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• UPDATE: Missing 13-year-old found, Surrey police report

  26-12-2025 23:45 via abbynews.com
  A missing 13-year-old boy has been found, Surrey Police Service reports.
  They had previously sought public help searching for a teen who hadn’t returned home for Christmas.
  On Dec. 27, SPS issued a release noting the missing teen has been located “safe and sound.”
  
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• Surrey police seek missing 13-year-old boy

  26-12-2025 23:45 via abbynews.com
  Surrey Police are searching for a missing 13-year-old boy who didn’t return home for Christmas.
  Police are asking for public assistance to find Kado Swetz, who didn’t return home as anticipated on Dec. 25. Police say it is “out of character” for Kado to be stay out of contact with friends and family.
  Kado is described as a 13-year-old male, 5 foot 3 inches tall, 115 pounds, with black short hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black puffy jacket, black pants an
  
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• Peace Arch Hospital maternity unit closing over New Year’s

  26-12-2025 23:27 via abbynews.com
  There won’t be any babies born on New Year’s Eve at Peace Arch Hospital.
  The hospital’s maternity unit is on diversion again from Monday, Dec. 29 at 8 a.m. to Thursday, Jan. 1 at 8 a.m., Fraser Health has just announced.
  The closure is part of a previously announced series of diversions at the hospital over the holiday season, stemming from a staffing shortage.
  Anyone who goes into labour or has pregnancy-related concerns is asked to call the maternity unit first, where staff w
  
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• Pedestrian dead after crash involving Surrey Police Service vehicle

  26-12-2025 19:06 via abbynews.com
  A female pedestrian is dead after being hit and killed after a crash with a Surrey Police Service vehicle.
  The Independent Investigations Office of B.C. was called out to Surrey for the crash in Whalley around 6 a.m. Christmas morning, according to a new release from Surrey Police Service.
  The police watchdog says that Surrey Police Service officers were leaving a gas station in the 10800 block of 132 Street when they hit the woman.
  The woman was transported by B.C. Emergency Health Service to h
  
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• Emily Lowan working from the outside to bring activist energy to B.C. Greens

  26-12-2025 13:30 via abbynews.com
  Emily Lowan wants to be the “bridge” between activists and government.
  The new B.C. Green Party leader developed this idea while attending the University of Victoria, working with the student council and protesters to force the school administration to divest from the fossil fuel industry.
  “Students still putting pressure on the outside and having that heat from different points in the student union definitely informed a theory of change that I still carry now,” she said
  
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• 2025 IN REVIEW: A look back at some of the stories that dominated politics in B.C.

  26-12-2025 13:30 via abbynews.com
  They say it’s never boring in B.C. politics. And 2025 did nothing to contradict that statement.
  Here are some of the stories that occupied the policy-makers and captured much of our attention across the province this year:
  Trudeau fall, Carney rise
  Facing increased pressure as 2024 came to a close, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began the New Year by announcing he was stepping aside, leaving his Liberals facing a leadership race and a deep political hole to crawl out of.
  But crawl out they
  
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