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• Soul-searching residential school play prepares for B.C. reconciliation tour – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
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• HelloFresh Beef Linked to E. coli Outbreak – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 23:30 via theprogress.com
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• Inaugural Chilliwack River Salmon Run to help raise funds for water-quality monitoring – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 23:20 via theprogress.com
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• Chilliwack school board trustees receive salary adjustment pegged to inflation; minimum salary is now $24,170

  15-09-2022 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack school board trustees have received a slight adjustment to their yearly salary pegged to inflation.
  In a memo from Secretary-Treasurer Gerry Slykhuis contained within the 153-page board package for Tuesday’s school board meeting, Chilliwack School District trustees will now earn a base salary of $24,170. The vice chair will receive $25,597, while the board chair earns $27,362.According to Board Policy 190, trustee remuneration will be adjusted annually effecti
  
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• Former CFL head coach Dave Ritchie appreciative of Hall of Fame selection

  15-09-2022 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — Dave Ritchie will forever be a part of CFL history.
  Ritchie was the head coach of the B.C. Lions when they defeated the Baltimore Stallions 26-23 in the ’94 Grey Cup on Lui Passaglia’s game-ending 38-yard field goal at B.C. Place. It marked the first championship ever in pro football to feature a U.S.-Canada matchup.
  “Just that alone, to me, makes our youngsters special,” Ritchie recollected Thursday. “For one week, everybody on our ballclub was a C
  
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• VIDEO: Tipping fatigue is hitting consumers as requests for gratuities increase – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 22:14 via theprogress.com
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• Veteran quarterback Dane Evans set to return to Ticats lineup versus Blue Bombers

  15-09-2022 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — Dane Evans is returning to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ lineup.
  Head coach Orlondo Steinauer said Thursday that Evans will dress Saturday when Hamilton (3-9) hosts the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (12-1). Evans (right shoulder) hasn’t played in three of the Ticats’ last four games (out for two, listed as third quarterback in the other).
  But Evans has been a full participant in practice this week and is expected to start Saturday’s contest.
  “I think (the should
  
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• N.S. mass shooting inquiry hears that killer exchanged denture work for sex

  15-09-2022 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — A report submitted to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in rural Nova Scotia says the gunman who killed 22 people was known to exchange denture work for sex and to exploit marginalized women.
  The report by members of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund details findings from meetings held in the Halifax area with survivors of Gabriel Wortman’s violence and others who interacted with the killer. 
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• Lululemon founder Chip Wilson gifts $100M to help preserve B.C.’s nature

  15-09-2022 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Lululemon Athletica Inc. founder and billionaire Chip Wilson is donating $100 million to the B.C. Parks Foundation to help protect and enhance the province’s nature.
  The donation, which was announced at an event held in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on Thursday, will be made through the Wilson 5 Foundation.
  The commitment is part of the B.C. Parks Foundation’s launch of 25×25, a multi-year campaign to protect 25 per cent of land and waters, in partnership wit
  
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• Former Tory MP Tony Clement named director of Conservative fundraising board: sources

  15-09-2022 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Sources say Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has appointed former member of Parliament Tony Clement to serve on the board of the federal party’s main fundraising arm.
  Multiple sources confirmed Clement’s appointment to The Canadian Press, following Poilievre’s landslide victory in the party’s leadership election on the weekend. 
  Poilievre is moving to install some of his own picks for key positions inside the party as he transitions into the Opposi
  
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• Bouchard, Dabroswki into Chennai doubles semis; Zhao loses to Gracheva

  15-09-2022 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHENNAI, India — Canadians Eugenie Bouchard and Gabriela Dabrowski and their partners are through to the doubles semifinals of the Chennai Open tennis tournament.
  Bouchard, from Westmount, Que., teamed with Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer for a 5-7, 6-3, 12-10 win over the Russian tandem of Anastasia Gasanova and Oksana Selekhmeteva.
  In a match in which both teams split the available points at 74 each, Bouchard and Wickmayer moved on by preventing their opponents from cashing in on break
  
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• Chilliwack's Hagkull sees action at U23 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 21:20 via theprogress.com
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• B.C. Liberal leader says more supply is answer to housing affordability crisis

  15-09-2022 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WHISTLER, B.C. — British Columbia’s Liberal leader says more supply is the answer to the province’s housing affordability crisis, while one local leader says urgent action is also needed.
  Opposition leader Kevin Falcon says a Liberal government under his leadership would increase supply as a way to help first-time buyers. 
  He says he would also back “direct” supports for renters, but he hasn’t “fleshed out” exactly how that would look.
  Falcon
  
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• Green leadership contender Elizabeth May says she never threatened to quit party

  15-09-2022 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Elizabeth May says she never threatened to quit the Green Party and an email suggesting as much was a “mischaracterization” by a well-meaning staffer that has since been corrected.
  According to an internal email obtained by The Canadian Press, the Green Party’s two MPs were ready to leave and sit as Independents if the current leadership race were to be suspended. 
  The party’s federal council has been considering a pause in the leadership contest and c
  
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• Weeks-long boil water notice lifted in Mississippi capital

  15-09-2022 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A boil-water notice was lifted Thursday in Mississippi’s capital city after nearly seven weeks, Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson officials said.
  “We have restored clean water,” Reeves said during a news conference.
  But a state health department official, Jim Craig, said concerns remain about copper and lead levels in the Jackson water. Craig said people should continue to avoid using city water to prepare baby formula.
  Emergency repairs are still underwa
  
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• Toronto FC’s Osorio reveals he has been dealing with a ‘neurological dysfunction’

  15-09-2022 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Midfielder Jonathan Osorio, who has missed Toronto FC’s last four games, revealed Thursday he has been dealing with what he called a “neurological dysfunction” that dates back some two months.
  The 30-year-old Osorio, a key component for both Toronto and Canada, says the problems started when he took an elbow to the head from Chicago Fire star Xherdan Shaqiri in a July 13 game. That blow to the left side of his head resulted in his jaw not being aligned properly
  
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• Chilliwack hosting Muaythai Gladiators event – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  15-09-2022 20:40 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• B.C. toxic drug deaths double since public health emergency declared in 2016: coroner

  15-09-2022 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Grim statistics from British Columbia’s coroner show the rate of toxic drug deaths has doubled since the province declared a public health emergency in 2016.
  The BC Coroners Service recorded 192 drug-related deaths in July, a 31 per cent increase from June and equating to about 6.2 deaths per day.
  The new figures show the death rate across the province this year is 42 per 100,000, twice what it was in April 2016 when the public-health emergency was declared.
  The service sa
  
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• ‘Wild West’: Audit on veterans’ medical cannabis sparks calls for oversight, research

  15-09-2022 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — An internal audit outlining significant problems with Ottawa’s administration of hundreds of millions of dollars in medical marijuana for veterans is being met with shock and concern by mental-health providers and others.
  It is also spurring calls for more research into the potential benefits and risks of medical cannabis, as well as oversight of how the drug is administered to protect at-risk veterans and taxpayer dollars.
  The Canadian Press reported on the internal audit t
  
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• Former PMs, Canadian celebrities to attend queen’s funeral in London

  15-09-2022 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada is sending 15 delegates to the queen’s state funeral in London, England, on Monday, while celebrities will take part in a procession of recipients of national honours.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon and their spouses are leading the Canadian delegation, which will include former governors general Michaëlle Jean and David Johnston as well as former prime ministers Kim Campbell, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper.
  They will be
  
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• Police investigating early-morning shooting in Cloverdale – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 19:45 via theprogress.com
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• Sedin twins spotted in Penticton ahead of Canucks' Young Stars Classic – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 19:39 via theprogress.com
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• New atlas of bird migration shows extraordinary journeys – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 19:32 via theprogress.com
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• Dozens of cyberespionage operations perpetrated against Canada since 2010: study – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• French Oblates begin dismissal proceedings for priest accused of abusing Inuit

  15-09-2022 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The leadership of a Catholic order in France has begun dismissal proceedings against a priest accused of sexual abusing Inuit children in Nunavut.
  A delegation of Inuit led by Nunavut Tunnagivik Inc. has been in France this week seeking the extradition of Johannes Rivoire to Canada. 
  Rivoire was an Oblate priest in Nunavut from the 1960s until he returned to France in 1993. 
  He was charged in February with one count of indecent assault of a girl in Arviat and Whale Cove, Nunavut, betwe
  
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• Griner, Whelan families to meet Biden amid US-Russia talks

  15-09-2022 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to meet at the White House on Friday with family members of WNBA star Brittney Griner and Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, both of whom remain jailed in Russia, senior administration officials told The Associated Press.
  The separate meetings are to be the first in-person encounter between Biden and the families and are taking place amid sustained but so far unsuccessful efforts by the administration to secure the Americans&rsquo
  
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• Chilliwack's Barry Neufeld trying to raise $60K for Supreme Court of Canada battle – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 19:07 via theprogress.com
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• Toxic drugs kill 192 more British Columbians in July, B.C. Coroners Service says

  15-09-2022 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The illicit drug supply in British Columbia continues to devastate communities throughout the province, with at least 192 lives lost to toxic substances in July, according to preliminary reporting released by the BC Coroners Service.
  “As they have for the past seven years, these numbers reflect the ever-present threat that illicit drugs pose to substance users across B.C.,” said Lisa Lapointe, chief coroner. “The unregulated drug market continues to be volati
  
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• Green Party president resigns, saying her 'optimism has died' – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 19:00 via theprogress.com
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• Canadian royal ‘diehard’ camping in London ahead of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral

  15-09-2022 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — Bernadette Christie has had a front-row view of some of the biggest royal events of the last decade.
  She has seen Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle walk into the church on their wedding days, watched Queen Elizabeth pass by in a golden carriage and met Prince William. Now, the 68-year-old from Grande Prairie, Alta., is camping in a tent for five nights in London to ensure she has the best spot outside Monday’s funeral.
  “I want a front-row seat, or else there’s no
  
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• B.C. government to fund a 3rd study to evaluate feasibility of high-speed rail linking Oregon, Washington and Lower Mainland

  15-09-2022 18:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Buried in a provincial news release earlier this week was the acknowledgement that previous feasibility studies were done on the complexities of bringing high-speed rail that would link Oregon, Washington and the Lower Mainland with rapid transit of up to 400 kilometres per hour.What’s more, two prior MOUs (Memorandums of Understanding) have already been signed between B.C. Premier John Horgan and governors in Oregon or Washington.And yet, the B.C. NDP government announced
  
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• Montana judge blocks anti-trans birth certificate rule

  15-09-2022 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge has blocked health officials from enforcing a state rule that would prevent transgender people from changing the gender on their birth certificate.
  District Court Judge Michael Moses chided attorneys for the state on Thursday over the rule that he said circumvented his April order that temporarily blocked a 2021 Montana law that made it harder to change birth certificates.
  Moses said there was no question that the new rule recently adopted by the Mont
  
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• VIDEO: Russian pullback reveals devastation in Ukraine villages – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 17:24 via theprogress.com
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• Director Hubert Davis on ‘Black Ice’ and the untold Black hockey experience

  15-09-2022 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — In the new sports documentary “Black Ice,” viewers learn that in 1906 hockey player Eddie Martin became the first to use a technique known as the slapshot — a back swing of the stick known for its power as it makes contact with the puck.
  But Martin, a Black man who played for the Halifax Eureka in what was then known as the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, went largely unrecognized for his innovative method. 
  This is one among the many vital moments
  
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• As midterms loom, lawmakers on Capitol Hill push banking reforms for legal cannabis

  15-09-2022 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are pushing their Senate colleagues to pass legislation that would make financing easier for cannabis operations in the United States.
  Retailers and industry advocates are lobbying senators to support the SAFE Banking Act, which would provide long-sought access to financial services. 
  Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, says retailers in states where cannabis is legal in some form are forced to deal strictly in cash. 
  He says that mak
  
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• Palace reveals details of queen's state funeral on Monday – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Pakistan reopens highway to speed up aid to flood victims – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Roger Federer says he is retiring from professional tennis

  15-09-2022 15:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Roger Federer announced Thursday that he is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after winning 20 Grand Slam titles.
  This decision comes just days after the end of the U.S. Open, which is expected to be the last tournament of 23-time major champion Serena Williams’ career, and signals the real end of an era in tennis.
  Federer has not competed since Wimbledon in July 2021 — he has had a series of knee operations — and so in that sense, the news is not surprising.
  But he h
  
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• How Did Bluetooth Get Its Name?

  15-09-2022 15:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Most of us are familiar with Bluetooth, the short-range wireless technology that allows us to pair our smartphone and other devices with equipment such as earbuds and speakers. However, Bluetooth’s connection to a 10th–century Danish king is less well known.
  King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson earned his nickname because he had a tooth that was dark blue/grey and probably dead, according to Bluetooth.com. So, what’s the connection
  
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• Longtime Chilliwack resident, business operator and community philanthropist to run for Chilliwack school board

  15-09-2022 15:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — He’s a McMaster University graduate with a degree in English, and a minor in history and philosophy, who took an unconventional path to becoming the operator, with his wife, of a Chilliwack business that gives back to the community in countless ways.For the past 25 years, Richard Procee and his wife, Tera Hofstede, have been operating their family market, Hofstede’s Country Barn, employing many students and local residents.Along the way, Procee and the family busin
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Helping families with rising costs

  15-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Global inflation is making life more expensive for people around the world. In B.C., we’ve seen costs go up for groceries, gas, and other household essentials. Family budgets are being stretched, and we know that people need a break.
  Our government is focused on helping families make ends meet. Last week we introduced some new targeted supports that will help those who need it most.
  We’re putting more money in people’s pockets by boosting the B.C. Family Benefit for families wi
  
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• MLAs Alexis and D’Eith: new funding will help communities prepare for extreme heat events

  15-09-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — New Democrat MLAs Pam Alexis and Bob D’Eith say that the new funding will help the City of Mission and Leq’a:mel First Nation prepare for extreme heat events and keep people safe during future emergencies.
  Pam Alexis, MLA for Abbotsford-Mission, said the heat this summer was a reminder of how sudden the effects can be, and how important it is to be prepared.
  “This funding will help local governments and officials prepare to support their communities whenever ext
  
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• Cyberattacks and holiday disruptions: In The News for Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022

  15-09-2022 10:16 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 Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. 
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Cyberattackers have tried to steal Canadian COVID-19-related research and target Uyghur human rights activists. 
  That’s according to researchers who have documented at least 75 foreign digital operations of malicious political or industrial nature directed
  
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• ‘Wow factor’: Public website reveals best-yet picture of hundreds of bird migrations

  15-09-2022 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The piercing yellow eyes and deadly hunting skills of the snowy owl awe bird-lovers in the U.S. Midwest every winter. 
  Now, thanks to what has been heralded as the most comprehensive summary of migration patterns ever assembled, those birders can see where those raptors migrated from: the Seal River watershed in northern Manitoba.
  “We didn’t know that,” said Jeff Wells of the National Audubon Society, which activated its online Bird Migration Explorer on Thursday.
  “W
  
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• Dozens of cyberespionage operations perpetrated against Canada since 2010: study

  15-09-2022 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A new academic analysis has identified at least 75 foreign digital operations of a malicious political or industrial nature directed at Canada since 2010 – from attempts to steal COVID-19-related research to the targeting of Uyghur human rights activists.
  The report by researchers at the University of Quebec at Montreal’s Observatoire des conflits multidimensionnels found cyberespionage accounted for more than half of these episodes.
  The centre brings together Canadian
  
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• Quebec election: Leaders go ‘face-to-face’ during first election debate tonight

  15-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The first of two French-language leaders debates during the Quebec election campaign takes place in Montreal Thursday night, and it will be the first contest as party leader for four of the five participants.
  Polls have shown the Coalition Avenir Québec with a sizable lead over its four main opponents ahead of the so-called “face-to-face” debate on TVA network, which will pit one leader directly against another. 
  CAQ Leader François Legault, the in
  
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• MPs to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth in special sitting of House of Commons

  15-09-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Members of Parliament of all political stripes are expected to rise in tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth today during a special sitting of the House of Commons. 
  The House Speaker is recalling MPs from their summer break early to commemorate the queen and her 70-year reign after she died last week. 
  Pierre Poilievre is set to address the legislature as leader of the Conservative party for the first time, across the aisle from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is slate
  
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• Dieter & Elfi Heckert – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 09:00 via theprogress.com
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• Chilliwack hosting Muaythai Gladiators event – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  15-09-2022 09:00 via theprogress.com
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• With its queen gone, Britain ponders how to discuss death

  15-09-2022 08:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Where goes Queen Elizabeth II, there — inevitably — go each of us and all those we love.Because she reigned and lived for so long, seemingly immutable and immortal, the death of the British monarch after 70 years on the throne and 96 years of extraordinary life was a reminder, in Britain and beyond, that mortality and the march of time are inexorable, waiting for neither man nor woman, even a royal.
  That kernel of wisdom from Elizabeth’s passing, the last of many she dispensed
  
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