Fraser Valley Current
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Quality news for Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Langley, Mission and the rest of the Fraser Valley. Winner of Jack Webster Awards and a National Newspaper Award. Journalism with a smile and data.
STORY: Remember when the NDP promised to extend the West Coast Express to Chilliwack? We asked what was up with that:
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How will the NDP get the West Coast Express to Chilliwack?
Four months after promising to extend commuter rail link to Chilliwack, the NDP won't say how it will do so.
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March 5, 2025 at 12:31 AM
STORY: Remember when the NDP promised to extend the West Coast Express to Chilliwack? We asked what was up with that:
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STORY: 'It's the hub for everything'; the bowling alley at the centre of Fraser Canyon life.
The little bowling alley that’s the heartbeat of the Fraser Canyon
In Boston Bar, Canyon Lanes is much more than a bowling alley
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February 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
STORY: 'It's the hub for everything'; the bowling alley at the centre of Fraser Canyon life.
🍁 🦅 STORY: Border traffic has plunged since US President Donald Trump took office, data shows. During the Family Day/Presidents Day long weekend, traffic was 40% lower than during the same time period last year.
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Southbound border traffic plummets amid American tariff and annexation threats
Long weekend car traffic was down by more than 40% at BC's busy Peace Arch crossing.
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February 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
🍁 🦅 STORY: Border traffic has plunged since US President Donald Trump took office, data shows. During the Family Day/Presidents Day long weekend, traffic was 40% lower than during the same time period last year.
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STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear.
New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year.
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New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year.
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Southbound border traffic plummets amid American tariff and annexation threats
Long weekend car traffic was down by more than 40% at BC's busy Peace Arch crossing.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear.
New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year.
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New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year.
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The 7th edition of my @fvcurrent.bsky.social baby came out this morning. I love putting together our History Edition each month; I am so excited for the stories to come. This month, we focused on Agassiz, and the museum’s drive to digitize its collections. (Also, creamery drama and Chinese trunk.)
FVC History Edition - Jan. 31, 2025 - The life and rivalry of Edenbank Creamery
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February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The 7th edition of my @fvcurrent.bsky.social baby came out this morning. I love putting together our History Edition each month; I am so excited for the stories to come. This month, we focused on Agassiz, and the museum’s drive to digitize its collections. (Also, creamery drama and Chinese trunk.)
STORY: A proposed ski resort near the Coquihalla Summit has passed its first bureaucratic hurdle.
First Nation eyes tunnel as Coquihalla resort plan moves forward
Spuzzum First Nation has been given a green light to submit a formal proposal to build a resort near the Coquihalla Highway's summit.
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February 4, 2025 at 5:59 PM
STORY: A proposed ski resort near the Coquihalla Summit has passed its first bureaucratic hurdle.
STORY: Chilliwack uses snow fences to stop drifts from covering key roads. Abbotsford doesn't. The bizarre reason why: fvcurrent.com/p/snow-fence
Stopping Chilliwack's snow, one fence at a time
Chilliwack has been using one simple piece of infrastructure with surprisingly complicated physics to keep snow away from its busiest roads
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February 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
STORY: Chilliwack uses snow fences to stop drifts from covering key roads. Abbotsford doesn't. The bizarre reason why: fvcurrent.com/p/snow-fence
STORY: As AI cheating surges at the University of the Fraser Valley, professors are finding the incentive to police it doesn't always align with their own interests.
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As student cheating soars, some UFV instructors crack down—while others hand out top marks
'We clamp down on one or two cases in an effort to create a deterrence, but to little avail I think,' an instructor writes
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December 19, 2024 at 11:01 PM
STORY: As AI cheating surges at the University of the Fraser Valley, professors are finding the incentive to police it doesn't always align with their own interests.
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Hope's a town surrounded by mountains. The Hope Mountain Centre wants to help make it a genuine mountain town. But that requires some hard decisions.
The environmental non-profit doubling down on Hope
Why the Hope Mountain Centre, one of the Fraser Valley's largest environmental non-profits, is recommitting to its namesake town
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December 18, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Hope's a town surrounded by mountains. The Hope Mountain Centre wants to help make it a genuine mountain town. But that requires some hard decisions.
Can a citizens' assembly bring a new form of democracy to Langley?
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Langley City aims to cool the 'world of hot takes' with citizen democracy
The city has been toying with the idea of a citizens' assembly for two years, and could see it come to life by 2025.
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November 22, 2024 at 7:18 PM
Can a citizens' assembly bring a new form of democracy to Langley?
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Tree-lightings! Holiday markets! Parades! Concerts! And sooooooooooooooooo many nutcrackers.
Your guide to the Fraser Valley's 2024 holiday events
We've gathered every holiday market, tree lighting, Christmas parade, and festive concert in Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and beyond
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November 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Tree-lightings! Holiday markets! Parades! Concerts! And sooooooooooooooooo many nutcrackers.
STORY: Long ER wait times have prompted the Abbotsford Police Department to turn to private doctors to treat prisoners in its jail. By @tyolsen.bsky.social
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Abbotsford Police Department says prisoners—and the officers that guard them—have faced nine-hour waits just to refill prescriptions.
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November 18, 2024 at 7:48 PM
STORY: Long ER wait times have prompted the Abbotsford Police Department to turn to private doctors to treat prisoners in its jail. By @tyolsen.bsky.social
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Death on the tracks: Chilliwack's rail fatality rate is among the worst in Canada
In the last 40 years, more than 120 people have been killed by trains in the Fraser Valley; nearly half of those deaths have been in Chilliwack
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November 15, 2024 at 12:12 AM
Maybe we'll be better at keeping this up to date than our feed at the other place. But you have to click on our stuff to make it worth our while.
Good thing we have a big important story today. Read it here: fvcurrent.com/p/fv-train-f...
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