CHILLIWACK CHIEFS
Chilliwack Chiefs bounce back with 5-2 win over Victoria Saturday night
CHILLIWACK - The Chilliwack Chiefs are back on the road after a Game 2 win over Victoria Saturday night. Grizzlies forward Reegan Hiscock scored the first goal of the evening, but it was soon followed by dual goals by Chiefs' Carter Anderson and blueliner Adam Boatter.The team continued their barrage third period, scor...
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COMEDY PLAY
Abbotsford theatre closes 2024-25 season with upcoming comedy production
ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford's Gallery 7 Theatre is going meta for its closing production of the 2024-2025 Season- with an upcoming play about a play gone wrong. Aptly named "The Play That Goes Wrong", the comedy written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, is about the opening night of a drama societ...
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Fraser Valley
SEEKING PUBLIC INPUT
Resident input needed on new east Abbotsford neighbourhood park
ABBOTSFORD - The City of Abbotsford is asking the public to put their two cents in on an upcoming park on the east side, in the Immel-McMillan area. To expand outdoor recreation opportunities, the City will be building on roughly 1.3 hectares of parkland on Blackham Drive. "The park's unique topography provides an...
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INMATE DEATH
77-year-old inmate dies in custody at Abbotsford prison
ABBOTSFORD - An elderly inmate whose name can't be revealed has died in a Fraser Valley prison. On Friday, May 2, Correctional Service Canada (CSC) reported that a 77-year-old inmate at the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford has died of natural causes. CSC said the person's name has been anonymized due to a court-ordere...
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CONCERT FUNDRAISER
Chilliwack school bands perform in concert fundraiser for Mental Health Week
CHILLIWACK - Band kids from every middle and high school in the Chilliwack School District are set to take the stage on Tuesday, May 6, for a special Mental Health Week performance. The UnBroken Project is a collection of musical pieces by Randall Standridge that represent different stages of a person's mental health j...
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MISSING WHEEL
Mission RCMP seeking driver who kept moving after losing a wheel
MISSION - Mission Mounties are asking owners of mid-2000s black Infiniti G37 coupes to count the number of wheels on their vehicle. According to the RCMP's Community Connection, on April 18 at around 6:45 a.m., an Infiniti coupe crashed into a moving car and a parked car in the area of Caribou Street- and lost a wheel ...
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British Columbia
Residents of Mission, B.C., told to stay inside after derelict ferry burns
Residents in parts of Mission, B.C., have been told to shelter in place with their windows closed after a derelict ferry caught fire. A statement from the city says its emergency operations centre has been activated in response to a fire aboard the Queen of Sidney ferry currently moored in the Fraser River. It says res...
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A family and a festival: How Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day tragedy unfolded
VANCOUVER - In January last year, Cirque du Soleil usher Alexander Lo made his final public post on his Facebook timeline, promoting the circus' Kooza show. Four days later, his brother responded. "Brother, we will get to see this together sometime," wrote Adam Kai-Ji Lo. But he knew it wasn't to be. Alexande...
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More memorial masses planned for victims in Vancouver festival attack
VANCOUVER - People in Vancouver and beyond remain in mourning one week after a deadly attack on a Filipino street festival. The Vancouver archdiocese says on social media that additional memorial masses are being planned to remember the 11 people killed at the Lapu Lapu Day festival last Saturday. It says events are be...
May 03, 2025
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International fugitive returned to B.C. after being arrested in Middle East
An international fugitive and one of Canada's most wanted is back behind bars following a Vancouver Police Department investigation that lasted three years, spanned 14 countries and ended in the Middle East. Cody Casey has been back in Canada since April 24 following his arrest by police in Oman on Oct. 5, 2024, and an...
May 02, 2025
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Girl missing after following dog into wooded area in Chilliwack, B.C.
CHILLIWACK - Mounties in British Columbia are looking for a seven-year-old child who went missing in Chilliwack on Thursday after following her neighbour's dog into a wooded area. They say the girl was last seen around 4 p.m. on the 50800 block of Winona Road. Police describe the girl as Caucasian, four feet tall with ...
May 02, 2025
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Wildfire that forced evacuations in Fort St. John, B.C., not threatening buildings
FORT ST. JOHN - The City of Fort St. John, B.C., says a wildfire that prompted evacuations last night is not actively threatening any structures. But in an update posted at 8:40 p.m. Thursday, it says the blaze is moving beyond the Community Forest into the Peace River Regional District. The BC Wildfire Service's lates...
May 02, 2025
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Canada
Territorial premiers say internal trade talks should consider northern context
The premiers of Canada's three territories say the county's push to remove internal trade barriers needs to consider the unique economic situation of the North. Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai, Northwest Territories Premier R.J. Simpson and Northwest Territories Premier P.J. Akeeagok say they will be exploring the creation o...
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Trump says 'highly unlikely' U.S. ever uses military force to annex Canada
OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump says it is "highly unlikely" the United States would ever use military force to annex Canada. In a wide-ranging interview on NBC's "Meet The Press" which aired Sunday, Trump says he wouldn't rule it out against Greenland, but says he doesn't see it happening with...
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McGill platform becomes safe space for conserving U.S. climate research under threat
MONTREAL - Academics at McGill University in Montreal are providing the U.S. scientific community a platform to protect climate research under attack. Six months ago, researchers at McGill University's Desautels Faculty of Management launched SUSANHub.com, a database that centralizes climate research and data. "We...
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Canadian students in Netherlands for 1945 liberation celebrations
HALIFAX - As the Netherlands marks the 80th anniversary of the country's liberation by the Canadian Army, more than 1,000 Canadian students will take part in events where they are expected to sense both the horror of war and the reverence of the Dutch for their liberators. Upwards of 175,000 Canadians fought as part of...
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Seven foreign policy challenges facing PM Mark Carney that aren't about Donald Trump
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has many foreign policy issues on his plate - and they're not all about U.S. President Donald Trump. Here are six of the key challenges Ottawa will be navigating in the coming months during a turbulent time in world politics. Trump in Alberta for G7 In just six weeks, Carney will wel...
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Canada's deepening dependence on U.S. has been a decades-long evolution, experts say
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly accused the Liberal government of entrenching Canada's economic dependence on the United States. But political scientists say the reality is more complex, noting a broad trend toward continental integration of national economies that began almost 40 years ago...
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World
Trump says he will reopen Alcatraz prison
NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump says he is directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island. In a message on his Truth Social site Sunday evening, Trump wrote that, "For too long, America has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat Criminal Offe...
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Nicaragua withdraws from UNESCO in protest at press freedom award
PARIS (AP) - UNESCO on Sunday announced the withdrawal of Nicaragua from the U.N. cultural and educational body because of the awarding of a UNESCO prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa. UNESCO's director general, Audrey Azoulay, announced that she had received a letter Sunday morning fro...
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UK police arrest several Iranian men over alleged attack plot
LONDON (AP) - British counterterrorism officers arrested several Iranian men over an alleged plot to attack an unspecified target in London, the Metropolitan Police force said Sunday. Police said five men aged between 29 and 46 were detained on Saturday in various parts of England on suspicion of preparing a terrorist ...
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Sports
Hogan-Rochester helps Canada rugby sevens women finish third in season finale
CARSON - Asia Hogan-Rochester scored three tries as the Canadian women's rugby sevens team rallied from an early deficit Sunday to defeat the U.S. 27-7 and earn bronze at the HSBC SVNS World Championship. The Canadians, silver medallists at the Paris Olympics, had also finished third in Hong Kong and Singapore, the two...
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Crosby set to join Team Canada at men's world hockey championship
TORONTO - Sidney Crosby's hockey season isn't over after all. The 37-year-old captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins, whose team failed to make the NHL playoffs, is joining Team Canada for the upcoming men's world hockey championship, according to a Sunday announcement by Hockey Canada. Canada's first game in the internati...
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Jays' failure to generate offence costly in close series with Guardians
TORONTO - Manager John Schneider has faith the Toronto Blue Jays offence will emerge from its early-season funk. The Blue Jays dropped the final two outings of their three-game set against the Cleveland Guardians because of a lack of clutch hitting. Schneider's lineup left a whopping 25 runners on base in the series, i...
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