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• Okanagan man goes missing after planning camping trip in B.C. Interior - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 23:55 via theprogress.com
  
  Okanagan man goes missing after planning camping trip in B.C. Interior  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Feds cut funding for anti-racism project over ‘reprehensible and vile’ tweets

  22-08-2022 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen has ordered the government to cut funding to an anti-racism initiative over “reprehensible and vile” tweets by a senior consultant on the project.
  Hussen announced Monday that the initiative run by the Community Media Advocacy Centre — which received more than $133,000 from the Heritage Department — has been suspended.
  The move follows a Canadian Press report on tweets posted to the account of Laith Marouf, a senior consultan
  
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• Famous Yousuf Karsh portrait of Sir Winston Churchill stolen from Château Laurier

  22-08-2022 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief has swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with an unsigned copy.
  A staff member at Ottawa’s Château Laurier noticed on Friday that the frame in the Reading Lounge wasn’t hanging properly and didn’t look the same as the others in the collection.
  The hotel’s general manager, Geneviève Dumas, says staff are “deeply saddened by this brazen act,&
  
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• VIDEO: Mother dog and 9 pups rescued in Agassiz now thriving - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 23:34 via theprogress.com
  
  VIDEO: Mother dog and 9 pups rescued in Agassiz now thriving  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Four arrested after Vancouver police say guns found in encampment tent - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Four arrested after Vancouver police say guns found in encampment tent  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack school trustees encourage filing of police reports as book debate escalates - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Chilliwack school trustees encourage filing of police reports as book debate escalates  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack school trustees encourage filing of police reports as book debate escalates - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  22-08-2022 23:30 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
  
  Chilliwack school trustees encourage filing of police reports as book debate escalates  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Chilliwack School Trustees Encourage Filing Of Police Reports As Book Debate Escalates - Abbotsford News

  22-08-2022 23:30 via abbynews.com
  
  Chilliwack School Trustees Encourage Filing Of Police Reports As Book Debate Escalates  Abbotsford News
  
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• Trump seeks special master to review Mar-a-Lago documents

  22-08-2022 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for former President Donald Trump on Monday asked a federal judge to prevent the FBI from continuing to review documents recovered from his Florida estate earlier this month until a neutral special master can be appointed.
  The attorneys asserted in a court filing, their first since the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago two weeks ago, that the sets of documents taken from the residence were “presumptively” covered by executive privilege.
  “This matter has c
  
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• Four arrested after Vancouver police say guns found in encampment tent

  22-08-2022 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver police say four men have been arrested after two guns were seized from a tent in a Downtown Eastside street encampment.
  Police say the weapons found in the tent near East Hastings and Carrall Street included a loaded shotgun.
  The department says in a statement that officers, assisted by its Emergency Response Team, raided the tent around 8 a.m. Sunday after receiving a tip that guns and drugs were inside.
  Investigators believe the weapons were being used for protection and to intimidat
  
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• UNLV Runnin’ Rebels post win in Abbotsford over UFV Cascades - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 22:59 via theprogress.com
  
  UNLV Runnin’ Rebels post win in Abbotsford over UFV Cascades  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• At least 40 people displaced by explosion and fire in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

  22-08-2022 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Dozens of people have been left without a home after an apparent explosion sparked a fire between two buildings in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
  Assistant Fire Chief Pierre Morin with Vancouver Fire Rescue Services says social services staff are trying to house at least 40 people from the single-room occupancy hotels.
  Morin says the cause of the explosion is not known but it blew out a couple of windows before flames spread to the inside of the buildings.
  He says there i
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs to play preseason game in Hope - Hope Standard

  22-08-2022 22:10 via hopestandard.com
  
  Chilliwack Chiefs to play preseason game in Hope  Hope Standard
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs to play preseason game in Hope - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 22:10 via theprogress.com
  
  Chilliwack Chiefs to play preseason game in Hope  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bob Baffert among those to congratulate Attard following Queen’s Plate win

  22-08-2022 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Bob Baffert provided a storybook ending to trainer Kevin Attard’s first $1-million Queen’s Plate victory.
  Shortly after filly Moira’s record-setting win Sunday in the opening leg of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown at Woodbine Racetrack, co-owner Donato Lanni passed his phone to Attard. On the other end was none other than Baffert, the celebrated conditioner of American Triple Crown winners American Pharoah (2015) and Justify (2018).
  “I know Donato has a grea
  
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• Ontario, Maritimes premiers meet to talk health care but offer no details, solutions

  22-08-2022 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONCTON, N.B. — The premiers of the Maritimes and of Ontario say they need a “Team Canada” approach to fixing the country’s health-care problems, but none of the leaders is offering any specifics or solutions.
  They told reporters today after meeting in Moncton, N.B., with federal Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc that the country’s leaders need to come together to create a plan to reduce the emergency wait times and surgery backlogs plaguing the sys
  
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• UPDATE: Downtown Chilliwack post office cleared after suspicious package causes shutdown - Mission City Record

  22-08-2022 21:33 via missioncityrecord.com
  
  UPDATE: Downtown Chilliwack post office cleared after suspicious package causes shutdown  Mission City Record
  
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• UPDATE: Downtown Chilliwack post office cleared after suspicious package causes shutdown - Hope Standard

  22-08-2022 21:33 via hopestandard.com
  
  UPDATE: Downtown Chilliwack post office cleared after suspicious package causes shutdown  Hope Standard
  
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• UPDATE: Downtown Chilliwack Post Office Cleared After Suspicious Package Causes Shutdown - Abbotsford News

  22-08-2022 21:33 via abbynews.com
  
  UPDATE: Downtown Chilliwack Post Office Cleared After Suspicious Package Causes Shutdown  Abbotsford News
  
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• BREAKING: Suspicious package to be probed by haz-mat experts at Chilliwack post office - Hope Standard

  22-08-2022 21:33 via hopestandard.com
  
  BREAKING: Suspicious package to be probed by haz-mat experts at Chilliwack post office  Hope Standard
  
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• MLA Pam Alexis says provincial investment to support unhoused in Abbotsford

  22-08-2022 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — In a press release sent out Monday morning (Aug. 22), MLA Pam Alexis said that people experiencing homelessness will have more access to support services in Abbotsford thanks to provincial funding.
  “Our communities are at their best when we are taking care of one another,” she said. “Funding local projects and services that are nuanced in their approach is vital to supporting our unhoused neighbours.”
  The City of Abbotsford will receive $625,000 through
  
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• Chilliwack gets provincial funding for day shelter pilot project - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 20:45 via theprogress.com
  
  Chilliwack gets provincial funding for day shelter pilot project  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• IIO seeking witness to fatal motor vehicle collision in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 20:41 via theprogress.com
  
  IIO seeking witness to fatal motor vehicle collision in Abbotsford  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of August 21, 2022

  22-08-2022 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list is provided by Crime Stoppers.Name: HEATHEN, Ronald
  Image supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 38
  Height: 5’9″ ft
  Weight: 166 lbs
  Hair: Brown
  Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Theft of motor vehicle
  Warrant in effect: August 16, 2022
  Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack, BC
  Name: HOCKEN, Curtis
  Image supplied by Crime Stoppers.
  Age: 31
  Height: 6’0″ ft
  Weight: 181 lbs
  Hair: Blonde
  Eyes: Green
  Wanted: Utt
  
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• Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have ‘engaged in misconduct’

  22-08-2022 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have “engaged in misconduct” when she intervened in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser license that it could take action against her.
  The three retired judges on the Government Accountability Board determined that “appropriate action” could be taken against Noem, though it didn’t specify the action.The board vo
  
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• Authorities believe body found in reservoir is missing teen

  22-08-2022 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) — Authorities believe that a body found in a Northern California reservoir is that of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who went missing after attending a large party at a Sierra Nevada campground two weeks ago.
  Nevada County Sheriff Shannan Moon has told a press conference Monday that the body has not been identified but it is believed to be Rodni.
  Volunteer divers with a group called Adventures with Purpose announced Sunday that they found the girl’s body inside her car
  
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• Debora Soutar is running again for Chilliwack city council - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 19:40 via theprogress.com
  
  Debora Soutar is running again for Chilliwack city council  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Islanders sign defencemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov

  22-08-2022 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Islanders have signed defencemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov to three-year contracts.
  The Islanders also announced Monday the signing of forward Kieffer Bellows to a one-year deal. All three were restricted free agents.
  Contract terms were not immediately available.
  Dobson led Islanders’ defencemen in goals (13), assists (38) and points (51) last season during his third NHL campaign. The 22-year-old, who was a first-round pick in 2018, also
  
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• Nova Scotia RCMP ‘dysfunctions,’ labour shortages predated 2020 mass shootings

  22-08-2022 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Most of Nova Scotia’s senior RCMP staff believed there were “dysfunctions” at their division prior to the 2020 mass shootings and felt abandoned by their superiors in the aftermath, according to a consultant’s report prepared last year.
  The Sept. 30, 2021, summary of a “wellness assessment” of the staff was released publicly on Monday at the inquiry investigating the mass shooting. It says most of the 24 senior officers and civilian leaders int
  
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• B.C. union imposes overtime ban in latest job action to back wage demands

  22-08-2022 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A union representing thousands of provincial government workers in British Columbia has escalated job action with a ban on overtime.
  B.C. General Employees’ Union president Stephanie Smith says the public service has relied on overtime for far too long.
  She says in a statement that the aim is to deal with some systemic issues behind that reliance and to push the government to negotiate a contract.
  The ban will not apply to members working in the BC Wildfire Service during
  
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• Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna’s bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

  22-08-2022 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Moderna says the federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of the company’s bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant.
  Canada purchased 4.5 million new doses and pushed up the delivery date for the 1.5 million doses originally scheduled to arrive in Canada next year.The government and the company also agreed to convert six million doses of the company’s original COVID-19 Spikevax vaccine to bivalent do
  
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• Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot

  22-08-2022 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury has heard closing arguments and begun deliberations in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
  The jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan, left the courtroom around noon Monday.
  Prosecutors said Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. were united in an agreement to get Whitmer at her vacation home in 2020 and trigger a civil war just before the presidential election.
  Whitmer wasn’t harmed; Fox, Croft and four other
  
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• Quebec allowing four people per room in care homes, against coroner’s recommendations

  22-08-2022 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Health Department is allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents in the same room — a new directive that runs against recommendations by the coroner.
  Jean-Charles Del Duchetto, a spokesman for the province’s seniors minister, says increasing the number of people in long-term care rooms will help reduce wait lists and ease pressure on hospitals.
  He adds that many of the almost 4,300 people waiting for a spot in long-term care are in ho
  
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• Fauci, top infectious disease expert, to retire in December

  22-08-2022 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than five decades of service.
  Fauci, who serves as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief of the NIAID Laboratory o
  
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• B.C. wildfires: Close to 40,000 hectares burned so far in 2022 - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 17:39 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C. wildfires: Close to 40,000 hectares burned so far in 2022  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C.-based observatory gets nearly $115 million to expand ocean research - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 17:30 via theprogress.com
  
  B.C.-based observatory gets nearly $115 million to expand ocean research  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• U.S. lawmakers, advocates pushing Ottawa to eliminate ArriveCan, open Nexus offices

  22-08-2022 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers and advocates in the United States are ramping up the pressure on the federal government to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada. 
  The Canadian American Business Council’s new campaign, “Travel Like it’s 2019,” aims to flood federal MPs with public demands for action. 
  It calls on Ottawa to scrap the troublesome ArriveCan app, a mandatory pre-screening tool for visitors to Canada. 
  And it wants the federal government t
  
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• Five questions with Canadian hockey ‘golden-goaler’ Marie-Philip Poulin

  22-08-2022 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian women’s hockey team captain Marie-Philip Poulin is the only hockey player in the world, male or female, to score goals in four straight Olympic hockey finals.
  The 31-year-old from Beauceville, Que., reinforced her golden-goaler reputation by scoring twice, including the eventual winner, in February’s final in Beijing where Canada edged the United States 3-2.
  Poulin leads defending champion Canada into the women’s world championship starting Thursday in Herning and Fred
  
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• N.S. shooting inquiry: Senior RCMP member learned of killer’s replica car in the news

  22-08-2022 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The former RCMP commanding officer in Nova Scotia has told the inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting that she first saw the killer’s replica police cruiser in a news report before she went to work on the second day of the rampage.
  In a transcript of Lee Bergerman’s Aug. 2 interview with inquiry lawyers, the former assistant commissioner, who retired in October 2021, said she only had scant details early on April 19 of what had initially transpired the night before
  
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• VIDEO: Canadian Medical Association’s first Indigenous leader takes helm - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  VIDEO: Canadian Medical Association’s first Indigenous leader takes helm  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Time stopped’: Ukrainians long to go home as war drags on - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  ‘Time stopped’: Ukrainians long to go home as war drags on  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Prince William, Kate relocate from London to Windsor cottage - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Prince William, Kate relocate from London to Windsor cottage  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Oasis in the storm - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Oasis in the storm  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Maya Train project raising Indigenous concern along Mexico’s Caribbean coast - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Maya Train project raising Indigenous concern along Mexico’s Caribbean coast  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Emergency rooms close in B.C., paramedics union says ambulances unstaffed - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
  
  Emergency rooms close in B.C., paramedics union says ambulances unstaffed  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• BCGEU bans overtime work by members as job action intensifies - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 16:29 via theprogress.com
  
  BCGEU bans overtime work by members as job action intensifies  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec making progress to protect caribou after warnings from federal government

  22-08-2022 16:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The governments of Canada and Quebec say they are confident they can reach a deal to protect endangered caribou populations in the province.
  The two governments said today in a joint news release that Quebec is working to ensure that 65 per cent of the caribou’s habitat in two parts of the province is “undisturbed.” 
  Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault warned Quebec in April that Ottawa would act unilaterally to protect the at-risk woodland cari
  
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• Chilliwack locksmith celebrates 75 years in business + shares secret to success - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 15:00 via theprogress.com
  
  Chilliwack locksmith celebrates 75 years in business + shares secret to success  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ukrainians coming to B.C. face rising human trafficking risks - Chilliwack Progress

  22-08-2022 14:10 via theprogress.com
  
  Ukrainians coming to B.C. face rising human trafficking risks  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Russia’s FSB blames Ukrainian intelligence for car bombing

  22-08-2022 13:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s top counterintelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy agencies have organized the killing of the daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologue.
  Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the main KGB successor agency, said that the killing of Darya Dugina has been “prepared and perpetrated by the Ukrainian special services.”
  Dugina was the daughter of Alexander Dugin, a Russian nationalist ideologist who was described by some in the West a
  
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