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• Post Malone Tickets

  07-07-2022 10:30 via abbynews.com
  
  Austin Richard Post, best known by his stage name Post Malone, is a singer/songwriter/rapper from Syracuse, New York. Famous for his variegated sound, the artist started his music career in 2011. Malone is highly acclaimed for blending pop, hip-hop, R&B, and trap genres. You can get Post Malone tickets today if you want to see him perform live on stage.
  
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• Young, Klimovich carry Abbotsford Canucks to 4-1 win over Manitoba

  12-03-2026 06:05 via abbynews.com
  The bounce back season of Abbotsford Canucks goalie Ty Young continued on Wednesday (March 11) as he made 22 saves to backstop his team to a 4-1 win over the Manitoba Moose.
  The 2022 fifth round pick has now won his last three starts and has allowed just three goals in those starts.
  It’s a huge turnaround from earlier this season, which saw Young lose his first seven starts and get reassigned to the ECHL’s Kalamazoo Wings in December. He told media after Saturday’s (March 7) sh
  
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• Wild winds knock out power to thousands in eastern Fraser Valley

  12-03-2026 05:29 via abbynews.com
  A powerful windstorm has knocked out power to thousands of homes in the eastern Fraser Valley Wednesday night (Mar. 11).At about 9 p.m., BC Hydro was reporting more than 11,000 customers without power across the Lower Mainland and Sunshine Coast. More than 6,000 of those customers were in Chilliwack.Abbotsford and Hope were also hit hard by the winds, which had been forecast earlier in the day by Environment Canada.
  Many residents took to social media to say their houses have been shaking due to
  
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• Kamloops RCMP Serious Crime investigating targeted homicide

  12-03-2026 02:00 via abbynews.com
  One man is dead following a reported shooting in downtown Kamloops on March 11.
  RCMP responded to a report of shots fired in the 600 block of Seymour Street, at about 4:30 a.m.
  Officers arrived on scene to find a man suffering from a gunshot wound. According to Staff Sgt. Kevin McIntyre, a medic, provided emergency care, and the victim was transported to a local hospital, where he eventually died from the wound.
  The Kamloops RCMP Serious Crime has taken over the investigation and believes that t
  
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• Canada still unbeaten, into wheelchair curling semis at Paralympics in Italy

  12-03-2026 00:50 via abbynews.com
  A win is a win.
  Even when you let a six-point lead slip away, and you end up stealing the two points to secure the victory, and even after you’ve clinched a spot in the final four.
  Such was the case for Spallumcheen, B.C.’s Ina Forrest and Team Canada at the wheelchair curling competition Wednesday, March 11, at the 2026 Milano Cortina Paralympics in Italy.
  Canada improved to 7-0 in its only game of the day, downing Slovakia 9-6.
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• White Rock hospital set for 8th maternity diversion since December

  12-03-2026 00:45 via abbynews.com
  White Rock’s Peace Arch Hospital is set for another maternity diversion — its eighth since December, and fifth diversion in 2026.
  The latest ‘temporary’ diversion is set to start this Thursday, March 12 at 8 a.m. and last nearly a week, until 8 a.m. on Wednesday, March 18.
  Maternity diversions have been happening at both Peace Arch and Ridge Meadows Hospital in Maple Ridge since December of last year, due to a temporary shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists, according to
  
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• Abbotsford’s Poshak Sachdeva named to BCBusiness 30 Under 30 2026 class

  12-03-2026 00:42 via abbynews.com
  BCBusiness Magazine recently sprinkled some joy on a successful young Abbotsford professional.
  Poshak Sachdeva, who serves as the executive directory of the Irrigation Industry Association of British Columbia, was named to the magazine’s 2026 30 under 30 class.
  This year marks the 13th annual recognition of some of the best and brightest in the province and Sachdeva was the lone Fraser Valley representative in the 30.
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• RCMP investigating ‘threat-related behaviour’ involving students North Okanagan school

  12-03-2026 00:20 via abbynews.com
  Police and School District 83 are responding to “threat-related behaviour” involving students of Pleasant Valley Secondary School (PVSS) in Armstrong.
  In a letter received Wednesday afternoon (March 11) by PVSS and Falkland Elementary School parents, school district Superintendent Donna Kriger said the RCMP have been in contact with the “families of students identified,” and that school administration and district personnel “continue to work closely with the RCMP, a
  
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• RCMP investigating ‘threat-related behaviour’ involving North Okanagan students

  12-03-2026 00:20 via abbynews.com
  Police and School District 83 are responding to “threat-related behaviour” involving students of Pleasant Valley Secondary School (PVSS) in Armstrong.
  In a letter received Wednesday afternoon (March 11) by PVSS and Falkland Elementary School parents, school district Superintendent Donna Kriger said the RCMP have been in contact with the “families of students identified,” and that school administration and district personnel “continue to work closely with the RCMP, a
  
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• Grand Slam of Curling returns to Victoria after 10-year absence

  12-03-2026 00:20 via abbynews.com
  Ten years after Brad Gushue captured the Elite 10 title in Colwood, major international curling is returning to Greater Victoria.
  From Oct. 13-18, the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre will host the Grand Slam of Curling (GSOC) Invitational.A heads up: our Grand Slam of Curling event locations for the 2026-27 season are now live!
  If you want to check us out in person, visit https://t.co/avsBYVegyk for early-bird offers in all five cities! pic.twitter.com/vcLzsEdwHG
  — Grand Slam of Curling (@gr
  
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• City of Abbotsford begins creating Canada Day entertainment lineup

  12-03-2026 00:05 via abbynews.com
  The plans for this year’s Canada Day are already underway, with the City of Abbotsford recently announcing that the application window has now opened for the upcoming celebration.
  The 2026 Canada Day event has the theme of Roots and Rhythm, and will feature all of the staples of previous years, including a parade with floats from all sorts of community groups.
  Anyone who wants to be part of this 2-km parade now has an opportunity to do so by submitting a parade application by the May 22 de
  
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• Serious multi-vehicle collision involving semi on HWY 17 in Surrey leaves two injured

  11-03-2026 23:44 via abbynews.com
  Two people were taken to the hospital, one in serious condition, after a multi-vehicle crash involving two semi-trucks and two passenger vehicles on Highway 17 in Surrey on Wednesday afternoon (March 11), according to BC Emergency Health Services.
  A Black Press freelancer at the scene said one of the passenger vehicles was wedged under one of the semi-trucks, while the other was partially under it.
  The crash occurred around 12:20 p.m. in the 11400 block of Highway 17.
  Four ambulances, a paramedi
  
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• Canada advances to World Baseball Classic quarterfinals for first time ever

  11-03-2026 23:20 via abbynews.com
  Canada Baseball is off to the second round of the World Baseball Classic for the first time ever.
  In a win-or-go home game, Canada beat Cuba 7-2 to come second in Pool A and advance to the quarterfinals.
  Cal Quantrill had an outstanding start, throwing five innings, allowing one run on two hits and a walk while striking out five batters.
  Shortstop Otto Lopez and outfielder Owen Caissie, both Miami Marlins, both drove in two runs while Abraham Toro went 3/5 with a solo home run.
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• Canada advances to World Baseball Classic quarter-finals for first time

  11-03-2026 23:20 via abbynews.com
  Team Canada is off to the second round of the World Baseball Classic for the first time.
  In a win-or-go home game, Canada beat Cuba 7-2 to finish second in Pool A and advance to the quarter-finals.
  Pitcher Cal Quantrill had an outstanding start, throwing five innings, allowing one run on two hits and a walk while striking out five batters.
  Shortstop Otto Lopez and outfielder Owen Caissie, both Miami Marlins, each drove in two runs, while Abraham Toro went 3-for-5 with a solo home run.
  Eight of C
  
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• Murder trial hears Okanagan woman was restrained, shot at close range

  11-03-2026 23:00 via abbynews.com
  The first-degree murder trial for Ekene Dillichuwu Anigbo, who the Vancouver Police Department named one of B.C.’s most dangerous gangsters in 2021, continued this week in Kelowna Supreme Court.
  Anigbo has pleaded not guilty to the murder of 57-year-old Kathleen Richardson of Naramata.
  On June 9, 2021, Richardson was found dead in her home, where the Crown said she was restrained and shot twice in the left side of her face, killing her. Two years later, in April 2023, Anigbo and suspected
  
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• Critics say B.C.’s new FOI legislation enables more government secrecy

  11-03-2026 22:57 via abbynews.com
  The B.C. government has introduced legislation to make it easier for officials to disregard or delay freedom of information (FOI) requests.
  Citizens’ Services Minister Diana Gibson claims this will enable requests to be met more quickly by a system overwhelmed by reams of data, but critics and transparency advocates are alarmed.
  One of those is B.C. Green Party MLA Rob Botterell, who led the legal team that drafted the province’s first freedom of information legislation in 1991. That
  
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• Salmon Arm couple’s airborne ‘I dos’ anchored by Mount Ida amethyst

  11-03-2026 22:00 via abbynews.com
  A Salmon Arm couple’s high-flying wedding was also rooted in Mount Ida as the ‘I dos’ coincided with the location of a significant discovery.
  The narrative of helicopter pilot and prospector David Fredlund’s love story was set back when he was a four-year-old child who accompanied his dad to mining camps after his mother became sick.
  “I grew up in a bush camp, a mining camp. I spent my teenage years underground,” he said. “When my mother’s health s
  
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• Abbotsford Canucks sign college free agent Bennett Schimek

  11-03-2026 21:49 via abbynews.com
  The Abbotsford Canucks continue to be active in the college free agent market, as the club announced the signing of Clark Cup winning forward Bennett Schimek to a one-year AHL deal.
  The club shared details on Schimek on Wednesday (March 11), just one day after the inking of college free agent forward Austin Brimmer.
  Schimek, a 6-0 forward from Minnesota, recently finished his final season of NCAA hockey with the Arizona State University Sun Devils. He recorded a career-high 43 points in 35 games
  
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• RCMP ordered to pay northwest B.C. day school survivors by Human Rights Tribunal

  11-03-2026 21:44 via abbynews.com
  The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the RCMP discriminated against Indigenous survivors during the 2012 investigations of abuse claims at a day school in Burns Lake.
  The tribunal found that the complaint of discrimination was partially substantiated, and ordered the RCMP to pay damages to the survivors and review all of its policies, practices, procedures, and training related to the treatment of Indigenous crime complainants.
  The allegations were brought forward by Lake Babine Fir
  
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• Verdict in May for 3 Surrey men accused of double murder in Abbotsford

  11-03-2026 21:25 via abbynews.com
  The three men accused of killing two Abbotsford seniors in their home in 2022 will find out their fate on May 8.
  Justice Brenda Brown is scheduled to give her verdict that day in B.C. Supreme Court in Abbotsford for Khushveer Toor, Gurkaran Singh and Abhijeet Singh of Surrey.
  The three men are each accused of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Arnold and Joanne De Jong.
  Their trial by judge alone began Jan. 12. Crown’s closing submissions were presented last Friday (March 6
  
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• Stars On Ice spring tour will wrap up at Chilliwack Coliseum

  11-03-2026 20:45 via abbynews.com
  When figure skating is perfected it looks beautifully simple, but ask any skater and they’ll quickly dispel that notion.
  “It’s extremely difficult,” said Elvis Stojko. “We make it look easy.”
  Stojko is a Canadian icon, on and off the ice — a three-time world champion, two-time Olympic silver medalist and seven-time Canadian champion in figure skating, along with so many more accomplishments.He’s a fan favourite of the wildly popular Stars On Ice, a
  
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• Abbotsford Canucks, builder Jim Gordon and ref Martin Reid receive Hall of Fame call

  11-03-2026 20:40 via abbynews.com
  The 2025 class of the Abbotsford Sports Hall of Fame has been announced.
  Organizers have decided to honour builder Jim Gordon, referee Martin Reid and the Abbotsford Canucks 2024-25 Calder Cup winning team.
  All three inductees will be honoured during a special event event at the Legacy Sports Centre building (32470 Haida Dr.) on Saturday, May 9.
  Gordon was a key figure in the construction of the Abbotsford Curling Club facility, which was completed in 1977. He served as the chairperson of the bu
  
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• Hundreds of Abbotsford homes will spend St. Patrick’s Day without power

  11-03-2026 20:30 via abbynews.com
  More than 300 Abbotsford households will begin their celebrations in darkness this St. Patrick’s Day as a major power outage is scheduled to hit many customers in the southern and eastern areas of the city.
  BC Hydro announced that this outage comes as a result of planned work being done on the company’s infrastructure on Tuesday morning.The total number of properties being affected is 337, with these households largely being located south of Highway 1 and east of Highway 11, even ext
  
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• Canada-wide warrant issued for man charged in Surrey woman’s death

  11-03-2026 20:12 via abbynews.com
  A 24-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Navdeep Kaur, who was originally reported missing in February 2024.
  The two were in a relationship at the time of her death, police said.
  Kaur was reported missing by her family on Feb. 23, 2024. She was last seen the day before at around 10:30 a.m. in the 7800-block of 123 Street. Police quickly determined that she had been a homicide victim.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) took over t
  
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• Lori Idlout leaves NDP and crosses floor to join Liberals

  11-03-2026 20:10 via abbynews.com
  Nunavut MP Lori Idlout has joined the governing Liberal Party of Canada, leaving the NDP, and bringing Prime Minister Mark Carney one step closer to a majority government.
  Interim NDP leader Don Davies announced the move on Tuesday evening, saying that MPs who change parties should step down and run for an election under the new party’s banner.
  Idlout has long been critical of the Liberal government and Mark Carney specifically.
  On Feb. 19, Idlout said the federal government has “cho
  
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• Abbotsford Community Action Team spreads awareness of sexual exploitation

  11-03-2026 20:02 via abbynews.com
  The Abbotsford Community Action Team (ACAT) is participating in the annual Sexual Exploitation Awareness Week (March 9 to 15) by setting up displays across the community.
  Posters, informational materials, and online resources will be placed in school, libraries, coffee shops and other public spaces.
  The resources help raise awareness and provide students with the tools they need to seek support, while also informing caregivers and teachers about how to recognize concerns and access help.
  The loc
  
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• Leaders in the North Okanagan join forces to protect crucial watershed from fire

  11-03-2026 20:00 via abbynews.com
  Fears of a wildfire devastating a drinking water source for up to 80,000 people in the North Okanagan are bringing local Indigenous and non-Indigenous governments together to protect their shared watershed.
  Last month, leaders of Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), the District of Lake Country and City of Vernon declared that protecting the crucial North Aberdeen Plateau watershed goes far beyond just preventing or mitigating wildfires.
  “We can’t let it go back to what it was,” Distri
  
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• VIDEO: Harrison benefit concert raises more than $20,000 for Variety - Abbotsford News

  11-03-2026 19:51 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Harrison benefit concert raises more than $20,000 for Variety  Abbotsford News
  
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• VIDEO: Harrison benefit concert raises more than $20,000 for Variety

  11-03-2026 19:50 via abbynews.com
  This year’s Follow Your Heart Benefit Concert in Harrison Hot Springs was by far the biggest one yet.
  On Monday, March 10, Benefit organizer and local country artist Todd Richard announced the benefit concert raised more than $21,000 for Variety Children’s Charity. Among the highlights of this past Saturday evening’s star-studded music spectacular was a huge $10,000 donation from the Harrison Hot Springs Fire Department’s charitable society.
  “You’re gonna mak
  
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• B.C. police watchdog clears officers in Prince George arrest case

  11-03-2026 19:30 via abbynews.com
  The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC has determined that there are no reasonable grounds to believe that an officer may have committed an offence following an incident that took place on April 25, 2025, in Prince George.
  The IIO has now concluded its investigation into the event that took place almost a year ago, after RCMP responded to a reported disturbance caused by a man shouting and behaving erratically outside a gas station in the 100 block of George Street, at about 5:20 p.m.
  
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