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• Privacy experts disagree with RCMP that spyware is similar to wiretapping - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 23:50 via theprogress.com
  
  Privacy experts disagree with RCMP that spyware is similar to wiretapping  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alouettes in town as Bombers look to start season 10-0 for the first time since 1960

  10-08-2022 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Zach Collaros admits he’s got to brush up on his Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ history, even though he’s aware the team is on the cusp of tying a club record.
  If the Blue Bombers (9-0) defeat the visiting Montreal Alouettes (2-6) on Thursday, they’ll match the 1960 Winnipeg squad that opened the season with 10 straight victories.
  The veteran quarterback was asked after Wednesday’s walk-through how much he knows about the 1960 roster.
  “Can you educate
  
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• Aid shipment to Afghanistan cancelled due to anti-terrorist law

  10-08-2022 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two containers of food bound for Afghanistan have been cancelled by a Canadian aid agency because of a law banning any dealings with the Taliban.
  World Vision says it has been forced to cancel a large shipment of “therapeutic food,” which it said could have fed around 1,800 children. 
  Canada passed a law in 2013 listing the Taliban as a terrorist organization and listing penalties of up to 10 years in prison if Canadians directly or indirectly provide them with pr
  
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• U.S. woman charged with helping daughter have abortion - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
  
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• Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu? - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Is COVID losing its fangs and becoming more like the flu?  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Snowbirds grounded in ‘operational pause’ as B.C. accident investigated: Air Force

  10-08-2022 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Royal Canadian Air Force has ordered an “operational pause” for its Snowbird air demonstration squadron jets after a crash earlier this month. 
  A statement from Maj.-Gen. Iain Huddleston, commander of 1 Canadian Air Division, says the CT-114 Tutor jets will not fly until an airworthiness risk assessment can be completed. 
  The decision to ground the planes comes after a crash of one of the jets on Aug. 2 at the airport in Fort St. John, B.C. 
  No one
  
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• ‘We want him home’ Family of missing fisherman devastated as the search to bring him home continues

  10-08-2022 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The family of missing fisherman, Dustin Williams, is heartbroken as the search continues for their loved one.
  “I’m devastated. It’s the worst feeling a mother can ever have,” said Zelda Williams, Dustin’s mother. “I can’t believe this is happening.”
  Crying inconsolably while holding a picture of her son, Zelda described her boy lovingly.
  “He’s so beautiful. I’m looking at my son right now,” she said, throu
  
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• Man rolls log into water to capsize kayaker in Nanaimo - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 23:15 via theprogress.com
  
  Man rolls log into water to capsize kayaker in Nanaimo  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ex-Miss America Mund: Abortion ruling prompted US House run

  10-08-2022 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Former Miss America Cara Mund said Wednesday that her concern about the erosion of abortion rights prompted her independent bid for the U.S. House in her home state of North Dakota.
  Mund, who is running against the odds in deeply conservative North Dakota, told The Associated Press that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn the constitutional right to abortion was “just a moment where I knew we need more women in office.”
  The 28-year-old recent
  
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• Morreale: CEBL’s championship weekend caps another successful CEBL season

  10-08-2022 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Mike Morreale says people thought he was crazy when he became commissioner and chief executive officer of the fledgling Canadian Elite Basketball League four years ago.
  Now he can’t imagine Canada’s basketball landscape without it.
  “I was saying to one of my staff last night, ‘Can you imagine if the CEBL stopped existing?’ The void that would be created,” said Morreale, a former longtime CFL receiver.
  Heading into the league’s championship
  
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• Canadian Rourke leads B.C. Lions into Calgary to face Stamps in intriguing matchup

  10-08-2022 22:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Nathan Rourke and the B.C. Lions will get to know the Calgary Stampeders very well over the next few weeks.
  B.C. (6-1) visits Calgary (5-2) on Saturday night in the first of three meetings between the conference rivals. The Lions return to McMahon Stadium on Sept. 17 before the two teams meet at B.C. Place Stadium on Sept. 24.
  The Lions are in the midst of a stretch that sees them playing seven-of-eight games against West Division rivals. They’ve already secured wins over Saskatchewan (32-
  
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• Quebec public health wants smelter’s arsenic emissions cut to 5 times provincial norm

  10-08-2022 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s public health director is recommending that arsenic emissions in a northwestern Quebec city be reduced to five times the provincial standard.
  Dr. Luc Boileau told reporters today that an average emissions level of 15 nanograms of arsenic per cubic metre of air would be a safe level in Rouyn-Noranda, as air quality in the city is “eventually” improved to meet the provincial standard of three nanograms per cubic metre.
  He says the new recommendations wou
  
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• Snowbirds hitting pause on flying following crash in B.C. - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 22:15 via theprogress.com
  
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• RCMP investigate alleged assault, racism towards Kamloops nurse - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 22:00 via theprogress.com
  
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• City of North Bay to dedicate field in honour of Blue Bombers head coach O’Shea

  10-08-2022 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  He’s a six-time Grey Cup champion and member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. But on Saturday, he’ll merely be known as Mike O’Shea from North Bay, Ont.
  On Saturday, the city of North Bay will dedicate the football field at the Steve Omischl Sports Complex in honour of O’Shea, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach. But while it will be the latest in a long list of football accomplishments for the 51-year-old North Bay native, O’Shea said this one will feel diff
  
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• Montreal public health investigating after man dies from legionnaires’ disease

  10-08-2022 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal public health officials say they are investigating a deadly case of legionnaires’ disease in the city’s east end to see if it is linked to two other cases detected in the area.
  The city’s public health department said today that the investigation will target water cooling towers in the area.
  The victim was only identified as a man.
  Last year, two people died after an outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in an adjacent area.
  The public health department says 27 cases
  
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• GoFundMe launched for Abbotsford family after devastating fire - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 21:30 via theprogress.com
  
  GoFundMe launched for Abbotsford family after devastating fire  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Delivering new services ‘complicated,’ Freeland says of planned dental care program - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 21:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Delivering new services ‘complicated,’ Freeland says of planned dental care program  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Edmonton’s Marco Arop breaks Canadian record in 1,000 metres at Diamond League meet

  10-08-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONACO — Marco Arop shattered the Canadian record in the 1,000 metres en route to a second-place finish at the Herculis Diamond League meet on Wednesday.
  The 23-year-old from Edmonton, who won bronze in the 800 at last month’s world track and field championships in Eugene, Ore., ran two minutes 14.35 seconds. That broke Nathan Brannen’s previous record set in 2012 of 2:16.52 in the seldom-contested distance. 
  Jake Wightman of Britain, gold medallist over 1,500 metres at th
  
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• Forward Mo Babouli returns to CPL, signs with York United through 2024

  10-08-2022 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — York United FC of the Canadian Premier League has signed former Toronto and Forge FC forward Mo Babouli through the end of 2024.
  The 29-year-old Babouli, who was born in Syria but came to Mississauga, Ont., when he was three, left Forge in January to join Muaither FC in Qatar’s second tier.
  Babouli joined the Toronto FC academy in 2014, making his debut with the MLS side’s first team in April 2016. He played 16 league games for TFC that season with one assist.
  He then
  
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• Drones tackle Penticton blaze as cool weather helps bring B.C. fires under control

  10-08-2022 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PENTICTON — Drones are helping map hot spots in a wildfire blazing on the fringes of British Columbia’s Okanagan region, as cooler and calmer conditions help firefighters bring blazes elsewhere under control.
  Crews are making progress on several wildfires, including a blaze near Lytton that broke out nearly a month ago and destroyed several properties, and which is no longer being designated a wildfire of note.
  But BC Wildfire Service information officer Mikhail Elsay told a news con
  
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• B.C. climate activist Anjali Appadurai enters NDP leadership race - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 21:00 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C. climate activist Anjali Appadurai enters NDP leadership race  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Top seed Iga Swiatek cruises into third round at National Bank Open

  10-08-2022 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Top-ranked Iga Swiatek cruised into the third round of the National Bank Open with a 6-1, 6-2 win over Australian qualifier Ajla Tomljanovic on Wednesday.
  Swiatek increased her hardcourt winning streak to 20 matches with a clinical performance, defeating Tomljanovic in just one hour four minutes.
  ‘The Polish star converted six of her nine break point chances as she connected on 26 of 37 return points (70.3 per cent).
  Tomljanovic converted both break points she had, but stru
  
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• Family of Saskatoon woman being held in U.S. urges Canada to extradite her home

  10-08-2022 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Family of a Saskatchewan woman being held in custody in the United States say they want her extradited quickly to deal with her charges in Canada.
  Dawn Walker, who is 48, is facing two charges in Oregon related to identity fraud along with two charges in Saskatoon of child abduction and public mischief.
  She was arrested Friday when she and her seven-year-old son were found in Oregon City, Ore.,  following a two-week search for the pair.
  Police allege Walker was involved in a custody dispute
  
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• Pacific FC sells CPL leading scorer Alejandro Diaz to Norwegian team

  10-08-2022 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Pacific FC forward Alejandro Diaz, who leads the Canadian Premier League with 13 goals this season, has been sold for a club-record fee to Norway’s Sogndal Fotball.
  Pacific said the sale, whose amount it did not detail, is the second-largest transfer in the league’s history, with the potential to become the largest based on conditional performance objectives.
  The CPL’s largest transfer was the January 2020 sale of Forge FC attacking midfielder Tristan Borges, the league’s
  
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• American Tommy Paul upsets second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz at National Bank Open

  10-08-2022 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — American Tommy Paul pulled off the first big upset of the National Bank Open on Wednesday, dispatching second-seeded Carlos Alcaraz of Spain 6-7 (4), 7-6 (7), 6-3 at IGA Stadium.
  Paul, the world No. 34, secured the victory over his fourth-ranked opponent by converting his fifth match point. The second-round match lasted three hours 20 minutes.
  In other early results, fourth-seeded Casper Ruud of Norway defeated Alex Molcan of Slovakia 7-6 (3), 6-3 and eighth-seeded Hubert Hurkac
  
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• Draft speech on residential schools edited out blaming Ottawa for abuse: documents

  10-08-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa was careful to avoid admitting abuses Indigenous children suffered at residential schools happened “at the hands of the federal government” in remarks prepared for a Liberal cabinet minister after the discovery of unmarked graves last year, documents show.
  The Canadian Press obtained documents through the Access to Information Act that show a draft version of a speech written for Carolyn Bennett, who was then minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, originally contained those w
  
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• UPDATE: Escaped Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Village inmate back in custody - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 20:24 via theprogress.com
  
  UPDATE: Escaped Kwìkwèxwelhp Healing Village inmate back in custody  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec rejects plea to send army to northern region facing health worker shortage

  10-08-2022 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Health Department says it has rejected a request from officials in the northern region of Nunavik that the Armed Forces be brought in to help ease a shortage of health-care workers.
  Kathleen Poulin, a spokeswoman for Nunavik Regional Board of Health, says labour shortages in the health sector are hitting Nunavik particularly hard due to the region’s “remoteness and its specific characteristics.”
  Poulin said today some of Nunavik’s 14 Indige
  
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• World food crisis prompts rise in child marriages: Canadian aid agencies

  10-08-2022 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian aid agencies are warning that the world food crisis, made worse by the war in Ukraine, is leading to a rise in underage girls being forced into marriage.
  Plan International Canada says it has seen a worrying increase in the number of teenage girls in the developing world being forced into marriage because their families cannot afford to feed them.
  The agency says 12 million girls under the age of 18 become child brides each year, forcing them to abandon school while putti
  
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• Chilliwack-Kent MLA makes case for Legislature cat - Victoria News

  10-08-2022 19:50 via vicnews.com
  
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• Chilliwack-Kent MLA makes case for Legislature cat - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:50 via theprogress.com
  
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• Chilliwack-Kent MLA makes case for Legislature cat - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  10-08-2022 19:50 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
  
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• Event marks 80th anniversary of Japanese Canadian internment which revived Greenwood - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:43 via theprogress.com
  
  Event marks 80th anniversary of Japanese Canadian internment which revived Greenwood  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Team Canada prepares for unusual world junior hockey championship - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:40 via theprogress.com
  
  Team Canada prepares for unusual world junior hockey championship  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:40 via theprogress.com
  
  Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Coroner’s report shows 16 suspected heat deaths linked to recent B.C. hot spell

  10-08-2022 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia Coroners Service is reporting 16 suspected heat-related deaths in late July and early August, coinciding with heat warnings over much of the province during the same period. 
  A report from the service on deaths says the fatalities happened between July 26 and Aug. 3, although the numbers are considered preliminary until investigations into each case conclude.
  The report shows all but two of the deaths happened in the Interior or Fraser health regions an
  
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• South Surrey wrestler wins silver at Commonwealth Games - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:32 via theprogress.com
  
  South Surrey wrestler wins silver at Commonwealth Games  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Manitoba first province to sign on to federal funding for crisis hotlines

  10-08-2022 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Manitoba is the first province to sign on to new federal funding for crisis centres that help victims of gender-based violence.
  The federal government will provide Manitoba up to $1 million over four years so that crisis centres can do things such as hire more staff and train more volunteers.
  It’s part of the federal government’s promise to spend $30 million on the issue, first announced in the spring budget.
  Marci Ien, the federal minister for women and gender equal
  
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• Quebec religious minorities feel less safe, hopeful due to secularism law: survey

  10-08-2022 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A new survey has found that religious minorities in Quebec are feeling less safe, less accepted and less hopeful since the province passed its secularism law three years ago.
  The survey results published today by Léger and the Association for Canadian Studies reveal that Quebecers who identify as Jewish, Muslim or Sikh report “broad-ranging, disruptive and profound negative impacts” stemming from the 2019 law, which bans public sector workers deemed to be in p
  
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• Ottawa woman who went missing in 1980 had been living outside Canada, recently died

  10-08-2022 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A four-decade-old missing persons case has been resolved more than a year after the woman’s family made a renewed plea for information. 
  Dale Nancy Wyman told some family members she was thinking of leaving her Ottawa-area home before she disappeared in July 1980.
  Ottawa police say the 22-year-old was last seen taking a taxi to a bus station, and that she told the taxi driver she didn’t know where she was going.
  Although there were reports that Wyman was in Albert
  
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• Some Keremeos Creek fire evacuation orders and alerts rescinded - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:10 via theprogress.com
  
  Some Keremeos Creek fire evacuation orders and alerts rescinded  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Extremely dangerous’: Civilian drone reported flying over northern B.C. wildfire - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 19:10 via theprogress.com
  
  ‘Extremely dangerous’: Civilian drone reported flying over northern B.C. wildfire  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Plastics producers ask court to quash planned federal ban on single-use straws, cups

  10-08-2022 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — More than two dozen plastic makers are asking the Federal Court to put an end to Ottawa’s plan to ban several single-use plastic items including straws, cutlery and takeout containers.
  It is the second lawsuit filed in the court by a coalition of plastics makers calling themselves the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition.
  The first suit filed in 2021 seeks to overturn the government’s decision to designate plastics as “toxic” under the Canadian Environmental P
  
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• Canadian forward Tyler Pasher finds a new MLS home with the New York Red Bulls

  10-08-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON, N.J. — Less than a week after being waived by the Houston Dynamo, Canadian international forward Tyler Pasher has landed with the New York Red Bulls.
  The 28-year-old from Elmira, Ont., made 39 appearances for over the last two seasons with the Dynamo with six goals and three assists. He has made 17 MLS appearances this season, including five starts, while adding two goals and one assist before being waived last Friday.
  The Red Bulls are his fourth MLS team, following stints with
  
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• Donald Trump ‘took the Fifth.’ What does it actually mean? - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 18:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Donald Trump ‘took the Fifth.’ What does it actually mean?  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Given a clean bill of health, Akinola waits his turn in star-studded Toronto attack

  10-08-2022 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ayo Akinola learned all about patience in the long months spent rehabbing the injured anterior cruciate ligament in his knee.
  Given a clean bill of health, the 22-year-old forward is now biding his time and waiting his turn in Toronto FC’s star-studded attack.
  “Physically I feel much better … a lot stronger, fitter, more comfortable,” he said of his knee.
  “It definitely taught me … what being a pro actually is like,” he said of the inju
  
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• Maple Ridge emergency hiking shelter celebrates 20 years of saving lives - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 18:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Maple Ridge emergency hiking shelter celebrates 20 years of saving lives  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• RCMP apologize: Questions remain more than 50 years after Yukon woman’s death

  10-08-2022 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Family members are still searching for answers after the RCMP apologized for not properly investigating an Indigenous woman’s death more than five decades ago. 
  Tootsie Jimmy-Charlie, a 26-year-old Kaska member of the Liard First Nation and a mother of four, went missing in 1967.
  Several weeks after loved ones expected her to return home from Whitehorse, RCMP informed them that her body had been discovered at a dump in the city. 
  On Friday, Yukon RCMP apologized to friends and re
  
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• Lucas Mannes taking over Chilliwack's B.C. Bounce program - Chilliwack Progress

  10-08-2022 17:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Lucas Mannes taking over Chilliwack's B.C. Bounce program  Chilliwack Progress
  
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