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• B.C.’s Jenn Gardiner re-signs with Vancouver Goldeneyes

  11-06-2026 03:37 via abbynews.com
  
  Surrey’s Jenn Gardiner is staying in Vancouver for the next couple of seasons.
  The team annouced Wednesday (June 19) that Gardiner signed a three-year contract through the 2028-29 season.
  She turned down an offer from a PWHL expansion team during phase two of the league’s expansion distribution process. Since it was a foundational player offer, that means she was required to sign with any of the league’s 12 teams during Phase 3, which began at 9 a.m. PT on Wednesday (June 10).
  
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• BC Prosecution Service approves driving charge for Interior Mountie

  11-06-2026 03:30 via abbynews.com
  
  A Revelstoke Mountie is facing a careless driving charge for an incident that happened last year in Sicamous.
  The BC Prosecution Service (BCPS) shared on Wednesday, June 10, that it’s charging Cst. Rachel Mandel of Revelstoke RCMP with one count of driving without due care and attention on June 15, 2025.
  This would contravene Section 144.1 of B.C.’s Motor Vehicle Act, with supporting information sworn on Wednesday through Salmon Arm’s provincial court.
  READ: Revelstoke jail gua
  
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• Forests minister talks saw mills, old-growth and caribou in B.C. Interior

  11-06-2026 02:00 via abbynews.com
  
  On his first visit to Revelstoke, B.C.’s minister of forests got comfy in the rain Tuesday afternoon while speaking about his hopes for local saw mills, old-growth and caribou protection.
  Ravi Parmar, also the province’s deputy government house leader, had just arrived to town on June 9 after a visit to the Pacific Woodtech mill in Golden and a cloudy-but-scenic drive through Rogers Pass.
  One of his first stops in Revelstoke was the Downie Street Development, where the Revelstoke Com
  
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• Longtime Abbotsford businessman awarded honorary UFV degree

  11-06-2026 01:45 via abbynews.com
  
  After being a well-known figure in Abbotsford for quite some time, Paul Esposito recently had his entrepreneurial and philanthropic efforts celebrated with an honorary degree from the University of the Fraser Valley.
  Although Esposito has had a close connection with UFV for decades, his first dealings with a B.C. post-secondary institution were with the University of Victoria, where he received a teaching degree.
  Upon graduation, he worked as a high school teacher while renovating and building h
  
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• City of Abbotsford issues warning about impersonation scam after recent incident

  11-06-2026 01:13 via abbynews.com
  
  The City of Abbotsford is warning residents to stay alert after an impersonation scam was avoided by a local property owner.
  Abbotsford officials stated that a property owner with an active development application was contacted by someone falsely claiming to represent the city.
  The fraudster asked the property owner to pay an invoice by wire transfer to an account that was not connected to the city, but the property owner chose to contact the city before making any payment and it the scam was re
  
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• B.C. man fined $6,000 for illegally transporting protected snapping turtle

  11-06-2026 01:03 via abbynews.com
  
  A Surrey man has been fined $6,000 for numerous wildlife offences, including illegally transporting a protected snapping turtle between provinces.
  Thai Hoang Khoi Le pled guilty on May 21, 2026, in Surrey provincial court and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine for interprovincial transport of animals without the proper permits and $1,000 for unlawfully possessing live wildlife.
  He was charged under the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (
  
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• ‘Represent Canada’: Barriere woman wins custodian rights to Swedish island

  11-06-2026 01:00 via abbynews.com
  
  The people of Barriere may be surprised to learn that the Sovereign of a small Swedish island is living quietly amongst them.
  Well, that’s a bit of an overstatement.
  Bronwen Bird of Barriere is not actually the queen of the island called Storberget in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of Sweden, but she is, in fact, its custodian for the next year. That’s thanks to a program from Visit Sweden, a tourism company owned by the Swedish government.
  “The title of Island Custodian has
  
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• B.C. government straining to show World Cup’s economic benefit

  11-06-2026 01:00 via abbynews.com
  
  As players get set to take the pitch this weekend for the first of seven World Cup matches at BC Place in Vancouver, the provincial government is continuing its effort to persuade a skeptical public of the economic benefit of being a host city.
  “It’s clear when you host major events like this, there’s an economic impact that comes from that,” said Ravi Kahlon, B.C.’s jobs minister, at a Wednesday news conference.
  Shortly after Kahlon’s remarks, the province re
  
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• CRPAWS volunteers conduct three-day stakeout to rescue cat family

  11-06-2026 00:48 via abbynews.com
  
  A tiny tail poked out from a small hole at the bottom of a shed at Vancouver Island Air on the Tyee Spit in Campbell River on May 30.
  This tail inevitably launched a three-day campaign to rescue a mom cat and her kittens from underneath a shed at the float plane operation.
  “The shed is a permanent building, and they will be difficult to catch as we cannot get under it,” Vancouver Island Air’s Melissa Cuttler said in a message to Campbell River Partners for Animal Welfare (CRPAW
  
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