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• Speaking the ‘language of leadership’ at upcoming networking event in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 23:51
  
  Speaking the ‘language of leadership’ at upcoming networking event in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Translation error behind Pope’s call for ‘investigation’ into residential schools - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 23:48
  
  Translation error behind Pope’s call for ‘investigation’ into residential schools  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Toronto FC looks to move on after painful penalty shootout loss in cup final

  28-07-2022 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Having lost one cup final this week in a painful penalty shootout, Toronto FC now sees itself facing 12 more.
  That’s how many games left Toronto (6-12-4) has left in the MLS regular season. Bob Bradley’s team currently sits in 13th place in the Eastern Conference — six points and six teams out of the playoffs.
  There is no room for margin of error if TFC has any hope of making the post-season.
  Toronto flew back immediately after Tuesday’s Canadian Champions
  
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• Canada’s UN ambassador slams ‘biased, antisemitic’ remarks by human-rights expert - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 23:44
  
  Canada’s UN ambassador slams ‘biased, antisemitic’ remarks by human-rights expert  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Defense contractor held without bail in ID theft mystery

  28-07-2022 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. defense contractor accused of living under the name of a dead Texas boy for decades was ordered detained Thursday by a federal judge in Honolulu after a federal prosecutor added new details to the mystery of his changed identity.Walter Glenn Primrose, 66, was held without bail after a federal prosecutor said he was a flight risk with “troubling” possible connections overseas to help him if he were freed.Primrose and his wife have been charged with fraudul
  
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• Los Angeles County avoids new mask rule as COVID stabilizes

  28-07-2022 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County dropped a plan to impose a universal indoor mask mandate this week as COVID-19 infections and rates of hospitalizations have stabilized, a top health official said Thursday.
  Health director Barbara Ferrer announced two weeks ago that the nation’s most populous county could again require face coverings if trends in hospital admissions continued under criteria set by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.On Thursday, she said the coun
  
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• Leslyn Lewis joins Pierre Poilievre in skipping third Conservative leadership debate

  28-07-2022 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Leslyn Lewis has officially decided to skip out on the Conservative party’s next leadership debate. 
  Her campaign says it informed the race’s organizing committee she will not attend the “all-candidate event” set for Aug. 3.
  The five candidates vying to replace former leader Erin O’Toole have been told by the party they are expected to appear in Ottawa for a third and final official debate before results are revealed Sept. 10. 
  Longtime MP P
  
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• Review says Canada Soccer mishandled sexual harassment allegations against coach - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 23:18
  
  Review says Canada Soccer mishandled sexual harassment allegations against coach  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Riders host Lions to open tough stretch of 8 straight games against West opponents

  28-07-2022 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Seven games into the season, the Saskatchewan Roughriders are heading into the toughest stretch of their schedule. 
  The 4-3 Riders will host the 4-1 B.C. Lions on Friday, opening a run of eight straight games against West Division opponents. 
  In their first seven games, the Riders schedule included just one game against a West Division team (June 18 vs. Edmonton) with the other six games coming against East Division clubs.
  The Riders currently find themselves in fourth p
  
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• Visit by Pope Francis to Quebec City stirs mix of emotions among faithful

  28-07-2022 22:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — Pope Francis is spending less than 48 hours in Quebec City, and his mission is a sombre one of penance, but those lining up hours to catch a brief glimpse of the pontiff say they are balancing that with the thrill of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. 
  It’s the first time a pope has visited the provincial capital since John Paul II came in 1984, becoming the first pope to visit Canada when he landed in Quebec City and went on a 12-day cross-country trek.
  But this visit h
  
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• Old growth protest group says it spray-painted Vancouver landmarks

  28-07-2022 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — An activist group opposed to old growth logging in B.C. says it has been spray-painting Vancouver tourist attractions and landmarks as an act of civil disobedience. 
  The Save OId Growth group says targets have included the Gastown steam clock, artist Douglas Coupland’s Digital Orca sculpture, the Olympic torch, Science World and the CBC’s offices.
  The group, which distributed a photo of the steam clock covered with slogans, says it painted the messages as a rem
  
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• Federal government erects roadblocks, locked gate to stop further destruction of sensitive fish habitat at Gill Bar

  28-07-2022 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The days of reckless revelers and partying at the end of Gill Road and impacting the surrounding area, not to mention motorbikes and quad activities, appear to be numbered, at least for the time being.The federal government erected roadblocks and a locked road gate preventing motorized access to portions of Gill Bar, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) said in a Thursday statement.Public access to Gill Bar via foot traffic or small boat will remain unaffected. However, the roadb
  
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• Deal on Capitol Hill could ease seniors’ health costs

  28-07-2022 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A deal on Capitol Hill that could cut prescription drug costs for millions of Medicare beneficiaries was cautiously cheered by older Americans and their advocates Thursday even as many worried it might never come to fruition.
  The health care and climate agreement struck by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin includes landmark provisions that could help senior citizens, including a cap on out-of-pocket Medicare drug costs and a requirement that the government nego
  
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• Translation error behind Pope’s call for ‘investigation’ into residential schools

  28-07-2022 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Organizers of the papal visit say the Vatican has “clarified” part of Pope Francis’s apology to residential school survivors, noting an error occurred during translation. 
  The pontiff’s words near Edmonton this week raised questions when he said an important part of moving past requesting forgiveness “will be to conduct a serious investigation into the facts of what took place.”
  Francis was speaking Spanish and the apology was being transla
  
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• Culvert construction to hit Yarrow during busy summer months - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 22:30
  
  Culvert construction to hit Yarrow during busy summer months  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s UN ambassador slams ‘biased, antisemitic’ remarks by human-rights expert

  28-07-2022 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York is condemning “blatantly biased, antisemitic comments” by a human-rights investigator at the international organization.
  Bob Rae says in a tweet that comments made by Miloon Kothari, who sits on a UN commission of inquiry set up in response to last year’s 11-day war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, are “a disgrace to institutions supposedly dedicated to the rule of law.”
  Kothari caught atten
  
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• Former police watchdog head denies directing RCMP not to reveal N.S. shooter’s guns

  28-07-2022 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The former director of Nova Scotia’s police watchdog denies telling the RCMP not to release a list of the weapons seized from the gunman who murdered 22 people in April 2020. 
  Pat Curran — who led the Serious Incident Response Team at the time of the shootings — says he “gave no directives to the RCMP” about the five firearms Gabriel Wortman had in his possession when he was killed by police at a gas station on April 19. 
  That contradicts st
  
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• Undercover training program for B.C. municipal police now under criminal investigation - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 21:58
  
  Undercover training program for B.C. municipal police now under criminal investigation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Harassment of B.C. teen from 22 accounts came from one person, Crown attorney says

  28-07-2022 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A Crown attorney says similarities in messages from 22 online accounts that harassed and extorted British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd in the three years before her death prove they came from the same person.
  Marcel Daigle told the B.C. Supreme Court jury trial of Aydin Coban, the Dutch man accused of harassing and extorting the teen who died in October 2012, that the similarities and cohesion of the messages is “overwhelming.” 
  Daigle says the var
  
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• BCCLA calls on other governments to join B.C. in ending immigration detention

  28-07-2022 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A civil liberties group says the British Columbia government’s decision to end immigration detention in provincial jails should not taken as an opportunity for the Canada Border Services Agency to increase the number of holding centres or use of restricted detention alternatives like ankle monitors or curfews.
  Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth announced last week that the province would be ending an agreement with the CBSA to hold immigration detainees in provincial c
  
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• Canadian soldier of the First World War identified years after death in France

  28-07-2022 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A Canadian soldier killed in battle during the First World War has been identified, more than a century later.
  The Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces confirmed the identity of Company Sgt.-Maj. David George Parfitt on Thursday.
  Parfitt was one of 156 members of the 8th Canadian Infantry Battalion killed in action on Sept. 26, 1916, during the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.
  Parfitt’s headstone, which is in Regina Trench Cemetery in Grandcourt, France, identified him onl
  
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• The inconvenient truths about black bears in Greater Victoria - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 21:00
  
  The inconvenient truths about black bears in Greater Victoria  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Review says Canada Soccer mishandled sexual harassment allegations against coach

  28-07-2022 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — An independent review has concluded that Canada Soccer “mishandled” sexual harassment allegations in 2008 against then under-20 women’s coach Bob Birarda, who is currently awaiting sentencing on sexual assault charges.
  The 125-page report by McLaren Global Sport Solution, commissioned by Canada Soccer, paints a picture of a governing body “described by many as being dysfunctional and inefficient,” with “significant leadership upheaval and trans
  
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• Police identify two people killed in series of shootings in Langley, B.C.

  28-07-2022 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY, B.C. — Police have identified two people who were killed in the Vancouver suburb of Langley, where two others were also wounded in a series of shootings on Monday.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says 60-year-old Paul Wynn was killed outside a supportive housing complex and 43-year-old Steven Furness was shot dead at a bus loop.
  IHIT says Wynn’s family describes him as someone who worked hard for everything he had.
  Police shared a message from Furness’s fami
  
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• Canada asked France extradite priest facing sexual assault charge in Nunavut - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 20:30
  
  Canada asked France extradite priest facing sexual assault charge in Nunavut  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Oklahoma pair arrested in child’s death, body was burned

  28-07-2022 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEMINOLE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man and a woman described as his girlfriend were arrested for the death of a young child whose burned body was found in central Oklahoma, authorities said.
  Police in Seminole, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, found the child’s burned body Wednesday after receiving a tip, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said.
  Authorities haven’t specified the age of the child, whom the state bureau said was a toddler.
  Police
  
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• Shots fired at Surrey residence overnight, no injuries reported - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 20:16
  
  Shots fired at Surrey residence overnight, no injuries reported  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays announce Rogers Centre to get massive overhaul

  28-07-2022 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays are determined to modernize Rogers Centre.
  Team president Mark Shapiro announced on Thursday that the Blue Jays would be making major renovations to their downtown ballpark.
  Shapiro says the first phase, which includes replacing all the seats in the 500 level, will be completed by next season.
  Opened in 1989, Rogers Centre is the seventh oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball.
  Rogers Centre is one of only three multi-purpose stadiums left in MLB along with
  
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• Still not at 100 per cent, De Grasse might shut down season and focus on next year

  28-07-2022 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Despite Andre De Grasse’s sizzling anchor leg that secured Canada a thrilling relay victory at the world track and field championships, the sprint star still isn’t feeling back at full health.
  After a few months of battling an foot injury, then contracting COVID-19 a month before the world championships, De Grasse might shut down his season now and focus on next year.
  “To be honest, it’s been a struggle,” De Grasse said. “I don’t feel lik
  
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• Flooding in central Appalachia kills at least 3 in Kentucky

  28-07-2022 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JACKSON, Ky. (AP) — Rescue workers plucked people off rooftops amid fast-rising water Thursday in central Appalachia, where torrential rains unleashed devastating flooding that caused at least three deaths in Kentucky.
  One emergency official in hard-hit eastern Kentucky described the situation as “catastrophic” as rescue crews searched for stranded people. Rising waters swamped roads, displaced families and caused widespread damage
  Gov. Andy Beshear announced the three deaths f
  
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• BC SPCA seeks help for amputee kitten in Williams Lake - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 19:46
  
  BC SPCA seeks help for amputee kitten in Williams Lake  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• VIDEO: Federal housing minister in Chilliwack to announce $10 million for low-income project for women - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 19:33
  
  VIDEO: Federal housing minister in Chilliwack to announce $10 million for low-income project for women  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Federal government announces $10 million funding boost to build 18 units of affordable housing for victims of gender-based violence, families in Chilliwack

  28-07-2022 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Eighteen units of safe, affordable housing for vulnerable women and their families are coming to Sardis.The federal government announced Thursday that it will invest $10 million to create an 18-unit housing complex dedicated to victims of gender-based violence at 5732 Vedder Road, right next to McDonald’s.The City of Chilliwack will provide approximately $179,000 in municipal equity through off-site servicing upgrades.The 18 affordable homes will feature four one-bedroom
  
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• Victims of Langley shooting spree identified - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 19:15
  
  Victims of Langley shooting spree identified  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Mountie has ‘impression’ Liberal government interfered with N.S. mass shooting probe

  28-07-2022 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A senior Mountie says he believes political inference was behind RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki’s determination to have police release details on the guns used in the Nova Scotia mass shooting. 
  Chief Supt. Chris Leather made the comment today during the public inquiry into the rampage that took 22 lives on April 18-19, 2020, during cross-examination by Tom MacDonald, a lawyer who represents two family members of victims.
  MacDonald asked if Leather believed, after the
  
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• Doctors say lack of communication on epidural shortage ‘frustrating’ - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 19:00
  
  Doctors say lack of communication on epidural shortage ‘frustrating’  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Advocates say the federal government can do more to address opioid use stigma

  28-07-2022 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — New federal government research says that stigmatizing views about opioid use disorder — unfair perceptions and disapproval of people who take these drugs — continue to be held by a significant portion of the population.
  One in four respondents held stigmatizing views against people who use opioids, one in four held sympathetic views, and half held a mix of the two, with the rates holding steady since the research was first conducted in 2017.
  While advocates say they a
  
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• Montreal says vaccine — not limiting sexual partners — best way to fight monkeypox

  28-07-2022 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal health officials say men who have sex with men should get vaccinated against monkeypox instead of limit the number of people they have sex with.
  City public health director Dr. Mylène Drouin says vaccination against the disease remains the best strategy to reduce transmission in the city’s LGBTQ community.
  Her message differs from the one issued Wednesday from Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, who recommended that men who have sex with men limit t
  
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• DFO shuts down vehicle access to Gill Bar in Chilliwack - Mission City Record

  28-07-2022 18:52
  
  DFO shuts down vehicle access to Gill Bar in Chilliwack  Mission City Record
  
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• DFO shuts down vehicle access to Gill Bar in Chilliwack - Hope Standard

  28-07-2022 18:52
  DFO shuts down vehicle access to Gill Bar in Chilliwack  Hope Standard
  
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• DFO shuts down vehicle access to Gill Bar in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 18:52
  
  DFO shuts down vehicle access to Gill Bar in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• DFO Shuts Down Vehicle Access To Gill Bar In Chilliwack - Abbotsford News

  28-07-2022 18:52
  
  DFO Shuts Down Vehicle Access To Gill Bar In Chilliwack  Abbotsford News
  
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• U.S. raises trade concerns with Canada over online-streaming bill - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 18:30
  
  U.S. raises trade concerns with Canada over online-streaming bill  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Help Wanted: After pandemic pivots, where have Canadian workers gone? - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 18:10
  
  Help Wanted: After pandemic pivots, where have Canadian workers gone?  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• More B.C. heat records fall, conditions prompt flood watch, but no heat emergency

  28-07-2022 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Temperature records are melting across British Columbia as a prolonged heat spell grips the province but Emergency Management BC says it is not anticipating an extreme heat emergency.
  A statement from the agency says residents should monitor temperature forecasts and take advantage of cooling stations set up in many communities but it’s not expecting a repeat of last year’s deadly heat dome that killed more than 600 people.
  Environment Canada is maintaining heat war
  
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• Canada’s debt level sustainable over long term: parliamentary budget officer

  28-07-2022 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says Canada’s current fiscal policy is sustainable over the long term.
  The PBO’s latest fiscal sustainability report finds that Canada’s overall debt level is projected to decline steadily over time.
  At the federal level, the report says, the government could permanently increase spending or reduce taxes by 1.8 per cent of GDP and remain fiscally viable. 
  The report released today includes assessments of federal and provincia
  
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• Toronto Raptors add Spanish forward Juancho Hernangomez to roster

  28-07-2022 16:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors have signed forward Juancho Hernangomez.
  Terms were not disclosed, but ESPN reported the deal is for one year.
  The six-foot-nine, 214-pound Madrid native averaged 3.3 points, 2.5 rebounds and 11.1 minutes in 40 appearances (nine starts) last season with Boston, San Antonio and Utah.
  Hernangomez was picked 15th overall by Denver in the 2016 NBA draft. He holds career averages of 5.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 15.7 minutes in 297 games (66 starts) with Denver, Min
  
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• Former NHL defenceman Robidas joins Canadiens’ coaching staff as assistant

  28-07-2022 15:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have named former NHL defenceman Stephane Robidas as an assistant coach on Martin St. Louis’ staff.
  The 45-year old Robidas spent last season as head coach of the Magog Cantonniers in the Quebec U18 AAA Development Hockey League
  He led the team to a league title and was named a finalist for coach of the year.
  Robidas had taken a job as an assistant coach with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Sherbrooke Phoenix last month, prior to accept
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: B.C. Centre for Agritech Innovation is an important development for the Fraser Valley

  28-07-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Here in the Fraser Valley, we will not soon forget the devastating impacts of the flood last November – causing widespread damage and uncertainty in our region and in many parts of our Province.On top of the floods, we faced many challenges in these past few years – from the pandemic to other climate change related events and the impacts of fires and heat-domes. In each instance people, businesses, communities, and particularly farmers, who have sacrificed so much, have shown remarka
  
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• Home field advantage for Chilliwack Cougars at bantam baseball provincials - Chilliwack Progress

  28-07-2022 15:00
  
  Home field advantage for Chilliwack Cougars at bantam baseball provincials  Chilliwack Progress
  
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