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• Public art to adorn pedestrian/cycling overpass

  18-02-2018 20:30 via abbynews.com
  City of Abbotsford now taking submissions for $57,000 piece of artThe post Public art to adorn pedestrian/cycling overpass appeared first on Abbotsford News.
  
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• City of Abbotsford to reduce newspaper advertising in 2027

  18-06-2026 20:38 via abbynews.com
  
  The City of Abbotsford plans to cease much of its newspaper advertising in 2027 and instead use its website and an email subscription service for its public notices.
  Council on Tuesday (June 16) approved amendments to the city’s public notice bylaw that a staff report says will “generate financial savings.”
  Under provincial legislation, local governments are required to inform the public of certain activities and council considerations.
  These include bylaw amendments, elections
  
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• Vancouver Island woman fights cougar to save pet goat

  18-06-2026 20:00 via abbynews.com
  
  A Nanaimo woman’s close encounter with a cougar resulted in the wild cat being given a literal kick off her property.
  On June 6, Gina Moore went out to her barn to lock up for the night. When she got there she saw one of her goats, Donnie, clasped in a small cougar’s mouth.
  “Adrenaline just took over, and I did what I needed to do to save him,” Moore recalled.
  The rest was a blur, as she rushed over, kicking the cougar in the ribs. The wild cat let go of the animal in its
  
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• No injuries reported after crane tips at Bruhn Bridge worksite in Sicamous

  18-06-2026 20:00 via abbynews.com
  
  A crane may need a crane after tipping over at the Bruhn Bridge construction site in Sicamous.
  On Wednesday, June 17, numerous posts on social media showed the crane sitting at a 45 degree angle with the boom extended, indicating an overreach, though the cause of the incident hasn’t been confirmed.
  The contractor contacted District of Sicamous chief administrative officer Dean Strachan to advise of the situation, reporting there was “no impact or disruption to highway or district inf
  
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• 12 guns seized from illegal shooters on Mission forest service road

  18-06-2026 19:31 via abbynews.com
  
  Mission RCMP conducted an illegal-shooting enforcement blitz along the Lost Creek forest service road on June 13 and 14, resulting in the seizure of 12 guns from residents of Abbotsford, Surrey, Delta and Nova Scotia.
  Cpl. Harrison Mohr said the first incident was on Saturday (June 13) at about 6:45 p.m., when a citizen reported that a group of men were shooting at around the 7.5-kilometre marker of the road.
  An officer who attended found five men from Abbotsford, who had arrived in a GMC Sierra
  
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• Abbotsford’s Hailey MacLeod selected by Montreal at PWHL Draft

  18-06-2026 19:18 via abbynews.com
  
  Abbotsford’s Hailey MacLeod was introduced into the professional hockey by Canadian hockey royalty at the PWHL Draft in Detroit on Wednesday (June 17).
  Three-time Olympic gold medallist and 2026 Walter Cup champion Laura Stacey announced MacLeod as the Montreal Victoire’s fourth round pick, 48th overall and also welcomed the former Yale Secondary student as her new teammate on the defending champion team.MacLeod become the first-ever Abbotsford hockey product to be chosen in the PWHL
  
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• Surrey Police Board slammed for ‘gag’ order on what chief can say to media

  18-06-2026 19:10 via abbynews.com
  
  The embattled Surrey Police Board is facing heavy criticism after its members voted in favour June 17 of a governance committee recommendation to rope in what the Surrey Police Service chief constable and other senior executives can say to news media and “stakeholders” related to matters of police governance, oversight, board direction, organizational priorities and decisions involving the provincial government and city hall.
  The governance committee recommendation, contained in a re
  
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• Victoria newcomer youth score ‘opportunity of a lifetime’ at FIFA World Cup

  18-06-2026 19:00 via abbynews.com
  
  Returning from vacation is usually met with a daunting mountain of emails, but for Tricia Khan, opening her inbox this week revealed the ultimate golden ticket.
  Ten of them, to be exact.
  The Inter-Cultural Association of Greater Victoria (ICA) was selected to receive 10 free tickets to the upcoming FIFA World Cup match between New Zealand and Egypt at Vancouver’s BC Place on Sunday, June 21.
  The donation comes courtesy of the BC Place Community Benefit Program, a joint initiative between t
  
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• ‘Electrical non-compliances’ at Cultus Lake Waterpark have to be corrected before gates reopen

  18-06-2026 18:51 via abbynews.com
  
  Technical Safety BC has found “electrical non-compliances” in its preliminary investigation into the June 15 electrical incident at the now-closed Cultus Lake Waterpark.
  Officials with the safety regulator said the waterpark will not re-open until electrical issues or hazards that put them in non-compliance are addressed.
  “We understand that the closure of a popular summer attraction is disappointing for visitors and families looking forward to their summer activities,” s
  
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• Engineering company envisions Prince Rupert to Vancouver coastal highway

  18-06-2026 18:12 via abbynews.com
  
  A Prince Rupert company has taken it upon itself to map a potential route for a Prince Rupert to Vancouver coastal highway with the hope it will spark a conversation on better access to the Lower Mainland for North Coast residents.
  Pedersen-Gruppen Enterprises (PGE) has dubbed the project the Pacific Fjords Connector as it would ultimately connect to the Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99), which connects Vancouver to Pemberton via Squamish and Whistler.
  The concept is not an approved government pro
  
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• TODAY: Big game for Canada vs. Qatar in Vancouver on World Cup Day 8

  18-06-2026 18:00 via abbynews.com
  
  Game 2 for Canada at the FIFA World Cup is a big one against Qatar, with both squads level in Group B standings.
  Switzerland and Bosnia and Herzegovina both have a single point, too, after all four teams tied their tournament-opening games last week.Today in Vancouver, BC Place Stadium hosts Canada-Qatar at 3 p.m. local time (Thursday, June 18), in the second World Cup match played there in less than a week, the first involving Canada.
  The game might be the biggest in the history of the Canadian
  
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• Abbotsford hot dog vendor to revive weekly flea market

  18-06-2026 17:39 via abbynews.com
  
  Hot dog vendor Skully White is reviving a popular Abbotsford event that ran weekly for 50 years (except during the COVID-19 pandemic) until its closure in 2024.
  White is introducing his version of the Abbotsford Flea Market starting either this Sunday (June 21) or the following one (June 28). (As of press deadline, he’s still finalizing details.)
  Lullys Flea Market will run every Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. until the end of September in the parking lot of the Canadian Tire at the corner o
  
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• WORLD CUP DAILY, June 18: Kane scores 2 in England win over Croatia

  18-06-2026 16:00 via abbynews.com
  
  Daily FIFA World Cup updates and news for Black Press Media publications.
  Today in Canada, the focus is on Vancouver for the Canada-Qatar match that starts at 3 p.m. Pacific, in the second Group B game for both teams.
  Thursday’s three other matches (June 18) feature Czechia vs. South Africa in Atlanta (9 a.m. start Pacific time), Switzerland vs. Bosnia and Herzagovina in Los Angeles for another Group B battle (noon) and Mexico vs. Korea in Guadalajara (6 p.m.), all shown live on TSN.
  An En
  
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• Case study: Olive’s path to a new confident life

  18-06-2026 14:30 via abbynews.com
  
  When Michael and Jennifer first brought Olive home, they weren’t sure what to expect. They knew she was a rescue, knew she had come from an abusive past and understood she would need time to adjust. What they didn’t realize was just how deeply fear had shaped her world.
  “From the moment she arrived, she seemed terrified of everything,” Jennifer recalls. “She didn’t bark, play, or seek attention. Most of the time, she just hid.”
  Olive, a young Golden Retr
  
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• White Rock hockey star Grace Elliott drafted to PWHL’s Seattle Torrent

  18-06-2026 03:06 via abbynews.com
  
  White Rock’s own Grace Elliot is headed to Seattle as the next step in her hockey career.
  The 38th overall fourth-round pick for PWHL team Seattle Torrent in the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) Draft Wednesday (June 17), Elliot had an outstanding university sports career as a University of B.C. Thunderbird as well as reigning Canada West and U Sports Player of the year.
  Elliot also finished the regular season as the top scorer in her conference — and in the entire cou
  
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• B.C.’s medical specialist waitlists up 10%, and doctors say pressure is mounting

  18-06-2026 02:05 via abbynews.com
  
  Nearly one-quarter of British Columbians are currently on waitlists to see medical specialists, and according to a new survey of B.C.’s doctors, that number is growing by 10 per cent each year with little relief in sight.
  Meanwhile, because the province does not track specialist wait times province-wide, officials may understand a problem exists but lack data to fully measure it.
  “People might think that the province has a sense of how long people are waiting for what service where,
  
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• Surrey Police Board meeting implodes

  18-06-2026 01:40 via abbynews.com
  
  Acting Surrey Police Board chairman Rob Stutt – a Surrey Connect councillor – called a recess to its Wednesday, June 17 meeting after it collapsed in chaos during a public question-and-answer session.
  The meeting, fraught with audio cutting in and out, saw directors walk out amid scathing criticism in the wake of former chief constable Norm Lipinski’s ouster followed by the resignations of two directors.
  Surrey Police Union president and sergeant Ryan Buhrig told the board poli
  
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• Nominations now open for the 30th annual Abbotsford Business Excellence Awards

  18-06-2026 01:35 via abbynews.com
  
  Nominations are now open for the 30th annual Abbotsford Business Excellence Awards.
  The community is encouraged to nominate businesses and they will be accepted until Monday, Sept. 7 at 4:30 p.m.
  The submissions will then be reviewed by a panel of community leaders and the gala presentation event is set for the Clarion Hotel and Conference Centre on Thursday, Nov. 12.
  View this post on InstagramA post shared by Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce (@abbotsfordchamber)The Pearl Anniversary for the ABA&
  
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• B.C.’s Jim Hiller lands Toronto Maple Leafs head coaching job

  18-06-2026 01:30 via abbynews.com
  
  Nearly 10 per cent of all NHL head coaches now hail from Vancouver Island.
  That number jumped on Wednesday (June 17) when the Toronto Maple Leafs tapped Port Alberni’s Jim Hiller to take over their bench. Hiller was named the 41st head coach in the franchise’s history.
  He joins Victoria’s Spencer Carbery of the Washington Capitals and Campbell River’s Rod Brind’Amour of the Carolina Hurricanes on the list of NHL bench bosses from the Island.
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• A cut above the rest: Kelowna barber shop helps senior after wheelchair breaks

  18-06-2026 01:30 via abbynews.com
  
  A Kelowna barbershop put down their scissors to help a man in need on Wednesday, June 17.
  ​Raman Sharma was sitting at HighFade Barbershop in Rutland for a haircut when he noticed a number of barbers immediately stop what they were doing to help a man in a wheelchair whose tire had fallen off outside the store.
  ​Sharma tells Black Press Media the interaction between strangers was a friendly reminder that there are still good people in the world who do good things for others.
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• ‘Unidentified substance’ poured on to Port Coquitlam Terry Fox statue: RCMP

  18-06-2026 01:17 via abbynews.com
  
  An “unidentified substance” has been poured on the Terry Fox statue in Port Coquitlam and police are now investigating.
  Coquitlam RCMP received a report on Wednesday (June 17) of alleged mischief to the statue, which is located in the 2100-block of Wilson Avenue in Port Coquitlam, according to a news release from police on the same day.
  Police said that between midnight on June 12 and 7 a.m. on June 13, the “unidentified substance” appears to have been poured onto the sta
  
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• Addressing an epidemic: Bailey’s Law on intimate partner violence becomes official

  18-06-2026 01:15 via abbynews.com
  
  After months of lobbying and lawmaking, Canada’s Criminal Code will soon be amended.
  On Wednesday, June 17, Bill C-225 received Royal Assent, just one day after passing its third reading in the Senate.
  Bill C-225, sponsored by Kamloops-Thompson-Nicola MP Frank Caputo, is also known as “Bailey’s Law,” named after McCourt, who died on July 4, 2025, following a violent daytime attack in a Kelowna parking lot.
  Her estranged ex-husband, James Plover, is facing first-degree mur
  
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• Caltrops found in dirt on popular Comox Valley trail

  18-06-2026 00:06 via abbynews.com
  
  Comox Valley RCMP and Comox Valley Search & Rescue (CVSAR) have both released safety notices to local trail users after a cluster of metal spikes were found hidden in the dirt on a trail along the Puntledge River pipeline.
  Mountain biker Eric Roy’s tire was punctured on June 14. The rider returned to check the trail the next day, only to find several more of the metal devices, called caltrops, obscured in the dirt. The caltrops were found near the Stotan Falls Fish Passage area and Pow
  
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• US$15.7 billion floating LNG facility proposed for northwest B.C.

  17-06-2026 23:59 via abbynews.com
  
  A US$15.7-billion floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project proposed for Prince Rupert has attracted one of the world’s largest shipbuilders and offshore energy companies.
  South Korea-based Hanwha Ocean announced June 16 it signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Vancouver-based Kanata Clean Power & Climate Technologies regarding the proposed development.
  Kanata estimates the project would have an export capacity of up to 12 million tonnes of LNG annually,
  
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• Former U.S. homeland security secretary Noem joins B.C. mining company’s board

  17-06-2026 23:40 via abbynews.com
  
  Kristi Noem, the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, has joined the advisory board of a B.C. mining exploration company.
  NovaRed Mining Inc. announced Tuesday (June 16) that Noem has joined the company “in a strategic advisory role to support NovaRed’s mission of acquiring and advancing critical mineral exploration opportunities through its artificial intelligence-enhanced technology platform.”
  Noem said she looks forward to “supporting the company’s strateg
  
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• Hudbay opens New Ingerbelle Expansion near Princeton

  17-06-2026 23:22 via abbynews.com
  
  Hudbay Minerals Inc. has celebrated the opening of the New Ingerbelle Expansion Project at the Copper Mountain Mine near Princeton.
  The official opening was held on June 16 and was attended by Jagrup Brar, B.C.’s Minister of Mining and Critical Minerals, Chief Charles Allison of the Upper Similkameen Indian Band, as well as local and regional stakeholders.
  “This is an important day for the Copper Mountain Mine, for Princeton and for the Similkameen region,” said Peter Kukielski
  
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• BC Hydro unveils plan to increase capacity by 7% through dam upgrades

  17-06-2026 23:17 via abbynews.com
  
  B.C. is continuing its push for more power with planned upgrades to several dams throughout the province that the energy minister says will provide as much as 1,000 megawatts of new capacity, a seven-per-cent boost.
  “The least expensive thing to do is squeeze every electron out of the network of dams, substations, transmission and distribution systems to ensure we have the capacity we need,” said Adrian Dix, B.C.’s energy minister, at a Wednesday (June 17) press conference.
  For
  
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• Scientists watch for super El Niño’s potential impact on B.C.

  17-06-2026 22:15 via abbynews.com
  
  The Yukon and Western provinces could be looking at a warmer winter next season as scientists around the world have officially declared the formation of an El Niño weather pattern.
  On June 11, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) declared an El Niño year following earlier predictions by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations.
  According to research scientist Bill Merryfield of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC), the formation
  
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• Alcohol tied to higher pancreatic cancer risk: UVic study

  17-06-2026 22:05 via abbynews.com
  
  A new study led by researchers at the University of Victoria has added to growing evidence that alcohol consumption can increase the risk of developing pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease.
  The research, conducted by the university’s Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (CISUR), found a dose-response relationship between alcohol use and pancreatic cancer after accounting for several factors that can affect study results.
  The findings were published in the I
  
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• Williams Lake business owner devastated after delivery van fire deemed suspicious

  17-06-2026 21:55 via abbynews.com
  
  Emotions still ran high for Gwen Balmer early Monday morning, June 15.
  “I can’t that fix that,” she exclaimed to Black Press Media, before weeping after a suspect threw an object breaking the window of one her vans used to deliver water in Williams Lake setting it on fire a few days earlier.
  The owner of the Williams Lake Water Factory was doing a delivery to West Fraser in her other van early Saturday evening, June 13, before returning to a scene of fire trucks and firefighter
  
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