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• Quebec election: Party leaders say new Habs captain Suzuki needs to learn French

  12-09-2022 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Several of Quebec’s major party leaders say newly appointed Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki needs to learn French. 
  Coalition Avenir Québec leader François Legault said the Habs made an “excellent choice,” describing the centre as one of the team’s best players, before adding that Suzuki now has to learn French.
  The Montreal Canadiens announced the appointment of the 23-year-old from London, Ont., as the team’s captain on M
  
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• Mind-Blowing Facts About Queen Elizabeth II

  12-09-2022 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Queen Elizabeth II spent 70 years of her 96-year-long life reigning over the British Isles and the Commonwealth. During her extraordinary lifetime, Elizabeth II broke the record for the most currencies printed featuring one ruler. And despite the fact she carried very little (if any) cash in her signature Launer patent leather top handle bag, she ranked as the wealthiest Queen on the planet. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to
  
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• Putin's Russia struggles for response to Ukrainian blitz – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 23:20 via theprogress.com
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• 100 years after compact, Colorado River nearing crisis point – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 23:20 via theprogress.com
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• Montreal Canadiens reach agreement with RBC to be first official game jersey partner

  12-09-2022 23:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have reached a multi-year jersey partnership agreement with RBC on Monday. 
  Adding the RBC patch to their historic jersey is a part of the new Jersey Advertising Program that allows teams to sell advertising on their jerseys beginning this upcoming season.
  For every game jersey sold with the RBC logo at the site of the team’s official store, the bank will donate $20 to the Montreal Canadiens Children’s Foundation.
  The logo will only be fea
  
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• Trump team dismisses records probe, opposes arbiter picks – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 23:10 via theprogress.com
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• Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl offered hearty congratulations to new Conservative leader – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 23:03 via theprogress.com
  Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl offered hearty congratulations to new Conservative leader – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Creston, Nelson have worst air quality in B.C. – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 23:00 via theprogress.com
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• Canadians Marino, Bouchard advance to second round of Chennai Open

  12-09-2022 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHENNAI, India — Canadians Rebecca Marino and Eugenie Bouchard advanced to the second round of the Chennai Open tennis tournament with wins on Monday.
  Vancouver’s Marino, seeded seventh at the WTA 250 event, posted a 7-5, 6-2 win over Russia’s Anna Blinkova.
  Marino won 70.5 per cent of first-serve points and broke Blinkova six times on nine chances.
  Blinkova had seven break chances against Marino, but only managed to convert three.
  Marino is coming off a run to the third round
  
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• Indigenous Services minister to visit site of mass killing in Saskatchewan

  12-09-2022 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JAMES SMITH CREE NATION — The federal minister for Indigenous Services, Patty Hajdu, is scheduled to visit on Tuesday the site of a mass killing in Saskatchewan.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Hajdu will express solidarity and ongoing support for the James Smith Cree Nation, northeast of Saskatoon.
  Trudeau says the government will continue to “be there” for the community over the coming days, months and years.
  The series of stabbings on the Labour Day weekend left 10 people
  
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• Twitter Says Whistleblower Payout Shouldn't Affect Elon Musk Deal – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 22:30 via theprogress.com
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• Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette named American League player of the week

  12-09-2022 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette has been named the American League’s player of the week.
  Bichette batted .500 (16-for-32) with 11 runs scored, four doubles, one triple, five home runs, 13 runs batted in and a 1.156 slugging percentage as the Blue Jays posted a 5-2 record last week.
  The 24-year-old from Orlando, Fla., recorded at least three hits in each of his first three games of the week, going 10-for-15 with four home runs and nine RBIs.
  Bichette won his first player of the week
  
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• Chilliwack community advocate and business owner, Amber Price, running for council

  12-09-2022 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Amber Price is a well-known community member in the city of Chilliwack—between organizing the Chilliwack Mural Festival and running a successful family business, The Book Man, Price is now undertaking her latest venture of running for a seat on city council.
  Price said her family and friends have been instrumental in being the catalyst for the start of her journey toward council.
  “I’m grateful for the invaluable input and support that I have received from fri
  
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• Trump team takes aim at records probe; calls it ‘misguided’

  12-09-2022 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s lawyers dismissed as a “storage dispute” the former president’s retention of top-secret documents at his Florida home, urging a judge Monday to keep in place a directive that temporarily halted key aspects of the Justice Department’s criminal probe.
  Setting the stage for possible further delays to the investigation, the Trump team also said it opposed the candidates the Justice Department proposed for an independent arbiter who
  
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• Chilliwack physiotherapist back in court for pre-trial hearing – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  12-09-2022 20:50 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• Home-field advantage is CF Montreal’s next objective as playoffs near

  12-09-2022 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — With a post-season spot assured and four games to spare, CF Montreal has turned its attention to securing home-field advantage in the first round of the MLS Cup playoffs.
  Montreal (16-9-5) secured its first playoff appearance since advancing to the semifinals in 2016 with a dramatic equalizer from Zachary Brault-Guillard in the fifth minute of stoppage time in a 2-2 draw with Columbus on Friday. The club enters Tuesday’s game against the visiting Chicago Fire in second pla
  
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• Operating room conditions in Yellowknife hospital are ‘unsustainable’: nurses

  12-09-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  YELLOWKNIFE — A union representing nurses at the largest hospital in the Northwest Territories says working conditions in its operating room are “unsustainable” and the territorial government needs to do more to address understaffing. 
  The Union of Northern Workers says operating room nurses at Stanton Territorial Hospital in Yellowknife sent a letter earlier this month to their employer and the Registered Nurses Association of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut outlini
  
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• Chilliwack plans to honour National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 20:33 via theprogress.com
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• Canada needs to consider air conditioning a human right: Climate Proof – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
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• B.C. says financial outlook improving, forecasts $706 million surplus – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
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• Police incident unfolding at Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt Elementary-Middle school

  12-09-2022 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A police incident is unfolding this hour at Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt Elementary-Middle school, 5337 Tyson Road, in Chilliwack.
  Chilliwack RCMP are investigating an incident in a hold-and-secure scenario and have blocked off the entrance to the school at the southern end of Tyson Road.
  Five RCMP vehicles could be seen from the end of Tyson Road with the possibility of additional vehicles on scene.
  RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Krista Vrolyk said student and s
  
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• 3 more EPL games postponed ahead of queen’s funeral

  12-09-2022 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — Three English Premier League games scheduled for this weekend were called off on Monday on safety grounds while authorities make preparations for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.
  Manchester United’s home game against Leeds and Liverpool’s match at Chelsea, both set to take place on Sunday, were postponed. Brighton’s home game against Crystal Palace will remain postponed, having initially been called off because of a rail strike that will now not happen.
  It redu
  
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• Ukraine reclaims more territory, reports capturing many POWs

  12-09-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian troops retook a wide swath of territory from Russia on Monday, pushing all the way back to the northeastern border in some places, and claimed to have captured many Russian soldiers as part of a lightning advance that forced Moscow to make a hasty retreat.
  A spokesman for Ukrainian military intelligence said Russian troops were surrendering en masse as “they understand the hopelessness of their situation.” A Ukrainian presidential adviser said
  
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• B.C. says financial outlook improving, forecasts $706 million surplus, says minister

  12-09-2022 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s financial outlook is showing improvements, with a budget surplus of $706 million forecast for the current fiscal year.
  Finance Minister Selina Robinson says preliminary financial numbers for the first three months of 2022-23 show the province is in a strong position despite ongoing global economic risks.
  The quarterly report Robinson posted today also indicates financial improvements over the next three years, but includes forecasts of budget deficits f
  
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• Mass shooting inquiry: Former Mountie says he quit over quashed alert system proposal

  12-09-2022 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — The inquiry investigating the Nova Scotia mass shooting has heard from a former Mountie who says he became so frustrated trying to get the RCMP to adopt a new public alerting system that he quit the police force.
  Mark Furey, who later served as Nova Scotia’s justice minister, says that in 2012, he recommended the RCMP start using the National Public Alerting System, which at the time could broadcast intrusive alerts via television and radio.
  But Furey says in statements sub
  
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• Green Party MPs threaten to leave, sit as Independents if leadership race suspended

  12-09-2022 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The two Green Party MPs have threatened to leave the party and sit as Independents if the leadership race is suspended, according to an internal email obtained by The Canadian Press.Elizabeth May and Mike Morrice are raising concerns over the ongoing turmoil and conflict within the party.An email sent to party brass from Morrice’s office Friday says suspending the race or carrying out proposed plans to close its office space would cause “irreversible damage,” add
  
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• Banknotes Around the World , To Soon Feature King Charles. – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• Former UFC fighter Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou won inside and outside the cage

  12-09-2022 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou, a charismatic mixed martial artist who campaigned successfully for the right to use medical marijuana as an athlete, has died. He was 34.
  Jess Moran, his publicist confirmed that the former UFC fighter died Sunday in Toronto of liver cancer.
  Theodorou, from Mississauga, Ont., packed a lot into his all-too-short life. He was an athlete, actor, model, stuntman, dancer, TV pitchman, Harlequin romance cover boy and cannabis advocate. He did it all with
  
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• Amber Price running for a seat on Chilliwack city council – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 18:31 via theprogress.com
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• Nunavut rolling out new COVID-19 vaccine to older residents

  12-09-2022 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut says it is rolling out the newly approved bivalent COVID-19 vaccine.
  The territory is now offering the booster shots to people 70 and older and all residents and staff in long-term care facilities. 
  It says it will expand eligibility for the vaccine as supply increases. 
  Residents must have received their primary series of a COVID-19 vaccine at least three months ago to be eligible for the shot. 
  Earlier this month, Health Canada approved Moderna&r
  
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• From high-profile global child abduction case to B.C. mayor's chair? – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 18:05 via theprogress.com
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• Coalition on climate adaptation says Canada needs hard targets on disaster resilience

  12-09-2022 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A coalition on climate adaptation and disaster resilience says air conditioning should become a human right on par with winter heating because climate change is increasing the risks of extreme heat waves across Canada.
  The recommendation is among a list of hard targets and goals Climate Proof says the federal government needs to include this fall in its national adaptation strategy.
  The group of insurance companies, disaster experts, Indigenous groups and municipalities wants that
  
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• Canada, U.S. take women’s hockey rivalry to B.C. in November

  12-09-2022 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Fresh off winning a women’s world hockey championship, Canada will host archrival U.S. in Kelowna and Kamloops, B.C. in November.
  Games Nov. 15 in Kelowna and Nov. 17 in Kamloops are part of a Rivalry Series between the two countries this winter.
  Canada edged the U.S. 2-1 for the world title Sept. 4 in Herning, Denmark.
  The two countries will also meet Nov. 20 in Seattle as part of the seven-game series.
  Other dates and locations have yet to be announced.
  Canada went 3-1-1
  
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• Wildfire smoke continues to blanket parts of B.C., improves slightly over Vancouver

  12-09-2022 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Air quality has improved slightly over Metro Vancouver but remains at very unhealthy levels in several other regions as wildfire smoke blankets large sections of British Columbia.
  Environment Canada is maintaining air quality statements for areas from the Peace River in the northeast to the Cariboo in central B.C., and the entire lower third of the province.
  The federal government’s air quality index shows areas with the highest levels of potentially dangerous wood smoke include Cranbrook
  
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• Review: With 'The Fabelmans,' Spielberg confronts the story of himself – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• King Charles III and his siblings escort queen's coffin – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• B.C. man convicted in young girl's murder in 1978 loses appeal – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Ontario opens bivalent vaccine appointments for most vulnerable

  12-09-2022 16:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Ontario is rolling out Omicron-targeted COVID-19 vaccines, starting with residents considered the most vulnerable, including those aged 70 and older, long-term care residents and health-care workers.
  The province said bivalent vaccine appointments could be booked as of Monday morning through its online booking system, with the first appointments also available the same day.
  Dr. Kieran Moore, Ontario’s top public health doctor, encouraged people to get the shot in a statemen
  
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• Thai protester accused of mocking queen gets 2 years’ prison

  12-09-2022 15:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BANGKOK (AP) — A court in Thailand on Monday sentenced an activist to two years in prison for allegedly insulting the country’s queen by wearing traditional Thai attire at a demonstration for reform of the monarchy two years ago, a legal aid group said.
  Jatuporn “New” Saeoueng wore a pink dress while a fellow protester held an umbrella over her as she walked down a red carpet at a mock fashion show held in the street in downtown Bangkok on Oct. 29, 2020.
  The rally was bil
  
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• After the death of a renowned queen, life in London goes on

  12-09-2022 15:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — On morning television, the moment was singularly somber — the departure of the hearse bearing the flag-draped coffin of Queen Elizabeth II. But at the very same hour, as fans in shorts and Ray-Bans streamed into London’s Oval stadium for a long-anticipated cricket match, you wouldn’t have guessed the country was preparing for the most royal of funerals.
  “I don’t think the Queen would want us to sit at home mourning,” said Natalie McGinn, a
  
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• Forward Nick Suzuki named captain of the Montreal Canadiens

  12-09-2022 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Nick Suzuki is the new captain of the Montreal Canadiens.Coach Martin St-Louis made the announcement Monday morning as part of the team’s annual golf tournament at the Laval-sur-le-Lac golf club.
  Suzuki, 23, becomes the youngest captain in team history.
  He succeeds defenceman Shea Weber, who was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights in June.
  Defenceman Joel Edmundson and forward Brendan Gallagher will serve as alternate captains.
  Suzuki, who was Montreal’s first-round p
  
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• One-stop-shop answers Chilliwack home buyers' questions in uncertain times – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 15:00 via theprogress.com
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• Charles III and the ‘weight of history’ of Westminster Hall

  12-09-2022 14:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — In his first visit to Britain’s Parliament as monarch, King Charles III spoke of feeling the “weight of history which surrounds us” and referenced his “medieval predecessors” as he pledged to follow in his late mother Queen Elizabeth II’s footsteps and uphold the principles of constitutional monarchy.Charles’s speech to legislators on Monday is the latest historic event to take place in Westminster Hall, a vast 900-year-old building t
  
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• LETTER: Two Chilliwack residents explain why you should vote in the 2022 municipal election – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  12-09-2022 14:00 via theprogress.com
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• Canada and the Queen, Poilievre to meet with Tory caucus : In The News for Sept. 12

  12-09-2022 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 Sept. 12 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Canada will have a “prominent” role in the lying-in-state and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom says, as preparations in London shift into high gear with one week to go before the ceremony.
  Ralph Goodale told The Canad
  
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• Quebec election: Legault to campaign in hotly contested ridings in Montreal and Laval

  12-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Coalition Avenir Québec Leader François Legault will head to the Montreal area today as he campaigns in a pair of ridings he’s hoping to add come Oct. 3.
  Legault will be in Châteauguay and Soulanges, a pair of ridings near Montreal won by the CAQ in 2018, and will also spend time in the Maurice-Richard riding in Montreal and Mille-Îles in Laval, Que., both held by the Quebec Liberals that Legault wants to flip.
  Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade wil
  
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• Pierre Poilievre to meet Conservative party caucus after landslide leadership win

  12-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre will address the national Conservative caucus today for the first time since handily securing the party’s leadership over the weekend.
  Poilievre is set to meet with the Tories’ members of Parliament and senators in Ottawa, where many had already gathered to see his big win.
  The longtime MP cruised to the opposition leader’s office with a blowout victory that saw him capture nearly all of the country’s 338 ridings and  nearly reach the
  
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• Liberals say Canadians want more help with the cost-of-living crisis

  12-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAINT ANDREWS, N.B. — The federal Liberals say they are determined to do more to help Canadians feeling the pinch from inflation.
  The caucus is meeting in St. Andrews, N.B., this week for a retreat where the cost of living is front and centre on every MP’s mind.
  Rachel Bendayan, the parliamentary secretary to the associate finance minister, says MPs all heard very clearly from constituents over the summer break just how difficult it has become to keep paying the bills.
  Fighting infla
  
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• Canada to be ‘prominent’ at Queen’s lying in state and funeral: diplomat

  12-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — Canada will have a “prominent” role in the lying-in-state and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, Canada’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom says, as preparations in London shift into high gear with one week to go before the ceremony.
  Ralph Goodale told The Canadian Press that members of the Canadian delegation have already started to arrive to manage logistics, with RCMP and armed forces personnel expected to land in the next two days. 
  “Canada, bein
  
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• As pivotal midterm elections draw near, campaign trajectories upended by Roe v. Wade

  12-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — What a difference a day makes — especially a day like June 24, 2022. 
  With the stroke of a pen, the Supreme Court repealed nearly 50 years of abortion rights in the United States. Three months later, that decision appears to be reshaping the trajectory of the 2022 midterm elections. 
  “I’m a young woman — one of the few women of reproductive age in Congress — and so for me, this decision is very personal,” Rep. Sara Jacobs said amid
  
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