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• Adams, B.C. Lions look to spark offence against Ottawa Redblacks

  29-09-2022 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Vernon Adams Jr. is hungry. 
  While his first three games with the B.C. Lions have had ups and downs, the quarterback is missing an elusive milestone. 
  “We have to be scoring touchdowns. Man, I haven’t thrown a touchdown yet,” Adams, who was traded to the Lions by the Montreal Alouettes at the end of August, said Thursday. “So I’m excited and I need that touchdown this week.”
  His next chance to find a teammate in the end zone will co
  
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• Chilliwack Chiefs partner with rival to recognize National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  29-09-2022 23:30 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• Ian regains hurricane strength as it heads to South Carolina

  29-09-2022 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PUNTA GORDA, Fla. (AP) — Ian regained hurricane strength as it spun toward South Carolina a day after devastating a cross section of Florida.
  The U.S. National Hurricane Center says the storm’s maximum sustained winds increased Thursday to 75 mph (120kph). It was centered about 240 miles (390 kilometers) south of Charleston, South Carolina, and moving northeast at 10 mph (17 kph).
  Ian made landfall Wednesday on Florida’s west coast as a powerful Category 4 hurricane with 150 mp
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays clinch post-season berth with Orioles’ loss to Red Sox

  29-09-2022 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays secured a playoff berth Thursday without even taking the field.
  Canada’s lone big-league team started the day with a magic number of one and locked up a wild-card spot when the Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles 5-3.
  After an off-day, Toronto will continue its homestand Friday night with the opener of a three-game series against Boston.
  The Blue Jays still have to plenty to play for over the final six games of the regular season.
  If Toronto
  
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• National chief says Canada’s reconciliation actions taking long road; 40 years away

  29-09-2022 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The road to reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada remains a long one, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald, who estimates it will take 40 years at the current pace to achieve the more than 90 calls to action in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.  
  It has been a process of two steps forward and one step back over the past year, Archibald said in an interview ahead of Friday’s National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.&
  
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• B.C. pharmacists to renew, issue prescriptions as part of reworked health plan

  29-09-2022 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia is expanding the power of pharmacists to renew and issue prescriptions as part of a wide-ranging strategy to relieve pressure on family doctors and emergency departments. 
  Pharmacists will be able to administer more vaccines and renew prescriptions for people who have lost their family doctors starting Oct. 14.
  Next spring, they will begin prescribing drugs for minor ailments like urinary tract infections, allergies and indigestion, meaning patients won&rs
  
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• Judge Watch, Frankie Lasagna and Homer No. 61: On an unusual night at the ballpark

  29-09-2022 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Baseball writers in Toronto were rather displeased a few years back when the press box was moved from behind home plate to a perch way out by the left-field foul screen.
  The location paid off Wednesday on a historic night at Rogers Centre. 
  With Aaron Judge one homer shy of tying the American League single-season home run record, a few scribes made regular jaunts from their work areas to the elevator down the hall. 
  The goal was to quickly get down to the nearby outfiel
  
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• Russian oligarch charged in U.S. evaded sanctions to deliver flowers to Canadian: FBI

  29-09-2022 21:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Russian oligarch indicted in the United States today for conspiring to circumvent its sanctions regime stands accused of, among other things, having flowers delivered to a former member of Parliament in Canada.
  Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska has been subject to U.S. sanctions since 2018 and was added to Canada’s own sanctions list this year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 
  Despite being prohibited from obtaining U.S. goods and technology, the FBI alleges that
  
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• Chilliwack city council candidates weighed in with hot takes on pressing issues of 2022 election – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 21:51 via theprogress.com
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• Prime Minister Trudeau visits storm-damaged Quebec islands, promises aid for region

  29-09-2022 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAVRE-AUBERT, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Quebec’s Îles-de-la-Madeleine today, promising federal support for the archipelago hammered by post-tropical storm Fiona last weekend.
  Trudeau met with acting mayor Gaétan Richard and with fishers, seniors and small business owners.
  He says the federal government will partner with Quebec to help people affected by the storm, which made landfall Saturday and brought hurricane-force winds.
  Accompanied by National R
  
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• Vancouver gas prices pass $2.39, breaking North American record: analyst

  29-09-2022 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Gas prices in Vancouver have hit a new high of more than $2.39 a litre at some stations, blowing past the previous peak set this summer.
  One gas analyst says that’s a new all-time record for North America, and expects prices to continue to rise this week. 
  Dan McTeague, president of Canadians for Affordable Energy, says prices passed the previous record of nearly $2.37 a litre, set in Vancouver in June, due to the temporary shutdown of refineries in the U.S. Pacific
  
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• Trudeau rejects Russia referendum, again promises sanctions

  29-09-2022 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned votes in occupied parts of Ukraine to join Russia, but gave no timeline for sanctions Canada promised a week ago.
  Trudeau says the referendums are an attempt by Russia to redraw the map as it loses territory in the war it started in February.
  Moscow claims people in the four regions it occupies voted upwards of 87 per cent to join Russia, but western governments say the process was rigged.
  Trudeau says Russia is trying to justify its war
  
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• 3 Russian cosmonauts return safely from Intl Space Station

  29-09-2022 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MOSCOW (AP) — Three Russian cosmonauts returned safely Thursday from a mission to the International Space Station.
  The Soyuz MS-21 spacecraft carrying Oleg Artemyev, Denis Matveyev and Sergey Korsakov touched down softly at 4:57 p.m. at a designated site in the steppes of Kazakhstan, 150 kilometers (90 miles) southeast of the city of Zhezkazgan.
  The trio had arrived at the space station in March. For Artemyev, the mission marked a third space flight, bringing his total time spent in orbit
  
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• TRC head questions why Catholic Church didn’t sell property to compensate victims

  29-09-2022 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The former head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission says the argument the federal government made in 2015 that the Catholic Church was unlikely to raise the money it promised to residential school survivors is “blatantly dishonest.”
  Murray Sinclair, a former senator, says the Catholic Church owns many properties across the country that it could have sold to fund the pledge it made as part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
  That 2006 agreemen
  
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• Herd the news? Wild boar piglet adopted by cows

  29-09-2022 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BERLIN (AP) — A cow herd in Germany has gained an unlikely following, after adopting a lone wild boar piglet.
  Farmer Friedrich Stapel told the dpa news agency that he spotted the piglet among the herd in the central German community of Brevoerde about three weeks ago. It had likely lost its group when they crossed a nearby river.
  Stapel said while he knows what extensive damage wild boars can cause, he can’t bring himself to chase the animal away, dpa reported Thursday.
  The local hun
  
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• PAC buys orange T-shirts for every student at Chilliwack elementary school – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  29-09-2022 21:19 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• Some B.C. regions at Drought Level 4 as water scarcity affects the province

  29-09-2022 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Little to no rainfall over the past five weeks in several areas of British Columbia has prompted a warning from the Ministry of Forests about drought. 
  The ministry says Vancouver Island, the inner south coast and the northeast corner of the provincehave reached the second-most severe level of drought on a five-point rating scale.
  A statement from the ministry says those regions are ranked at Drought Level 4, meaning conditions are extremely dry and will likely have unfavou
  
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• WHL teams with Orange Shirt Society before National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

  29-09-2022 20:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The Western Hockey League and the Orange Shirt Society announced a new partnership on Thursday with initiatives to recognize and commemorate the legacy of residential schools.
  Orange Shirt Day, formally called National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is a statutory holiday that will be held on Friday. The WHL says its commissioned a special WHL Truth and Reconciliation logo, designed by Métis artist Kim Vizi-Carmen of Pinerock Graphics that will be worn as a helmet decal
  
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• Southern resident killer whale population falls to 73: U.S. researchers – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 20:20 via theprogress.com
  Southern resident killer whale population falls to 73: U.S. researchers – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Data breach at border agency contractor involved up to 1.38 million licence plates

  29-09-2022 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal privacy watchdog says a data breach at a contractor for Canada’s border agency involved as many as 1.38 million licence plate images.
  In a report released today detailing its investigation, the privacy commissioner’s office cites inconsistencies in the way the Canada Border Services Agency managed licence plate information and a lack of security measures.
  The watchdog began its probe following 2019 media reports of a cyberattack on a U.S.-based third-party
  
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• Events in many communities in B.C. to mark Truth and Reconciliation Day

  29-09-2022 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Events are planned across British Columbia to mark the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation on Friday.
  The Survivor’s Flag was raised at the B.C. legislature Wednesday in a ceremony that Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister Murray Rankin called “profound and moving.”
  Some events planned for Friday in Victoria include an afternoon gathering outside city hall, a bike ride led by a member of the Songhees Nation describing the significance and hist
  
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• Pierre Poilievre’s complaint didn’t influence ‘Diagolon’ leader’s arrest: RCMP

  29-09-2022 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The RCMP say Jeremy MacKenzie’s arrest yesterday was not influenced by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s request to have them look into comments MacKenzie made about sexually assaulting Poilievre’s wife.
  The founder of the online group “Diagolon” was arrested in Cole Harbour, N.S., on a Canada-wide warrant related to charges laid by the Mounties in Saskatchewan in July.
  MacKenzie was charged with assault, pointing a firearm, mischief and using a restricted weap
  
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• Arctic Ocean acidifying up to four times faster than any other sea on Earth

  29-09-2022 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  What may be the broadest and longest study to date has found Canada’s Arctic Ocean is growing more acidic up to four times faster than any other sea on the planet.
  The acidification, linked to the loss of sea ice, will have unknown repercussions for the life in those waters, said Wei-Jun Cai, an oceanographer at the University of Delaware and co-author of the study in the journal Science.
  “There will be a whole suite of impacts,” he said. “Biologists will have to do more
  
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• Defence minister stands by military’s vaccine mandate

  29-09-2022 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand says the vaccine requirement for Canadian Armed Forces members is necessary to protect Canadians and allies alike.
  The military vaccine mandate remains in place even though similar mandates for other federal workers including the RCMP was suspended in June.
  Anand says defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre is revisiting the rule that all Armed Forces members receive at least two doses to remain in uniform.
  But she says the military needs to have stricter medica
  
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• Review: The witches return in lively 'Hocus Pocus 2' – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• Restoration of Turner House starting at Clayburn Park

  29-09-2022 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The City of Abbotsford and the Heritage Abbotsford Society are restoring the 145-year-old Turner House into a historic Clayburn Park facility.
  Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun called the partnership between the Heritage Abbotsford Society and Turner House a “huge win-win” for the community.
  “Council and the City of Abbotsford look forward to seeing Turner House being restored and becoming a valuable part of Clayburn Park and the Old Clayburn neighbourhood,”
  
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• Fraser Health opens vaccination booster clinics across the region – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 18:41 via theprogress.com
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• Temporary boost to GST rebate would cost $2.6 billion: PBO

  29-09-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer estimates the Liberal bill proposing to temporarily double the GST rebate will cost $2.6 billion.
  The government tabled a bill earlier this month to boost the rebate for six months in an effort to help low- and modest-income Canadians cope with high inflation.
  The proposal followed months of pressure from the NDP to help people who are struggling with the rising cost of living. 
  While the Conservatives first came out against the proposal, they
  
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• National library association calls for release of remaining residential school records

  29-09-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Federation of Library Associations is calling on federal cabinet ministers to support a full public release of remaining residential school records held by the Catholic Church and the government.
  It says the federal government committed to turning over 12,000 residential school documents after calls from the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, which has archived more than five million documents and 6,000 witness statements. 
  The CFLA says in a release i
  
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• Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of decision granting Quebec woman third murder trial

  29-09-2022 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal of a decision that ordered a third trial for a woman who has twice been convicted of killing her two daughters.
  The Crown had been seeking leave to appeal a Quebec Court of Appeal decision that overturned Adèle Sorella’s 2019 second-degree murder conviction in the deaths of her daughters, Amanda and Sabrina.
  Sorella was first convicted in 2013 of first-degree murder in the deaths of the girls, who were eight and nine
  
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• Quebec election: Parti Québécois raises most money since start of campaign

  29-09-2022 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Parti Québécois has raised more money since the beginning of Quebec’s election campaign than any other party.
  Élections Québec says the sovereigntist party raised $354,175 from 3,852 donors between the start of the campaign on Aug. 28 and Sept. 21.
  Polls in late August put the PQ in fifth place, with support below 10 per cent. 
  But the PQ is now polling in the mid-teens and is in a statistical tie with the three other main opposition pa
  
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• Metro Vancouver gas prices pass $2.39, breaking North American record: analyst – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 18:20 via theprogress.com
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• Mayor Popove says Chilliwack will stay the course debt free, while challenger Ian Carmichael says residents deserve better

  29-09-2022 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Mayor Ken Popove says he looks forward to growing Chilliwack over the next four years and investing in community amenities in a debt-free fashion, but challenger Ian Carmichael says residents should push for better on issues like housing affordability and fire protection, and build a more compact, vertical city.The two squared off in a generally diplomatic exchange of ideas on Wednesday night (Sept. 28), as Diane Janzen, executive director of Chilliwack Community Services, mod
  
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• Abbotsford Police release sketch of man wanted for assaulting a youth over vandalism of a newspaper box

  29-09-2022 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford Police have a released a facial composite of a man who is accused of assaulting a youth in Abbotsford over their reported vandalism of a newspaper box.On August 13, at approximately 8:45 p.m., Abbotsford Police Department officers responded to an assault in the 34400 block of Pearl Avenue, in the northeast area of the city.Upon arrival, officers spoke to the youth victim who had been assaulted by an unknown man after this same man accused a group of youths of damagi
  
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• Average home price 67 per cent higher than affordable level in August: PBO

  29-09-2022 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says the national average price of a home in February was more than 50 per cent higher than it was two years prior. 
  A new report says the average home price reached a peak of $839,600 in February 2022, up 52 per cent from $551,100 in February 2020. 
  Since then, however, prices have declined by seven per cent, down to $777,200 in August.
  Using a methodology developed by the IMF that examines household borrowing capacity and the ability to
  
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• Canada matching more donations for Pakistan flood aid, will raise cap to $5M

  29-09-2022 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says Ottawa will match more donations, for a longer period of time, to help those suffering from flooding in Pakistan.
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Sept. 13 that the federal government would match up to $3 million in donations made to the Humanitarian Coalition and its dozen member charities.
  That matching campaign was due to end on Wednesday.
  In an interview, Sajjan says the campaign will go on and the amount is now capp
  
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• Fiona cleanup: Federal government poised to send more troops to Atlantic Canada

  29-09-2022 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Defence Minister Anita Anand says there are now 700 military members in Atlantic Canada helping with the cleanup after post-tropical storm Fiona left much of the region in tatters.
  Anand says Canadian Armed Forces members in Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and southwestern Newfoundland are helping to clear debris, reopen roads, check on residents and assess damage.
  The minister says additional troops are on standby, along with some ships and aircraft. 
  Federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray says 180 o
  
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• Huitema Read kicks off Chilliwack City Council campaign at Cultural Centre

  29-09-2022 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council candidate Nicole Huitema Read launched her campaign Tuesday evening (Sept. 27) before a packed room of supporters at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre.According to a press release issued by her campaign, Huitema Read touched on a number of issues as she addressed supporters. She says she spoken to Chilliwack residents and heard their concerns around transportation, public safety, and homelessness.“During the early days of this election campaign I hav
  
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• Canada blanks Kazakhstan to score first win at women’s volleyball world championship

  29-09-2022 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ŁÓDŹ, Poland — Canada knocked off Kazakhstan to pick up its first win at the women’s world volleyball championship on Thursday.
  After dropping its two opening matches to the top-ranked U.S. and defending champions Serbia, the Canadians bounced back to blank Kazakhstan in three straight games (25-14, 25-16, 25-11), with Kiera Van Ryk, of Surrey, B.C., leading all scorers with 18 points.
  “I think we were all really ready to get a win,” said Van Ryk. “
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: One year of free transit for kids 12 and under

  29-09-2022 17:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Parents have a lot on their minds these days. As we get back into the swing of the busy school year, and continue to face the effects of global inflation, many are concerned about rising costs.
  As a parent, I know how stressful this can be, and our government is committed to taking action. One cost that parents no longer have to worry about is public transit fares for younger kids. This month we marked the one-year anniversary of free transit for children 12 and under, in every community across
  
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• Family files $2.7-million lawsuit over Indigenous woman’s death in Quebec hospital

  29-09-2022 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The family of an Indigenous woman who was mocked by staff as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital in September 2020 has filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $2.7 million.
  Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Atikamekw mother of seven, filmed herself on Facebook Live as a nurse and an orderly were heard making derogatory comments toward her at a hospital in Joliette, Que., northeast of Montreal.
  The video of her treatment in September 2020 went viral and drew outrage and condemnation across the
  
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• Assault on woman in Vancouver may have been racially-motivated: police – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 17:17 via theprogress.com
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• Maple Leafs sign defenceman Sandin to two-year contract extension

  29-09-2022 16:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Defenceman Rasmus Sandin has signed a two-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the club announced on Thursday.
  The deal will pay the 22-year-old Swede an average ofUS$1.4 million per season.
  Sandin had 16 points in 51 games with the Leafs last season.
  He was Toronto’s first-round pick, 29th overall, in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft,The Uppsala, Sweden native has six goals and 22 assists through 88 career regular season games with the Maple Leafs while adding a g
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada won’t hear appeals in Alberta coal project case

  29-09-2022 16:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear appeals from parties who support approval of an open-pit coal mine in southwest Alberta.
  A review panel had concluded the likely effects of the proposed Grassy Mountain coal mine on fish and water quality outweighed the economic benefits.
  As a result, Alberta’s regulatory agency denied Benga Mining’s permit applications.
  Both Benga and two area First Nations, which had signed benefits agreements with the company, asked the Albe
  
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• Canadians in Florida hunkering down as hurricane Ian lashes the state – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Canada's low-cost airlines expand services, announces Flair and Lynx – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  29-09-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Hundreds of kids from east Ukraine stranded in Russian camps

  29-09-2022 15:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  IZIUM, Ukraine (AP) — The Russian occupation radio and newspaper ads promoted the camps as a summer break from the war for Ukrainian children under their control, free of charge. Hundreds of families agreed in the occupied east and the south, Ukrainian officials and parents say.One bus convoy left Izium at the end of August, with the promise that the children would return home in time for the school year. Instead, Ukrainian forces swept though in early September, driving the Russians into
  
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• Vatican sanctioned Nobel laureate after Timor accusations

  29-09-2022 14:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican confirmed Thursday that it imposed disciplinary sanctions on Nobel Peace Prize-winning Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo in the past two years following allegations that he sexually abused boys in East Timor in the 1990s.
  The Vatican spokesman said in a statement that the office that handles sex abuse cases received allegations “concerning the bishop’s behavior” in 2019 and within a year had imposed the sanctions.They included limitations on Belo&
  
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• North Korea fires missile after Harris leaves South Korea

  29-09-2022 14:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired at least one ballistic missile toward its eastern waters.
  The launch on Thursday came hours after U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris departed from South Korea, the last stop of a four-day Asian trip on which she emphasized a U.S. commitment to defend its allies in the face of increasing North Korean threats.
  Thursday’s launch was the third round of missile tests by North Korea this week. North Korea test-f
  
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• Toronto FC eyes chance to get better in final home outing of season against Miami

  29-09-2022 13:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — With the Major League Soccer playoffs out of sight and the season near its close, Toronto FC is looking to finish on the right foot when they host post-season hopeful Inter Miami CF on Friday.
  Toronto (9-16-7) is eliminated from post-season contention for the second year in a row while Miami (12-13-6) sits in the seventh and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference.
  Heading into their final home game of the season and with just two games remaining, TFC is focused on improveme
  
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