NEW DOCTOR
Chilliwack clinic accepting new patients as province ramps up health care workforce
CHILLIWACK - Local patients may have one reason to celebrate Family Doctor Day this May 19, as a new physician joins the team at Wayside Medical Clinic in Chilliwack. On Friday, May 16, the clinic announced that Dr. Gabriel Pekun will soon be joining the team- and he's accepting new patients. The College of Physicians ...
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VEHICLE INCIDENT
Vehicle spins into ditch on Chilliwack River Road Monday morning
CHILLIWACK - One vehicle has slid into an embankment after overnight showers brought slick roads on Monday morning, May 19. At around 8:45 a.m., crews were dispatched to the 7000 block of Chililwack River Road for an incident involving a car that had spun off the road. Fraser Valley Today reporter Mike Vanden Bosch was...
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Personalized Hearing Care
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Chilliwack clinic accepting new patients as province ramps up health care workforce
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POWER PLANT
BC Hydro launches advanced virtual power plant project in Mission, Sun Peaks
MISSION - BC Hydro is adding a new tool to its power arsenal in two B.C. communities- Mission and Sun Peaks, near Kamloops. This spring, the provider will be installing 200 residential batteries in Sun Peaks and Harrison Mills. The Peak Saver project combines energy from small-scale sources like home batteries and smar...
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CHILLIWACK CHIEFS
Chilliwack Chiefs tie BCHL playoff series ahead of Game 3
CHILLIWACK - The Chilliwack Chiefs are coming home with a hopeful 1-1 series tie for the Fred Page Cup Final. Brooks Bandits may have taken Game 1 on Friday, May 16, but the Chiefs quickly rebounded the next day with a hard-fought 4-3 win. Chiefs peppered the second period of Game 2 with goals as center Brady Milburn n...
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SUBSTANCE USE CARE
Specialized addiction nurses join nine hospitals in Fraser Valley
FRASER VALLEY - The B.C. government is continuing its efforts to improve substance-use care in the Fraser Health region. Addiction assessment nurses have now joined nine emergency departments, including the Abbotsford Regional, Chilliwack General and Langley Memorial hospitals. "People facing substance-use challen...
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KITTEN SEASON
Abbotsford rescue organization calls for help as kitten population rises
ABBOTSFORD - It's raining cats and kittens as spring weather continues to roll into the Fraser Valley, and one rescue is trying to keep up with rising demand. The Abby Cat Daddy is urgently seeking volunteers to help with trapping, transport, fostering and basic care. "Every spring and summer, we see an explosion ...
May 18, 2025
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British Columbia
'Sullivan's Crossing' is a 'life-preserver in tumultuous times': Canadian showrunner
TORONTO - For Roma Roth, setting her show "Sullivan's Crossing" in Nova Scotia is a way to showcase more of Canada on the small screen. The London, Ont.-born executive producer and showrunner - who also works on the soapy Netflix series "Virgin River" shot in British Columbia - says it was time to i...
May 18, 2025
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22-year-old woman dies in slackline fall north of Vancouver
A 22-year-old woman is dead after a fatal slack line incident at a recreation area north of Vancouver. Squamish RCMP say they received a report on Saturday afternoon of a female falling from a slack line at Chek Canyon Recreation Area. The area is a popular climbing spot 87 kilometres north of Vancouver. Mounties say f...
May 18, 2025
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Vancouver Island University students are making the world's largest Nanaimo bar
NANAIMO - Students at Vancouver Island University in Nanaimo, B.C., are busy in the kitchen assembling the world's largest Nanaimo bar. The sweet treat will be unveiled to the public at noon on Saturday, and is expected to be 21.3 meters long, 0.9 meters wide and weigh nearly 500 kilograms. Aron Weber, chair of the pro...
May 17, 2025
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Vancouver officer charged a year after pedestrian strike in Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER - The BC Prosecution Service says a Vancouver police officer has been charged under the Motor Vehicle Act for driving without reasonable consideration for others, a year after a pedestrian was hit in the city's Downtown Eastside. The prosecution service says Const. Aaron Carter faces the charge after B.C.'s p...
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Search underway for B.C. woman missing after empty boat washes ashore
NANAIMO - Police in Nanaimo, B.C., say a search is underway both at sea and on land after a woman's sailboat was discovered washed ashore and empty. Mounties say 34-year-old Amber Nitchman is the registered owner of the 10-metre white sailboat that was found Thursday near Bayshore Drive and Hammond Bay Road off Nanaimo...
May 16, 2025
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City and police say Vancouver festival planning followed rules before attack
VANCOUVER - Sixteen 320-kilogram barriers arrived in Vancouver this week, specially designed to block vehicles trying to enter public spaces. The barriers were ordered in February, about two months before the Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people, when an SUV plowed through a crowded street. But police sa...
May 16, 2025
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Canada
CP NewsAlert: Canada, U.K and France sign joint statement condemning Israel's actions
OTTAWA - The leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France have signed a joint statement condemning the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza, calling the level of human suffering "intolerable." More coming. The Canadian Press
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Logging, pruning and anxiety in Banff ahead of first summer since Jasper wildfire
BANFF - Looking out over a budding meadow with blackened tree stumps on the edge of Banff National Park, Cliff White points to a dark thicket of trees where the empty plot ends. "The next fire in here is going to be incredible," says the former Parks Canada fire management co-ordinator, standing in the expans...
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Archeologists find prehistoric artifacts at future skating rink site near Montreal
MONTREAL - Last fall, as archeologist Yves Chrétien was supervising a team digging at the site of a future hockey rink northeast of Montreal, a mini excavator unearthed pieces of cut stone. Formed under an ancient sea, the stones bore marks made by Indigenous people somewhere between 6,150 and 8,200 years ago. T...
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Opposition slams Liberals for having no plans to table budget soon
OTTAWA - Opposition parties attacked Prime Minister Mark Carney Wednesday for being vague about his plans after his government said it would not table a federal budget before the House of Commons rises for the summer. Following the first Liberal cabinet meeting after the swearing-in ceremony on Tuesday, Finance Ministe...
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Eco-friendly transportation a condition of planned Ottawa Senators arena: agreement
OTTAWA - Public transit, cycling and walking will be the "primary and preferred modes" of getting fans to and from the Ottawa Senators' planned downtown arena, says a newly disclosed agreement on the project. Under the agreement, a group led by the NHL team would be responsible for designing, building and pay...
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Protesters opposed to agency-ordered cull at ostrich farm prepare for long-term stay
NAKUSP - Protesters who have been camping this weekend at a British Columbia ostrich farm that's been ordered to kill its entire flock because of bird flu say they're preparing to stay longer. Universal Ostrich Farm, in Edgewood, B.C., has been battling with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency over the cull of 399 bird...
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World
Judge bars Trump administration from shutting peace institute that sought to end violent conflicts
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Monday blocked the Trump administration from moving forward with its dismantling of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an organization taken over in March by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell ruled that the think tank, which was create...
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Supreme Court allows Trump to strip protections from some Venezuelans; deportations could follow
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The court's order, with only one noted dissent, puts on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept in place Temporary Protected...
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Trump call with Putin underway as he hopes for ceasefire progress in Russia-Ukraine war
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump has grown "frustrated" with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the White House said Monday ahead of separate calls Trump is holding in hopes of making progress toward a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. Trump expressed his hopes f...
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Sports
After lopsided loss to TFC, CF Montreal looks to turn the page in cup game at Forge
Still smarting from a weekend 6-1 drubbing at the hands of rival Toronto FC, CF Montreal looks to turn the page Tuesday when it visits perennial Canadian Premier League powerhouse Forge FC in the opening leg of their Telus Canadian Championship quarterfinal. "We've just got pick ourselves back up," said Canad...
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Denzel Washington receives surprise honorary Palme d'Or at Cannes premiere for 'Highest 2 Lowest'
CANNES, France (AP) - Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux surprised Denzel Washington with an honorary Palme d'Or before the premiere of "Highest 2 Lowest" on Monday night. "This is my brother, right here," said the film's director Spike Lee, who passed the award to Washington. "T...
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Canada Soccer names preliminary 60-man roster for this summer's CONCACAF Gold Cup
Canada has filed its preliminary roster for next month's CONCACAF Gold Cup, a 60-man list that will be reduced to a final squad of 23 to 26 players by June 4. The 18th edition of the CONCACAF championship runs June 14 to July 6, featuring 15 countries from North and Central America and the Caribbean plus No. 58 Saudi A...
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