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• Barcelona clinches 28th La Liga title after Yamal leads win at Espanyol

  15-05-2025 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona clinched its 28th Spanish league title after Lamine Yamal starred in its 2-0 win at crosstown rival Espanyol on Thursday.
  Yamal scored in the 53rd minute when the teenage phenom slid past two defenders along the edge of the area before he whipped one of his now trademark left-footed curlers into the corner of the net.
  It was a fitting culmination to Yamal’s season. The 17-year-old excelled for Barcelona with his goals, dribbling and playmaking as he
  
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• Future of Sport Lab names 10 new startups to accelerator program

  15-05-2025 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Artificial intelligence is here to stay, at least in the world of sport tech, according to one industry expert.
  The Future of Sports Lab announced the selection of 10 innovative startups for its incubator program on Thursday. Cheri Bradish, an associate professor at Toronto Metropolitan University who is the founder and managing director of the school’s sport tech accelerator, said more applications to the program involved AI than any other round of pitches in its 10-year h
  
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• B.C. appoints council to improve forest sector, and the forestry ecosystem

  15-05-2025 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A council made of forestry professionals, educators, union and former industry officials has been brought together to find a balance between healthy forests and a prosperous industry.The B.C. government announced the Provincial Forest Advisory Council on Thursday, appointed under the co-operation agreement it has with the two provincial Green Party members.The council is expected to provide recommendations to support forest ecosystems at the same time as helping the forestry sec
  
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• NFL to discuss resolution to allow its players to play in 2028 Summer Games

  15-05-2025 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NFL players are one step closer to participating in the 2028 Los Angeles Summer Games.
  League owners will discuss a resolution next week to allow NFL players to play in the flag football competition at the ’28 Games. The sport will make its Olympic debut in Los Angeles.
  In a statement issued Thursday by the NFL, the resolution would allow for no more than one player from each team to participate in Olympic flag football. Clubs would also designate an international player to participate for
  
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• Chilliwack mom 'very happy' about new missing-person alert in the works - The Chilliwack Progress

  15-05-2025 22:54
  Chilliwack mom 'very happy' about new missing-person alert in the works  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack mom 'very happy' about potential missing-person alert in the works - The Chilliwack Progress

  15-05-2025 22:48
  Chilliwack mom 'very happy' about potential missing-person alert in the works  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Indigenous Chilliwack chief welcomes historic deal between First Nations and Enbridge for stake in oil pipeline - Fraser Valley Today

  15-05-2025 20:41
  Indigenous Chilliwack chief welcomes historic deal between First Nations and Enbridge for stake in oil pipeline  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Coquitlam snow removal firm places ads in the Chilliwack River Valley, claims ATV owners can make thousands - Fraser Valley Today

  15-05-2025 20:07
  Coquitlam snow removal firm places ads in the Chilliwack River Valley, claims ATV owners can make thousands  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Bill Henderson of Chilliwack joins The Afternoon Express - Zoomer Radio

  15-05-2025 18:07
  Bill Henderson of Chilliwack joins The Afternoon Express  Zoomer Radio
  
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• Surrey’s new sexual assault centre designed with survivors in mind - The Chilliwack Progress

  15-05-2025 18:00
  Surrey’s new sexual assault centre designed with survivors in mind  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Multiple explosions heard, 2 vehicles destroyed in late-night fire in Chilliwack - The Chilliwack Progress

  15-05-2025 17:51
  Multiple explosions heard, 2 vehicles destroyed in late-night fire in Chilliwack  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says he is sending a delegation to Istanbul for peace talks with Russia

  15-05-2025 16:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday he will send a team headed by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov to the Turkish city of Istanbul for peace talks with a Russian delegation.
  Zelenskyy told a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara that the Russian delegation doesn’t include “anyone who actually makes decisions.”
  But he said that to demonstrate to U.S. President Donald Trump that Ukraine is seeking an end to the 3-year-old war th
  
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• Wisconsin judge pleads not guilty to helping a man evade federal immigration agents

  15-05-2025 16:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin judge pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that she helped a man who is in the country illegally evade U.S. immigration authorities looking to arrest him in her courtroom.
  Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan entered the plea during an arraignment in federal court, an early step in the criminal justice process. Defendants routinely plead not guilty at this point to give their attorneys time to investigate and to preserve their right to a trial.
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• Home sales down almost 10% annually last month: Canadian Real Estate Association

  15-05-2025 15:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian Real Estate Association says home sales in April fell 9.8 per cent compared with the same month last year, as the national housing market has returned “to the quiet markets we’ve experienced since 2022.”
  On a seasonally adjusted month-over-month basis, home sales last month ticked down 0.1 per cent.
  CREA senior economist Shaun Cathcart says tariff-related uncertainty is continuing to keep buyers on the sidelines, similar to how high interest rates chilled demand du
  
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• Dick’s Sporting Goods to buy struggling shoe chain Foot Locker for $2.4 billion

  15-05-2025 12:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Dick’s Sporting Goods is buying the struggling footwear chain Foot Locker for about $2.4 billion, the second buyout of a major footwear company in as many weeks as business leaders struggle with uncertainty over how U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs will impact companies that make many of their products overseas.
  Dick’s said Thursday that it expects to run Foot Locker as a standalone unit and keep the Foot Locker brands, which include Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, WSS an
  
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• Naples will host the next America’s Cup in 2027

  15-05-2025 10:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — The next America’s Cup will be held off Naples, Italy, in 2027, holder Team New Zealand announced on Thursday.
  It will be the 38th edition of the world’s most famous regatta and the first time it has been held in the Mediterranean country.
  New Zealand had the right to pick the venue after winning its third straight cup in Barcelona last year.
  The cup holder said the races will be staged in the spring and summer of 2027. In its statement, the team said the races &ldq
  
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• In the news today: SUV attack victim recovering, Ontario to spend now, balance later

  15-05-2025 10:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed…
  After festival tragedy, a long road to recovery
  Even the smallest victories are being celebrated by Roland Nulada and his family, as he recovers from devastating injuries suffered in the Lapu Lapu festival attack in Vancouver.
  On Monday, it was Nulada’s first meal in 16 days — soup and baked macaroni, “the very soft ones,” says his older sister, Pinky Nulada, in the Vancouver ho
  
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• Family in B.C. festival tragedy celebrates small victories on long road to recovery

  15-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Even the smallest victories are being celebrated by Roland Nulada and his family, as he recovers from devastating injuries suffered in the Lapu Lapu festival attack in Vancouver.
  On Monday, it was Nulada’s first meal in 16 days — soup and baked macaroni, “the very soft ones,” says his older sister, Pinky Nulada, in the Vancouver hospital room where her brother is recovering from brain surgery, as well as operations on a broken arm and leg.
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• Eleven killed in festival attack included families, artist, visitor from Philippines

  15-05-2025 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Eleven people were killed at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver on April 26, when an SUV drove through a crowd at high speed.Here is what we know about the victims, whose identities have been confirmed by Vancouver police and festival organizer Filipino BC:
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  Filipino BC and the Lapu Lapu Day festival said on Instagram that 27-year-old Sico was among the victims of the attack.
  A fundraising page organized by Sico’s sister, Maydhel Sico, on the GoFundMe platform, described h
  
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• Trial begins for Quebec man facing first-degree murder charges in 2023 truck attack

  15-05-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIMOUSKI — Jury selection is beginning in the trial of a man charged with killing three people with a truck in eastern Quebec.
  Forty-year-old Steeve Gagnon faces five charges, including three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.
  Gagnon turned himself in to police after a truck struck pedestrians on a main street of Amqui, Que., in March 2023.
  The town is about 350 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.
  The incident claimed the lives of 65-year-old Gérald C
  
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• Quebec coroner to release report into Innu man who froze to death in Montreal in 2021

  15-05-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A coroner is scheduled to release her report today into the death of a homeless Innu man whose body was found inside a portable toilet in Montreal.Fifty-one-year-old Raphaël “Napa” André died in January 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
  His body was found steps away from a shelter that had been closed by public health officials because of plumbing problems and a COVID-19 outbreak.
  Quebec had also imposed a nighttime curfew to curb the spread of the virus
  
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• Former hockey player continues testifying at ex-teammates’ sex assault trial

  15-05-2025 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A former member of Canada’s world junior hockey team is expected to continue testifying today at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates.
  Tyler Steenbergen began testifying by videoconference Wednesday afternoon at the trial of Michael McLeod, Carter Hart, Alex Formenton, Dillon Dube and Callan Foote.
  The five accused have pleaded not guilty to sexual assault in connection with an encounter that took place in a London, Ont., hotel room in the early hours of June 19, 2018.McLeo
  
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• 54 people killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says

  15-05-2025 08:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis.
  An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 airstrikes on the city overnight into Thursday, and saw numerous bodies taken to the morgue in the city’s Nasser Hospital. Some bodies arrived in pieces, with some body bags containing the remains of multiple people. The hospital’s morgue confirmed 54 people had been killed.
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• Chilliwack Fire Dept. confirms ‘multiple’ explosions heard around time of car fire in Promontory - Fraser Valley Today

  15-05-2025 08:16
  Chilliwack Fire Dept. confirms ‘multiple’ explosions heard around time of car fire in Promontory  Fraser Valley Today
  
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• Oilers beat Golden Knights 1-0 in OT in Game 5 to reach Western Conference finals

  15-05-2025 07:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kasperi Kapanen scored on a scramble in front of the net at 7:14 of overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to advance to the Western Conference final for the second year in a row.
  The Oilers, who last season made it all the way to the Stanley Cup Final before losing in seven games to Florida, will play Dallas or Winnipeg in the next round. The Stars, who lead 3-1, will go for the series win Thursday night.
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• Kapanen’s OT winner lifts Oilers past Golden Knights to advance to conference finals

  15-05-2025 06:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — The Edmonton Oilers are moving on to the Western Conference finals once again.
  Kasperi Kapanen scored the winner at 7:19 of overtime as Edmonton defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 on Wednesday night.Edmonton won the best-of-seven second-round series 4-1.
  The Oilers will next face the winner between the Dallas Stars and the Winnipeg Jets.Dallas currently leads that series 3-1 with the two teams set to square off on Thursday.
  Edmonton defeated Dallas in six games in last seaso
  
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• New Zealand’s Parliament will debate suspending Māori lawmakers who performed a protest haka

  15-05-2025 06:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Māori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber last year.
  The haka is a chanting dance of challenge of great cultural importance in New Zealand, and the three lawmakers from Te Pāti Māori, the Māori party, performed one to oppose a controversial bill that would have redefined the country’s founding document.A committee
  
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• ‘It is unwavering’: Bobrovsky showing why Panthers have full trust in him

  15-05-2025 05:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Moments after the Florida Panthers put the finishing touches on their decisive Game 5 victory against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the dressing-room boom box blasted Paul Simon’s “You Can Call Me Al.”
  In one of the lines, Simon sings, “I want a shot at redemption.”So did Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky after his first two outings in the second-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs.
  He was far from form in back-to-back losses but has rebounded
  
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• Alejandro Kirk’s improved bat speed paying off with improved results at the plate

  15-05-2025 05:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Physics is at the heart of baseball.
  Take a 96.9 m.p.h. fastball from Ryan Pepiot, add Alejandro Kirk’s bat moving at 75.1 m.p.h., and it equals a 407-foot three-run homer to give the Toronto Blue Jays a 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday. Kirk has never been swinging the bat faster and the Blue Jays catcher said he knew what he was looking for from Pepiot.
  “I was on time on the fastball, I was looking for that fastball,” said Kirk through translator H
  
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• Rockies fall 8-3 to Rangers and become 1st team to start season 7-36 in modern era

  15-05-2025 05:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Colorado Rockies lost 8-3 to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night to become the first team in baseball’s modern era to lose 36 of their first 43 games.
  Wyatt Langford and Adolis García hit opposite-field, two-run home runs and Patrick Corbin struck out six consecutive batters among a season-high nine for the Rangers.
  The Rockies became the first team to start 7-36 in the modern era (since 1901). They were swept for the seventh time and are 0-3 under
  
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• Panthers wallop listless Leafs 6-1 in Game 5 to take 3-2 series lead

  15-05-2025 04:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Maple Leafs have gone from the driver’s seat to the brink of elimination.
  Sergei Bobrovsky made 31 saves as the Florida Panthers dismantled Toronto 6-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the teams’ second-round playoff series Wednesday
  Jesper Boqvist, with a goal and an assist after sitting the last two games as a healthy scratch, Aaron Ekblad, Dmitry Kulikov, Niko Mikkola, A.J. Greer and Sam Bennett scored for the Panthers.Sam Reinhart and Nate Schmidt added two assists each
  
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• Petrasso scores, CF Montreal settles for 1-1 draw against Columbus Crew

  15-05-2025 03:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Luca Petrasso scored his first MLS goal, but CF Montreal settled for a 1-1 draw after taking a first-half lead against the Columbus Crew on Wednesday.
  Prince Owusu provided the assist on Petrasso’s opening goal in the 29th minute for Montreal (1-8-4), which ranks last in the Eastern Conference but won its first match of the season 1-0 at New York City FC last Saturday.
  Canadian international Jacen Russell-Rowe replied in the second half for Columbus (7-1-5), led by former
  
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• Denkey goal lifts high-flying FC Cincinnati past injury-depleted Toronto FC

  15-05-2025 03:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Kevin Denkey’s first-half goal gave Eastern Conference-leading FC Cincinnati a 1-0 win over Toronto FC in MLS play Wednesday.
  The game was not as close as the scoreline indicated. Cincinnati could have had five goals had it not been for Toronto goalkeeper Sean Johnson. But it did reflect the gulf between the two in the standings.
  Cincinnati (9-3-1) arrived 15 points ahead of 13th-place Toronto (2-7-4) in the standings and has now lost just one of its last eight league outin
  
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• Alejandro Kirk’s three-run homer powers Blue Jays past Rays 3-1

  15-05-2025 03:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Alejandro Kirk’s three-run blast powered the Toronto Blue Jays past the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 on Wednesday.
  Kirk’s third home run of the season broke open the game after Toronto (21-21) trailed by a run for two innings.
  Chris Bassitt struck out six and limited the Rays to just one run over 5 2/3 innings, despite giving up seven hits and two walks.
  Relievers Brendon Little (2-0), Yariel Rodriguez and Yimi Garcia preserved the win, with Garcia earning his third save of the
  
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• Joly says Honda still committed to EV investments after $15-billion project delayed

  15-05-2025 02:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Industry Minister Mélanie Joly says Honda Canada remains “fully committed” to major electric-vehicle investments in Canada after the company announced Tuesday that it was pausing a multibillion-dollar EV project in Ontario.
  Joly said in a statement that she spoke with Honda Canada president and CEO Dave Jamieson, who assured her that “no jobs will be lost.”
  Joly says Jamieson confirmed that Honda is still “fully committed to major EV investment
  
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• South African leader and Trump will meet next week after US took in white South Africans as refugees

  15-05-2025 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority Black country.The meeting, announced Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the U.S. welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees this Monday, the
  
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• Coroner says 275 died of toxic drugs in B.C. in February and March in downward trend

  15-05-2025 01:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The BC Coroners Service says overdose deaths have been trending downward in the province, with 275 people dying in February and March due to the toxic drug supply.
  The service says in a statement that March is the sixth consecutive month in which fewer than 160 people died due to unregulated drug toxicity.
  It says preliminary figures show 143 people died in March, down more than 33 per cent year over year, while 132 people died in February, a decline of 35 per cent compared to t
  
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• Canada welcomes UN body’s decision holding Russia responsible for MH17 tragedy

  15-05-2025 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian government is welcoming a recent decision by the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization to hold Russia responsible for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17.
  The plane was shot down on July 17, 2014, over eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people on board, including one Canadian.
  Global Affairs Canada says the UN body has found Russia breached an obligation not to use weapons against a civil aircraft in flight under the Convention on Internation
  
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• Missouri lawmakers approve referendum to repeal abortion-rights amendment

  15-05-2025 01:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Six months after Missouri voters approved an abortion-rights amendment, Republican state lawmakers on Wednesday approved a new referendum that would seek the amendment’s repeal and instead ban most abortions with exceptions for rape an incest.The newly proposed constitutional amendment would go back to voters in November 2026, or sooner, if Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe calls a special election before then.
  Republican senators used a series of rare procedural
  
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• Canadian star forward Jonathan David on the move from France’s Lille, but to where?

  15-05-2025 00:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LILLE — Canadian striker Jonathan David made it official Wednesday, confirming he is leaving France’s Lille when his contract expires at the end of the season.
  The news did not come as a surprise. His next club has been the subject of speculation for months.
  But on Wednesday, the 25-year-old from Ottawa offered a personal farewell to Lille, the club he joined in August 2020 from Belgium’s KAA Gent.
  “I wanted you to hear it from me, After five years at the club it’s
  
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• Eby to visit Japan, South Korea and Malaysia on trade trip to reduce U.S. reliance

  15-05-2025 00:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — B.C. Premier David Eby says a trade mission to Asia next month will help the province become the “engine of a new Canada,” but one economist says B.C. also needs to become more competitive at home.Eby will be visiting Japan, South Korea and Malaysia between June 1 and June 10 as part of a business delegation also including B.C. Agriculture Minister Lana Popham and Paul Choi, parliamentary secretary for Asia-Pacific trade.
  Eby says the trip is aimed at deepening ties
  
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• Chilliwack neighbours petition city over potential sale of beloved green space - The Chilliwack Progress

  15-05-2025 00:54
  Chilliwack neighbours petition city over potential sale of beloved green space  The Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Eby defends investigation into leaked documents that alleged opioid diversion

  15-05-2025 00:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Premier David Eby says B.C.’s director of police services acts independently and government can’t interfere with the request for an investigation into a leaked document that alleged some pharmacies were diverting prescription opioids to the illegal market.B.C. Conservative legislature member Elenore Sturko revealed the document in February that said police and the College of Pharmacists were investigating allegations that “safe supply” opioids were being
  
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• Part of car axle reportedly explodes in Chilliwack vehicle fire, lands on residential roof

  15-05-2025 00:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP has confirmed police are investigating an overnight fire in Promontory that destroyed one vehicle and damaged a second.
  According to information posted in a Chilliwack-area Facebook group, the fire broke out sometime around midnight on McSwan Drive near Phillip Street, in front of a city park, early Wednesday (May 14).
  One person on Facebook said the fire was so intense it shook her home, while another Facebook user said part of the car a
  
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• Owner urges supporters to ‘surround’ B.C. ostrich farm as cull of 400 birds looms

  15-05-2025 00:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — The family operating the British Columbia ostrich farm where 400 birds have been ordered culled say about 40 supporters have arrived on scene in anticipation of a possible showdown with federal authorities.
  In the meantime, the Regional District of Central Kootenay says it has received an operational certificate from the provincial Environment Ministry for its landfill in Castlegar, B.C., to handle the disposal of the avian influenza infected waste, if
  
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