Chilliwack news

• Chilliwack council OK’s 72-room, 5-storey hotel behind Centex gas station on Lickman Road

  12-10-2023 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Following a public hearing that saw no one from the community voice opposition Tuesday night (Oct. 10), Chilliwack city council has approved a zoning bylaw amendment and two development variance permits that will facilitate a 72-room, five-storey hotel and industrial development to be located just behind a Centex gas station on Lickman Road in Chilliwack.The applicant, listed as Joe Dhaliwal in city staff reports, had asked the city of Chilliwack to rezone a section of the pro
  
  Read more

• Industry prepares as avian flu cases expected to increase as birds migrate south

  12-10-2023 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Animal health experts are warning about avian flu returning to poultry farms as wild birds begin migrating south for the winter.
  Ray Nickel, spokesman for the B.C. Poultry Association Emergency Operations Centre, said farmers and operators are using the lessons they learned over the past year to better prepare for potential outbreaks this fall.
  “After the onslaught from last year, we had a very quiet summer, which we were quite thankful for,” he said in an interview
  
  Read more

• Alberta premier’s visit to House of Commons environment committee cancelled

  12-10-2023 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s scheduled appearance before a House of Commons environment committee next week has been cancelled.
  Smith had said she would speak before the environment and sustainable development committee on Tuesday.
  But Smith’s office says the committee won’t be able to meet that day because some of its members can’t attend. 
  Her spokesman says the premier would be happy to rebook her appearance for a later date.
  The committee had
  
  Read more

• News media lobby group says Google concerns about Online News Act are valid

  12-10-2023 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A lobby group for Canada’s newspapers and magazines says it agrees with many of the issues raised by Google about a law that will force the tech giant to compensate those same publishers for use of their work.
  Paul Deegan, head of News Media Canada, says in a statement that the concerns Google publicly outlined last week about the Online News Act are welcome, constructive and legitimate.He says that News Media Canada, which represents hundreds of publications, agrees with G
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Robert Wickens on cusp of winning a championship 5 years after he was paralyzed in IndyCar crash

  12-10-2023 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Robert Wickens was determined from the very first days after his life-changing 2018 IndyCar accident not to let it define — or end — his racing career.
  The Canadian was 29 years old at the time, engaged to be married, and a breakout rookie star in a United States-based racing series after a successful career in Europe. Wickens nearly won his IndyCar debut, scored four podiums, and was sixth in the championship race when he sailed into the fence at Pocono Raceway with three races rema
  
  Read more

• ‘We have to do what it takes’: Israeli-Canadian reservists say they’re ready to fight

  12-10-2023 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Temima Silver is waiting for the call to report for duty in the Israeli military. 
  Born and raised in Ottawa, the 21-year-old moved to Israel in 2020 to join the Israel Defense Forces. Released from service last year, Silver said she recently responded to a call asking members of her former platoon to voluntarily return to duty after Hamas attacked Israel on Saturday.
  Hundreds of people, including young children, were killed in the attacks, whose targets included a music fe
  
  Read more

• B.C. pilots housing project for pregnant people struggling with ... - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 22:33
  
  B.C. pilots housing project for pregnant people struggling with ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Riders’ defensive back Williams following in his father’s footsteps

  12-10-2023 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  For Deontai Williams, father does indeed know best.
  Williams is in his first season as a defensive back with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. But before the 27-year-old Jacksonville, Fla., native made the trek north, he consulted with his father, Roosevelt, about CFL life and the nuances of Canadian football.
  The elder Williams was also a defensive back who played with the Edmonton Elks in 2006 following NFL stints with Chicago Bears (2002) and Cleveland Browns (2003).
  “He said, ‘Son, y
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• John Herdman approaches massive Toronto FC rescue job with a smile on his face

  12-10-2023 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — John Herdman is no stranger to rescue jobs.
  He took over a Canadian women’s team that was broken after finishing last at the 2011 FIFA World Cup. And he recalls on-field bust-ups during his first two camps in charge of the Canadian men in 2018. 
  Now Herdman is entrusted with reviving Toronto FC, which has reverted to its status as Major League Soccer doormat.
  It’s a herculean task, but one Herdman has started with a smile on his face. Leaving the morass that is C
  
  Read more

• RCMP dispute photojournalist's B.C. pipeline protest arrest account - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 22:00
  
  RCMP dispute photojournalist's B.C. pipeline protest arrest account  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin, acquitted on sex assault charge, settles lawsuit

  12-10-2023 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin has reached an undisclosed settlement in his lawsuit over how the Canadian military and federal government responded to an allegation of sexual misconduct.
  Fortin was removed as head of Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout campaign in May 2021 while he was under investigation for an allegation dating back to 1988, when he was at military college.
  He was charged with one count of sexual assault in August 2021, for which he was acquitted in last December aft
  
  Read more

• Treaties with Métis could be negotiated after self-government bill passes: minister

  12-10-2023 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the federal government could enter into treaties with Métis nations after the passage of Bill C-53.
  He said in a recent interview that the bill is a framework, and “we will at some point get to that stage” of entering into formal treaties.
  The minister’s comments come as the bill, which would affirm Métis rights to self-determination and self-governance in Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan
  
  Read more

• B.C. Real Estate Association says sales activity impacted by high cost of borrowing

  12-10-2023 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Home sales in British Columbia were up in September by more than 10 per cent from the same time last year. 
  However, the B.C. Real Estate Association says sales activity is clearly being affected by the Bank of Canada’s policy on interest rates and the subsequent rise in interest rates. 
  Chief economist Brendon Ogmundson says home sales are trending at below average levels as potential buyers struggle with the high cost of borrowing.
  Active listings in the provi
  
  Read more

• Kimberley to host 2024 BC Hockey Junior A Championships - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 21:42
  
  Kimberley to host 2024 BC Hockey Junior A Championships  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• PHOTOS: Groups for, against SOGI clash in Chilliwack again - Maple Ridge News

  12-10-2023 21:32
  
  PHOTOS: Groups for, against SOGI clash in Chilliwack again  Maple Ridge News
  
  Read more

• Mission RCMP uncover the real reason a male crashed his car on Lougheed Highway

  12-10-2023 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAKE ERROCK — Mission RCMP say they responded to a single-vehicle collision over the Thanksgiving long weekend, only to learn that a man’s alibi didn’t hold water.
  According to a Facebook post from the Mission RCMP, Mounties attended a single-vehicle collision on Sunday evening, October 8 in the 43200 block of Lougheed Highway in Lake Errock. The small unincorporated community east of Mission is within their detachment coverage area.Police say a 56-year-old male was identified
  
  Read more

• Canada’s Roger Sloan sees return to PGA Tour as a product of diligent work

  12-10-2023 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Roger Sloan and his team sat down earlier this year and re-examined his entire process as a golfer. How he practises, his nutrition, everything. Their goal was to make the 36-year-old from Merritt, B.C., the best player that he could be. 
  Getting promoted back to the PGA Tour on Sunday, the top level of men’s professional golf, was just a bonus to that evolution.
  “We really thoroughly defined what our identity as a player is, what I need to be doing to get better every single ye
  
  Read more

• Groove with The Maybelles at 4 upcoming concerts in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 21:24
  
  Groove with The Maybelles at 4 upcoming concerts in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Groove with The Maybelles at 4 upcoming concerts in Chilliwack - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  12-10-2023 21:24
  
  Groove with The Maybelles at 4 upcoming concerts in Chilliwack  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
  Read more

• Canadian team of 473 athletes to compete in Pan American Games

  12-10-2023 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A team of 473 athletes will represent Canada at the upcoming Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile.
  The quadrennial Pan Am Games featuring over 6,000 athletes from 41 countries in the Americas and Caribbean open Oct. 20 and close Nov. 5.
  Canada’s athletes will be joined by 235 support staff, the Canadian Olympic Committee said.
  The Pan Am Games are an Olympic qualifier in 21 of the 39 sports with athletes attempting to book a berth to Paris in 2024.
  Canada finished third in
  
  Read more

• US Defense Secretary Austin to visit Israel on Friday to discuss military aid following Hamas attack

  12-10-2023 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin plans to visit Israel on Friday, the second high-level U.S. official to visit Tel Aviv in two days, in a deliberate show of support and an effort to determine what additional military aid is needed in the war with Hamas.
  Austin is expected to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, said a U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive travel details Austin’s arr
  
  Read more

• Bernie Sanders to address NDP convention in pre-recorded video

  12-10-2023 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — United States Sen. Bernie Sanders is throwing his support behind Canada’s New Democrats in a pre-recorded video the party aims to play at its policy convention on Friday.
  The former U.S. presidential candidate says in the seven-minute video that he’s a long-time fan of the NDP.
  He delivers a warning to party faithful about what he says are massive attacks on the foundations of democracy and rule of law around the world. 
  He says that in his own country, millions
  
  Read more

• Science helping get disabled people into the world of gaming - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 20:30
  
  Science helping get disabled people into the world of gaming  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Bear tiptoes into Tiptons in Lake Cowichan on Thanksgiving morning - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 20:29
  
  Bear tiptoes into Tiptons in Lake Cowichan on Thanksgiving morning  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Veteran QB Mitchell to make first home start for Hamilton Tiger-Cats

  12-10-2023 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — It’s taken longer — much longer — than expected but Bo Levi Mitchell will finally make a home start for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  The veteran quarterback will be under centre Friday night when Hamilton (8-8) hosts the B.C. Lions (11-5). Injuries have limited Michell to just four starts this season, all coming on the road.
  That certainly wasn’t the plan when Hamilton acquired Mitchell’s rights from Calgary last November, then signed him to a three-yea
  
  Read more

• Chilliwack councillor says city is desperate for housing as 5-storey complex near Vedder is OK’d

  12-10-2023 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack city council approved a zoning bylaw amendment and a development permit variance request at its meeting on Tuesday (Oct. 10) that would facilitate the construction of a five-storey complex south of Vedder Road and Keith Wilson Road near Vedder Crossing.The applicant, listed as 1356981 BC Ltd. and/or Kamaljit Gill in city documents, had petitioned the City of Chilliwack to rezone 45631 and 45641 Morton Road, about 150 metres north of the Vedder Bridge, in order to bu
  
  Read more

• Health ministers are set to wrap up two days of meetings in Charlottetown

  12-10-2023 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHARLOTTETOWN — Federal Health Minister Mark Holland and his provincial and territorial counterparts are wrapping up two days of meetings in Prince Edward Island today.
  Earlier this week, Holland said a focus of these meetings would be how provinces and territories are going to expand their health workforces and retain those already there amid what many advocates have called a crisis in health care.
  Members of the Canadian Health Coalition, P.E.I. Health Coalition, the P.E.I. Federation of
  
  Read more

• Former Mountie tells court he was unaware of secrets sent to investigative targets

  12-10-2023 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A former RCMP investigator who worked on a money laundering probe says he was unaware at the time that someone had sent secret information to people who were of interest to authorities.
  Retired staff sergeant Patrick Martin testified today in the trial of Cameron Jay Ortis, a former RCMP intelligence official charged with breaching Canada’s secrets law.
  Ortis, 51, has pleaded not guilty to violating the Security of Information Act by allegedly revealing secrets to three indi
  
  Read more

• Walk of Fame induction invitation invisible for Trooper's elite - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 19:38
  
  Walk of Fame induction invitation invisible for Trooper's elite  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• San Francisco man, 31, identified as driver who rammed vehicle into Chinese consulate

  12-10-2023 19:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A 31-year-old San Francisco man has been identified as the driver who was shot and killed by police after crashing a car into the Chinese consulate on Monday, drawing condemnation from the White House and Chinese government.The city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner identified the driver as Zhanyuan Yang on Thursday. The office said in an email it had no additional information to disclose.Yang rammed a vehicle into the visa office of the consulate. A witness
  
  Read more

• NHL’s Ottawa Senators enter jersey sponsorship agreement with CIBC

  12-10-2023 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have entered into a multiyear agreement with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce that will see the bank’s logo featured on the NHL club’s home jersey.
  The new jerseys will first appear when the Senators play their 2023-34 home opener Saturday against Philadelphia.
  It will mark the first time the Senators have worn a sponsor’s logo on their jerseys.
  The agreement includes branding opportunities for CIBC throughout Canadian Tire Centre.
  Senat
  
  Read more

• Supreme Court to rule if federal environmental impact assessment law can stand

  12-10-2023 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s highest court is slated to rule Friday on federal environmental legislation in a decision expected to settle — for now — the role of different levels of government in balancing the economic benefits and environmental costs of resource development.   
  The Supreme Court has said it will deliver its ruling on the constitutionality of Bill C-69, known in Ottawa as the Impact Assessment Act and in Alberta government circles as the No More Pipelines Act. Depending
  
  Read more

• B.C. construction workers demanding flushing toilets at work sites - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 19:12
  
  B.C. construction workers demanding flushing toilets at work sites  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• CP NewsAlert: Saskatchewan tables school pronoun bill, invokes notwithstanding clause

  12-10-2023 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan government has tabled legislation and the notwithstanding clause to prevent children under 16 from changing their names or pronouns at school without parental consent.
  A judge granted an injunction at the end of September pausing the Saskatchewan Party government’s pronoun policy.
  Premier Scott Moe pledged the same day to recall the legislature early and invoke the notwithstanding clause, a rarely used provision that allows governments to override certain Ch
  
  Read more

• PODCAST: Best Environmental Home – HAVAN Awards - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 19:01
  
  PODCAST: Best Environmental Home – HAVAN Awards  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Loving, proud, kind, joyful: Who were the three Canadians killed by Hamas in Israel

  12-10-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Friends and family have confirmed that at least three Canadians were killed last weekend when Hamas militants conducted a series of brutal attacks in Israel.
  Two Canadian men were killed by Hamas gunmen who ambushed a music festival in southern Israel, according to their loved ones in Canada. And an Israeli Canadian mother of two was killed in her kibbutz, a communal farming settlement, an Ottawa Jewish group said.
  At least 2,700 people have been killed so far in the conflict spar
  
  Read more

• Canadian police forces upping local patrols in response to Israel-Hamas war

  12-10-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Some Canadian police forces say they are increasing local patrols in response to the Israel-Hamas war while offering assurances they have not received any credible threats. 
  Toronto police Chief Myron Demkiw says there have been no specific credible threats locally, but the war has shaken the feelings of peace and security in the city.
  He says police divisions have been directed to “ensure a high visibility presence,” and increased patrols announced earlier this
  
  Read more

• New indictment charges Sen. Menendez with being an unregistered agent of the Egyptian government

  12-10-2023 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York City have rewritten their indictment against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and his wife to charge them with conspiring to have him act as an agent of Egypt and Egyptian officials.
  The superseding indictment was filed in Manhattan federal court on Thursday. It says the conspiracy occurred from January 2018 to June 2022.
  Messages left with Menendez’s Senate staff and attorney were not immediately answered.
  The new charge comes just
  
  Read more

• Five officers shot and wounded in Minnesota, authorities say; suspect not in custody

  12-10-2023 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCETON, Minn. (AP) — Five law enforcement officers were shot and wounded Thursday morning in an incident near the east-central Minnesota city of Princeton, authorities said.
  The suspect was not in custody and the incident was ongoing hours later.
  Three of the officers were taken to North Memorial Hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Robbinsdale while two were taken to a hospital in St. Cloud, said Robbinsdale Police Capt. John Elder, who was assisting the hospital, and added that none
  
  Read more

• Fulham teenager Luc de Fougerolles impresses at Canada camp ahead of Japan friendly

  12-10-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s been quite a week for Luc de Fougerolles, and it’s not over yet.
  The London-born defender, who qualifies for Canada through his Canadian-born father, turned 18 in Japan where he is wearing Canadian colours for the first time. De Fougerolles and the 44th-ranked Canadians take on No. 19 Japan on Friday in Niigata in an international friendly.
  Interim Canada coach Mauro Biello is no stranger to the Fulham teenager, having called him up twice earlier this year to the Canadian under-
  
  Read more

• Hall & Oates earworm finally canned as Leafs’ goal celebration song

  12-10-2023 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — After a five-year run, the Toronto Maple Leafs and Hall & Oates are out of touch.
  The pop duo’s hit “You Make My Dreams” had been the Maple Leafs goal celebration song for the past five NHL seasons. 
  Given that the Leafs were reliably among the top-scoring teams over that stretch, fans at Scotiabank Arena were frequently exposed to the upbeat earworm that hit No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1981.
  That has come to an end this season, however. When forw
  
  Read more

• Blue Jays president Shapiro says general manager Atkins will return next season

  12-10-2023 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Blue Jays president Mark Shapiro says general manager Ross Atkins will return next season.
  The status of the GM was one of the first questions Shapiro was asked during his end-of-season media availability today at Rogers Centre.The Blue Jays were eliminated in the American League wild-card series last week in Minnesota.
  It was the third time in four years that the Blue Jays were swept in the first round.
  Toronto qualified for the playoffs on the penultimate day of the regular season.
  The
  
  Read more

• Person 'seriously injured' at Chilliwack construction site - Mission City Record

  12-10-2023 17:45
  
  Person 'seriously injured' at Chilliwack construction site  Mission City Record
  
  Read more

• Person 'seriously injured' at Chilliwack construction site - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 17:45
  
  Person 'seriously injured' at Chilliwack construction site  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• 16-year-old male arrested after setting fire aboard BC Ferries, already released

  12-10-2023 17:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH SAANICH — Sidney and North Saanich RCMP say a 16-year-old male youth has been arrested after he allegedly set a fire on board of a BC Ferries vessel earlier this week.According to a news release from Sidney/North Saanich RCMP, Mounties on Vancouver Island were notified by BC Ferries on Tuesday, October 10, at just after 8:30 p.m., that someone had started a fire inside a BC Ferries vessel’s washroom that had been docked at the Swartz Bay Terminal.
  Police boarded the vessel, arr
  
  Read more

• Canada's tech worker wages way behind their U.S. counterparts: study - Chilliwack Progress

  12-10-2023 17:30
  
  Canada's tech worker wages way behind their U.S. counterparts: study  Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Quebec premier inaugurates vast la Romaine hydro project on North Shore

  12-10-2023 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAVRE-ST-PIERRE, Que. — Quebec Premier François Legault is inaugurating la Romaine hydroelectric complex on the province’s North Shore.
  Legault is accompanied at today’s event by Jean Charest, who was Quebec premier when construction began in 2009, as well as Hydro-Québec president and CEO Michael Sabia.
  La Romaine is comprised of four power stations and is the largest hydro project constructed in the province since the Robert Bourassa generation facility, which w
  
  Read more

• Canada’s Leylah Fernandez advances to quarterfinals at Hong Kong Open

  12-10-2023 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONG KONG — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez advanced to the quarterfinals of the Hong Kong Open with 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Russia’s Mirra Andreeva on Thursday.
  The 21-year-old Fernandez fired four aces, converted six of her 11 break-point opportunities and needed less than two hours to overcome the 16-year-old Andreeva.
  Fernandez, of Laval, Que., will next face Linda Fruhvirtova of Czechia ,who beat Russian Alina Korneeva 6-4, 7-5 on Thursday.
  It will mark the first career meeti
  
  Read more

• ‘What about Gaza’: Canadian woman stuck in Gaza fears death, pleads for Ottawa’s help

  12-10-2023 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSISSAUGA — A Canadian woman trapped in Gaza says she is afraid she could die at any moment as Israeli warplanes drop bombs around her in the sealed-off Palestinian territory, and she’s pleading for Ottawa’s help.
  “Please, please, please, please help us,” said Mississauga, Ont., resident Khloud Fayyad, crying as she spoke by phone from Khan Yunis, a city in southern Gaza. 
  With the sound of exploding bombs audible in the background, the 60-year-old mother of
  
  Read more

• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: New action to modernize our approach to emergency management

  12-10-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Year after year, climate and weather-related emergencies have increased in severity, with people in our province facing unprecedented floods, landslides and extreme wildfire seasons. The safety and resilience of British Columbians is our government’s priority, and we’re committed to improving all aspects of emergency management to better support people.
  It’s inspiring to see the way that people, governments, and those working and volunteering to keep people safe across Canada a
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsChilliwack on Twitter!