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• B.C. premier says he may copy couple who put out newspaper ad looking for doctor

  03-08-2022 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGFORD, B.C. — British Columbia Premier John Horgan says he’s considering taking the same approach as a Victoria couple who placed a newspaper ad to find a family doctor in his attempt to pressure the federal government to increase health funding. 
  Horgan says the advertisement worked for Janet and Michael Mort, who now have a family doctor after months of searching, leading him to possibly employ the same tactic after previous failed attempts to secure more federal health dol
  
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• Calgary featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu lands fight on high-profile UFC 279 card

  03-08-2022 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Calgary featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu will face American Julian (Juicy J) Erosa on the undercard of UFC 279 next month in Las Vegas.
  The high-profile main event of the Sept. 10 card at the T-Mobile Arena pits unbeaten Russian Khamzat Chimaev, ranked third among welterweight contenders, against fan favourite Nick Diaz, who last fought in June 2021. 
  Dawodu (13-2-1) is coming off a unanimous decision victory June 4 over American Michael (The Lone Wolf) Trizano and has won six of his last
  
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• Toronto Raptors return to B.C. for 2022-23 NBA training camp - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 23:45
  
  Toronto Raptors return to B.C. for 2022-23 NBA training camp  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Parkland jurors hear 3rd day of heartbreaking testimony

  03-08-2022 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Girl Scout and avid reader. A trombone player who loved movies and basketball. A straight-A student who loved Irish dance and was looking forward to a trip to Ireland.
  Jurors in the trial of Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz heard tearful statements Wednesday from three families whose children were among the 17 he murdered at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. It was the third straight day of such testimony — but i
  
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• Glamping season: You can stay at this cozy riverside retreat in Chilliwack this summer - Curiocity

  03-08-2022 23:19
  
  Glamping season: You can stay at this cozy riverside retreat in Chilliwack this summer  Curiocity
  
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• World Rugby funds Canadian injury, concussion research, co-led by player

  03-08-2022 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Rugby’s world governing body has given the University of Calgary half a million dollars to study concussion and injury prevention among young women in the game. 
  Former university rugby player and doctoral candidate Isla Shill is a co-leader of the international study drawing data from high school and club players aged 13 to 18 in Calgary, Winnipeg, Quebec City and Vancouver.
  “I wear three hats when we’re addressing this injury and concussion prevention pro
  
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• ElNahas beats Canadian teammate Reyes for gold in Commonwealth men’s judo

  03-08-2022 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom — Canada’s Shady ElNahas captured gold in judo on Wednesday — but he had to beat his teammate to do it, which says everything about the strength of Canada’s judo team at the Commonwealth Games. 
  The 24-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., defeated Kyle Reyes of Brampton, Ont., to win the men’s 100-kilogram class. Reyes took the silver.
  Marc Deschenes of Laval, Que., added to Canada’s judo medal haul with a gold in the +100 kilo cate
  
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• First Fish ceremony honours abundance of salmon for Spuzzum First Nation - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 23:00
  
  First Fish ceremony honours abundance of salmon for Spuzzum First Nation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Campfires at Lower Mainland, Vancouver Island campgrounds banned starting August 4

  03-08-2022 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Starting tomorrow (Aug. 4) at noon, campfires will be prohibited throughout the Chilliwack Forest District and Lower Mainland.The BC Wildfire Service announced the comprehensive ban to help reduce wildfire risk and protect public safety.This prohibition covers all BC Parks, Crown lands and private lands within the Coastal Fire Centre, unless specified otherwise in a local government bylaw. Campfires will still be allowed in Haida Gwaii.
  The specific forest districts with a cam
  
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• Once a club for men, Muirfield hosts Women’s British Open

  03-08-2022 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) — Catriona Matthew had reason to believe she was in a great place at Muirfield, or at least as good as it could get for women in 1992.
  Matthew was 21, a rising amateur star from just up the road at North Berwick, when she was a walking scorer assigned to John Cook, who had a two-shot lead late in the final round until he couldn’t hold it and Nick Faldo made two late birdies to capture his third claret jug.
  “That’s kind of the memories I have of he
  
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• Defender Doneil Henry comes full circle, happy to be back with Toronto FC

  03-08-2022 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — After stops in England, Denmark, South Korea and the U.S., Doneil Henry is home again.
  Henry, a native of Brampton, Ont., became the first player from the Toronto FC academy to graduate to the first team when he signed a pro contract in August 2010. Then 17, Henry had already made three non-league appearances for the club.
  Now 29, he is back with his hometown club.
  “This is my home, for sure,” said Henry, who re-signed with Toronto on July 22. “I don’t fee
  
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• Snowbirds squad cancels shows in Penticton and Abbotsford, B.C., after hard landing

  03-08-2022 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A malfunction that caused a Canadian Air Force Snowbirds pilot to make a hard landing after takeoff in northern British Columbia has forced the aerobatic team to cancel two performances in the province.
  A statement on the Snowbirds’ social media page says the team has cancelled its Wednesday appearance at the Penticton Peach Festival and it will not take part in the Abbotsford International Airshow that will start on Friday.
  The statement says the CT-114 Tutor jets will n
  
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• Indiana Rep. Walorski killed in car crash, her office says

  03-08-2022 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski was killed Wednesday in a car accident in her northern Indiana District, according to her office.
  “Jackie’s husband, was just informed by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s office that Jackie was killed in a car accident this afternoon. She has returned home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Please keep her family in your thoughts and prayers. We will have no further comment at this time,” her office said
  
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• NFL appeals 6-game suspension for Browns quarterback Watson

  03-08-2022 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The NFL is appealing a disciplinary officer’s decision to suspend Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson for six games for violating the league’s personal conduct policy, giving Commissioner Roger Goodell or someone he designates authority to impose a stiffer penalty.
  Former federal judge Sue L. Robinson issued her ruling Monday after Watson was accused by two dozen women in Texas of sexual misconduct during massage treatments while he played for the Houston Texans.
  In her 16-pa
  
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• Defence lawyer says sharing link is ‘not child pornography’ in B.C. teenager case

  03-08-2022 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A defence lawyer for a Dutch man accused of harassment and extortion of  British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd says sharing a link is “not child pornography.”
  Joseph Saulnier told the jury in Aydin Coban’s B.C. Supreme Court trial there’s evidence that a video titled “AmandaTodd.wmv” was played on a device seized from his client’s home, but it was not stored as a data file.
  Coban has pleaded not guilty to extortion, har
  
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• Chilliwack Sunflower Festival: The sunniest of festivals is back this month

  03-08-2022 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Sunflower Festival will be painting the town yellow, beginning Wednesday, August 10. The festival, in its fifth year, will take place at Royalwood Drive, also home to the Chilliwack Tulip Festival.
  “I’m so thrilled that the Sunflower Festival is back for its fifth great year,” said Kate Onos-Gilbert, Tulips of the Valley co-founder. “It’s fast become as much of a mid-summer tradition in the region as the Tulip Festival is in springt
  
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• 3D-printed ‘ghost guns’ seized in B.C. Interior after parts intercepted in mail: CBSA

  03-08-2022 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Border officers report so-called “ghost guns” made from 3D-printed parts have been seized in the B.C. Interior, after international deliveries were intercepted at mail centres in Vancouver and Toronto.
  The Canada Border Services Agency says in a statement that officers executed a search warrant in West Kelowna on April 27 in relation to the smuggled firearms parts and discovered a 3D printing machine in the process of printing a handgun frame.
  The agency says six co
  
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• Hits by Siri, Peralta lift Rays to 3-2 win over Blue Jays

  03-08-2022 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Hits by newly acquired Jose Siri and David Peralta produced the winning run for the Tampa Bay Rays in a 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday. 
  Siri led off the Tampa Bay sixth with a single off Adam Cimber (8-4). He stole second and scored on Peralta’s tiebreaking single.
  Peralta had two of Tampa Bay’s six hits, all singles, after they managed just two hits in Tuesday night’s 3-1 loss. Peralta was acquired in a trade with Arizona
  
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• Lower Mainland man in critical condition after shooting in Kelowna - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 21:30
  
  Lower Mainland man in critical condition after shooting in Kelowna  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Whitecaps sign Austrian international midfielder Alessandro Schopf

  03-08-2022 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps have signed Austrian central midfielder Alessandro Schopf to a contract through 2024, with a club option for 2025.
  The club said in a release that Shopf was signed using targeted allocation money and will take up an international roster spot pending receipt of his international transfer certificate.
  Schopf spent last season with Arminia Bielefeld in Germany’s Bundesliga, where he started 29 of his 33 appearances across all competitions.
  He spent si
  
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• Board recommends clemency for Oklahoma death row inmate

  03-08-2022 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Board of Pardon and Parole on Wednesday voted to recommend clemency for a death row inmate who has admitted to beating to death a friend and co-worker who refused to loan him $50 to buy cocaine.
  The board voted 3-2 to recommend Gov. Kevin Stitt grant clemency to James Coddington, 50, who was convicted and sentenced to die for killing 73-year-old Albert Hale inside Hale’s home in Choctaw in 1997. Coddington beat Hale on the head at least three times w
  
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• Marino advances to Citi Open quarterfinals with win over Petkovic

  03-08-2022 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Canadian qualifier Rebecca Marino advanced to the quarterfinals of the Citi Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 win over Germany’s Andrea Petkovic on Wednesday.
  Marino had five aces and broke Petkovic three times on 10 chances to win the first WTA Tour matchup between the players.
  Petkovic committed seven double-faults and converted just one of her nine break point opportunities in a match that took one hour 53 minutes to complete.
  Marino was coming off a 4-6, 6-
  
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• Number of wildfires grows in B.C., but cooler weather offers firefighters a breather

  03-08-2022 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The BC Wildfire Service says five fires that either threaten public safety or are highly visible are now burning in the province, up from two just a day earlier.
  The blazes newly identified as “fires of note” include a nearly nine-square-kilometre fire northwest of Cache Creek in the Kamloops Fire Centre, another that has burned roughly two square kilometres northwest of Kamloops, and a third in the Southeast Fire Centre covering 15 square kilometres between Kaslo a
  
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• Free concerts every Saturday in August at Central Community Park in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 20:26
  
  Free concerts every Saturday in August at Central Community Park in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• BCHL playoff MVP trophy named after Chilliwack Chiefs great - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 20:20
  
  BCHL playoff MVP trophy named after Chilliwack Chiefs great  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Avian flu: About 100 carcasses of seals found dead in Quebec

  03-08-2022 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec researchers say avian flu has been detected in at least two species of seal as an unusually high number of dead seals are being reported on the province’s shorelines.
  The Reseau québecois d’urgences pour les mammifères marins says about 100 carcasses of harbour seals were found since January along the south shore of the Lower St. Lawrence region, almost six times more than on an average year. 
  Stéphane Lair, a professor of veterinary
  
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• Greater Vancouver home sales down 43% from last July, 23% from June: REBGV

  03-08-2022 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says last month’s home sales were down a whopping 43 per cent from last July and 23 per cent from this past June. 
  Sales in the region totalled 1,887 last month and were 35.2 per cent below the 10-year July sales average.
  The board says these figures signal a new market cycle characterized by lessening demand for homes is here.
  The board says that part of that cycle includes a gradual rise in the number of homes for sale, bu
  
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• Kelowna had Canada’s highest crime rate in 2021 - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 20:00
  
  Kelowna had Canada’s highest crime rate in 2021  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ground crews cannot access most ‘aggressive’ area of Nohomin Creek wildfire - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 20:00
  
  Ground crews cannot access most ‘aggressive’ area of Nohomin Creek wildfire  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian Border Services Agency seize ‘ghost guns’ from 2 Okanagan homes - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 20:00
  
  Canadian Border Services Agency seize ‘ghost guns’ from 2 Okanagan homes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alouettes ready for physical challenge against undefeated Blue Bombers

  03-08-2022 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes will attempt Thursday night what six other CFL teams have failed to do — hand the Winnipeg Blue Bombers their first loss of the season.
  The two-time reigning Grey Cup champions Bombers, off to an 8-0 start for the first time since 1960, arrive in Montreal with a 5-0 road record and with as many wins as all the teams in the East Division combined.
  To make the going even rougher for the Alouettes, Montreal (2-5) will head to Winnipeg for the second of
  
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• Museum volunteers eager to welcome crowds back this weekend at Chilliwack Fair

  03-08-2022 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Atchelitz Threshermen’s Association treasurer and longtime volunteer Donna Wurst would love nothing more than to see families and seniors filling the grounds of the museum, chapel, general store and other historic attractions this weekend when the Chilliwack Fair celebrates its 150th anniversary.
  Tens of thousands of visitors are expected to gather at Chilliwack Heritage Park, the big red barn, for this weekend’s festivities spanning Friday through Sunday.
  While ve
  
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• Canadian foreign minister urges China to stand down on Taiwan amid military exercises

  03-08-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is calling for calm as the Chinese government announced a series of military exercises around Taiwan following U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island this week.
  Joly says at a news conference that Canada is concerned about what she describes as China’s “threatening action and economic coercion” when it comes to Taiwan.
  She adds that Pelosi’s visit should not be used as a pretext for any actio
  
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• Ottawa apologizes for ‘radical social engineering’ experiment on First Nation

  03-08-2022 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PEEPEEKISIS CREE NATION — Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller delivered an apology on behalf of the federal government to a Saskatchewan First Nation for an “experiment in radical social engineering” that forced a farming colony on the community’s land.Miller spoke in Peepeekisis Cree Nation, in southeastern Saskatchewan, saying Canada failed to protect the nation’s interest in the land and created divisions in the community.The First Nation was home to
  
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• Amphibious tour bus crashes into gates of 24 Sussex, PM’s vacant official residence

  03-08-2022 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An amphibious tour bus crashed into the fence of the prime minister’s unoccupied official residence at 24 Sussex Drive on Wednesday morning during a dry run of a tour route.
  No injuries were reported.
  Etienne Cameron, a co-owner of Lady Dive Tours in Ottawa, said the company is investigating the crash involving one of its vehicles and the driver, whom he did not immediately identify, was the only person on board.
  The driver would not give his name at the scene of the crash b
  
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• Iraqi cleric orders followers to continue protest in Baghdad

  03-08-2022 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr told his followers Wednesday to continue their sit-in inside Iraq’s government zone, and called for the dissolution of the parliament and early elections.
  Speaking for the first time since thousands of his followers stormed the parliament building in Baghdad on Saturday, al-Sadr said the “revolutionaries” must stay and continue their sit-in.
  Al-Sadr hinted that appeals by his political rivals to negotiate did not be
  
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• Slide over, bobsleds. Curling is coming to tropical Jamaica

  03-08-2022 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Slide over, Jamaican bobsledders. A group of expats from the ice-free island are hoping to bring a whole new winter sport to their tropical homeland: curling.
  Three decades after Jamaica crashed the Winter Olympics — and then crashed at the Winter Olympics — with the bobsled team made famous in the movie “Cool Runnings,” the country has joined the World Curling Federation. The status allows it to compete in international events, and the new national governing body is hopi
  
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• CFL names Collaros, Schoen and Acklin performers of the month for July

  03-08-2022 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Winnipeg quarterback Zach Collaros, Blue Bombers receiver Dalton Schoen and Ottawa receiver Jaelon Acklin have been named the CFL’s top performers for July.
  Collaros threw for 1,061 passing yards and 11 touchdown passes with just two interceptions in four games as the two-time defending Grey Cup champion Blue Bombers improved to 8-0 with a perfect month.
  Collaros, last season’s outstanding player, leads the league in passing yards (1,948), is second in touchdown passes (15) and ranks
  
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• ‘The most expensive part of your years’: Parents feel inflation’s squeeze - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 18:30
  
  ‘The most expensive part of your years’: Parents feel inflation’s squeeze  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• In ‘Thirteen Lives,’ Ron Howard directs the Thai cave rescue - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 18:30
  
  In ‘Thirteen Lives,’ Ron Howard directs the Thai cave rescue  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Female skateboarder, 19, dead following collision with pickup truck in east Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 18:30
  
  Female skateboarder, 19, dead following collision with pickup truck in east Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Blue Jays place pitcher Stripling on 15-day injured list with hip strain

  03-08-2022 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have placed right-handed pitcher Ross Stripling on the 15-day injured list with a right hip strain.
  The move is retroactive to Sunday.
  Stripling last pitched in Toronto’s 5-3 win over Detroit on Saturday. He pitched four scoreless innings before being removed after loading the bases with none out, then giving up a sacrifice fly to Kody Clemens. He did not factor in the decision.
  A spot starter earlier in the season, Stripling had been a regular in the
  
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• First Nations, fishing groups and City of Chilliwack want jet boats banned from Fraser River tributaries - Chilliwack Progress

  03-08-2022 18:19
  
  First Nations, fishing groups and City of Chilliwack want jet boats banned from Fraser River tributaries  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• First Nations, Fishing Groups And City Of Chilliwack Want Jet Boats Banned From Fraser River Tributaries - Abbotsford News

  03-08-2022 18:19
  
  First Nations, Fishing Groups And City Of Chilliwack Want Jet Boats Banned From Fraser River Tributaries  Abbotsford News
  
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• Police arrest driver in early morning Parliament Hill crash

  03-08-2022 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa police arrested a driver after what they describe as an unauthorized vehicle drove into the front gates of Parliament Hill early this morning. 
  Police say a vehicle rammed into the gates outside the legislature at about 3:30 a.m. and security infrastructure prevented it from entering the grounds.
  An officer was nearby and took the driver into custody without further incident, the police statement says, and no criminal charges have yet been laid. 
  The Ottawa Police Service says i
  
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• Canadian Press NewsAlert: Clayton Ruby, Canadian civil rights lawyer, dies at 80

  03-08-2022 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian civil rights lawyer Clayton Ruby has died at the age of 80, his law firm confirmed Wednesday.
  More comingThe Canadian Press
  
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• Former Olympian Allison Forsyth on a mission to make soccer and others a safe sport

  03-08-2022 17:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In hiring Allison Forsyth to “to get us to where we want to be” with safe sport, Canada Soccer has engaged a woman on a mission.
  Canada Soccer is looking to ITP Sport, the safe sport consulting and program agency co-founded by the former Olympic skier, to help implement recommendations in the recently released McLaren report and review its existing policies “to ensure they are updated and looked upon as the gold standard across our county.”
  Forsyth believes Canada Soccer
  
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• Iran, US, EU to send envoys to Vienna for nuclear talks

  03-08-2022 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran, the United States and the European Union said Wednesday they would send representatives to Vienna amid what appears to be a last-ditch effort at reviving talks over Tehran’s tattered 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
  It wasn’t immediately clear if other parties to the landmark accord would attend the surprise summit, nor if there had been any progress after a monthslong stalemate and fruitless round of indirect talks between Iran and the U.S. in Doh
  
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• Pope Francis says he felt the pain of Indigenous Peoples during Canada trip

  03-08-2022 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Pope Francis says he felt the pain of Indigenous Peoples during his trip to Canada but also left with a sense of hope.
  The pontiff shared reflections of the penitential pilgrimage during a general audience in Vatican City this morning.The six-day journey saw Francis meet with Indigenous people and residential school survivors during stops in Alberta, Quebec and Nunavut last week.Throughout the trip the Pope apologized for the role of some members of the Roman Catholic Church in the schools and o
  
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• Alouettes’ turn to try and hand Blue Bombers their first loss of the season

  03-08-2022 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s now up to Trevor Harris and the Montreal Alouettes to try and accomplish something no other CFL team has so far this season.
  Montreal (2-5) hosts Grey Cup-champion Winnipeg (8-0) on Thursday to open a home-and-home series. The Bombers remain the CFL’s only unbeaten squad.
  Winnipeg is coming off a 35-28 road win over Calgary on Saturday night. The victory was not only the Bombers’ second over the Stampeders this season but their first at McMahon Stadium since November 2017.
  
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