The Chilliwack Progress

A Surrey man charged with manslaughter and 14 other charges related to a traffic crash in Newton on March 22, 2017 has lost his application to quash a 2025 assessment order from the British Columbia Review Board requiring him to submit to a 60-day in-custody assessment at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital.

A 21-year-old Surrey man has been charged with fraud after scamming an 88-year old Chilliwack woman out of money last year. Mandeep Singh was arrested and charged with one count of fraud over $5,000 on May 29. The investigation began on Oct. 11, 2025 when Chilliwack RCMP responded to a report of an elderly woman being defrauded of a significant sum of money in what is commonly known as a “grandparent scam,” police stated in a June 11 press release.

Pink bin deliveries are still happening across Chilliwack as part of the new curbside collection system. The flexible plastics going in the bins will be collected for the first time the week of June 22, according to City of Chilliwack officials. “Flexible plastics are a major source of contamination in our recycling program, but now there’s a simple way to recycle them without having to go to a recycling depot,” the city website said.

Another step forward to amending the Criminal Code surrounding intimate partner violence was made on June 9. Bailey’s Law passed its second reading in the Senate. The act, Bill C-225, was first presented to the House of Commons by B.C. member of parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Nicola, Frank Caputo, after a Kelowna woman, Bailey McCourt, was attacked in broad daylight outside her workplace on July 4, 2025.

Revelstoke’s popular new rideshare service is taking passengers to new heights this month by getting the green light from Parks Canada to reinstate shuttle service up Mount Revelstoke National Park. Revy Rides, which launched its three-van shuttle fleet last November, has been expanding its rider reach well beyond town with new routes to Martha Creek Provincial Park and the Skunk Cabbage and Giant Cedars boardwalk.

Metro Vancouver and the owners of a South Surrey galvanizing plant are seeking a judicial review of a March 27, 2026 decision by the Environmental Appeal Board regarding an air-emissions permit issued to the plant nearly a decade ago, as well as a pair of subsequent amendments.

Chilliwack RCMP is asking the public to keep an eye out for a missing Vancouver man who was last seen in Chilliwack. Taetm Moon, a 28-year-old Indigenous man, was last seen on May 26. “Taetm does not frequent the Chilliwack area but was here visiting family. He is known to stay in the Vancouver area but was last seen by family in Chilliwack on May 26,” said Cpl. Carmen Kiener, media relations officer for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment.

The sentencing hearing for a former Surrey massage therapist convicted on multiple counts of sexual assault is to take place this fall in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster. B.C. Prosecution Service officials confirmed the proceedings for Leonard Krekic – who also has ties to both White Rock and Penticton – have been scheduled for Oct. 15-16, 2026, in front of Justice Lance Bernard.

A Fraser Valley Regional District pilot program to help divert child car seats from BC landfills quickly surpassed its initial target and has been expanded to recycle 4,000 more car seats over the next year. The FVRD partnered with Burnaby’s Reclaim Plastics for the program, which launched in July 2025 and was set for two years. However, the initial program target was achieved after just six months which led to the decision to expand.

A Kelowna-made documentary looking into the growing challenge of wildfires across the province has been nominated for multiple film and televsion awards. BC is Burning has been nominated in four short documentary categories in the 2026 Leo Awards. The 47-minute film has been nominated in the categories of Best Short Documentary, Best Direction, Best Picture Editing, and Best Sound. “We are very honoured by this recognition from the B.C. film community,” said producer and director Murray Wilson.