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• Upon reflection…

  30-05-2022 16:30 via abbynews.com
  
  West Kelowna artist Paul Butvila finds his niche
  
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• Man found dead in Surrey, IHIT takes over investigation

  22-03-2026 18:25 via abbynews.com
  One man is dead and a suspect is in custody after what police describe as an isolated incident in Surrey.
  Surrey Police Service (SPS) says that RCMP Surrey Provincial Operations Support Unit (SPOSU) officers responded to assist a situation that occurred yesterday (March 21) at approximately 11:15 a.m.
  SPOSU officers were called to help BCEHS and Surrey Fire Services with an unresponsive injured man in the 9800 block of Foxglove Drive, Surrey.
  Upon arrival, officers found a man receiving treatmen
  
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• BC Ferries cancels multiple Swartz Bay–Tsawwassen sailings

  22-03-2026 18:11 via abbynews.com
  Several ferry sailings between Victoria and Tsawwassen have been cancelled Sunday, March 22, after a mechanical problem with a vessel’s generator, according to BC Ferries.
  Cancellations for the day include the 11 a.m., 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. sailings from Swartz Bay, as well as the 1 p.m., 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. departures from Tsawwassen.#ServiceNotice Due to a mechanical difficulty with the vessel’s starboard generator, additional sailings between #SwartzBay – #Tsawwassen today have be
  
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• Iain Black endorsed for Conservative leadership by Vernon MP who once held the job

  22-03-2026 18:00 via abbynews.com
  Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee MP Scott Anderson has endorsed Iain Black as the candidate he’d most like to see win the B.C. Conservative Party’s leadership race.
  Anderson was the leader of the Conservatives from 2017 to 2019, when the party was on the margins of B.C. politics. The party’s next leader will take over the province’s Official Opposition.
  Black previously spoke to The Morning Star during a stop at Jitter Beans Coffee House in Lumby last month, when he described
  
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• VIDEO: Vancouver Giants end regular season with overtime loss to Kamloops

  22-03-2026 17:00 via abbynews.com
  Vancouver Giants ended their regular season with an overtime loss to the Kamloops Blazers Saturday night at Langley Events Centre on Fan Appreciation Night.Kamloops took a 1-0 lead late in the first and extended it to 2-0 early in the second. Vancouver cut into the lead with a goal from Ethan Mittelsteadt at the 6:41 mark of the second period and then got the tying goal from Joe Iginla late in the middle frame. Vancouver took their first lead of the game with a goal from Mathis Preston midway th
  
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• VIDEO: Best-attended, most-watched All-Native tournament wraps in B.C.

  22-03-2026 04:00 via abbynews.com
  The big one is done.
  More than 300 games over five days, featuring 129 teams from across the province, came to a close Friday at the finals of the 50th annual Junior All Native Tournament (JANT 2026) at Langley Events Centre.
  It was the biggest Indigenous competition of its kind in B.C., the best-attended and most-watched ever, with 2,400 fans watching at Centre Court for the highest attended championship finals day in tournament history, while online, more than 373,000 cumulative viewers tuned
  
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• Buchnevich leads visiting St. Louis Blues to 3-1 win over Canucks

  22-03-2026 02:40 via abbynews.com
  Pavel Buchnevich had a goal and an assist, lifting the visiting St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks in NHL action Saturday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver.
  Pius Suter had the other goal for the Blues (28-30-11), with Logan Mailloux adding two assists. Jordan Binnington picked up the win in goal, making 14 saves.
  Filip Hronek had the lone goal for Vancouver (21-40-8). Kevin Lankinen took the loss in net, stopping 18 shots.
  The teams battled through a low-event first period, with
  
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• No injuries after small airplane makes hard landing at B.C. airport

  22-03-2026 01:02 via abbynews.com
  Update: 5 p.m.
  There were no injuries after an airplane made an emergency landing at the Vernon Airport Saturday afternoon.
  A privately registered twin-engine plane advised that it had a mechanical issue with the aircraft’s nose landing gear around 1:30 p.m. March 21, according to City of Vernon spokesperson Jessica Hewitt.
  As a safety precaution, emergency crews were dispatched to the airport for standby.
  The aircraft had one person aboard. It landed safely at 1:48 p.m., Hewitt said.
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• VIDEO: Early morning blast and fire rocks rural Langley

  22-03-2026 01:00 via abbynews.com
  Six Township fire trucks and 30 firefighters spent several hours battling a massive barn fire on 256 St. north of 24 Ave. in Langley Saturday morning.
  It took several hours to extinguish and forced a shutdown of the street. No injuries were reported.
  Neighbour Art Bandeniuks, who used to own the property where the barn was located, said the area was rocked by “a gigantic blast” that sent a fireball and clouds of smoke billowing high into the air, destroying the strcuture, a former da
  
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• Vancouver Goldeneyes fall to Minnesota Frost 3-1

  22-03-2026 00:58 via abbynews.com
  The Vancouver Goldeneyes’ five-game homestand ended in defeat, as the team lost to the Minnesota Frost 3-1.
  Vancouver hosted the Frost Saturday (March 21) at the Pacific Coliseum in front of a crowd of 10,366 people.
  This was Minnesota’s fifth consecutive win, and they are currently tied for first place in the league with 42 points.
  The Frost’s Natalie Buchbinder opened up the scoring in the first period on a power play. Kelly Pannek and Britta Curl-Salemme also scored. Goalten
  
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• Flood watch for Fraser Valley downgraded to high streamflow advisory

  21-03-2026 22:33 via abbynews.com
  A flood watch that was issued for the Fraser Valley three days ago was downgraded to a high streamflow advisory by B.C.’s River Forecast Centre on Saturday (March 21).
  The flood watch was issued for the Lower Fraser tributaries and the Fraser Valley, plus other areas on the South Coast, on March 18.
  The Fraser Valley Regional District declared a state of local emergency for Electoral Area E on March 19 due to an atmospheric river in the Chilliwack River Valley and surrounding areas. Proper
  
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• VIDEO: A road loss to Kamloops for Vancouver Giants

  21-03-2026 19:00 via abbynews.com
  Vancouver Giants were within reach of a win in Kamloops Friday, but it wasn’t their night, as a Blazer surge in the third took them down 7-3 at the Sandman Centre.
  Giants Assistant Coach Gaelan Patterson described it as a “very offensively driven game for both teams. We get into the third and we’re a goal away and we have a couple opportunities. It gets away from us in the end, but it was a close game. We were happy with the work ethic that we put in.”Kamloops draft-eligi
  
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• ‘Potential risk’: Canada ends longtime Weatheradio service, leaving some forecast-less

  21-03-2026 16:33 via abbynews.com
  When one Revelstoke resident and former search and rescue volunteer recently tuned into Weatheradio — a service providing daily forecasts for communities across Canada — he was surprised to find the local channel turned off.
  On Monday, March 16, Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) ended Weatheradio and telephone-based Hello Weather amid federal budget cuts, leaving a hole in valuable forecasting for rural communities.
  Launched in 1976, Weatheradio played an important role ke
  
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• 6 B.C. temperature records broken on first day of spring, all in Okanagan region

  21-03-2026 15:20 via abbynews.com
  The heat was felt on the first day of spring as more temperature records were broken.
  On Friday, Mar. 20, six temperature records were broken in B.C., all in the Okanagan region.
  The Peach City itself, Penticton was the warmest place on Friday, reaching 22 C. That broke the 98-year Mar. 20 record of 17.8 C in 1928.
  Next was Osoyoos, where the temperature reached 21.4 C, a full degree more than the 2024 record of 20.4 C.
  Temperatures reaching 20 C broke an 111-year-old record in Salmon Arm on Fri
  
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• PHOTOS: Sidney dive reveals years worth of ‘ghost gear’ tangled on the seabed

  21-03-2026 13:30 via abbynews.com
  Generations of residents have enjoyed the fish and crab caught from the pier in Sidney.
  A giant pile of “ghost gear” – abandoned traps, pots, lines and nets – tangling the waters and nestled into the sea bottom serves as a testament to the cut lines“What we found down there was eye opening. The seafloor beneath the pier is littered with years worth of lost and discarded traps, many of which have been there so long they’re falling apart on the bottom,” sa
  
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• B.C. allowing old-growth logging despite protection promise, experts say

  21-03-2026 01:40 via abbynews.com
  Some of B.C.’s rarest and most irreplaceable old-growth trees are being cut down despite the land having been set aside for protection, according to a leaked letter to the premier from a panel of experts.
  “We are causing extinction,” ecologist and panel member Rachel Holt said in an interview. “We are causing significant global impact with the logging of some of these forests. And we need to do something about that.”
  Holt is one of five experts who were appointed to
  
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• Abbotsford named third-best Canadian city to live in

  21-03-2026 00:30 via abbynews.com
  Abbotsford residents are living in the third-best city in Canada, according to a recent study from marketing agency dNOVO Group.
  This study analyzed various qualities of the 28 biggest cities in the country and ranked them based on how livable they are.
  The most impactful categories were disposable income and quality of life, while safety accounted for 20 per cent of the total rating, and pollution and number of attractions were the least impactful.
  Abbotsford came in at number three, only being
  
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• Airport pitched for South Surrey

  20-03-2026 22:17 via abbynews.com
  British Columbia’s Transportation and Transit Minister Mike Farnworth discussed lobbying the federal government for an airport to be built in South Surrey’s Campbell Heights.
  Scott Wheatley, executive director of the Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce, raised the subject during a Q&A with the minister March 18 at the Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel, where Farnworth was a guest speaker focusing on transportation and networks and infrastructure for Surrey, White Rock and th
  
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• OPINION: When dental care disappears, emergency rooms fill up

  20-03-2026 21:40 via abbynews.com
  Across B.C., emergency rooms are already under enormous pressure. But one preventable problem continues to send patients through hospital doors: untreated dental pain and infection.
  When people cannot access basic dental care, they often have nowhere else to go but the ER — where doctors can manage pain, but not the underlying problem. Throughout the province, not-for-profit (NFP) dental clinics are helping stop that cycle before it starts.
  On behalf of our over 4,000 dentist members, the
  
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• Hometown hero Jenn Gardiner joins Surrey fitness class for workout

  20-03-2026 21:00 via abbynews.com
  The vibes were high and the music was pumping as three dozen people worked out alongside Canadian Olympian Jenn Gardiner on Thursday (March 20).
  Orangetheory Fitness’s South Surrey location (15355 24 Ave.) hosted a Sweat & Social with the Olympic silver medallist.
  Gardiner, who grew up in Cloverdale, plays for the Vancouver Goldeneyes in the Professional Women’s Hockey League (PWHL) and recently represented Canada on the women’s hockey team in the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter
  
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• Farnworth says no to road pricing

  20-03-2026 20:30 via abbynews.com
  British Columbia’s Transportation and Transit Minister Mike Farnworth told a Surrey business crowd on March 18 that there will be no road pricing on his watch.
  Road pricing involves charging motorists for using roads through tolls, or fees based on distance or time travelled, or imposing a congestion levy.
  Mike Farnworth was the guest speaker, focusing on transportation and networks and infrastructure for Surrey, White Rock and the surrounding region during a luncheon at the Sheraton Vanco
  
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• Layoffs hit University of the Fraser Valley amid $20 million deficit

  20-03-2026 20:25 via abbynews.com
  Universities across B.C. have been feeling the squeeze following the federal government’s cap on international students, with layoffs hitting dozens of these institutions, including the University of the Fraser Valley.
  A total of 45 faculty and staff members were recently laid off in an attempt to bridge the $20 million deficit impacting UFV in the 2026/27 fiscal year.
  UFV has campuses in Abbotsford, Chilliwack, Mission, and Hope.
  The school’s Faculty and Staff Association (FSA), whi
  
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• Driver pleads guilty in crash that killed former Abbotsford trustee

  20-03-2026 19:37 via abbynews.com
  A driver who was responsible for the crash that killed former Abbotsford school trustee Phil Anderson has pleaded guilty to one of the three charges he faced.
  According to court records, Jaswinder Deol, 44, pleaded guilty on March 13 in Abbotsford provincial court to a count of dangerous driving causing death.
  Two charges of impaired driving causing death are expected to be stayed at sentencing.
  Deol’s next court appearance is scheduled for July 30 for a pre-sentence report.
  The two-vehicl
  
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• ‘Keeping residents safe, protecting homes’ the focus in the Chilliwack River Valley, says area rep

  20-03-2026 18:31 via abbynews.com
  Preventative flood mitigation was underway along Sheldon Road on Thursday, March 19 in the FVRD’s Electoral Area E where several properties are the subject of an evacuation alert from the Fraser Valley Regional District.
  “With the State of Local Emergency in place, our focus continues to be on keeping residents safe and protecting homes throughout the Chilliwack River Valley,” said Patti MacAhonic, FVRD Area E Director.
  “Today, proactive work was completed along Sheldon R
  
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• Chilliwack River Valley focus is on ‘keeping residents safe, protecting homes’: FVRD rep

  20-03-2026 18:31 via abbynews.com
  Preventative flood mitigation was underway along Sheldon Road on Thursday, March 19 in the FVRD’s Electoral Area E where several properties are the subject of an evacuation alert from the Fraser Valley Regional District.
  “With the State of Local Emergency in place, our focus continues to be on keeping residents safe and protecting homes throughout the Chilliwack River Valley,” said Patti MacAhonic, FVRD Area E Director.
  “Today, proactive work was completed along Sheldon R
  
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• Travel advisory issued for Highway 1 from Rosedale to Hope

  20-03-2026 18:30 via abbynews.com
  Drive BC has issued a travel advisory along Highway 1 from Rosedale to Hope.
  On Friday morning, Drive BC advised motorists to use caution on Highway 1 between Bridal Falls Road (exit 138) to Old Hope-Princeton Highway (Exit 171) in both directions. Drivers are advised to use caution according to conditions, watch for potholes and obey signage in the area.
  There may be intermittent lane closures as crews work to repair potholes.
  More to come.
  
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• Surrey road survey says 82% of respondents drive to work

  20-03-2026 18:25 via abbynews.com
  Eighty-two per cent of people who responded to a recent Surrey roads survey looking at more than 4,500 lane kilometres of roadway said they drive themselves to work, while eight per cent work from home, seven per cent use transit, two per cent walk and one per cent cycle.
  So reveals the Surrey & White Rock Board of Trade’s 10th annual Surrey Roads Survey Report for 2026, conducted from Dec. 17, 2025 to Jan. 23, 2026 and presented by the board’s CEO Joslyn Young during a luncheon
  
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• West Coast Express back to normal service, slide cleared in Maple Ridge

  20-03-2026 18:15 via abbynews.com
  A mudslide in Maple Ridge has been cleared from the railway tracks, and the West Coast Express will run on time Friday evening, March 20.
  The commuter trains were stopped from reaching the easternmost stations after heavy rains brought a slide onto the Canadian Pacific Kansas City tracks near the Port Haney Station. Riders had their evening commute disrupted on Thursday night, diverted to Skytrain and buses to get back home.#WCE UPDATE: West Coast Express track issue has been resolved and regula
  
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• Maple Ridge pharmacist suspended, fined $30k

  20-03-2026 17:45 via abbynews.com
  A Maple Ridge pharmacist has been suspended for three years and fined $30,000 over his handling of controlled drugs.
  The College of Pharmacists of BC conducted an inspection at Lougheed Pharmacy, which was managed by Sahil Sharma, almost two years ago, in May 2024. An investigation by the college followed.
  A college inquiry committee and Sharma agreed to resolve all issues by a consent agreement, which came into effect last month. The college also issued a public notification on its bcpharmacist
  
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• City of Nelson pushes for federal ‘duty of care’ law for digital platforms

  20-03-2026 17:40 via abbynews.com
  Is it a municipal government’s job to confront online companies such as Open AI, X, and Roblox about the online harms they cause?
  Nelson city councillor Keith Page thinks it is.
  He says society expects a car manufacturer or a food producer to be held accountable for the quality of their products and to face consequences if that product proves to be harmful. Online platforms, he says, should be held to the same duty of care.
  At council’s Feb. 3 meeting, Page proposed that Nelson counc
  
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