Wednesday - March 26, 2025 - Liberals yet to name Fraser Valley candidates

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Good morning!

Our new election hubs are now live, and you’ll be able to find them just below the Need To Know section right up until election day. If those look like they were a lot of work to put together, it is because they were. I didn’t do it though; they were all Grace’s work. The hubs are more than just a public service; they’re one of our best reader-recruitment devices we have, since voters really do struggle to find the basic information they need to exercise their democratic obligations. So here’s to her (and her patience with my last-minute suggestions)!

– Tyler

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NEWS

The problem with geese

One recent spring day, a volunteer found a lost, lonely baby goose in the tall grass along the shore of Cultus Lake. She took the fluffy gosling and tracked down a goose family to adopt it.

But the rescue was actually somewhat counterproductive.

Because Taryn Dixon wasn’t there to keep lost baby geese alive. She was there to keep them from hatching in the first place.

Dixon is part of a group tasked with keeping Cultus Lake’s goose population down (She is also the director of Electoral Area H, which includes Cultus Lake). Volunteers manage the lake’s goose population by, among other things, shaking eggs so goslings don’t hatch in the first place.

In Cultus Lake and other Fraser Valley communities, aggressive geese (and the waste they leave behind) annoy locals and guests alike and deter them from public spaces like beaches and parks, and can even cause health and economic challenges. So some communities are taking matters into their own hands, with Harrison Hot Springs the latest to consider ways to limit geese in the area.

Such human intervention in the Canada Goose population wouldn’t be new—in fact, a similarly dramatic intervention from decades past is the reason the Fraser Valley has such a significant fowl problem in the first place.

• Today, Grace Giesbrecht writes about how local communities are trying to deal with the valley’s mostly manmade geese problem.

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Need to Know

🔥 No animals were harmed in a massive fire that destroyed a Chilliwack horse barn [Vancouver Is Awesome]

🚔 Abbotsford Police are investigating a sexual assault Monday evening in Mill Lake Park [CTV]

🏒 The WHL has apologized for how the Chilliwack Bruins were allowed to move from the city in 2011 [Chilliwack Progress] / At the time, the WHL said it wanted to keep teams in their markets even as it was facilitating the Bruins’ departure [Greg Drinnan/Tyler Olsen/Eric Welsh]

👉 A new study suggests that safer supply policies may have increased opioid overdose hospitalizations—but didn’t appear to either increase or decrease fatalities [Castanet/Canadian Press]

🚧 Construction work on Fraser Highway in downtown Langley is halfway done and on budget [Langley Advance Times]

⚖ A man convicted of a 2023 stabbing won’t spend time in prison [Abbotsford News]

🎭 A play called ‘Gay on God’s Campus’ considers what it’s like to be a queer student at Trinity Western University [Aldergrove Star] / We wrote about the topic in 2023 [FVC]

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🗳 Election 2025

The federal election campaign continues until election day on Monday, April 28. Advance voting will take place over the Easter weekend, from Friday April 18 to Monday, April 21. Find everything you need to know—including where to vote—by visiting one of our local election hubs:

Chilliwack & the Eastern Fraser Valley | Abbotsford & Mission | Langley

Find your local riding here

The latest

👉 Why Fraser Valley voters may see certain party leaders over the next month [CBC]

👉 Canadian’s spy service warns that foreign countries may try to interfere in the election [Reuters]

👉 Here’s a breakdown of Elections Canada and the work it does to organize an election—and count votes [National Post]

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The Agenda

Most Liberal candidates yet to be unveiled in valley

Most federal parties have announced candidates for the majority of the ridings in the Fraser Valley—except the Liberal Party of Canada.

• Grace breaks down all the latest candidate news, including a trio of would-be politicians who have been yanked from their party’s list.

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🗓 Things to do

Paddling drop-in: The Fraser Valley Paddling Club hosts a free dragonboat paddle drop-in on Harrison Lake on Saturday, March 29. Get some on-shore instruction before heading out on the water as a team. Details online.

Calendar classes: The Hope & District Art Council and The Art Machine host a three-week class in advent calendar book & card making beginning March 31. Registration details online.

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