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• Two miners trapped in Dominican Republic rescued with help from Canada

  09-08-2022 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand says two miners who were trapped in an underground mine for 10 days in the Dominican Republic have been rescued with the help of Canada.
  In a tweet on Tuesday, Anand said the Royal Canadian Air Force transported mining equipment to Santo Domingo following a request for assistance from the Dominican government.
  Two miners with the Dominican Mining Corporation, known as Cormidom, had been trapped since July 31 in an underground mine.
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• Naomi Osaka retires in first-round match against Kanepi at National Bank Open

  09-08-2022 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Naomi Osaka retired from her opening match with a back injury Tuesday at the National Bank Open.Osaka was losing 7-6 (4), 3-0 against Estonia’s Kaia Kanepi when she withdrew from the match.
  Entering the tournament, Osaka had been eliminated from her last three competitions in the first or second round, including a straight-sets loss to Coco Gauff at last week’s Mubadala Silicon Valley Classic.
  That was her first competition since the French Open as she recovered from
  
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• Former Greater Victoria teacher given lifetime ban after child pornography conviction - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Former Greater Victoria teacher given lifetime ban after child pornography conviction  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alberta awards prize to essay that argues women should pick babies over careers

  09-08-2022 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta has awarded a prize to an essayist who argues the sexes are not equal and that women should pick babies over careers to avoid the province having to import more foreigners and risk “cultural suicide.”
  The United Conservative government removed the essay from its legislature website Tuesday following an outcry of condemnation.
  Jackie Armstrong-Homeniuk — Alberta’s associate minister for the Status of Women and also the contest organizer and one of
  
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• Jack Hanratty elevated to full-time coach of Canadian women’s rugby sevens team

  09-08-2022 22:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After almost 10 months in an interim role, Jack Hanratty has been appointed head coach of the Canadian women’s rugby sevens team.
  Hanratty was an assistant coach with the women’s team for sevens events in Vancouver and Edmonton in September 2021 and took over as interim head coach in October. Initially it was for the duration of the year but, in February, his term was extended by another eight months.
  On Tuesday, Rugby Canada made the role permanent.
  “It has been an honour to l
  
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• Suspect throws brick at pregnant woman’s stomach in downtown Nanaimo - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 22:35 via theprogress.com
  
  Suspect throws brick at pregnant woman’s stomach in downtown Nanaimo  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Blue Jays sign veteran outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to one-year deal

  09-08-2022 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have signed outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to a one-year major-league contract.
  The 32-year-old was released by Boston on Thursday. He has a .210 average with 19 doubles, one triple, three home runs, and 29 runs batted in through 92 games this season.
  The left-handed hitting outfielder was named an all-star in 2016, when he set career highs with 149 hits, 26 homers, and 87 RBIs. 
  He helped Boston win the 2018 World Series and was named the MVP of the Ame
  
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• Man convicted of fatally shooting his 2 daughters in Texas

  09-08-2022 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday in their killings.
  Yaser Said, 65, was found guilty of capital murder in the deaths of 18-year-old Amina Said and 17-year-old Sarah Said. Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty, meaning Yaser Said receives an automatic life sentence.
  Prosecutor Lauren Black has said Said was “obsessed with possession and con
  
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• After 3-year hiatus, Camp Choice makes its return to Zajac Ranch in Mission

  09-08-2022 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — After three years, Camp Choice has made its return to teens this week (Aug. 8-Aug. 12) at Zajac Ranch in Mission.
  Corisa Bell, director of the BC Camp Choice Society, described the camp as an opportunity for youth who are facing “adult-like” concerns in their lives.
  “The camp provides them an opportunity to go for a week and be kids and learn leadership skills and learn about choice and togetherness as a community,” Bell said.
  The camp caters to teens betw
  
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• Man at centre of Saskatchewan Amber Alert a convicted child sex offender: records

  09-08-2022 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Court records show a man believed to be at the centre of an Amber Alert for two missing children is a convicted child sex offender.
  The documents say 50-year-old Benjamin Martin Moore, now of Eastend, Sask., was convicted in 2009 for sexual interference of a minor.
  He was sentenced in Regina provincial court to two years and two months in prison. 
  Records say he served another three months in jail in 2011 after he was convicted of breaching a recognizance order.
  RCMP say Moor
  
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• Jury picked in 2nd trial in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot

  09-08-2022 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — After questions about guns, politics and COVID-19, a jury was selected Tuesday for the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over their disgust with restrictions early in the pandemic.
  The judge and lawyers settled on 18 people, including six alternates, to hear the case against Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr.
  They’re on trial again after a jury in April couldn’t reach a verdict. Two co-defendants were a
  
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• Truck driver acquitted in deaths of 7 motorcyclists in 2019

  09-08-2022 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) —A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in a head-on collision in northern New Hampshire.
  Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26, of West Springfield, Massachusetts, had pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of negligent homicide, manslaughter, driving under the influence, and reckless conduct, although some of the charges were dropped during the trial. He has been in jail since the crash on June 21, 2019, in Randolph.
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• Police: Suspect in 4 Muslim men’s killings detained

  09-08-2022 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Albuquerque police say they have detained the “primary suspect” in the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico’s largest city.
  The city’s police chief on Tuesday announced the update on Twitter. Chief Harold Medina says officers found the vehicle that investigators believe was involved in the slayings over the last nine months.
  “We tracked down the vehicle believed to be involved in a recent murder of a Muslim man in Albuquerque. The driver was detained and he is
  
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• Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing

  09-08-2022 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GREENWOOD, Miss. — A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about an unserved arrest warrant and a newly revealed memoir by the woman, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
  After hearing more than seven hours of testimony from investigators and witnesses, a Leflore County grand jury last week determined there was insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham o
  
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• September looms for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion work in Chilliwack school fields – Today In BC - Today In BC – Today In BC

  09-08-2022 20:50 via todayinbc.com
  
  September looms for Trans Mountain pipeline expansion work in Chilliwack school fields – Today In BC  Today In BC – Today In BC
  
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• September Looms For Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Work In Chilliwack School Fields - Abbotsford News

  09-08-2022 20:50 via abbynews.com
  
  September Looms For Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Work In Chilliwack School Fields  Abbotsford News
  
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• Cloverdale senior hit by tag-teaming scammers, defrauding her of $15,000 - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 20:50 via theprogress.com
  
  Cloverdale senior hit by tag-teaming scammers, defrauding her of $15,000  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Rebecca Marino falls in opening match at National Bank Open

  09-08-2022 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada’s Rebecca Marino lost 6-3, 6-7 (5), 4-6 to China’s Zheng Qinwen in the opening round of the National Bank Open on Tuesday.
  The Vancouver native entered the tournament coming off a quarterfinal appearance at the Citi Open, where she fell to Daria Saville of Australia.
  Marino, who made it into the WTA top 100 rankings for the first time since 2012 and is currently No. 96, got rolling early as she took the first set with relative ease.
  Marino overcame a strong sta
  
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• Stable weather allows fire crews to focus on containment of B.C. wildfires

  09-08-2022 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Crews battling the wildfire that has forced the evacuation of more than 500 properties in British Columbia’s southern Okanagan are taking advantage of calm winds and stable conditions to bolster fire lines.
  The BC Wildfire Service says the the wildfire covers 68 square kilometres southwest of Penticton, with most of the recent growth due to planned ignitions needed to create the control lines.
  An update from the wildfire service says newly created control lines are “holding well.&rdq
  
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• Delivering new services ‘complicated,’ Freeland says of planned dental care program

  09-08-2022 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working hard to meet its end-of-year deadline to deliver dental-care coverage to kids, but acknowledges that providing new services is “complicated.”
  The Liberals agreed to provide dental coverage to low- and middle-income children by the end of the year as part of their supply and confidence deal with the New Democrats to keep the minority government from toppling before 2025. 
  Several groups have rai
  
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• Meaghan Mikkelson has unfinished business with Canadian women’s hockey team

  09-08-2022 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Meaghan Mikkelson wasn’t done playing hockey.
  After three Olympic Games and two gold medals, the 37-year-old defender could have moved on from the Canadian women’s team with her head held high.
  She’d put in a herculean effort trying to rehabilitate a catastrophic knee injury in time to play in a fourth Olympic Games. 
  Mikkelson ran out of runway and was released from the team that went on to win gold in Beijing in February.
  At a crossroads in her hockey car
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of August 7, 2022

  09-08-2022 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: TECOMBA, Lenny
  Image supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 25
  Height: 5’10” ft
  Weight: 174 lbs
  Hair: Black
  Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Extortion, Assault causing bodily harm, possession of a weapon for dangerous purposes
  Warrant in effect: July 31, 2022
  Parole Jurisdiction: Vancouver, BC
  Name: ROBINSON, Kusone
  Image supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 20
  Height: 5’6&
  
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• Canada’s Pospisil drops opener to Paul, Shapovalov to resume rain-suspended match

  09-08-2022 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s Vasek Pospisil was eliminated from singles play at the National Bank Open on Tuesday after dropping a 6-4, 6-4 decision to American Tommy Paul.Pospisil, a native of Vernon, B.C., had three break points in the final game of the opening set but was unable to convert. Paul completed the victory in one hour 25 minutes.
  The start of the opening session at IGA Stadium was delayed about 90 minutes due to wet weather.Pospisil received a wild-card entry in the 56-player dr
  
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• B.C.’s $10-million plastics fund aims to spur business to cut pollution, says Heyman

  09-08-2022 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DELTA, B.C. — British Columbia is increasing funding incentives for businesses to $10 million to develop products to reduce plastic pollution.Environment Minister George Heyman says the province is a North American leader in plastic recycling and the government’s CleanBC Plastic Action Fund is looking for more innovations to cut plastic pollution.He says the province provided funding last year to businesses for nine plastic reduction projects that included turning old car batteries i
  
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• Insigne pulls out of MLS all-star skills challenge due to family medical situation

  09-08-2022 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — A medical issue involving Italian star Lorenzo Insigne’s family promoted Toronto FC to delay its flight out of Nashville on the weekend.
  Toronto coach Bob Bradley said Insigne “was made aware of a family health situation” after the team boarded its charter following Saturday’s 4-3 win over Nashville SC.
  “We actually delayed out takeoff for 45 minutes just to make sure that he was comfortable with things at that moment,” Bradley said. “We
  
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• Senegalese diplomat arrested by Quebec police owed former landlord more than $45,000

  09-08-2022 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The detention and alleged beating by Quebec police of a Senegalese diplomat last week came as a bailiff was attempting to seize property at her residence to pay for a judgment against her.
  Quebec’s rental board in June ordered Oumou Kalsoum Sall to pay a former landlord more than $45,000 for damage done to a home she occupied from Nov. 1, 2018, to Oct. 31, 2020.
  Court records show that debt was not paid and a bailiff went to her residence in Gatineau, Que., to enforce it A
  
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• Russia’s Medvedev focusing on the positives after being forced to skip Wimbledon

  09-08-2022 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — There’s a blank space in the nationality column beside Daniil Medvedev’s name on the drawsheet at the National Bank Open. 
  The Russian flag is also missing from the Moscow native’s bio on the ATP Tour website. 
  It’s simply the new normal for the world No. 1 and his compatriots, who had to skip Wimbledon last month because of the Grand Slam tournament’s ban on players from Russia and Belarus over the war in Ukraine.
  Both the ATP Tour and WT
  
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• Nurse, LeBlanc among group that will study, advise on women’s pro sport in Canada

  09-08-2022 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Kia Nurse and Karina LeBlanc are among a star-studded group of Canadian women tasked with helping determine the course for professional women’s sport in Canada.
  Canadian Women and Sport announced a couple of new initiatives on Tuesday, including the appointment of the Commercial Women Sport Advisory Group, and a study on the potential and direction of professional women’s sport.
  Nurse and LeBlanc are both two-time Olympians. Nurse now plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, while
  
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• Tragically Hip, Barbara Frum among Canada’s Walk of Fame inductees - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Tragically Hip, Barbara Frum among Canada’s Walk of Fame inductees  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack headlines additional day for Kerrfest - Oakville News

  09-08-2022 19:14 via oakvillenews.org
  
  Chilliwack headlines additional day for Kerrfest  Oakville News
  
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• Up Close & Peculiar With Sideshow Gaffs

  09-08-2022 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Up Close & PeculiarMore than 100 years ago, the globetrotting Robert Ripley began collecting artifacts from his journeys around the world, which today form the heart of the greatest collection of oddities ever assembled. Up Close & Peculiar brings the curious history of these pieces to a personal level as our Exhibits Buyer, Kurtis Moellmann, explores the strange relics that lie within our Warehouse walls! Become a part of the story as we share
  
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• Junior hockey league in the Maritimes seeking women for coaching, operations jobs

  09-08-2022 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A junior hockey league on the East Coast wants to create new opportunities for women by hiring up to 10 of them as assistant coaches and scouts for the upcoming season.
  The Maritime Junior Hockey League says it will be the first league in Canada to offer such a program.
  MHL president Troy Dumville issued a recent statement saying women do not enjoy the same opportunities as men do when it comes to hockey operations jobs in junior leagues.
  He says the new positions will “adv
  
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• Montreal mayor says independent investigation to examine Pride parade cancellation

  09-08-2022 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The City of Montreal says an independent investigation will be held into Pride Montreal’s last-minute cancellation of its emblematic parade on Sunday.
  Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante said on Twitter today that organizers of the annual festival promised their full co-operation during her meeting with them Monday evening.
  A spokesperson for Plante, Catherine Cadotte, says the mayor requestedthe independent investigation after Pride Montreal had initially announced only
  
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• Hootsuite to lay off 30 per cent of staff, begin global restructuring

  09-08-2022 18:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Hootsuite Inc. says it will lay off 30 per cent of its staff as part of a global restructuring.
  The Vancouver-based social media business did not say what triggered the job cuts, but tech companies as large as Shopify, Netflix and Clearco have conducted similar layoffs in recent weeks as investor interest in tech stocks has faded.
  Hootsuite CEO Tom Keiser says the move will help the company once considered a darling in Canada’s tech scene to realign itself with strategies
  
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• VIDEO: Butterfly release event returns to Lower Mainland community - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 18:30 via theprogress.com
  
  VIDEO: Butterfly release event returns to Lower Mainland community  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada to host 2023 women’s world hockey championship

  09-08-2022 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ZURICH — Canada will host the 2023 women’s world hockey championship.
  The International Ice Hockey Federation has awarded next year’s tournament to Canada and the 2024 championship to the United States, the IIHF confirmed in its “Ice Times” newsletter issued Monday.
  Dates and locations have yet to be announced.
  The 2022 women’s championship — the first to be held in the same calendar year as an Olympic Games — is Aug. 25 to Sept. 4 in Herning and F
  
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• Crowded tent encampment on main Vancouver street set to be removed by city

  09-08-2022 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — People living in a growing street encampment along a busy street in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside have been handed notices advising that the tents and other structures are about to be removed.
  The notice from the City of Vancouver says removal would first focus on the highest risk areas, adding in a statement that the process would begin today and continue for weeks.
  The city’s fire chief issued an order last month requiring the tents be cleared because of an extrem
  
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• Team Canada prepares for unusual world junior hockey championship

  09-08-2022 18:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Pressure is always high for Canada at the world junior hockey championships. 
  But this year’s team faces a whole host of unusual circumstances. 
  Not only will the squad be playing summer hockey on home soil when they begin tournament play against Latvia in Edmonton on Wednesday, they’ll be doing so under unique scrutiny.
  Hockey Canada has faced intense criticism in recent months for its handling of sexual assault allegations levied against members of former
  
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• Nathan Rourke, Dominique Rhymes and Titus Wall named the CFL’s top performers

  09-08-2022 18:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Quarterback Nathan Rourke and receiver Dominque Rhymes, both of the B.C. Lions, and defensive back Titus Wall of the Calgary Stampeders were named the top performers for Week 9 of the CFL season Tuesday.
  Rourke, a Victoria native, had a record-setting performance in leading B.C. past the Edmonton Elks 46-14. He completed 34-of-37 passes (91.2 per cent) for 477 yards and five touchdowns.
  His completion percentage was a CFL record while the 477 passing yards were a Canadian single-
  
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• WestJet adding direct flights between Vancouver and Penticton - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 18:00 via theprogress.com
  
  WestJet adding direct flights between Vancouver and Penticton  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Camp Choice returns to Zajac Ranch after COVID interruption - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 18:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Camp Choice returns to Zajac Ranch after COVID interruption  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Top commander defends military’s vaccine requirement, says ‘tweak’ in the works

  09-08-2022 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s top military commander says he plans to “tweak” the Armed Forces’ vaccine requirement in the next few weeks.
  But defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre is also defending the use of mandates, describing them as necessary to ensure the military is ready to respond to any emergency.
  Eyre made the comments in an interview with The Canadian Press as hundreds of service members remain unvaccinated despite orders to get the shot late last year.
  The order is still
  
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• Vernon woman launches recall petition against MLA Sandhu - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 17:20 via theprogress.com
  
  Vernon woman launches recall petition against MLA Sandhu  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Andrea Skinner appointed interim board chair at Hockey Canada

  09-08-2022 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Toronto lawyer Andrea Skinner has been appointed interim chair of Hockey Canada’s board of directors.
  Skinner is the first woman to hold the position in the organization’s history. She takes over for Michael Brind’Amour, who resigned last week.
  Hockey Canada is under the public and governmental microscope for its handling of sexual assault allegations against members of past junior men’s hockey teams.
  The federal government has frozen funding to Hockey Can
  
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• Large explosions rock Russian military air base in Crimea

  09-08-2022 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea on Tuesday, and at least five people, including a child, were wounded, authorities said.
  Russia’s Defense Ministry said that munitions blew up at the Saki base, and it emphasized that the installation had not been shelled. But Ukrainian social networks were abuzz with speculation that it was hit by Ukrainian-fired long-range missiles.There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian authorities.
  Videos posted on
  
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• Chilliwack firefighters extinguish 'accidental' fire that broke out in Fairbanks Crescent home - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 16:33 via theprogress.com
  
  Chilliwack firefighters extinguish 'accidental' fire that broke out in Fairbanks Crescent home  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Serena Williams says she will retire after U.S. Open - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Serena Williams says she will retire after U.S. Open  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Florida man filming sunrise killed when sand dune collapses - Chilliwack Progress

  09-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Florida man filming sunrise killed when sand dune collapses  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Scientists Grow Mouse Embryos Without Sperm Or Eggs

  09-08-2022 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!If you received a “birds and bees” talk as a kid or paid attention in biology class, you’ve got a pretty good idea of how babies are made — no stork or cabbage patches necessary! But the process does require, at a bare minimum, joining a viable sperm cell with an egg. In the case of mammals, it’s also essential for the resulting zygote to implant in a womb, where it develops in seclusion until the day of birth.
  But scientists h
  
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• Serena Williams says she is ‘evolving away from tennis’

  09-08-2022 16:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests.
  “I’m turning 41 this month, and something’s got to give,” Williams wrote in an essay released Tuesday by Vogue magazine.
  Williams, one of the greatest and most accomplished athletes in the history of her — or any other — sport, said she does not like the word retirement and pr
  
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