Fraser Valley health care rally
Fraser Valley health care workers rally to demand restoration of immigration pathways
FRASER VALLEY - Health care workers and their supporters rallied outside Surrey Memorial Hospital Thursday (Apr. 17) to seek justice for migrant health care workers facing deportation due to federal allocation cuts to the provincial nominee program.According to a news release from the over 60,000-member strong Hospital...
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Cleanup event/meet and greet
Chilliwack-Hope Green Party candidate to hold Earth Day cleanup event at Cultus Lake next week
CHILLIWACK - Salina Derish, the Green Party candidate for Chilliwack-Hope in the upcoming federal election, wants to meet local constituents next week and give back to the community in a practical way.Derish, a former Army reservist, correctional officer and entrepreneur, is getting into the swim of things by organizin...
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FEDERAL ELECTION
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Vital health care equipment
New cancer detection equipment arrives in Abbotsford
ABBOTSFORD - The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation says advanced medical equipment that will significantly enhance early detection of cervical cancer has arrived at Abbotsford Regional Hospital. The foundation says a new state-of-the-art colposcope has been delivered to ARH thanks to the generous support of the foun...
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Federal election
As MP Strahl maintains lead, advance voting begins tomorrow in Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - Voters in Chilliwack who can't wait to cast their ballot in the upcoming federal election can do so during advance voting this Easter long weekend. According to the Elections Canada website, Chilliwack residents can vote between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. starting Friday, Apr. 18 to Monday, Apr. 21. They can refer ...
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Graduated driver licensing changes
B.C. govt. announces sweeping changes to graduated drivers licensing
CHILLIWACK - The B.C. government announced Wednesday (Apr. 16) that it will make significant changes to its graduated drivers licensing regime that will remove the need for a second road test in order to obtain full licensing privileges. Public Safety Minister Garry Begg says the changes, if approved, will see new driv...
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Sexual assault suspect
AbbyPD releases sketch of sexual assault suspect
ABBOTSFORD - The Abbotsford PD's Sex Crimes Unit has released a composite sketch of the male suspect who was involved in a sexual assault at an Abbotsford park earlier this week.According to a statement from Sgt. Paul Walker, AbbyPD detectives continue to advance the investigation and say the male suspect has a portrai...
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British Columbia
B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
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Vancouver Park Board preparing for 'unpermitted' cannabis events on 4-20
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Park Board says it's gearing up for "unpermitted" events on April 20 including on Sunset Beach, where thousands of people gathered in recent years to smoke cannabis to the chagrin of city officials and police. The board says in a statement that it's aware of one "informal" ...
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B.C. premier says talk of Western Canada separation 'needs to stop'
British Columbia Premier David Eby says talk of western provinces separating from the rest of Canada is a "tired trope" that wastes time and "needs to stop." Eby says he doesn't think there's any credible threat to Canadian unity and accused people like former Reform Party leader Preston Manning of ...
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Eby says Canadians need to 'keep the pressure up' despite California's charm campaign
VICTORIA - British Columbia's premier says Canadians need to "keep the pressure up" on the United States by buying local and avoiding travel there, despite a recent push from California to draw visitors from Canada. David Eby says he spoke with Californian Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday - the same day the go...
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Air traffic back to normal at Vancouver's airport after days of delays
RICHMOND - The agency that provides air traffic control for Canada's airports says traffic flow at Vancouver International Airport has resumed normal operations in time for Easter weekend travel. The update from Nav Canada comes after the agency issued posts to social media on Tuesday and Wednesday warning of flight de...
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B.C. operation by police, regulators finds losses of $4M in assets to crypto fraud
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's securities regulator says a recent two-day operation to identify victims of a specific type of cryptocurrency fraud has found 89 people who were drained of more than $4 million in assets. The B.C. Securities Commission says the agency brought together regulators, police, crypto trading pl...
Apr 17, 2025
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Canada
Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items
MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected. Poilievre campaigned in Montreal this morning, as he and other federal leaders returned to the campaign trail following the two national leaders' debates ...
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B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were still in their infancy. The study published this month in the peer-reviewed Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology analyzed f...
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'Freedom Convoy' organizer asks for stay of proceedings after guilty verdict
OTTAWA - "Freedom Convoy" organizer Chris Barber has asked for a stay of proceedings, two weeks after an Ontario judge found him and Tamara Lich guilty of mischief for their roles in the 2022 mass protest in Ottawa. According to a news release from the non-profit helping his defence, Barber is arguing the pro...
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Frank Stronach committed to stand trial after preliminary inquiry into two charges
TORONTO - An Ontario court has committed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach to stand trial on two charges related to two complainants as part of his Toronto sexual assault case. Ontario Court Justice Jacqueline Freeman made the ruling at the end of a preliminary inquiry that dealt exclusively with those two charges...
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U.S. students look north as Trump freezes funding to American universities
VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia has briefly reopened admissions for its graduate programs to take applications from U.S. citizens in what is a growing trend for Canadian institutions as the American president denigrates higher learning. Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C., and the University of Toro...
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Trump says tariffs making America rich while also suggesting trade deals are coming
U.S. President Donald Trump showed little signs of backing down on his plans to tariff the world today - even as members of his administration continue to claim the duties will lead to the negotiation of new trade deals. Trump says nothing he heard during a meeting with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval...
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World
Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Democratic governor of Wisconsin's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The split ruling from the liberal-controlled court affirms the partial veto power of Wisconsin governors, which is the broades...
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10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy are released
WASHINGTON (AP) - Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy have been released. The Friday release continues the disclosure of national secrets ordered by President Donald Trump. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says in a statement the RFK files' re...
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A British and an Israeli woman were along 4 killed in a cable car crash south of Naples
ROME (AP) - Three tourists were among four people who died when a cable car crashed south of Naples, including a British and an Israeli woman, an Italian official said Friday. Only two of the three foreign victims have been identified since the accident on Thursday, said Marco De Rosa, the spokesperson for the mayor of...
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Sports
Women's championship returns to April in Olympic year, new wrinkles for PWHL, players
ČESKÉ BUDĚJOVICE - The 2026 women's world hockey championship will be held in April two months after the Olympic Games conclude in Milan-Cortina, Italy. There wasn't a women's championship in the same calendar year as a Winter Games until 2022, when Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark, hosted the tournament Aug...
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Adekugbe eager for return as Vancouver Whitecaps look to continue hot start
VANCOUVER - Sam Adekugbe has spent the last six weeks rooting for the Vancouver Whitecaps as the club surges up the Major League Soccer standings. What the left back really wants, though, is to get back on the field. "(Ryan Gauld) and I were talking the other day - we feel like cheerleaders. And we're just eager t...
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Parekh, Morton score in NHL debuts, and the Flames beat the playoff-bound Kings 5-1
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sam Morton and Zayne Parekh scored in their NHL debuts, Nazem Kadri had two goals and the Calgary Flames beat the playoff-bound Los Angeles Kings 5-1 on Thursday night in the regular-season finale. Taylor Ward scored in his NHL debut for the Kings, whose four-game winning streak ended with only their...
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