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• Restrictions may be gone, but 2022 world juniors feels like ‘bubble’ tournament

  12-08-2022 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Fans are welcome. Players are free to leave their hotels and the arena to walk the streets. But to United States coach Nate Leaman, this year’s world junior hockey championships feels like it’s being held at the peak of COVID-19.
  “It feels like a bubble tournament,” Leaman on Friday. “To me, it feels a lot like the tournament which was basically two tournaments ago.”
  Leaman was referring to the 2021 world championship, also hosted in Edmonton.
  
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• International partners had concern about Canada’s ‘ability to handle’ convoy protests

  12-08-2022 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two days before the Emergencies Act was invoked last February to quell anti-government convoy protests, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau warned ministers that international partners were concerned Canada wasn’t able to control the situation.
  The warning is contained in heavily redacted summaries of three meetings of the government’s incident response group and one meeting of the full cabinet, which were released through the Federal Court as part of a challenge of the gove
  
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• John Murray named new strength and conditioning coach for Abbotsford Canucks - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 22:32 via theprogress.com
  
  John Murray named new strength and conditioning coach for Abbotsford Canucks  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• LETTER: Healthcare should be priority one for government spending - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 22:30 via theprogress.com
  
  LETTER: Healthcare should be priority one for government spending  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Toronto FC looks to put an end to Portland Timbers’ 10-game unbeaten streak

  12-08-2022 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC’s new high-flying offence and somewhat improved defence gets a test Saturday in the form of the visiting Portland Timbers.
  The Timbers (7-6-12) are unbeaten in their last 10 league games (4-0-6) and arrive in Toronto on the back of successive ties against Minnesota, Nashville and Dallas. Their last loss was May 28, a 2-1 setback at Inter Miami.
  It’s the longest active unbeaten streak in MLS. 
  “Always a tough team,” said Toronto coach Bob Bradley. “Ph
  
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• Dispute over athlete agreement has bobsled pilot without funding for four months

  12-08-2022 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Chris Spring is a four-time Olympian who’s competed for Canada in bobsled for close to a decade. But for the past four months, he’s received no federal funding due to a dispute over his athlete’s agreement.
  “There are some provisions in the athlete agreement that I don’t agree with. And so I don’t want to sign an agreement that I don’t agree with just to get paid,” Spring said.
  Athletes are required to sign an agreement with their national sport or
  
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• Ruud Awakening: Canada’s Auger-Aliassime falls to Norwegian at National Bank Open

  12-08-2022 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the National Bank Open after dropping a 6-1, 6-2 decision to Norway’s Casper Ruud in quarterfinal play Friday at IGA Stadium.
  The Montrealer was the last remaining Canadian in the ATP Tour event. 
  Auger-Aliassime entered play without dropping a set this week but came out flat on an overcast afternoon. Ruud wrapped up the first set in a brisk 36 minutes and didn’t let up from there to the disappointment of the partis
  
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• Canada considered jobs, inflation in decision to return Russian turbine: documents

  12-08-2022 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Newly released documents show that Ottawa considered the impact on Canadian jobs and global inflation in its decision to return a turbine being repaired in Montreal to a Russian energy giant.
  The “memorandum for action” prepared by Global Affairs recommended Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly grant a permit exempting Siemens Canada from sanctions against Russia and allow it to return the equipment for use in a pipeline carrying gas to Germany.
  The document, s
  
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• EDITORIAL: Eco-terrorists are changing no minds - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 21:52 via theprogress.com
  
  EDITORIAL: Eco-terrorists are changing no minds  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• MP warns of repeating AIDS stigma with monkeypox, as Feds announce funding

  12-08-2022 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver Centre member of Parliament Hedy Fry has warned about stigmatization in the battle against monkeypox, recalling the fear surrounding HIV-AIDS when she was a physician in the ’80s.
  Fry says mistakes must not be repeated that were made decades ago when the gay and bisexual communities were “afraid and ashamed to come out” because of misconceptions about HIV-AIDS.
  She was speaking at an announcement where the Government of Canada will give $550,000 to three community gro
  
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• City of Iqaluit declares emergency due to water shortage

  12-08-2022 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — The City of Iqaluit has declared a state of emergency due to a water shortage.
  The Nunavut capital says there has been a lack of precipitation this summer and flows in the Apex River, which is Iqaluit’s secondary water source, are at a 40-year low.
  As a result, Lake Geraldine, which serves as the water reservoir for Iqaluit, will not be replenished before freeze up. 
  The city says it is working to get regulatory approval to pump additional water from the nearb
  
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• Two-time champion Simona Halep advances past Coco Gauff at National Bank Open

  12-08-2022 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Two-time champion Simona Halep has moved on to the semifinals of the National Bank Open.
  The Romanian player dispatched Coco Gauff of the United States 6-4, 7-6 on Friday.
  The 30-year-old Halep won the title in 2016 and 2018 when it was still called the Rogers Cup.
  She’ll face the winner of the quarterfinal between American Jessica Pegula and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva.
  Halep is now 4-0 in singles matches against Gauff on the WTA Tour.
  The quarterfinal between Hale
  
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• Excitement in B.C. Indigenous communities as salmon get past Fraser slide zone

  12-08-2022 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Thousands of migrating sockeye and chinook salmon appear to be making it through a massive slide area on the Fraser River on their way to spawn in central British Columbia.
  Fisheries and Oceans Canada says 280,000 salmon have already been counted above the slide site north of Lillooet, contrasting greatly from three years ago when barely 100 salmon were counted.
  Gord Sterritt, a director of the group Upper Fraser Fisheries Conservation Alliance, says there is excitement within
  
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• Abbotsford family celebrates more than 100 years of farming

  12-08-2022 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — For more than 100 years, the Donaldson family of Bradner Farms has been cultivating crops to nourish their community.
  Now, four generations of a family and their contributions to agriculture are being recognized with a provincial Century Farm Award.
  Lana Popham, Minister of Agriculture and Food, said seeing multiple generations continue the legacy of a family farm for over 100 years is very special.
  “Congratulations to the Donaldsons on this milestone and thank you for y
  
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• Montenegro gunman kills 11 on the street; police kill him

  12-08-2022 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — A man in Montenegro went on a shooting rampage Friday, killing 11 people on the streets of a city before being shot dead, Montenegro state TV reported, quoting police sources.
  State TV RTCG said the 34-year-old gunman wounded another six people, including a policeman, in the city of Cetinje’s Medovina neighborhood, which is near the seat of the former royal government. The city is 36 kilometers (22 miles) west of Podogrica, the current capital of the small
  
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• Mom asks judge for permission to hug her son's killer in Chilliwack courtroom - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 20:50 via theprogress.com
  
  Mom asks judge for permission to hug her son's killer in Chilliwack courtroom  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 20:11 via theprogress.com
  
  Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Wisconsin GOP leader fires 2020 election investigator

  12-08-2022 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly Republican leader who hired a former state Supreme Court justice to investigate the 2020 election fired him Friday, after the former justice and former President Donald Trump backed the lawmaker’s opponent.
  Speaker Robin Vos firing of Michael Gableman ends a 14-month probe that began with Vos voicing full confidence in Gableman’s abilities.Vos had rejected Gableman’s determination that lawmakers should consider decertifying the
  
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• Elks host Riders looking to end struggles both at home and against the West

  12-08-2022 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Elks are trying to stop history from repeating itself.
  Edmonton opened the 2022 CFL season with a blowout 59-15 loss to the B.C. Lions, and then fell 26-16 to the Saskatchewan Roughriders at home the next week. 
  Last weekend, the Elks were torched 46-14 at B.C. Place, and they now return home to face Saskatchewan on Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium. 
  Elks alumni Jim Germany, Ed Jones and Joe Holliman will have the their names added to the team’s Wall
  
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• Luxury goods tax on super-rich could hit electric vehicles: expert - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 20:03 via theprogress.com
  
  Luxury goods tax on super-rich could hit electric vehicles: expert  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Rough elevator ride leads to lawsuit against strata, Langley City - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 20:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Rough elevator ride leads to lawsuit against strata, Langley City  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Highway 3A from Keremeos to Penticton reopens - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 20:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Highway 3A from Keremeos to Penticton reopens  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. search team rescues hiker from Golden Ears Mountains - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 20:00 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C. search team rescues hiker from Golden Ears Mountains  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Judge suspends two articles of Quebec’s new language law regarding legal translations

  12-08-2022 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has temporarily suspended two articles of the province’s new language law, saying they could prevent some English-speaking organizations from accessing justice through the courts.
  Justice Chantal Corriveau has ruled that the sections of Bill 96 that require corporations to pay a certified translator to produce French versions of legal documents should be suspended until the court challenge can be heard on its merits.
  A group of lawyers challen
  
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• Canadian wastewater surveillance expanding to new public health threats: Tam

  12-08-2022 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s chief public health officer says plans are underway to sift through Canadian sewage to test for and measure new health threats like monkeypox and polio.
  Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic wastewater detection became a key way to track the spread of the virus.
  Dr. Theresa Tam says the experts at the National Microbiology Lab have now discovered a promising approach to detect monkeypox in wastewater and will use the infrastructure developed during the pandemic l
  
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• 45 new wildfires spark after lightning hits dry areas of B.C. - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
  
  45 new wildfires spark after lightning hits dry areas of B.C.  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian bobsled, skeleton athletes repeat calls to St-Onge to improve toxic culture

  12-08-2022 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  More than 90 current and retired Canadian bobsled and skeleton athletes are renewing their call for action from federal Sport Minister Pascale St-Onge to help clean up what they say is a toxic climate in their national sport organization.
  The BCS Athlete for Change group originally wrote a public letter in March calling for the resignations of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton (BCS) president Sarah Storey and high-performance director Chris Le Bihan.
  The athletes said in a letter sent Friday to St-Onge
  
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• You can own your own private B.C. island for $2.9M - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 19:10 via theprogress.com
  
  You can own your own private B.C. island for $2.9M  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 19:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Hundreds of lightning strikes hit B.C. as severe thunderstorms roll through

  12-08-2022 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Severe thunderstorms have torn through British Columbia’s Interior, delivering hundreds of lightning strikes to areas already ranked at a high to extreme risk for wildfires.
  The BC Wildfire Service website says 45 new fires have been recorded in the last two days, including one suspected lightning-caused blaze near Monte Lake, the same area where a massive wildfire destroyed homes last year.
  The new fires remain small, but more lightning is in the forecast for areas of southern and southea
  
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• CF Montréal looks to solidify playoff position on the road against Houston

  12-08-2022 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — CF Montréal’s playoff position is far more solid entering the final third of the Major League Soccer season than it was at this point last year.
  The club was on the bubble of the playoff race and in good form in 2021 before only claiming two wins in its last 10 gamesand missing the post-season.
  Montreal is in a much more favourable position this year, 10 points away from danger and in sole possession of third place in the Eastern Conference.
  The club has an excellen
  
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• New fire start near Cranbrook under control - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 18:18 via theprogress.com
  
  New fire start near Cranbrook under control  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec’s Olivier Rioux, world’s tallest teen, chasing hoops dream at Canada Games

  12-08-2022 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Olivier Rioux landed with a size-large exclamation point on Michael Meeks’ radar when the Canada Basketball coach opened a photo in his inbox seven years ago.
  Rioux was attending a kids basketball camp in Montreal, and posed for a photo alongside then-Detroit Pistons and Canadian team centre Joel Anthony, who stands a formidable six foot nine.
  “Ron Yeung (Canada Basketball’s manager of domestic development) sent me this photo of Olivier and Joel, and Olivier is about the same h
  
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• 27-year-old Missing Woman Last Seen In Chilliwack, Known To Frequent Abbotsford - Abbotsford News

  12-08-2022 17:57 via abbynews.com
  
  27-year-old Missing Woman Last Seen In Chilliwack, Known To Frequent Abbotsford  Abbotsford News
  
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• Rory MacDonald ready for anything, anyone as PFL switches opponent at last minute

  12-08-2022 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In the leadup to Saturday’s Professional Fighters League semifinal against (Prince) Magomed Umalatov in Cardiff, Wales, Canadian welterweight Rory (Red King) MacDonald pointed to a priority in his training camp. 
  “I think I just needed to keep a more open mind going into my next fight. So I didn’t get closed in on a certain game plan,” he said. “That was the biggest thing, a lesson learned in the last fight (a loss to Sweden’s Sadibou Sy).”
  That adv
  
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• Review concludes Whitecaps’ response to misconduct allegations was appropriate - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 17:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Review concludes Whitecaps’ response to misconduct allegations was appropriate  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Police reopen investigation into sexual assault allegation against Olympiques players

  12-08-2022 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — Police in Quebec City have reopened an investigation into a 2014 allegation of sexual assault involving players from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Gatineau Olympiques.
  The QMJHL said in a statement Friday that it has been notified of the reopened investigation and will offer its “full co-operation” to Quebec City’s police department.
  Le Soleil reported in 2015 that a woman filed a complaint alleging a sexual assault involving four Olympiques playe
  
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• Author Salman Rushdie attacked on lecture stage in New York

  12-08-2022 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday as he was about to give a lecture in western New York.
  An Associated Press reporter witnessed a man storm the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and begin punching or stabbing Rushdie as he was being introduced. The author was taken or fell to the floor, and the man was restrained.
  Rushdie’s book “The Satanic Verses” has been banned in Iran si
  
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• Charges in machete attack that seriously injured two in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

  12-08-2022 16:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — An appeal for information about a suspect in a machete attack on two people has led to charges against a Vancouver man.
  Vancouver police say the 37-year-old suspect was arrested Wednesday near the city’s Chinatown neighbourhood.
  He is now charged with two counts of aggravated assault and remains in custody awaiting an Aug. 17 court date.
  Police appealed for public help after the attack on June 19 left the victims with serious head and neck wounds.
  They had been loading lu
  
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• Astronomers Plan To Go Magnet Fishing For Meteorite

  12-08-2022 16:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!There’s something fishy in the Pacific, and it doesn’t have gills. Astronomers are ditching the skies for the seas in hopes of hooking a meteorite from beyond our solar system that plummeted to Earth in 2014!
  A team of researchers from Harvard University is planning the deep-sea fishing trip of a lifetime in search of fragments of the CNEOS 2014-01-08 meteorite that fell from the heavens with magnificent energy — about 121 tons of TNT wort
  
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• Polio detected in NYC’s sewage, suggesting virus circulating

  12-08-2022 16:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The virus that causes polio has been detected in New York City’s wastewater weeks after a case of polio was identified in Rockland County north of the city, health officials announced Friday.
  The presence of the poliovirus in the city’s wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, the city and New York state health departments said.State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said the detection of poliovirus in wastewater samples in New York City
  
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• Life.Style.Etc. - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Life.Style.Etc.  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Whitecaps head to Los Angeles looking for fast start against Galaxy

  12-08-2022 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — For a change of pace, Jake Nerwinski wants the Vancouver Whitecaps to land the first blow when they face the Los Angeles Galaxy in a Major League Soccer road game Saturday night.
  The Whitecaps have allowed the first goal in five of their last six games, with three of those matches road games. Three of the goals have come with less than seven minutes gone. Vancouver is 1-2-2 in those games.
  “Sometimes we wait to be punched in the face,” said the veteran Whitecaps def
  
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• Assault charge laid after Vancouver police say officers were ‘swarmed’ by crowd

  12-08-2022 16:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Police say a charge of assault with a weapon has been laid against a woman after officers in Vancouver were allegedly attacked in the same area as a tent encampment was being removed from the city’s Downtown Eastside.
  A statement from Vancouver police says 44-year-old Alene West was charged after an officer was hit in the head with an object on Tuesday.
  The statement says several other suspects are also under investigation for what is described as a “swarming”
  
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• Push for public release of warrant used to search Trump home

  12-08-2022 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has called for the “immediate” release of the federal warrant the FBI used to search his Florida estate, hours after the Justice Department had asked a court to unseal the warrant, with Attorney General Merrick Garland citing the “substantial public interest in this matter.”In messages posted on his Truth Social platform, Trump wrote, “Not only will I not oppose the release of documents … I am going a step
  
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• Lights, camera, Abbotsford: film festival returns to the big screen for the 3rd time

  12-08-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD —The Abbotsford Film Festival is slated for August 26 and 27 at The Reach Gallery Museum.
  The festival is a two-day event showcasing a selection of short films and documentaries from the Fraser Valley and beyond; it is the third annual event.
  The opening night (Aug. 26) sees the screening of the 48-hour films created the weekend before the festival. Following this is a selection of twisted films in the “after dark short film” screening block.The closing night (Aug. 2
  
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• Man, 33, fatally shot in Lower Mainland Friday morning - Chilliwack Progress

  12-08-2022 10:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Man, 33, fatally shot in Lower Mainland Friday morning  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alberta U-C-P membership drive and Heche on death’s door: In The News for Aug. 12

  12-08-2022 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Friday, August 12, 2022 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  It’s deadline day to buy $10 Alberta United Conservative Party memberships to vote for the next leader and premier. 
  The party is accepting drop-offs by 5 p.m. and online memberships until midnight.
  The party will then go through the memberships, confirmin
  
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• Trial begins for 3 Chilliwack church pastors fighting COVID gathering restriction tickets - Surrey Now Leader

  12-08-2022 09:00 via surreynowleader.com
  
  Trial begins for 3 Chilliwack church pastors fighting COVID gathering restriction tickets  Surrey Now Leader
  
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• Trial begins for 3 Chilliwack church pastors fighting COVID gathering restriction tickets – Mission City Record - Mission City Record

  12-08-2022 09:00 via missioncityrecord.com
  Trial begins for 3 Chilliwack church pastors fighting COVID gathering restriction tickets – Mission City Record  Mission City Record
  
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