Fraser Valley Current

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.

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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The little bowling alley that’s the heartbeat of the Fraser Canyon In Boston Bar, Canyon Lanes is much more than a bowling alley

STORY: 'It's the hub for everything'; the bowling alley at the centre of Fraser Canyon life.

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.

🍁 🦅 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.

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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FVC History Edition - Jan. 31, 2025 - The life and rivalry of Edenbank Creamery

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.)

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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.

STORY: A proposed ski resort near the Coquihalla Summit has passed its first bureaucratic hurdle.

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

STORY: Chilliwack uses snow fences to stop drifts from covering key roads. Abbotsford doesn't. The bizarre reason why: fvcurrent.com/p/snow-fence

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

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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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

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.

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.

Can a citizens' assembly bring a new form of democracy to Langley?
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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

Tree-lightings! Holiday markets! Parades! Concerts! And sooooooooooooooooo many nutcrackers.

New Post Abbotsford Police Department says prisoners—and the officers that guard them—have faced nine-hour waits just to refill prescriptions.

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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PART 2: Toronto and Montreal are Canada's deadliest rail cities. But dozens of deaths have also been recorded in smaller centres, including London, Chilliwack, Kamloops, and Brampton and Woodstock.
Read our investigation into nationwide train deaths: fvcurrent.com/p/canada-tra...

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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Good thing we have a big important story today. Read it here: fvcurrent.com/p/fv-train-f...