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• B.C. sets up program to test new tech for firefighting, emergency management

  16-12-2025 20:50 via abbynews.com
  B.C. is creating a program to allow companies that make technology used for wildfire suppression and flood mapping to test their gear in real-world applications through an InnovateBC “testbed.”
  This platform is being provided so the industry can test new tech, while the province gets a chance to see what works best.
  Forests Minister Ravi Parmar announced the program as floods continue to wreak havoc in the Fraser Valley.
  “We know the technology has to play a bigger role in help
  
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• Reloaded Abbotsford Canucks post 4-2 win over Tucson Roadrunners

  20-12-2025 06:18 via abbynews.com
  The restocked Abbotsford Canucks have suddenly picked up points in four of five games and turned on the offence in the third period to earn a 4-2 win over the Tucson Roadrunners on Friday (Dec. 19).
  Abbotsford got goals from Jonathan Lekkerimaki and Arshdeep Bains less than three minutes apart in the final frame to take down Tucson inside the Rogers Forum.Artnsen finds Lekkerimaki, 3-2 Abbotsford. He has scored in five straight pic.twitter.com/esubh7k1G9
  — Ben Lypka (@BenLypka) December 20
  
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• Sherwood’s hat trick powers Canucks to 4-1 victory over Islanders

  20-12-2025 03:40 via abbynews.com
  Kiefer Sherwood had a hat trick, leading the visiting Vancouver Canucks to a 4-1 win over the New York Islanders in NHL action Friday at UBS Arena.
  David Kampf had the other goal for the Canucks (14-17-3) who are now 3-0 since trading captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild. Thatcher Demko was solid in goal for Vancouver, stopping 20 of 21 shots.
  Anders Lee had the lone goal for the Isles (19-13-3), with Ilya Sorokin absorbing the loss in net, making 26 saves.
  The Canucks stormed to a 3-0 lea
  
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• Where are the Abbotsford Canucks' championship rings? - The Province

  20-12-2025 01:53 via news.google.com
  Where are the Abbotsford Canucks' championship rings?  The Province
  
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• Embarrassing details emerge regarding the lack of initiative to award Abbotsford their Championship rings - canucksdaily.com

  20-12-2025 01:40 via news.google.com
  Embarrassing details emerge regarding the lack of initiative to award Abbotsford their Championship rings  canucksdaily.com
  
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• Fur farmers discouraged after last COVID legal challenge to ban abandoned

  20-12-2025 01:08 via abbynews.com
  Four years after a mid-pandemic shutdown, two fur farming associations have dropped their court case attempting to overturn the B.C. government’s decision.
  As of December, the British Columbia Mink Producers Association and the Canada Mink Breeders Association announced they were dropping a petition for judicial review of the province’s shutdown order.
  During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, evidence emerged that mink were uniquely vulnerable to the virus.
  Denmark, a major
  
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• Evacuation order for 2 Chilliwack Lake Road properties due to slide risk

  20-12-2025 00:56 via abbynews.com
  Landslide risk is the reason why two properties on Chilliwack Lake Road were issued an evacuation order on Dec. 19.
  “Fraser Valley Regional District has issued an Evacuation Order for the properties located at 49269 and 49279 Chilliwack Lake Road, Electoral Area E due to landslide risk,” the FVRD said.
  Residents of Bell Acres at those addresses must leave the designated area immediately.
  “Failure to do so could result in injury and loss of life.”
  This alert will remain in
  
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• Missing woman last seen in Kamloops believed to be in Lower Mainland

  20-12-2025 00:55 via abbynews.com
  Kamloops RCMP is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing person who hasn’t been heard from in nearly three weeks.
  Gail Letain was last heard from on Nov. 29. She was reported missing on Dec. 3 and investigators believe she travelled to the Lower Mainland on a bus with a ticket she purchased, but police have not been able to locate her.
  Letain is known to frequent the Vancouver area, though she was last seen in Kamloops.
  Gail Letain is described as a 58-year-old white woman st
  
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• Calder Cup Champion Abbotsford Canucks Still Have Not Received Their Rings - The Hockey News

  20-12-2025 00:28 via news.google.com
  Calder Cup Champion Abbotsford Canucks Still Have Not Received Their Rings  The Hockey News
  
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• Man, 22, charged with extortion-related shooting at Abbotsford business - Chilliwack Progress

  20-12-2025 00:26 via news.google.com
  Man, 22, charged with extortion-related shooting at Abbotsford business  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Man, 22, charged with extortion-related shooting at Abbotsford business

  20-12-2025 00:24 via abbynews.com
  An Abbotsford man has now been charged in relation to an extortion-related shooting that occurred Wednesday night (Dec. 17) at a local business.
  Gursewak Singh, 22, has been charged with discharging a firearm. He remains in custody awaiting a bail hearing on Dec. 23, according to a press release issued Friday (Dec. 19) by the Abbotsford Police Department.
  Police also released a photo of Singh “following a determination that disclosure is necessary in the public interest to assist with the
  
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• Man charged in shooting at Abbotsford, B.C., business - Castanet

  20-12-2025 00:11 via news.google.com
  Man charged in shooting at Abbotsford, B.C., business  Castanet
  
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• Population-based funding cancelled for Mission clinic: MLA Gasper - Abbotsford News

  19-12-2025 23:54 via news.google.com
  Population-based funding cancelled for Mission clinic: MLA Gasper  Abbotsford News
  
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• Man charged after shooting at Abbotsford business - CityNews Vancouver

  19-12-2025 23:53 via news.google.com
  Man charged after shooting at Abbotsford business  CityNews Vancouver
  
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• Population-based funding cancelled for Mission clinic: MLA Gasper

  19-12-2025 23:52 via abbynews.com
  The cancellation of population-based funding for a Mission medical clinic could leave almost 1,900 patients without a family doctor, Abbotsford-Mission MLA Reann Gasper says.
  According to a news release from the BC Conservative Caucus on Friday (Dec. 19), the B.C. Ministry of Health has informed a Mission medical clinic that its population-based funding will be cancelled effective March 31, 2026.
  The clinic said the decision could leave nearly 1,900 local patients without a family doctor within
  
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• Gursewak Singh, 22, charged in Wednesday’s extortion-related shooting at Abbotsford business - Indo-Canadian Voice

  19-12-2025 23:38 via news.google.com
  Gursewak Singh, 22, charged in Wednesday’s extortion-related shooting at Abbotsford business  Indo-Canadian Voice
  
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• 1 charged in overnight shooting at Abbotsford business - Fraser Valley Today

  19-12-2025 23:27 via news.google.com
  1 charged in overnight shooting at Abbotsford business  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Guns, drugs, cash seized in Kamloops gang bust

  19-12-2025 23:11 via abbynews.com
  Local RCMP and the province’s gang-busting police unit have disrupted violent gang activity and a drug trafficking operation in Kamloops.
  The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of B.C. (CFSEU-BC) Uniform Gang Enforcement Team worked with Kamloops RCMP from Dec. 9 to 12 to conduct a targeted, intelligence-led operation.
  Over the four days, the gang enforcement team’s officers were strategically placed throughout Kamloops with a particular focus on the North Shore and other areas
  
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• Abbotsford Canucks still waiting for their Calder Cup Championship rings: reports - Canucks Army

  19-12-2025 23:02 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford Canucks still waiting for their Calder Cup Championship rings: reports  Canucks Army
  
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• Abbotsford School District names third new secretary-treasurer in less than a year - Abbotsford News

  19-12-2025 22:39 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford School District names third new secretary-treasurer in less than a year  Abbotsford News
  
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• Abbotsford School District names third new secretary-treasurer in less than a year

  19-12-2025 22:33 via abbynews.com
  For the third time in less than a year, the Abbotsford School District has a new secretary-treasurer.
  The News has learned that Peter Neale, who began in the position on Aug. 1, 2025, is leaving the district effective Dec. 31.
  A reason for his departure has not been given, but a staffing memo obtained by The News states that the two sides “mutually agreed to part ways.”
  Neale arrived in Abbotsford with more than two decades of experience in school district finance and administration
  
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• Extortion suspect charged after Abbotsford shooting - CTV News

  19-12-2025 22:18 via news.google.com
  Extortion suspect charged after Abbotsford shooting  CTV News
  
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• VIDEO: Schmidt scores 4 to help G-Men top Royals 7-4

  19-12-2025 22:00 via abbynews.com
  Career-high four goals in one game for Vancouver Giants forward Cameron Schmidt definitely help secure the hockey team’s latest victory over Victoria on Thursday night.
  During their road trip to Vancouver Island, for the first of back-to-back, home-and-home games, the G-Men faced off against the Royals, again – the third time this month and the second time in less than a week.And again they were victorious, this time by the score of 7-4.
  That follows other recent triumphs. Last Frida
  
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• Vacancy rates improve to highest level of the 21st century in B.C.’s capital region

  19-12-2025 21:30 via abbynews.com
  Rental prices seem to be taking a dip in B.C. as the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its 2025 Rental Market Report, which showed that Greater Victoria’s vacancy rate rose to 3.3 per cent, the highest it’s been since 1999.
  According to the report, Victoria faces similar demographic trends to Vancouver with outflows of international migrants and students, along with a weak labour market for younger people – both of which reduced rental demand.
  “These
  
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• Abbotsford long-term care facility gets new upright rehab walker - Fraser Valley Today

  19-12-2025 21:16 via news.google.com
  Abbotsford long-term care facility gets new upright rehab walker  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Lands damaged by 2017 wildfires in B.C. are being rehabilitated

  19-12-2025 21:00 via abbynews.com
  Central Chilcotin Rehabilitation (CCR) is celebrating the environmental and economic success to-date of its Palmer Project which is rehabilitating forests devastated by the 2017 wildfires.
  “This work is imperative if we want to have healthy forests in the future,” said Percy Guichon, CEO of CCR, in a press release.
  The project targets lands near Palmer Lake in the Chilcotin, about one and a half hours west of Williams Lake, which were subject to catastrophic fires and left to recover
  
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• Experts nix B.C. orca vessel strike injury fears after Victoria sighting

  19-12-2025 20:38 via abbynews.com
  When an endangered B.C. southern resident orca was spotted with a fresh wound at the base of its dorsal fin, alarm bells rang.
  Because of a recent spate of vessel strikes in B.C. waters that have injured humpback whales – which may have resulted in three deaths – there were immediate concerns the orca may have suffered a similar fate.
  The 16-year-old male, identified as J45, was first seen with the injury in late November in Active Pass, travelling alongside other members of J pod.
  H
  
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• Why haven't Abbotsford Canucks players received their championship rings yet? - Daily Hive Vancouver

  19-12-2025 20:29 via news.google.com
  Why haven't Abbotsford Canucks players received their championship rings yet?  Daily Hive Vancouver
  
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• B.C. police search for more victims after 2 charged in child exploitation case

  19-12-2025 20:07 via abbynews.com
  WARNING: The following story contains content which some readers may find disturbing. Discretion is advised.
  Surrey police believe there may be more victims as they investigate a man and woman suspected of child exploitation.
  The Surrey RCMP Special Victims Unit started an investigation in October 2024 involving alleged offences that started in 2021 related to child sexual abuse material, a Surrey Police Service release noted.
  Two suspects — Carter Cooke, 28, and Tkhu Khyonh “Mika&rd
  
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• Chilliwack winner of the 22nd Annual Christmas Car Giveaway calls it ‘the best present’

  19-12-2025 19:59 via abbynews.com
  A Chilliwack care aide and mom who has devoted most of her life to caring for others was stunned on Dec. 18 to be named the winner of the 22nd Annual Christmas Car Giveaway.
  Vehicle winner Brooke Wilson sat in the 2004 Toyota Camry, and contemplated the life-changing gift of the new-to-her vehicle.
  The car was meticulously reconditioned, repaired and insured by the presenting sponsors of the annual Christmas contest.
  “It’s so nice!” Wilson exclaimed as she climbed in, giving th
  
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