Chilliwack Chiefs
Alberni Valley to face Chilliwack Chiefs in BCHL playoffs for 3rd straight year
CHILLIWACK - The Alberni Valley Bulldogs need no introduction to the Chilliwack Chiefs and their coaching staff. For the third straight year, the two teams will meet in the BCHL playoffs, as the Bulldogs visit the Chiefs in Chilliwack tonight to open their best of seven Coastal Conference semi final series.After what h...
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FEDERAL ELECTION
Chilliwack residents turn out for first advance polling day, prompting long wait times
CHILLIWACK - Chilliwack voters waited out in the sunshine for day one of advance polls. Residents on social media have been sharing long lineups at various polling stations since they opened at 9 a.m. Friday, April 18. Users claimed it took 45 minutes to get through Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt Sc...
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River Valley Trail to receive trims, signage after B.C. grant program
CHILLIWACK - Hedges on the Chilliwack River Valley Trail are due for some fresh cuts soon, as volunteers receive an annual grant from Trans Canada Trail.The national organization's Trail Care Grant Program has awarded $18,750 to various community groups in British Columbia. In Chilliwack, that money will be going towar...
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CHILLIWACK CHIEFS
Chilliwack Chiefs coach, forward nominated for BCHL awards
CHILLIWACK - The Chiefs are getting some recognition for their hard work this season. 20-year-old forward Mateo Mrsic has been named to the Second Team of BCHL's year-end All-Stars. The six-man team includes Penticton Vees goaltender Will Ingemann, Lucas Lemieux of the Trail Smoke Eaters, Langley Rivermen forward Ryan ...
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FEDERAL ELECTION
Here's what to know about advance voting in Canada's 2025 federal election
CHILLIWACK - Advance voting for the 2025 federal election gets underway this long weekend.Canadians who are at least 18 years old can vote at their assigned polling station anytime from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on April 17, 18, 19 or 20.Where to voteThere are two ways to know where to advance vote.Those who are registered ahea...
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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...
Apr 17, 2025
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British Columbia
Court document sheds light on B.C. human trafficker's violent encounters with victims
NEW WESTMINSTER - Court documents in the case of a violent B.C. human sex trafficker say police found graphic videos of beatings and sexual assaults on her phone. Jennifer Stephens pleaded guilty in January 2025 to 17 charges including assault causing bodily harm, unlawful confinement, sexual assault with a weapon and ...
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Swimmer at Vancouver's Wreck Beach presumed drowned after search unsuccessful
VANCOUVER - Police say a man is missing after swimming at Vancouver's Wreck Beach and is presumed drowned after an extensive search was called off due to darkness. Mounties say the detachment that serves the area around the University of British Columbia got a call about a distressed swimmer at the popular clothing-opt...
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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...
Apr 18, 2025
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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" ...
Apr 17, 2025
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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 ...
Apr 17, 2025
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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...
Apr 17, 2025
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Canada
Health Canada recalls Life Brand Melatonin, Riva Acetaminophen for dosage concerns
Canada's federal health authority has issued a recall warning for two medications over incorrect dosing concerns. Health Canada issued a recall for Life Brand Timed Release Melatonin 10mg on Tuesday, warning in a news release the product is labelled with incorrect dosing instruction. The affected lot numbers are 4D3965...
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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...
Apr 18, 2025
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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...
Apr 17, 2025
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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...
Apr 17, 2025
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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...
Apr 17, 2025
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World
Supreme Court blocks, for now, new deportations under 18th century wartime law
The Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law. In a brief order, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center "until further order of this court." Jus...
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Arizona governor vetoes bill requiring local officials to help with federal immigration efforts
PHOENIX (AP) - Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs on Friday vetoed a Republican-backed bill intended to support the Trump administration's immigration crackdown by requiring local and state officials in Arizona to cooperate with federal enforcement efforts. Under the proposal, local and state officials couldn't prohibit or re...
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Judge blocks Trump administration's from passport changes affecting transgender Americans
BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of "X" marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers. In an executive order signed in January, the president used a narrow definition of the sexes ins...
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Sports
Grizzlies beat the Mavericks 120-106 to set up a 1st-round playoff series with the Thunder
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Ja Morant overcame a sprained right ankle to score 22 points and add nine assists and the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Dallas Mavericks 120-106 on Friday night to advance to the NBA playoffs. Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 24 points and Desmond Bane added 22 as the Grizzlies turned away several Dallas ral...
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Barger's 'cannon' helps Jays lower the boom on Mariners
TORONTO - Addison Barger's rocket right arm added an electrifying element to all the fervour at Rogers Centre on Good Friday. The Toronto Blue Jays right-fielder checked in for three assists in the home side's 3-1 win against the Seattle Mariners before 40,263 in the series opener. "What a cannon," Toronto ma...
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Lindblad joins Buhai atop leaderboard in LPGA Tour's JM Eagle LA Championship
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ingrid Lindblad took a share of the lead into the weekend at El Caballero Country Club in only the fourth start of her rookie season on the LPGA Tour. Lindblad shot a career-best 9-under 63 in cool conditions Friday afternoon to join Ashleigh Buhai atop the leaderboard at 13-under 131 in the JM Eagle...
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