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• Provincial government announces new funding for literacy programs in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 23:40 via theprogress.com
  
  Provincial government announces new funding for literacy programs in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Need to cool off? City of Chilliwack opens temporary cooling centres in reponse to heat wave

  25-07-2022 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — To help residents find relief from the extreme heat, the City of Chilliwack has opened two cooling centres — Evergreen Hall, and Sardis Sport Complex.Evergreen Hall is located at 9291 Corbould Street (Slesse Room). The centre will be open Monday, July 25 to Friday, July 28from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m.
  Sardis Sports Complex is located at 5725 Tyson Road. The centre will be open Monday, July 25 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.; and Tuesday, July 26 – Friday, July 28 from 8 a.m.
  
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• Quebecer Émile-Antoine Roy-Sirois, code name ‘Beaver,’ dies on front lines in Ukraine

  25-07-2022 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Émile-Antoine Roy-Sirois, a 31-year-old Quebecer who recently died in Ukraine fighting Russian forces, volunteered on the front lines because he wanted to protect innocent women and children, according to a soldier who fought with him.
  Roy-Sirois “was an intellectual who cared about humanity,” said Blackhawk, a fighter who, for security reasons, would only use a code name in an interview Monday on Instagram. 
  “He was kind and never meant anyone harm
  
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• ‘It’s an enormous game’: Whitecaps relish chance to take on TFC in CanChamps final

  25-07-2022 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — When the Vancouver Whitecaps next take the field, it will be for the club’s most important game in years, says head coach Vanni Sartini. 
  The ‘Caps have a chance to hoist the Voyageurs Cup on Tuesday when they host Toronto FC in the Canadian Championship final. 
  “I think it’s a big big big game for a club, especially a club like us that we haven’t won a trophy since 2015 and it would be only our second Canadian Championship,” Sartin
  
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• Mountain Institution in Agassiz locked down for extensive search - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 23:04 via theprogress.com
  
  Mountain Institution in Agassiz locked down for extensive search  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Man charged with killing Muslim family in London, Ont., to be tried elsewhere

  25-07-2022 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON, Ont. — The trial of a man facing terror-related murder charges in the deaths of four members of a Muslim family in London, Ont., will be held in a different city.
  An Ontario judge ruled Monday that a change of venue is warranted in the case of Nathaniel Veltman.The reasons for that decision, as well as the evidence and arguments presented in court, cannot be disclosed due to a publication ban.
  The new location has not yet been determined.
  Veltman, who was 20 at the time of his arre
  
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• Chilliwack man's book co-authored by criminologist examines a life of murder and crime - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 22:45 via theprogress.com
  
  Chilliwack man's book co-authored by criminologist examines a life of murder and crime  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Uttering threats always means that the man tells her, I will kill you’: Women’s shelter demands answers following double homicide in Chilliwack

  25-07-2022 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A double homicide in Chilliwack on Thursday left two women dead—one was the mother of the alleged shooter’s child, and the other was a former girlfriend. Eric John Shestalo, 50, is still on the loose, and a women’s shelter in Vancouver is demanding answers.
  Hilla Kerner, who is a frontline worker for Vancouver Rape Relief & Women’s Shelter, said that often when women are murdered by their current or former male partner, the accusation against the wo
  
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• Anand calls out ‘desecration’ after Tomb of the Unknown Solider draped with flags

  25-07-2022 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is facing fresh calls to boost security at the National War Memorial after images surfaced showing someone draping flags on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
  Pictures and videos of the event, livestreamed online Sunday night, depicted someone bowing his head at the tomb, which was covered with the American and Canadian flags.
  Defence Minister Anita Anand is calling out the “desecration” of the memorial, describing it as “unacceptable and sha
  
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• Toronto midfielder Michael Bradley named MLS player of the week

  25-07-2022 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Toronto FC midfielder Michael Bradley has been named the Major League Soccer’s player of the week for his two-goal performance in a 4-0 win over Charlotte FC on Saturday.
  Bradley scored the second brace of his career in the first half of the win, becoming the first Toronto midfielder to score twice in one game since Alejandro Pozuelo on April 19, 2019 against Minnesota United.
  With Toronto up 1-0 in the 10th minute, Bradley scored his first goal of the match when Federico
  
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• MLB players’ union rejects international draft proposal

  25-07-2022 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The players’ association rejected what Major League Baseball called its final offer for an international draft, a move that will keep direct draft-pick compensation in place for free agents and likely limit the market for some older players.
  The union announced its decision about eight hours before Monday’s midnight EDT deadline for an agreement, timing specified in the March 10 lockout settlement.
  “Each of our proposals was focused on protecting against t
  
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• Dubois denies making trade request, says Montreal comments ‘blown out of proportion’

  25-07-2022 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Pierre-Luc Dubois says he never asked the Winnipeg Jets for a trade and comments that he wants to play in Montreal were blown out of proportion.
  The five-year NHL forward spoke with the media on a phone call Monday after agreeing last Friday to a one-year, US$6-million qualifying offer with the Jets.
  “You hear stuff that I want out of Winnipeg,” Dubois said. “If I wanted out, I would have asked for a trade. I didn’t ask for a trade. Not for one second. It
  
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• Feds seek dental care program ideas from industry, no details on shape it will take

  25-07-2022 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has asked the private sector to weigh in on how companies could play a role in Canada’s national dental care plan. 
  The Liberals set aside $5.3 billion over the next five years to launch a dental care program for uninsured low- and middle-income families, starting with kids under the age of 12 by the end of this year.
  The program is a key part of the confidence and supply deal the Liberals signed with the NDP to stave off a potential election unti
  
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• Flames’ newest faces Huberdeau, Weegar ‘excited’ for season following shock of trade

  25-07-2022 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — With the initial shock having finally subsided after learning late that they had been traded from the Florida Panthers to Calgary , Jonathan Huberdeau and MacKenzie Weegar are ready to get started with the Flames. 
  “It was a big shock for me and my family,” Huberdeau, who had been with the Panthers since they drafted him third overall in 2011, said in a media availability Monday. “Late on Friday night, you don’t think you’re going to get a call,
  
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• B.C. artist’s latest community mural a spectacular tribute to veterans - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 22:00 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C. artist’s latest community mural a spectacular tribute to veterans  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• David Trimble, architect of N Ireland peace deal, dies at 77

  25-07-2022 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — David Trimble, a former Northern Ireland first minister who won the Nobel Peace Prize for playing a key role in helping end Northern Ireland’s decades of violence, has died, the Ulster Unionist Party said Monday. He was 77.
  The party said in a statement on behalf of the Trimble family that the unionist politician died earlier Monday “following a short illness.”
  Trimble, who led the UUP from 1995 to 2005, was a key architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
  
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• City of Chilliwack opens cooling centres during heat wave - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 21:45 via theprogress.com
  
  City of Chilliwack opens cooling centres during heat wave  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Reaction to the Pope’s apology for Catholic Church’s role in residential schools

  25-07-2022 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MASKWACIS — Pope Francis delivered on Monday an apology for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in residential schools, saying many Christians supported the colonization of Indigenous people. He made the remarks at the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School in community of Maskwacis, south of Edmonton.
  Here is some of the reaction to the historic apology: 
  “Pope Francis’s words today and in Rome this spring represent a journey that has taken more than 1
  
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• Maxwell’s new digs: Fla. prison known for yoga, music, abuse

  25-07-2022 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite turned convicted sex trafficker, is off to Florida to serve a 20-year federal prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls — returning to the same state, but a far cry from the posh lifestyle, where she committed some of her crimes.
  Maxwell, 60, was moved last week to FCI Tallahassee, a low-security federal prison in Florida’s capital, from the Brooklyn federal jail where she&rsq
  
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• Lawyers make closing submissions in sex assault trial for former Vancouver Canuck

  25-07-2022 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A defence lawyer for former Vancouver Canuck Jake Virtanen says the woman who claims he sexually assaulted her nearly five years ago wasn’t a reliable or trustworthy witness. 
  Brock Martland told the British Columbia Supreme Court jury in closing arguments that there were inconsistencies in the evidence she gave at trial, while that wasn’t the case with Virtanen’s testimony. 
  Martland says even if jury members are left not knowing who to believe afte
  
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• Mountie says holding back gun details was ‘no-brainer’ in N.S. mass shooting

  25-07-2022 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The Mountie in charge of the investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting says it was a “no-brainer” for him to withhold details of the killer’s guns nine days after the rampage.
  Chief Supt. Darren Campbell was testifying today before the public inquiry into the April 18-19, 2020, murders of 22 people by a gunman driving a replica police vehicle.
  According to notes from Campbell tabled earlier as evidence, RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki criticized him for no
  
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• ‘Deplorable evil’: Full text of the Pope’s residential school apology

  25-07-2022 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MASKWACIS, ALTA. — Pope Francis delivered an apology to Indigenous residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alta., after a visit to the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School on Monday.
  Here is the full text of his address:
  Madam Governor General. Mr. Prime Minister. Dear Indigenous Peoples of Maskwacis and of this land of Canada. Dear brothers and sisters.
  I have been waiting to come here and be with you. Here, from this place associated with painful memories, I would l
  
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• Heat warnings for much of B.C. with temperatures up to 40 C through to Saturday

  25-07-2022 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Heat warnings have been posted across much of British Columbia as Environment Canada predicts temperatures up to 40 C in some regions.
  The warnings cover an area from the inner south coast, including Victoria and Metro Vancouver, to the Okanagan, and as far north as the Bulkley Valley and Terrace and Kitimat on the northern coast.
  The weather office says highs in many areas away from the water could reach the upper 30s, but the mercury is expected to nudge 40 C for locations in
  
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• Fraudulent Kelowna social worker sentenced to 5 years in prison - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Fraudulent Kelowna social worker sentenced to 5 years in prison  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• One person sent to hospital after report of stabbing at Shambhala - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 19:15 via theprogress.com
  
  One person sent to hospital after report of stabbing at Shambhala  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Suspect in custody, several people shot in Metro Vancouver city of Langley, B.C.

  25-07-2022 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY, B.C. — RCMP say “several people” have been shot and a suspect is in custody, after an early morning incident in the Metro Vancouver city of Langley that left a vehicle riddled with bullets.
  Police issued a blaring cellphone alert at about 6:20 Monday morning, saying they were at the scenes of several shootings “involving transient victims.”
  At that time, RCMP said they were unsure if the shooter was alone and warned people to stay out of the downtown core o
  
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• PHF expansion Montreal signs first seven players for upcoming season

  25-07-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Premier Hockey Federation’s newest expansion team in Montreal has signed its first seven players for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
  Montreal signed forwards Ann-Sophie Bettez, Kim Deschenes, Jade Downie-Landry, Alexandra Labelle, Sarah Lefort, and Kristina Shanahan.
  The team also signed defender Brigitte Laganiere.
  “This is a very exciting step forward for the foundation of the PHF in Montreal and across the province of Quebec,” team president Kevin Raphael s
  
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• Hockey Canada releases plan to combat ‘toxic’ culture ahead of parliamentary hearings

  25-07-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hockey Canada has released a plan to combat the “toxic” culture in its sport a day before the start of a second round of parliamentary hearings into the organization’s handling of sexual assault complaints.
  The plan includes the implementation by the end of September of a centralized tracking and reporting system for abuse complaints.
  Hockey Canada also says it will implement enhanced screening for high-performance players and will mandate that breaching the organizations code
  
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• Darrell Furgason will run in October's Chilliwack School Board election - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 18:20 via theprogress.com
  
  Darrell Furgason will run in October's Chilliwack School Board election  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• City of Kelowna ‘playing with fire’, resources inadequate to manage blazes - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 18:20 via theprogress.com
  
  City of Kelowna ‘playing with fire’, resources inadequate to manage blazes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Pope set for historic apology for school abuses in Canada

  25-07-2022 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MASKWACIS, Alberta (AP) — Pope Francis has arrived at the site of a former Indigenous residential school to deliver a long-awaited apology for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s policy of forcibly assimilating Native peoples into Christian society that led to generations of trauma and abuse.Francis is to pray at a cemetery near the Ermineskin Indian Residential School, now largely torn down, and then deliver remarks to school survivors, their families and other community me
  
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• Tamara Lich once again argues for freedom from jail at bail-review hearing

  25-07-2022 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich is once again arguing to be released from jail after a justice of the peace denied her bail earlier this month.
  Lich was ordered to remain in jail to await trial for her role in the protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa in February, after the court decided she had breached her bail conditions. 
  She had been ordered not to communicate with key convoy organizers except through counsel or in the presence of counsel, but was re-
  
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• Habs forward Paul Byron helps save pilot after weekend floatplane crash in Quebec

  25-07-2022 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal Canadiens forward Paul Byron helped rescue a pilot of a floatplane that crashed Saturday in a lake in Quebec’s Laurentians region, northwest of Montreal.
  The crash and the rescue occurred Saturday in Notre-Dame-du-Laus, Que., about 240 kilometres northwest of Montreal, and was first reported by French-language sports network Réseau des sports.
  Byron tweeted late Sunday that he and his father-in-law and brother-in-law helped rescue the pilot from the water.
  The NHLer said mo
  
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• B.C. premier pitches plan for less gas from cattle - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 17:25 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C. premier pitches plan for less gas from cattle  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• With ERs on the brink, doctors explain what patients should consider before they go

  25-07-2022 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A health-care staffing crisis and another wave of COVID-19 are pushing emergency departments across Canada to the brink, with wait times hitting new highs and several hospitals recently being forced to temporarily close their ERs.
  The Canadian Press spoke with emergency physicians across the country who discussed what patients should consider before seeking emergency care and why, for some patients, the emergency room is still one of the only options available. 
  What should
  
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• Nohomin Creek wildfire ‘quiet’ despite heat - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 17:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Nohomin Creek wildfire ‘quiet’ despite heat  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• TRAFFIC: Multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1 in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 16:43 via theprogress.com
  
  TRAFFIC: Multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1 in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alaska experiencing wildfires it’s never seen before - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 16:37 via theprogress.com
  
  Alaska experiencing wildfires it’s never seen before  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Nourish your noggin - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Nourish your noggin  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UPDATE: Suspect and two victims dead in Langley shooting - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 15:30 via theprogress.com
  
  UPDATE: Suspect and two victims dead in Langley shooting  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘We just want to make people feel loved’: How a former addict is bringing hope to the streets of Abbotsford

  25-07-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Five-and-a-half years ago, Joseph Sikora was homeless, battling a drug addiction, and eating scraps from garbage bins. It is hard to believe looking at Sikora now—who is the founder of Ground Zero Ministries, an agency with a passion for helping people.
  “I was delivered out of my addiction by the Lord, and I went through treatment myself,” Sikora said, and further explained that he started by giving haircuts on the streets of Abbotsford four years ago.
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• UK to host 2023 Eurovision after Ukraine ruled too risky

  25-07-2022 14:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Next year’s Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in Britain, organizers announced Monday, after concluding it is too risky to hold the much-beloved pop extravaganza in the designated host country, Ukraine.
  The U.K. said the 2023 event would be a celebration of Ukrainian culture and creativity.
  Ukraine won the right to host the glitzy pan-continental music competition when its entry, the folk-rap ensemble Kalush Orchestra, won this year’s contest in May. Britain&
  
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• Pope visits Canada, Commons hearing on Rogers outage : In The News for July 25

  25-07-2022 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 25 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Pope Francis is expected to speak publicly for the first time on his Canadian visit at a meeting this morning with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in a community south of Edmonton. 
  The day’s events begin with a trip to Maskwacis, Alta., where the pontiff is
  
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• House of Commons committee will hold two hearings on Rogers outage today

  25-07-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The House of Commons industry committee will hold two hearings today about the Rogers outage that lasted more than 15 hours and left millions of Canadians in a communications blackout.  
  The July 8 outage affected Rogers mobile and internet users, knocked out ATMs, shut down the Interac payments system and prevented calls to 911 services in some Canadian cities.
  The committee held an emergency meeting July 15 and voted unanimously to open an investigation into the Rogers outa
  
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• Day 2 of Pope visit to include stops at a former residential school, Edmonton church

  25-07-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MASKWACIS — Pope Francis is expected to speak publicly for the first time on his Canadian visit at a meeting this morning with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in a community south of Edmonton. 
  The day’s events begin with a trip to Maskwacis, Alta., where the pontiff is scheduled to visit the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School. 
  It is expected this is where the Pope will issue an apology to Indigenous residential school survivors and their
  
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• Suspect in double-homicide in Chilliwack found dead after 4 days at large - Saanich News

  25-07-2022 09:00 via saanichnews.com
  
  Suspect in double-homicide in Chilliwack found dead after 4 days at large  Saanich News
  
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• Suspect in Chilliwack double homicide found dead, police say - CBC.ca

  25-07-2022 09:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Suspect in Chilliwack double homicide found dead, police say  CBC.ca
  
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• Langley killings ‘senseless act of violence’: Farnworth - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 09:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Langley killings ‘senseless act of violence’: Farnworth  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• City of Chilliwack opens cooling centres during heat wave – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 09:00 via theprogress.com
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• BREAKING: Suspect in double homicide in Chilliwack found dead after 4 days at large - Chilliwack Progress

  25-07-2022 09:00 via theprogress.com
  
  BREAKING: Suspect in double homicide in Chilliwack found dead after 4 days at large  Chilliwack Progress
  
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