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• To the lake! - Chilliwack Progress

  26-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
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• Canadian captain Poulin shaken up by hard hit, later returns to bench

  09-02-2026 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILAN — Canadian captain Marie-Philip Poulin left the first period of an Olympic women’s hockey game against Czechia with an apparent knee injury before later returning to the bench.
  Poulin was checked by Kristyna Kaltounkova midway through the opening period and skated off, favouring her right knee.
  She returned to the ice with Canada’s second power-play unit while Kaltounkova served an illegal hit penalty, but skated out of the offensive zone seconds later in discomfort and h
  
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• ‘Strategic choice’: B.C. backs bid to host new defence bank in Vancouver

  09-02-2026 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia'sgovernment is supporting a private bid to host a new international bank to finance military projects by democratic nations, with Premier David Eby calling Vancouver the "strategic choice" to host it.
  The Defence, Security and Resilience Bank is intended to finance military projects for members of NATO and its allies.
  Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto have also been pitched as possible headquarters for the bank, but Eby says that if Canada wins the international host
  
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• Liberal MP asks government to reconsider return-to-office policy for public servants

  09-02-2026 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Liberal who unseated Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre from his Ottawa-area riding in the last election is criticizing the government's new return-to-office policy for federal workers.
  Bruce Fanjoy, who represents the Carleton riding in the House of Commons, says there's no evidence it will boost productivity and warns it will increase pollution.
  He also says the new policy makes it harder for the government to reduce its operating costs, improve affordability and protect t
  
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• Alberta’s sport minister says he hasn’t signed petition for separation vote

  09-02-2026 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta's sport minister says he hasn't signed his name to a petition that seeks to force a referendum on the province quitting Canada.
  Andrew Boitchenko says he and Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party government are focused on strengthening Alberta's position within Canada.
  Boitchenko's comment comes after a leader for the group organizing the separatist petition said some unnamed members of Smith's caucus have signed it.
  Smith has said she isn't aware of any cau
  
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• Fire south of U.S.-Canada border claims life of 95-year-old man

  09-02-2026 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUMAS – Emergency responders in Whatcom County say a fire at a residence south of the U.S.-Canada border Sunday morning has tragically claimed the life of a 95-year-old man.According to a joint statement from the Whatcom County Fire Marshals Office and Whatcom County Fire District 14, fire crews responded to the 3300 block of Halverstick Road in Sumas at 8:58 a.m. Sunday (Feb. 8) for a reported residential structure fire.On arrival, fire crews observed smoke and flames emanating from the h
  
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• Canadian Schellenberg ‘definitely’ won’t face death again at China retrial: lawyer

  09-02-2026 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The head of the law firm representing Canadian Robert Lloyd Schellenberg says their client "definitely" won't face the death penalty again after China's top court overturned the sentence and announced his retrial on drug charges.
  Mo Shaoping confirms in an interview that the British Columbia native''s 2019 drug smuggling conviction has been overturned by the Supreme People’s Court, and the case has now been sent back to the Liaoning Higher People's Court for retrial.
  He says the Liaoning c
  
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• Mboko, Gauff suffer marathon doubles loss at Qatar Open tennis tournament

  09-02-2026 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DOHA — Toronto's Victoria Mboko and American partner Coco Gauff lost their opening round doubles match at the Qatar Open on Monday.
  Mboko and Gauff dropped a marathon 4-6, 6-4, 11-9 decision to Spain's Cristina Bucsa and American Nicole Melichar-Martinez, the seventh seeds.Mboko and Gauff won just 42 per cent of their second-serve points, compared to 64 per cent for Bucsa and Melichar-Martinez, though both teams registered four breaks across the match.
  It was a better outcome for Canada's
  
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• Information commissioner expected to renew push for reforms to access law

  09-02-2026 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Members of a House of Commons committee are expected to get an earful from information commissioner Caroline Maynard this afternoon when they launch their latest study of Canada's much-maligned transparency law.
  For a $5 fee, people can use the Access to Information Act to ask for federal documents — anything from internal emails to policy memos — but the law is widely seen as outdated and unevenly administered.
  Federal agencies are supposed to either respond to an acc
  
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• Mounties investigating daytime break and enter at Chilliwack home

  09-02-2026 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Mounties in Chilliwack are investigating a daytime break and enter at a home on Ashwell Road this past week.
  According to a brief statement from Chilliwack RCMP spokesperson Corporal Carmen Kiener, police were called to a reported break and enter on Wednesday afternoon, February 4. Police determined that two male suspects accessed the home through an unlocked window.
  Cpl. Kiener says the suspects were able to leave with various personal items.
  Second suspect in a break and ent
  
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• BC Greens won’t renew accord with NDP, citing ‘stalled or undelivered’ commitments

  09-02-2026 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The BC Green Party has announced it will not be renewing an accord with the governing NDP when it expires next month.
  The deal known as the Co-operation and Responsible Government Accord was intended to stabilize the government with its one-seat majority, while both parties worked on shared goals, but Green leader Emily Lowan says there have been "stalled or undelivered" commitments from the New Democrats.She says that any decision to call an election rests solely with Premier D
  
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• Health advocates say Liberals need to take a stance on Alberta’s health privatization

  09-02-2026 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A group of health care advocates is on Parliament Hill lobbying lawmakers and calling on the federal government to take a stance on Alberta's latest moves to expand private health care.
  Premier Danielle Smith's government has passed legislation that allows doctors to work in both the public and private health systems.
  The health coalition's chair Jason MacLean says that law violates the Canada Health Act and amounts to an attack on Canada's health-care system.
  MacLean says the fed
  
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• CP NewsAlert: BC Greens won’t renew accord with NDP citing stalled, undelivered vows

  09-02-2026 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The BC Green Party has announced it will not be renewing an accord with the governing NDP when it expires next month.
  The deal known as the Co-operation and Responsible Government Accord was intended to stabilize the government with its one-seat majority, while both parties worked on shared goals, but Green leader Emily Lowan says there have been "stalled or undelivered" commitments from the New Democrats.She says that any decision to call an election rests solely with Premier D
  
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• Union warns of public safety risks as Transport Canada cuts jobs

  09-02-2026 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A federal union is warning of threats to public safety as employees at Transport Canada face job cuts.
  The Union of Canadian Transportation Employees says the cuts are being implemented in a way that "places Canadians at increased risk" and it's particularly concerned about staffing reductions in inspection services and the transportation of dangerous goods.
  A government website providing data on workforce reductions says the government is currently targeting a reduction of 439 em
  
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• Shots fired, vehicles on fire in Maple Ridge: RCMP

  09-02-2026 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MAPLE RIDGE – Mounties in Maple Ridge are investigating an incident of shots fired and two torched vehicles at a Maple Ridge home over the weekend.
  According to a statement from the Ridge Meadows RCMP detachment, police were called to the 12700 block of 227B Street in Maple Ridge on Saturday morning, Feb. 7 at approximately 4:45 a.m.
  Responding RCMP members observed two vehicles on fire in the driveway of a residence in the area, along with evidence of shots being fired at the residence.
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• Grey Cup finalists Mace, Maas named as finalists for CFL’s coach of the year hour

  09-02-2026 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Corey Mace of the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Jason Maas of the Montreal Alouettes are again the finalists for the CFL's coach of the year award.
  The CFL made the announcement Monday. Voting for the honour was conducted by the Football Reporters of Canada.
  The award will be presented March 25 in Edmonton ahead of the league's annual national combine.Saskatchewan defeated Montreal 25-17 in the Grey Cup in November.
  Mace led Saskatchewan to a CFL-best 12-6 regular-season record in
  
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• Inquiry report on scandal at Quebec auto insurance board to be released Feb. 16

  09-02-2026 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUÉBEC — The commissioner who oversaw the public inquiry into the $500-million cost-overrun scandal at Quebec's auto insurance board is scheduled to release his report publicly on Feb. 16.
  Judge Denis Gallant presided over 75 days of hearings in 2025 into how costs soared when the auto board was launching a new a digital platform.
  More than 130 witnesses testified including Premier François Legault, who said he had been kept in the dark about the cost overruns and laid most o
  
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• Canada joins peers in condemning China’s conviction of Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai

  09-02-2026 18:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is calling on China to release Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai after he was sentenced to 20 years in jail today under a sweeping national security law.
  Canada joins numerous peers, including the United States and the European Union, in condemning Beijing for the sentence imposed under a law used to crack down on Hong Kong's leading democracy activists.
  Lai is a British and Chinese citizen who founded a newspaper critical of the Hong Kong and Chin
  
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• Chilliwack small business to hold hiring fair this week

  09-02-2026 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – A Chilliwack small business will hold a hiring fair as it prepares for the busy summer season.Kent’s Ice Cream Co., located in the Little Mountain area of Chilliwack, says it will hold a hiring fair this Saturday, February 14 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 47582 Yale Road.“We’re getting ready for our upcoming season & are looking for some individuals to join our scooping team!” the company said.The company says prospective applicants can apply to work at
  
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• Chilliwack energy analyst says it’s time for BC to unplug its rigid EV mandate

  09-02-2026 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Former Chilliwack MLA turned energy analyst Barry Penner is applauding the federal government’s decision to swap what he calls a rigid electric-vehicle sales mandate with a more practical approach that better reflects economic and consumer realities.Rather than imposing rigid sales quotas, Penner says the feds are pivoting toward fleet-wide greenhouse gas emissions reductions, with longer-term electric-vehicle adoption targets and greater flexibility for automakers &mdas
  
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• B.C. firm says some workers found dead after abduction from Mexico mine

  09-02-2026 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based firm that operates a mine site in Mexico where 10 workers were abducted last month says it has been told by a number of families that their relatives have been found dead.
  The statement posted on the website of Vizsla Silver Corp. says the firm was waiting for confirmation from Mexican authorities and would provide further updates as appropriate.
  The company does not say how many of its abducted employees have been found dead after they were taken from the sit
  
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• Ottawa commits $6M to fund cross-Canada research aimed at driving productivity

  09-02-2026 18:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The federal government has announced a $6 million grant aimed at improving Canada's economic productivity through a cross-country research partnership.The funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is to be spread out over 15 years.The partnership includes 30 researchers from six federal bodies, six universities and three non-governmental organizations.It is being directed by University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe.The researchers are to colla
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. firm says some workers found dead after abduction from Mexico mine

  09-02-2026 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based firm which operates a mine site in Mexico where 10 workers were abducted last month says it has been told by a number of families that their relatives have been found dead.
  The statement posted on the website of Vizsla Silver Corp. says it is waiting for confirmation from Mexican authorities and will provide further updates as appropriate.
  The company does not say how many of its abducted employees have been found dead after they were taken from the site in Co
  
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• British PM fights to keep his job after revelations about former ambassador’s ties to Epstein

  09-02-2026 17:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer battled Monday to cling to power as revelations about the relationship between the former U.K. ambassador to Washington and Jeffrey Epstein spiraled into a full-blown crisis for his 19-month-old government.The prime minister's authority with his own Labour Party has been battered by fallout from the publication of files related to Epstein — a man he never met and whose sexual misconduct has not implicated Starmer.Some lawmakers in Sta
  
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• Ottawa investigating report Gaza cemetery where Canadians were buried was destroyed

  09-02-2026 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says it is "deeply concerned" by reports the Gaza War Cemetery where nearly two dozen Canadians were buried has been severely damaged or destroyed.
  The department responsible for foreign affairs says it is in contact with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which manages the grave site.
  The Royal Canadian Legion says it was "devastated" to hear reports of extensive damage to the cemetery, the final resting place of Canadian Armed Forces members and their
  
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• Top NHL prospect Gavin McKenna’s hearing in assault case pushed back to March

  09-02-2026 16:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STATE COLLEGE — The preliminary hearing for top NHL prospect Gavin McKenna in an alleged assault case in Pennsylvania has been postponed by a month.
  The court in Centre County, Pa., where Penn State University is located and where McKenna plays for the school’s men’s hockey team, said in an email that the hearing scheduled for Wednesday has been stayed until March 11.
  McKenna faces a misdemeanour simple assault charge after Pennsylvania’s district attorney’s office
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from a House committee, citing 5th Amendment rights

  09-02-2026 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her 5th Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.Maxwell was to be questioned during a video call to the federal prison camp in Texas where she’s serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking. She’s come under new scrutiny as lawmakers try to investigate how Epstein, a well-connected financier, was able to
  
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• Investigation underway after 22-year-old with novice driver’s license crashes into Mission home

  09-02-2026 16:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION – Mission RCMP are investigating a motor vehicle incident in which a 22-year-old with a novice driver’s license crashed into a house in Mission last week.
  According to a statement from Mission RCMP spokesperson Corporal Harrison Mohr, police were called to a home near Ferndale Avenue and Dewdney Trunk Road at 3:19 a.m. on February 5 after a vehicle crashed into a home. Officers arrived to find a red Honda Civic sticking halfway into the home.Corporal Mohr says initial evidenc
  
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• Chilliwack-area firms agree to strategic partnership

  09-02-2026 16:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Two Fraser Valley companies, one which is headquartered in Chilliwack, have announced a strategic partnership they say will deliver fully integrated, design-driven solutions for growers and dairy farmers across Western Canada.
  In a statement, Chilliwack-based Delta Irrigation, a subsidiary of Delta Water Products, and Agassiz-based West Coast Robotics have agreed to a strategic relationship that will further their shared goal of collaboration in farm infrastructure by implemen
  
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• Chilliwack School District looks to hire admin assistants at nearly $30/hour

  09-02-2026 15:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK – Opportunities like these making nearly $30/hour in a school setting don’t always come around.The Chilliwack School District says it is seeking enthusiastic, qualified casual administrative assistants to join its on-call pool of administrative pros.According to a posting on Indeed.ca, the school district is looking for eligible candidates to take on casual assignments at various school sites that can range from one day to several weeks, covering short-term periods, peak p
  
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