IHIT DEPLOYED
Police investigate shooting death in Surrey Thursday night
SURREY - Homicide investigators are now looking into an incident that left one person dead Thursday night (Jun. 26). At around 7:40 p.m., the Surrey Police Service (SPS) responded to calls of a shooting near the 10800 block of 129 Street. Frontline officers found one man suffering from life-threatening injuries, and de...
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SENIORS PROGRAM
Chilliwack meat shop seeks donations for new Seniors' Room
CHILLIWACK - Tydel Foods, a Chilliwack meat shop known for its low prices and generosity, is looking to add some cozy changes to its seniors program- with some help from the community. The Community Angels Food and Housing Support Society is building a new Seniors' Room for older adults to meet and socialize over compl...
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SUSPECT ARRESTED
46-year-old Abbotsford man arrested after stabbing Tuesday night
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Personalized Hearing Care
Fraser Valley Beltone brings the joy of sound back to Chilliwack
Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies sentenced to 20 years prison
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Reports: Montreal Canadiens acquire defenceman Noah Dobson from New York Islanders
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District of Hope
Vintage car show to headline Canada Day festivities in Hope
HOPE - A vintage car show headlines Canada Day festivities in the District of Hope next week. The district announced on Facebook that the Canada Day Car Show & Shine is back for another year, hosted by Hope & Valley Cruisers and Hope Motorsports. The annual fan favourite gets underway at 9 a.m. and carries on u...
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SD33
SD33 exec cites 'student success', but no deep dive into academic excellence in year-end message
CHILLIWACK - SD33 Superintendent Rohan Arul-pragasam touched on a number of themes in his year-end message to parents, including student success, but not a deep dive into academic achievement or scholastic excellence. According to the text of a message sent to parents via email Friday morning, Arul-pragasam said the 20...
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Police incident
Police in Abbotsford apprehend armed man with knife, IIO notified
ABBOTSFORD - A spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department has confirmed that police apprehended an armed man with a knife by deploying less-lethal bean bag rounds earlier this week. According to a statement from AbbyPD spokesperson Sgt. Paul Walker, AbbyPD patrol officers were dispatched to the 32400 block of Em...
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Another power outage
UPDATE: Power restored, but Popkum area had 2 outages Thursday
UPDATE: Power has since been restored to the Popkum area east of Chilliwack, but there was a second power outage in the area after the early afternoon outage. People in a Popkum-area Facebook page reported that power was restored Thursday at about 3:55 p.m., and then went off again at about 4:30 p.m. Power was eventual...
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British Columbia
B.C. minister Bowinn Ma tells of 'frightening' incident at her constituency office
NORTH VANCOUVER - British Columbia's Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma says there was a "frightening" security incident at her constituency office in North Vancouver early Friday. Ma says in a statement that all meetings and appointments at the office have been cancelled for the day. Her statement says that t...
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B.C.'s Interior health authority confirms additional measles cases
KAMLOOPS - British Columbia's Interior health authority says it has confirmed additional cases of measles in the region spanning the province's southern Interior. A statement from Interior Health says communities in the region with confirmed cases now include Kamloops, Kelowna, Salmon Arm and the Nelson area. The updat...
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B.C. billionaire Ruby Liu gets keys to first retail store once owned by The Bay
DELTA - British Columbia billionaire Ruby Liu has received the keys to a store taken over from Hudson's Bay, the first of more than two dozen that she has her eyes on. Liu plans to turn the former Saks OFF 5th store in the Tsawwassen Mills mall in Delta, B.C., into a cultural, tourist and retail destination. It's the s...
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B.C. police watchdog calls hearing into officers' 'racist, sexist' WhatsApp group
British Columbia's Police Complaint Commissioner says he's called a public hearing to probe misconduct allegations against three current and three former Nelson police officers over alleged racist, sexist and inappropriate comments made in a private WhatsApp chat group. Prabhu Rajan says the allegations "go to the...
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Minister says police intelligence behind B.C. call for Bishnoi gang's terror listing
British Columbia's public safety minister says police intelligence has linked many cases of extortion against the South Asian community to India's Lawrence Bishnoi gang, giving the government confidence to recently seek its listing as a terrorist organization. Garry Begg, who is also solicitor general, says the governm...
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Federal bank loaning $1B for BC Ferries to buy Chinese-made ships
VICTORIA - A federal Crown corporation is loaning BC Ferries $1 billion to help buy four Chinese-made ferries, a purchase that federal transport minister Chrystia Freeland recently said was dismaying and should involve no federal funds. Canada Infrastructure Bank confirmed the loan on Thursday, saying the new electric ...
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Canada
Former PM Harper says military spending can address Arctic infrastructure gap
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper says the best way to build much-needed infrastructure in the Arctic is through military spending. Speaking at an Arctic security conference in Iqaluit on Friday, Harper said leveraging military spending can build roads and runways to create supply chains and lower the cost ...
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CP NewsAlert: Trump 'terminating' trade talks with Canada over digital tax
OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump says he is "terminating all discussions on trade with Canada" over Ottawa's plans to push ahead with a digital services tax that takes effect at the end of the month. Trump made the comments in a post on his social media account this afternoon. More coming. The Canadian Pr...
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Canadian tourist found dead in Dominican Republic, officials say
Dominican Republic officials say a Canadian tourist was found dead in a northern part of the country last week. The country's civil defence agency says 33-year-old Dorian Christian MacDonald was found dead in the water on a beach in the Puerto Plata resort town of Maimon Bay last Friday. Agency spokesperson Jenssen San...
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Federal minister plans to hold consultations this summer on immigration intake
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the federal government will consult this summer on its immigration levels plan and whether the student visa system is "sustainable." In a recent interview with University Affairs, Diab says the annual consultations will reach out to the provinces, university admini...
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Just for Laughs founder goes to police after altercation at sex assault civil trial
MONTRÉAL - The founder of the Just for Laughs comedy festival says he has filed a police complaint following an altercation at his civil trial. Ex-comedy mogul Gilbert Rozon is being sued for nearly $14 million by nine women alleging sexual assault. Actress Danie Frenette, one of the plaintiffs, hurled insults a...
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Supreme Court of Canada grants woman chance to appeal immigration decision
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a woman from Albania should have another chance to argue her immigration case after being denied an appeal due to an expired visa. In March 2018, Dorinela Pepa came to Canada on a permanent resident visa as a dependent child of her father. She married shortly before arriving in...
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World
Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies sentenced to 20 years prison
DENVER (AP) - A Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 dead bodies in a decrepit building and sent grieving families fake ashes was sentenced to 20 years in prison in federal court Friday for cheating customers and defrauding the federal government out of nearly $900,000 in COVID-19 aid. Jon Hallford, owner...
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Trump says Iran must open itself to inspection to verify it doesn't restart its nuclear program
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - President Donald Trump said Friday he expects Iran to open itself to international inspection to verify it doesn't restart its nuclear program. Asked during a White House news conference if he would demand during expected talks with Iran that the International Atomic Energy Agency or ...
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Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Act's preventive health care coverage requirements on Friday, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects some 150 million Americans. The 6-3 ruling comes in a lawsuit over how the government decides which h...
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Sports
Reports: Montreal Canadiens acquire defenceman Noah Dobson from New York Islanders
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens acquired offensive defenceman Noah Dobson from the New York Islanders, according to media reports. In return, the Islanders reportedly receive forward Emil Heineman and the 16th and 17th overall picks in Friday night's NHL draft. The Islanders also hold the top pick, with defenceman Ma...
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Vancouver Whitecaps ink midfielder Pedro Vite to extension through 2029
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed midfielder Pedro Vite to a long-term extension. The club announced the deal Friday, saying the deal stretches through the 2029 campaign. Vite has 15 goals and 20 assists in 136 appearances with the 'Caps, including five goals and a team-leading six assists across all comp...
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Maple Leafs sign John Tavares to four-year contract extension
TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs have re-signed forward John Tavares to a four-year contract extension worth an average of $4.38 million per season, the club announced Friday. Tavares had just completed a seven-year, US$77 million deal that he signed as a free agent in 2018. He was set to be an unrestricted free agent...
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