afternoon semifinal at the Temple Garde...
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Edmonton Oilers sign goalie Nathaniel Day to a three-year, entry-level contract
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers signed goalie Nathaniel Day to a three-year, entry-level contract Saturday. Edmonton selected the six-foot-four, 205-pound Day in the sixth round, No. 184 overall, in the 2023 NHL draft. Day posted a 26-25-2-3 record in 59 games this season with the OHL's Flint Firebirds. He posted a 3.07...
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Canadian Eliot Grondin clinches second straight overall snowboard cross title
MONT-SAINTE-ANNE, QUE. - Canadian Eliot Grondin clinched a second straight overall snowboard cross title by finishing second in a World Cup event Saturday. Grondin, 23, of Sainte-Marie, Que., needed to be in the top-three to clinch the title. He did so by finishing just behind winner Jakob Dusek of Austria while Americ...
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