Chilliwack RCMP have confirmed that a woman was killed when a tree fell on her Monday afternoon during a windstorm. The woman was walking with her two young children at Island 22, shortly after 3 p.m. on Dec. 15. Victim Services was called in to assist the family. Investigators were still on the scene on […]
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There are thousands homes and businesses in Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows without power on Monday afternoon, Dec. 15, as high winds have brought trees down onto hydro lines. Hydro reports Maple Ridge has been one of the hardest hit areas. There is a large outage impacting about 500 customers in the Cottonwood area, and
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When One B.C. executive director Paul Ratchford hired a new 22-year-old male staffer in the middle of last summer to do some tech-related work, then-party leader Dallas Brodie says she knew something was wrong. “There would be things that he would say when we were travelling in the van together, and I would hear conversations,
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A 35-year-old man was arrested in relation to the fatal stabbing of a man in Abbotsford on Sunday morning (Dec. 14), but no charges have yet been laid. A press release on Monday (Dec. 15) from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) states that investigators are still determining the man’s involvement in the stabbing and
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A standard amount of working hours for B.C. child care providers is being created to prevent families from being unreasonably billed. On Dec. 15, the B.C. government announced that child care providers will have to provide at least 9.5 hours of care per day before charging for extended hours. These new rules were created to
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