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• Seven people in hospital after Newfoundland refinery explosion, police say – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 23:50
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• Seven people in hospital after Newfoundland refinery explosion, police say

  02-09-2022 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — Police say seven people are in hospital after an explosion at a refinery in Come By Chance, N.L., about 150 kilometres west of St. John’s.
  RCMP Cpl. Jolene Garland said earlier in the day that six people were injured, including one with serious injuries.
  Garland says that around 6:20 p.m. local time the number of injured people increased to seven.
  Refinery owner Braya Renewable Fuels said in an email that the explosion occurred in the late afternoon and that
  
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• Kenney defends Alberta lieutenant-governor, attacks ‘cockamamie’ sovereignty bill

  02-09-2022 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Premier Jason Kenney is defending Alberta’s lieutenant-governor after she suggested she may not automatically pass a sovereignty act bill proposed by a candidates vying to replace him as United Conservative leader.
  Kenney, speaking on a radio show Friday morning, also renewed his criticism of Danielle Smith’s signature proposal.
  He characterized it as “cockamamie,” illegal and a recipe for business and investment to flee a province no longer committed to
  
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• LETTER: Kudos for Jenna Hauck's column on how drowning is silent – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 22:35
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• Harv Westeringh announced he is seeking re-election as Chilliwack city councillor – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 22:35
  Harv Westeringh announced he is seeking re-election as Chilliwack city councillor – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• EDITORIAL: Coming together in crisis – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 22:30
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• Group has close encounter with T-090 orca pod on B.C. shoreline

  02-09-2022 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUADRA ISLAND — A pod of orcas surprised a group of friends visiting Quadra Island, B.C., last weekend, appearing metres from where they stood on the shoreline of Moulds Bay.
  Erika van Sittert, who captured a video of the encounter, says she and her four friends were excited when they first spotted the pod in the distance.
  She says they were later shocked when the whales appeared about 20 minutes later, coming within three metres of her friend Callum MacNab, standing ankle deep in the wate
  
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• Toronto FC running out of time and games as rival CF Montreal comes to town

  02-09-2022 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Time and the MLS schedule are not on Toronto FC’s side as Bob Bradley’s retooled team looks to make a late-season charge. And CF Montreal would no doubt like nothing more than to derail TFC’s playoff bid.
  The two Canadian rivals meet Sunday at BMO Field with second-place Montreal (15-9-4) 15 points and eight places ahead of Toronto (9-13-7) in the Eastern Conference.
  “Montreal has been in good form lately, but they also deserve credit for being a good team
  
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• UPDATE: RCMP Confirm Body Recovery Friday In Chilliwack River Valley - Abbotsford News

  02-09-2022 21:59
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• Sri Lanka’s ousted president returns home after fleeing

  02-09-2022 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country’s economic crisis, has returned to the country after seven weeks.Rajapaksa flew into Colombo’s Bandaranaike international airport around midnight Friday from Bangkok via Singapore. On being welcomed by lawmakers in his party, Rajapaksa left the airport in a motorcad
  
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• Former Vancouver Whitecaps coach Birarda to apologize for sex offences: lawyer – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 21:46
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• Apparent assassination attempt against VP roils Argentina

  02-09-2022 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — As Argentina’s powerful Vice President Cristina Fernández stepped from her car outside her apartment building and began shaking hands with a throng of a well-wishers, a man came forward with a gun, put it just inches from her face and pulled the trigger with a distinct click.
  The weapon apparently jammed.
  Fernández’s security detail seized the gunman and took him away, and the 69-year-old former president of Argentina appeared unhurt
  
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• Unions representing 60000 B.C. health-care workers reach tentative contract deal – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 21:41
  Unions representing 60000 B.C. health-care workers reach tentative contract deal – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Oilers sign defenceman Ryan Murray to one-year, $750,000 contract

  02-09-2022 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed defenceman Ryan Murray to a one-year contract worth US$750,000.
  Murray appeared in 37 games for the Colorado Avalanche last season and recorded four assists.
  He did not appear in the playoffs for Colorado’s run to a Stanley Cup title.
  The 28-year-old Regina native was selected by the Columbus Blue Jackets with the second overall pick in 2012 NHL draft.
  Murray has 128 career points (15 goals, 113 assists) and a defensive rating of plus-13 ove
  
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• Wisconsin GOP candidate calls for ‘pitchforks and torches’

  02-09-2022 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin endorsed by Donald Trump is calling for people to take up “pitchforks and torches” in reaction to a story that detailed his giving to anti-abortion groups, churches and others — rhetoric that Democrats say amounts to threatening violence.
  Tim Michels, who co-owns the state’s largest construction company, faces Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in the battleground state. If Michels wins, he will be in p
  
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• IAEA to have ‘full picture’ of Ukraine nuclear plant in days

  02-09-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Fighting raged Friday near Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in a Russian-held area of eastern Ukraine, as experts from the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog agency assessing damage expressed concern over the facility’s “physical integrity.”
  International Atomic Energy Agency Director-General Rafael Grossi said he expects to produce a report “early next week, as soon as we have the full picture of the situation by the end of the wee
  
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• Canada’s Marino out of U.S. Open after third-round loss to Zhang

  02-09-2022 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino has been eliminated from the U.S. Open after a 6-2, 6-4 loss to China’s Zhang Shuai in third-round action on Friday.
  Marino was up 2-1 in the first set before Zhang won the next five games. Zhang broke to love in Game 7 to go up 5-2, then converted her first set point on serve in the deciding game.
  Zhang continued her winning streak, taking an early break and going up 2-0 in the second set. She held serve the rest of the way and converted h
  
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• Court to weigh in on convoy-related group’s right to stay in Ottawa heritage building

  02-09-2022 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A dispute between an Ottawa landlord and a group loosely associated with the “Freedom Convoy” protest in Ottawa last winter will be sorted out by a judge.
  A group of people referring to themselves as The United Peoples of Canada took up residence in a deconsecrated church east of downtown Ottawa this summer.
  The landlord for the church has attempted to evict the group, alleging they haven’t paid rent or lived up to the terms of their purchase agreement to buy the
  
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• UPDATE: Rollover crash westbound on Highway 1 in Abbotsford – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 21:18
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• Whitecaps looking to answer questions in road game against San Jose

  02-09-2022 20:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — After looking like they had run out of answers, the Vancouver Whitecaps now face some big questions.
  The Whitecaps hopes of making the Major League Soccer playoffs took a blow with an embarrassing 3-0 loss at home to Nashville SC last week.Now, with just six regular season games remaining, the Whitecaps must answer questions about their pride and belief in themselves as they prepare to play the San Jose Earthquakes on the road Sunday.
  “Instead of looking at the team we ar
  
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• Swankey aims to address early intervention, improve SD33 infrastructure as he seeks re-election to Chilliwack school board this fall

  02-09-2022 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack School District trustee David Swankey has tangible goals and objectives he’d like to see achieved if he’s re-elected to a second term in this fall’s municipal election.Swankey’s platform looks to new opportunities in early learning and intervention, continued investment in equity-based strategies to close student achievement gaps, and a maintained focus on improving and expanding district infrastructure.“Each plank is an essential part
  
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• Westeringh pledges to protect farmland, keep taxes low, and increase housing supply as he seeks 2nd term on Chilliwack City Council

  02-09-2022 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack native Harv Westeringh has seemingly done it all and seen it all in his many years spent locally.He’s lived in nearly every neighbourhood that the city has to offer, including life on a dairy farm in his early years, and operated a small dairy farm in Rosedale, owned a small building company with his wife, and been a Chilliwack-area realtor for over 25 years.It’s given the incumbent councillor a unique perspective and an outlook that he hopes to parlay i
  
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• Emergencies Act inquiry will be delayed until October due to commissioner’s illness

  02-09-2022 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The inquiry into Ottawa’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act during protests in February is being delayed.
  The Public Order Emergency Commission was to begin hearings Sept. 19 but will be delayed now until Oct. 13.
  Inquiry officials say commissioner Paul Rouleau undergoing surgery to address a health issue.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act in February amid border blockades and the occupation of downtown Ottawa by protesters demonstrating agains
  
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• Byron Bertram returns to Chilliwack for Fraser Valley Comedy event – Hope Standard - Hope Standard

  02-09-2022 19:51
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• Byron Bertram returns to Chilliwack for Fraser Valley Comedy event – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  02-09-2022 19:51
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• Jets sign veteran forward Sam Gagner to one-year, $750,000 contract

  02-09-2022 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — The Winnipeg Jets have signed veteran forward Sam Gagner to a one-year, US$750,000 contract.
  Gagner, 33, had 13 goals and 18 assists in 81 games with Detroit last season.
  The London, Ont., native has 505 points (184 goals, 321 assists) over 967 career games for Edmonton, Arizona, Philadelphia, Columbus, Vancouver and Detroit.
  Gagner was drafted by the Oilers in the first round (sixth overall) in the 2007 NHL draft.
  While in his second stint with Edmonton, he had eight points (fo
  
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• Former Vancouver Whitecaps coach Birarda to apologize for sex offences: lawyer

  02-09-2022 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A former coach of the Vancouver Whitecaps and Canadian national youth soccer teams is expected to make a public apology today in court for sex crimes. 
  Bob Birarda, 55, pleaded guilty in February to three counts of sexual assault and one count of sexual touching for offences involving four different people between 1988 and 2008. 
  Birarda’s lawyer Bill Smart told a sentencing hearing at a North Vancouver provincial court that the former coach will make a statemen
  
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• Chilliwack author to read from her intercultural romcom novel at Sardis Library – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 18:56
  Chilliwack author to read from her intercultural romcom novel at Sardis Library – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian embassy says its Xinjiang posts were censored on Chinese social media

  02-09-2022 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BEIJING — Canada’s embassy in Beijing says censors have removed its posts about a United Nations report on human rights in Xinjiang from two Chinese social media platforms.
  The embassy Tweeted that it shared Canada’s response to this week’s report on Weibo and WeChat, but the posts were taken down.
  The report published Wednesday says China’s treatment of Muslim minorities in western Xinjiang province may constitute crimes against humanity.
  The Canadian embassy share
  
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• White House seeks $13.7 billion more for Ukraine

  02-09-2022 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide $13.7 billion in emergency dollars for Ukraine as U.S. aid to the war-torn country is running out.The request, which comes as lawmakers are preparing to return to Washington, is part of a larger $47.1 billion emergency spending package the White House is proposing to pay for the COVID-19 response, the ongoing monkeypox outbreak and help for recent natural disasters in Kentucky and other states. Congress will have to extend
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP seek to identify male who touched his groin area in the presence of two children at Cultus Lake Elementary

  02-09-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack RCMP are actively looking for a male who deliberately touched his groin area in the presence of two children who were playing at Cultus Lake Elementary earlier this week.According to a press release from Sgt. Krista Vrolyk, media spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP, police are nvestigating two disturbing incidents that occurred at Cultus Lake earlier this week.
  At approximately 9 p.m. on Tuesday, August 30, Chilliwack RCMP received a report of a suspicious occu
  
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• Suspect reportedly touched groin in front of children at Chilliwack, B.C. elementary school - Global News

  02-09-2022 18:27
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• Suspect reportedly touched groin in front of children at Chilliwack, B.C. elementary school - BC | Globalnews.ca - Global News

  02-09-2022 18:27
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• Suspect reportedly touched groin in front of children at Chilliwack, B.C. elementary school

  02-09-2022 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  Chilliwack RCMP are advising the public that a man was involved in two reported indecent acts within the community.
  
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• Erin O’Toole to appear by video at event where new Conservative leader is named

  02-09-2022 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former Conservative leader Erin O’Toole will deliver a greeting at the party’s leadership event where his successor will be named but he won’t be on the stage.
  Party president Rob Batherson says O’Toole was invited to speak in person at the Sept. 10 event in Ottawa but will issue his greetings by video instead.
  Batherson says O’Toole had a prior commitment that will keep him from attending.
  O’Toole’s ouster as party leader last winter laun
  
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• Women’s pro hockey in North America key to strengthening international game: IIHF

  02-09-2022 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HERNING, Denmark — A unified North American women’s pro hockey league could bolster the international game in the same way the NHL does on the men’s side, says the International Ice Hockey Federation’s women’s committee chair.
  But the IIHF is a bystander in the current division between the Professional Women’s Hockey Players’ Association and Premier Hockey League.
  The PWHPA of roughly 150 members currently doesn’t want to join the PHF, which is exp
  
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• Calgary’s Piper Logan gets chance to shine on Rugby World Cup Sevens stage

  02-09-2022 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Piper Logan, who turned heads at the Commonwealth Games in July in her rugby sevens international debut, will get another chance to shine on the world stage next week.
  The 21-year-old from Calgary, named to World Rugby’s Women’s Dream Team after Canada’s fourth-place finish at the eight-country Commonwealth competition in Birmingham, England, is on the Canadian roster for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, which run Sept. 9-11 in Cape Town, South Africa.
  Logan, who plays for the UBC T
  
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• ‘I feel the history’: 50 years on, the Summit Series looms large for Canadian coach

  02-09-2022 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It’s been nearly 50 years since millions of Canadians sat holding their breath, glued to the grainy black-and-white television images being beamed into living rooms, offices and schools from a rink in Moscow.
  It’s been five decades, but the moments remain vividly etched in the minds of the men who were part of the eight historic hockey games between Canada and the USSR in September 1972.
  “Every detail of dinner together or a particular airplane ride or particular game. I mean,
  
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• Empty folders among items found in FBI search of Trump home

  02-09-2022 16:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Florida home last month found empty folders marked with classified banners, according to a more detailed inventory of the seized material made public by the Justice Department on Friday.
  The inventory reveals in general terms the contents of 33 boxes taken from Mar-a-Lago during the Aug. 8 search.
  It shows the extent to which newspapers, magazines and other items were commingled among documents that investigato
  
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• Prime minister says some premiers not being honest about carbon pricing – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:30
  Prime minister says some premiers not being honest about carbon pricing – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Long weekend drivers to enjoy cheaper gas as crude oil tumbles – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:30
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• Flavour with a view – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:30
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• Canadian business bankruptcies on the rise with no signs of slowing – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:30
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• Bail hearing for Saskatchewan mother accused faking deaths before entering U.S. – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:30
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• Auditor general says B.C. government should adjust bookkeeping method – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:30
  Auditor general says B.C. government should adjust bookkeeping method – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Flood mitigation sediment removal to start on the Vedder River near Chilliwack – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:15
  Flood mitigation sediment removal to start on the Vedder River near Chilliwack – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Vancouver home sales down 40% from last year, nearly 1% since July: board

  02-09-2022 16:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says last month’s home sales plunged roughly 40 per cent since August 2021, but were almost unchanged from this past July.
  The board says sales for the month amounted to 3,152 and came amid a quieter summer season marked by reduced buying and listing activity.
  Last month’s sales were nearly 30 per cent below the 10-year August average.
  Sales of detached homes saw the most dramatic year-over-year drop at 45 per cent with apa
  
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• 80% of Canadians have been trimming spending amid increased inflation: poll – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  02-09-2022 16:00
  80% of Canadians have been trimming spending amid increased inflation: poll – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• US Navy says Iran again briefly seizes American sea drone

  02-09-2022 15:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy says Iran has once again briefly seized an American sea drone before letting it go. Tehran says its navy seized two drones in the Red Sea before releasing them.
  Cmdr. Timothy Hawkins, a spokesman for the Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet, acknowledged the incident on Friday to The Associated Press. He declined to immediately elaborate.
  Iranian state television showed images of at least one drone on the deck of a vessel with sailors lookin
  
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• Dickey to seek 7th term on Fraser Valley Regional District board for Popkum and Bridal Falls; gondola project to impact Electoral Area D residents

  02-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  POPKUM — Elected official Bill Dickey likes it when his constituents in Popkum and Bridal Falls do the talking and he does the listening.He’s especially keen to hear their input on a number of issues over the next four years, like the proposed Cascade Skyline Gondola project in Electoral Area D, which he hopes to represent again as he seeks a seventh term on the Fraser Valley Regional District Board of Directors this fall.“The central theme that I’ve tried to operate unde
  
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