Chilliwack news

• Local restaurant owner honours late son with Mother’s Day lunch initiative for unhoused

  10-05-2025 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A beloved Chilliwack restaurant is seeking help with a new Mother’s Day initiative in honour of the owner’s late son.Grammy’s Place will assemble 75 bagged lunches for the unhoused, and Eva Myhre, or Grammy, will need some help with the project.“If we have lots of people who can come in and grab them and take them out, that would be amazing,” Grammy told Fraser Valley Today. “My staff is going to come in on their own time and help me put the
  
  Read more

• Sweden downs Austria, Switzerland tops Denmark at world hockey championship

  10-05-2025 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Sweden had to rally for a 4-2 win over Austria on Saturday at the world hockey championship.
  Sweden was last year’s bronze medalist.
  Mika Zibanejad scored twice for the winners. Jonas Brodin and Alexander Wennberg had the other goals.
  Trailing 2-1, Sweden came back late in the final period.
  Sweden pulled goalie Samuel Ersson for an extra attacker 2:55 before the final whistle and Brodin tied it at 2-2 with a slap shot from the blue line with 2:19 remaining.
  Zibanejad
  
  Read more

• Montreal Roses FC, Halifax Tides FC battle to 0-0 tie Northern Super League tie

  10-05-2025 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAVAL — Montreal Roses FC and Halifax Tides FC battled to a 0-0 tie in Northern Super League action Saturday.
  The tie was the first for the NSL this season but also earned Halifax (0-2-1) its first point.
  Montreal (3-0-1, 10 points) remains atop the league standings. It held a 15-10 edge in total shots but Halifax had one more on-target shot (3-2).
  This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 10, 2025.The Canadian Press
  
  Read more

• Hamburger SV finally returns to Bundesliga after seven seasons in second division

  10-05-2025 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Hamburger SV finally clinched its return to the Bundesliga after routing Ulm 6-1 in Germany’s second division on Saturday.
  Ransford-Yeboah Königsdörffer scored twice and Daniel Heuer Fernandes saved a penalty as Hamburg moved to the top of the division, an unassailable four points clear of third-placed Elversberg with one round remaining.
  Hamburg was the last surviving member of the Bundesliga to have played every season since its formation in 1963,
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Quebec Superior Court authorizes class-action over traffic stops without reason

  10-05-2025 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action suit brought on behalf of racialized people who were stopped while behind the wheel by police without reason to suspect an offence.
  Justice Catherine Piché authorized the lawsuit in a ruling rendered last month, which targets police in eight defendant cities and the Quebec attorney general, which represents the provincial police.The list of defendants covers police patrolling much of the province, including its l
  
  Read more

• Surrey man faces homicide, attempted murder charges after 2024 stabbing

  10-05-2025 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Charges have been laid in a stabbing incident that left one person dead and another critically injured in the Guildford neighbourhood of Surrey.RCMP responded to reports of a stabbing at a home in the 14700 block of 108a Avenue on December 14 at around 3 a.m. Surrey Police Service (SPS) and RCMP found two people suffering from life-threatening injuries.
  Despite life-saving measures, one woman died on scene, while the second victim was taken to hospital and treated for serious inju
  
  Read more

• North Vancouver fire crews battle morning blaze at seniors centre in Lynn Valley

  10-05-2025 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH VANCOUVER — Crews from three fire departments on Vancouver’s North Shore are battling a blaze at an apartment complex that began Saturday morning.District of North Vancouver spokesman Ryan Schaap says the blaze broke out at the Silverlynn Apartment complex in Lynn Valley and crews continue to battle the flames.He says the building has suffered “significant damage,” but the extent won’t be known until it’s put out.He says displaced residents are being sen
  
  Read more

• ‘Stay calm’: Maple Leafs look to reset heading into Game 4 against Panthers

  10-05-2025 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE — Craig Berube cut a calm, relaxed and confident figure as he faced a string of questions at the Toronto Maple Leafs’ luxury hotel situated a short distance from South Florida’s sun and sand.
  Toronto’s head coach will be looking for similar composure when his players return to action after some time to rest and recuperate.
  They’re going to need it.
  The Florida Panthers came back from 2-0 and 3-1 deficits Friday before securing a 5-4 overtime victory
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• UFV seeks community partners for summer research internship program

  10-05-2025 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The University of the Fraser Valley is warming up for this summer’s research internship program– the BMO Collaboratorium.UFV’s Peace and Reconciliation Centre (PARC) has lined up several projects for the 2025 batch. Canada Research Chair and PARC Director Keith Carlson is excited about what’s in store.One project involves Carlson and a student videographer interviewing Seabird Island School Elders and knowledge keepers about balancing traditional practi
  
  Read more

• Survivor holds cautious hope amid claims new Pope mishandled clergy abuse allegations

  10-05-2025 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S — An advocate for victims of clergy abuse says they are cautiously optimistic about Pope Leo XIV, but they are keeping a close eye on recently surfaced allegations that he previously sheltered those accused of abuse.
  Newfoundlander Gemma Hickey is the board president of Ending Clergy Abuse, and they are in Rome this week to advocate for the church to adopt a zero-tolerance policy for clergy abuse.
  Hickey says survivors have mixed reviews about Leo, which is the name taken
  
  Read more

• BC Wildfire Service dealing with 11 ‘overwintering wildfires’ near Fort Nelson

  10-05-2025 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT NELSON — The BC Wildfire Service says 11 fires that have been smouldering underground near Fort Nelson, B.C., since last year are being whipped up by warm and dry weather conditions.
  The service says in a Facebook post that the fires have begun visibly smoking recently and officials are monitoring the blazes closely.
  It says wildfire crews and aircraft have been sent to hot spots where the fires have the greatest potential risk to infrastructure.
  The wildfire service says crews are fo
  
  Read more

• Annual Run for Mom event returns in Chilliwack for Mother’s Day - Fraser Valley Today

  10-05-2025 19:46 via news.google.com
  Annual Run for Mom event returns in Chilliwack for Mother’s Day  Fraser Valley Today
  
  Read more

• Canada downs Slovenia 4-0 to open world men’s hockey championship event

  10-05-2025 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STOCKHOLM — Bo Horvat scored twice while Dylan Garand stopped 11 shots as Canada defeated Slovenia 4-0 on Saturday in its first game of the world hockey championship.
  Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and two assists for Canada, which outshot Slovenia 44-11. Noah Dobson had the other goal.
  “We thought we could have scored a few more goals because we had a some really good opportunities that we missed on,” said Canadian coach Dean Evason. “We had some glorious scoring chances an
  
  Read more

• Canadian under-20 women’s rugby team downs Ireland 26-15 in first of two-match series

  10-05-2025 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBLIN — The Canadian under-20 women’s rugby team ran in four tries en route to a 26-15 win over Ireland on Saturday.
  Ava Ference, Amber Edgerton, Fiona Day and Ivy Poetker scored tries for Canada while Brooke Roddham kicked two conversions and Charlotte Hilton added one. Canada led 7-5 at the half at the IRFU High Performance Centre.
  The two teams meet again next Saturday.
  Roddham is one of eight players on the Canadian squad who helped the UBC Thunderbirds to their first U Sports w
  
  Read more

• Merritt receives over $3.4M provincial grant for flood protection diking project

  10-05-2025 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT — The City of Merritt has received $3.4 million from the provincial government to construct new flood protections.Phase 1 of the Middlesboro Diking Project will install a critical section of dikes in Merritt, which would safeguard homes, businesses and other vital buildings. The project includes a setback dike to allow the river to run more naturally through the Coldwater River corridor.“With support from the Disaster Resilience and Innovation Funding (DRIF) program, we now h
  
  Read more

• Pope Leo XIV lays out his vision and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity

  10-05-2025 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made a surprise visit Saturday to a sanctuary south of Rome that is dedicated to the Madonna.
  Italy’s TV2000 showed images of residents in the town of Genazzano gathered outside the church housing the Madre del Buon Consiglio sanctuary, where the pope arrived to pray some 20 minutes earlier. He had previously visited the sanctuary, which is managed by friars from his Augustinian religious order, last year, when he was a cardinal.
  Leo was expected to b
  
  Read more

• An earthquake of 4.1 preliminary magnitude has been reported in Tennessee and was felt in Atlanta

  10-05-2025 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — An earthquake of 4.1 preliminary magnitude was reported Saturday morning in Tennessee and was felt in Atlanta, Georgia, and western North Carolina, according to the U.S. Geological Survey and local news reports.
  The website for USGS said the earthquake originated shortly after 9 a.m. EDT about 12 miles (20 kilometers) from Greenback, Tennessee, which is about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of Knoxville.
  Meteorologists at television news stations serving Georgia and North Car
  
  Read more

• Chilliwack River plays host to national paddling team trials - The Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2025 14:30 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack River plays host to national paddling team trials  The Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Edmonton Stingers and Calgary Surge renew Alberta rivalry to start CEBL season

  10-05-2025 14:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  An intra-provincial rivalry will kick off the 2025 Canadian Elite Basketball League season.
  The Edmonton Stingers will host the Calgary Surge in the first CEBL game of the year on Sunday. Stingers guard Nick Hornsby said “it’s definitely a heated rivalry” and the games are always pretty intense.
  “There’s usually a couple of Calgary fans that come up and there’s always the Edmonton fans that go when we go play in Calgary.” said Hornsby in a phone intervie
  
  Read more

• Jets star defenceman returns to play key role in Winnipeg’s Game 2 win over Dallas

  10-05-2025 14:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Josh Morrissey expanded his role for the Winnipeg Jets in Friday’s key 4-0 victory over the Dallas Stars.
  The star defenceman drew a penalty that led to Winnipeg’s first goal, assisted on it and then later saved a potential Dallas goal.
  “Yeah, part goaltender. That’s the Josh we know,” Jets head coach Scott Arniel said.
  Morrissey was back in action after suffering an upper-body injury early in the first period of Winnipeg’s opening-round 4-3 G
  
  Read more

• Ottawa looks to off-load costly, seldom-used mobile hospitals bought for the pandemic

  10-05-2025 12:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government expects to spend about $7 million this fiscal year to store and maintain four custom-made, portable hospitals that cost taxpayers more than $200 million to buy — facilities meant to bolster overwhelmed hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic that were barely used.
  Early on in the pandemic, as the federal government moved at breakneck speed to respond to a global health crisis, it issued rush orders for these Mobile Health Units.
  They are deployable fiel
  
  Read more

• Indigenous groups keen to see Pope Leo continue reconciliation work

  10-05-2025 12:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Indigenous groups in Canada say they want to see Pope Leo XIV continue the reconciliation work started by his predecessor, the late Pope Francis.
  Francis was recognized as an ally of Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and was known for advancing reconciliation efforts and apologizing — both in the Vatican and in Canada — for the Catholic Church’s role in widespread abuses at residential schools.
  His visit to Canada in 2022 was described as a “penitential pil
  
  Read more

• European leaders arrive in Kyiv amid push for 30-day cease-fire

  10-05-2025 09:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The leaders of four European countries arrived in Kyiv Saturday in a joint show of support as calls intensify for Russia to agree to a monthlong cease-fire in the war.
  The leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom arrived together at the train station in Kyiv, where they are expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
  The visit marked the first time the leaders of the four countries have travelled together to Ukraine, while Friedrich Merz
  
  Read more

• India says it targeted Pakistani military bases after Islamabad fired several high-speed missiles

  10-05-2025 08:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — India said it targeted Pakistani military bases after Islamabad fired several high-speed missiles at multiple Indian air bases in the country’s Punjab state early Saturday. It’s the latest escalation in a conflict triggered by a massacre last month that India blames on Pakistan.
  Pakistan earlier said it intercepted most missiles targeting three air bases and that retaliatory strikes on India were underway.Indian Col. Sofiya Qureshi, at a news conferen
  
  Read more

• ‘Keep our foot on the pedal’: Maple Leafs lament second-period lapse in Game 3 loss

  10-05-2025 07:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE — The Maple Leafs were on the front foot and had all the momentum.
  Having fallen behind 2-0 early and 3-1 just three minutes into Friday’s second period, the Florida Panthers looked to be teetering on the brink after suffering consecutive one-goal road losses to find themselves in a deep playoff hole.
  Well-drilled at locking down opponents all season with a grinding style under head coach Craig Berube, Toronto appeared well on its way to a 3-0 stranglehold in this matchup of
  
  Read more

• Addison Barger has 3 doubles to help the Blue Jays beat the Mariners 6-3

  10-05-2025 07:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Addison Barger doubled three times and drove in two runs to help the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Seattle Mariners 6-3 on Friday night.Barger gave the Blue Jays an early advantage with a two-run double in the first inning. He then scored a run of his own during a three-run third inning that made it 5-0.
  Mariners starter Luis Castillo (3-3) was tagged for five earned runs in five innings.Barger also flashed a nifty glove at third base when taking a sure double away from Julio R
  
  Read more

• Connor Hellebuyck perfect in net as Jets blank Stars 4-0; Winnipeg ties series 1-1

  10-05-2025 06:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Connor Hellebuyck stopped 22 shots to backstop the Winnipeg Jets to a 4-0 victory over the Dallas Stars on Friday night.
  It was Hellebuyck’s fourth playoff shutout and first since May 21, 2021.
  Nikolaj Ehlers scored two goals – the second on a clearing from in front of his net — and an assist before a sold-out crowd of 15,225 at Canada Life Centre.
  Adam Lowry and Gabe Vilardi also scored as Winnipeg tied the best-of-seven series 1-1.
  Jake Oettinger stopped 22 s
  
  Read more

• Stecklein continues to impress for Frost after gold with U.S. at women’s worlds

  10-05-2025 05:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Defender Lee Stecklein has picked a good time to get her goal-scoring groove on.
  She scored twice and assisted on another in the Minnesota Frost’s 5-3 road win over the Toronto Sceptres on Friday to even the Professional Women’s Hockey League first-round series at 1-1.
  The three-time United States Olympian has four points in the first two games of this best-of-five series after scoring three goals in Minnesota’s final two regular season games to push the Frost i
  
  Read more

• Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies

  10-05-2025 05:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Trump administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a California judge ordered Friday.
  Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco issued the emergency order in a lawsuit filed last week by labor unions and cities, one of multiple legal challenges to Republican President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink the size of a federal government he calls bloated and expensive.
  “The Court holds the President likely must request Congre
  
  Read more

• Marchand scores in OT, Panthers top Maple Leafs 5-4 to cut series deficit to 2-1

  10-05-2025 04:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Brad Marchand scored on a deflected shot at 15:27 of overtime and the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Friday night to cut their deficit in the Eastern Conference semifinal series to 2-1.
  Aleksander Barkov, Sam Reinhart, Carter Verhaeghe and Jonah Gadjovich scored for Florida, which got 27 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. Evan Rodrigues had two assists for the Panthers. They 13-2 in their last 15 playoff overtime games.
  John Tavares scored twice, and Ma
  
  Read more

• Lee Stecklein leads Frost past Sceptres 5-3; best-of-five series tied 1-1

  10-05-2025 03:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Defender Lee Stecklein enjoyed a two-goal, three-point outing and Sophie Jacques scored the winner to help the Minnesota Frost defeat the Toronto Sceptres 5-3 on Friday.
  Jacques, who hails from Toronto, beat Sceptres goalie Kristin Campbell off the rush with 6:13 left to play to square the Professional Women’s Hockey League first-round best-of-five series at 1-1.
  Michela Cava and Mellissa Channell-Wadkins had the other goals for the defending champion Frost.
  Hayley Scamurra
  
  Read more

• Chilliwack's ski-cross champ Reece Howden ends season with a banner weekend - Agassiz-Harrison Observer

  10-05-2025 02:35 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack's ski-cross champ Reece Howden ends season with a banner weekend  Agassiz-Harrison Observer
  
  Read more

• NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says league encouraged by status of CBA talks with players

  10-05-2025 02:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — The NHL is encouraged by the status of collective bargaining talks, Commissioner Gary Bettman said Friday, adding that he’s optimistic a deal will be done long before the September 2026 expiration of the current deal between the league and its players.
  Talks began in earnest earlier this year and given the current state of the game — revenues soaring, the sport booming and some additional momentum that came out of the 4 Nations Face-Off event in February &m
  
  Read more

• Nelly Korda makes late run of birdies at Liberty National and shares the lead

  10-05-2025 02:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Defending champion Nelly Korda hit her stride late on a long and soft Liberty National, making three birdies over her last five holes for a 4-under 68 and a share of the lead Friday in the Mizuho Americas Open.
  Rain and cloud cover made the course across the Hudson River from Manhattan play longer than ever, and that much was evident on the par-4 ninth hole. Korda and Jeeno Thitikul each had to use fairway metals for their approach on the 429-yard hole.
  “Just
  
  Read more

• Slo-pitch tournament raises $42K for Fraser Valley hospitals - The Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2025 01:51 via news.google.com
  Slo-pitch tournament raises $42K for Fraser Valley hospitals  The Chilliwack Progress
  
  Read more

• Pakistan’s army spokesman says India has fired missiles at 3 Pakistani air bases

  10-05-2025 01:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s army spokesman said that India has fired missiles at three air bases inside the country, but most of the missiles have been intercepted.
  Lt. Gen. Ahmad Sharif said in a televised address that all Pakistan Air Force assets are safe. He added that some of the Indian missiles also hit India’s eastern Punjab.
  The army spokesman said the missiles fired by India targeted the Nur Khan air base in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, Murid air base in
  
  Read more

• Five youth plead guilty in 2024 swarming of girl in Kelowna, B.C.

  10-05-2025 00:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA — Prosecutors say five youth involved in a violent swarming of a girl in Kelowna, B.C., last year have entered guilty pleas.
  Damienne Darby, a spokeswoman for the BC Prosecution Service, says one young person pleaded guilty to one count of assault in January and was handed a sentence of two years’ probation in April.
  Darby says four other young people have since entered guilty pleas to the same charge, with court appearances scheduled in June and July.
  The offenders cannot be
  
  Read more

Follow @NewsChilliwack on Twitter!