Fraser Valley

PERIOD POVERTY
Demand for period products grows over 7 million in Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland
FRASER VALLEY - As the need for products grows to millions across British Columbia, an annual campaign to combat period poverty is renewing its call ahead of Menstrual Health Day on May 28.United Way BC, in partnership with CUPE Local 1816, hopes to collect over 550,000 period products as part of its Period Promise fun...
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Upcoming concerts in Agassiz, Chilliwack
Cheam Mountain Singers to hold concerts in Agassiz, Chilliwack
CHILLIWACK - The Cheam Mountain Singers will launch the first of three concerts, all by donation, starting Saturday evening in Agassiz, followed by a Monday night concert in Chilliwack. The Cheam Mountain singers are headed up by Rev. Phillip Barker, a former surgeon who is now the vicar at All Saints Anglican Church i...
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Athletes Lab Youth Football Camp
Future stars set to shine at Athletes Lab Youth Football Camp in Chilliwack next week
CHILLIWACK - Three former GW Graham standouts who have continued their football careers in U Sports will headline the Athletes Lab's Youth Football Camp in Chilliwack next weekend. Athletes ages 5 and up will get a chance to come train with the likes of quarterback Lucas Feaver of the University of Alberta, wide receiv...
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SEX OFFENDER RECAPTURED
Police re-arrest high-risk sex offender hours after release from Mission Institution
MISSION - Police have re-arrested 59-year-old sex offender Randall Hopley, only hours after his release from Mission Institution Thursday morning (May 22).Hopley was released from prison under directions to stay at a halfway house in Vancouver. He refused those orders from his parole officer and left the halfway house....
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British Columbia

B.C. Greens, NDP working constructively despite challenges, accord updates say
VICTORIA - New Democrats in British Columbia under Premier David Eby and the provincial Greens say an agreement between the two parties has yielded challenges, but the two sides are committed to keep working with each other. The first quarterly update on the two parties' Cooperation and Responsible Government Governmen...
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Mounties investigate ostrich death at B.C. farm facing cull order
RCMP say they are investigating the death of an ostrich at a farm in Edgewood, B.C., where protesters have gathered to prevent a cull of the birds ordered by federal authorities. Katie Pasitney, whose parents own the farm, posted a video on social media on Friday morning saying a large drone had flown over the property...
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Police arrest man for allegedly sending fentanyl from Vancouver to U.S.
SURREY - Police in British Columbia say a man has been arrested over an alleged cross-border trafficking operation in which fentanyl was sent from Vancouver to the United States. The province's Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says the investigation with the Canada Border Services Agency began in February, with...
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Probation for ex-Mountie, convicted of obstruction after 'sexting' violence victim
KELOWNA - A former Okanagan RCMP officer who exchanged explicit messages with a victim of domestic violence has been given a conditional discharge and 12 months of probation for attempting to obstruct justice. Former Kelowna Mountie Sean Eckland pleaded guilty in the case that began when he and another officer responde...
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Man arrested after allegedly setting fire to RCMP detachment in Fort Nelson, B.C.
FORT NELSON - A man has been arrested after someone allegedly set fire to an RCMP detachment building in British Columbia's Northern Interior region. Police say the Northern Rockies detachment building in Fort Nelson, B.C., had to be temporarily evacuated on Thursday after "a considerable amount of smoke" fro...
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Class-action lawsuit filed in B.C. over 2009 Interior Health data breach
VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Interior Health Authority has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over a data breach in 2009 that allegedly compromised thousands of employees' personal information that ended up being sold on the dark web. The lawsuit filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday says the data breach occurred...
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Canada

Mounties investigate ostrich death at B.C. farm facing cull order
RCMP say they are investigating the death of an ostrich at a farm in Edgewood, B.C., where protesters have gathered to prevent a cull of the birds ordered by federal authorities. Katie Pasitney, whose parents own the farm, posted a video on social media on Friday morning saying a large drone had flown over the property...
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Police arrest man for allegedly sending fentanyl from Vancouver to U.S.
SURREY - Police in British Columbia say a man has been arrested over an alleged cross-border trafficking operation in which fentanyl was sent from Vancouver to the United States. The province's Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says the investigation with the Canada Border Services Agency began in February, with...
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Alberta judge grants bail for man convicted of 1987 murder after new trial ordered
EDMONTON - Decades after Roy Allan Sobotiak was sentenced to life for the killing of an Edmonton woman, the 61-year-old is set to walk out of prison. Alberta Court of King's Bench Justice Eric Macklin granted bail Friday to Sobotiak, who was convicted in 1991 for the murder of Susan Kaminsky. His conviction was quashed...
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Probation for ex-Mountie, convicted of obstruction after 'sexting' violence victim
KELOWNA - A former Okanagan RCMP officer who exchanged explicit messages with a victim of domestic violence has been given a conditional discharge and 12 months of probation for attempting to obstruct justice. Former Kelowna Mountie Sean Eckland pleaded guilty in the case that began when he and another officer responde...
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In Ottawa, U.S. senators push trade, Canadian tourism to their states
OTTAWA - Five United States senators are in Ottawa today to meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney and underscore the long-standing relationship between the two countries. Republican Kevin Cramer dismissed the current tensions between Canada and the U.S. as a temporary bump in the road. The delegation also includes Democ...
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Hockey player's statements to investigators, police, included at ex-teammates' trial
Portions of statements that a former member of Canada's world junior hockey team made to Hockey Canada investigators and police are now part of the evidence in the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates. Brett Howden told the court Friday that the comments reflect what he knew to be true at the time he made t...
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