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Ex-RCMP sex assault trial waits for verdict, anti-SOGI Chilliwack trustee steps back and more
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About 350 people showed up for a rally outside the Chilliwack School Board office on Tuesday night, to show their support for LGBTQ students, teachers, staff and parents. Meanwhile, inside the board office, Trustee Barry Neufeld was announcing he is stepping back from some of this duties, but not all of them. (Greg Laychak/ The Progress)

1. Neufeld announces stepping back from some duties

Chilliwack trustee makes announcement at board meeting Tuesday, as hundreds rally outside building.

2. Surrey basketball player rushed to hospital during game at Holy Cross

鈥淭hey had to do CPR and called the paramedics, the ambulance got there and tried to resuscitate him, rushed him to the hospital, and the last thing we heard while this was all happening is that they did get him breathing intermittently, but he kept going in and out, so they kept administering CPR.鈥

3. Crown calls ex-RCMP Tim Shields鈥 account of sexual encounter 鈥榬ehearsed and self-serving鈥

A verdict in Tim Shields鈥 sexual assault trial is expected by the end of the year.

4. Trinity Western goes to top court over law school, gay rights

The Christian private university wants to start a law school, but it also has a community covenant that bars sexual intimacy outside of heterosexual marriage.

5. Finding rental housing in Abbotsford like 鈥榮earching for the Holy Grail without Indiana Jones鈥

The city has Canada鈥檚 tightest rental market, but no sign it will improve this year.


katya.slepian@bpdigital.ca

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