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• Canada and Japan launch formal talks on intelligence-sharing pact

  11-10-2022 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada and Japan have launched talks aimed at sharing military intelligence
  Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly met today with her Japanese counterpart Yoshimasa Hayashi in Tokyo.
  The two adopted a plan to boost co-operation on defence and economic security.
  That includes formal talks on an intelligence-sharing pact, in the face of growing threats from China and Russia.
  Japan and Canada will also hold joint military exercises, and some with the United States.
  Both countri
  
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• Raptors coach says Scottie Barnes is playing ‘catch-up’ after minor ankle injury

  11-10-2022 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Scottie Barnes, last season’s NBA rookie of the year, has been slowed by an ankle issue that has affected his conditioning, according to Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse.
  “Listen, Scottie is playing a little bit of catch-up here and it’s noticeable,” Nurse said after practice Tuesday. “I don’t think he has shown a whole lot here in the pre-season. I mean he was held out the last three weeks leading into training camp so that affected his condit
  
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• Blue Jays GM Atkins says emotions “were difficult” after stunning Game 2 loss

  11-10-2022 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Just a few days after an epic Game 2 collapse knocked his team out of the playoffs, Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said the emotions from the loss “were difficult” for everyone involved. 
  The Blue Jays had World Series aspirations but instead exited the post-season without recording a single victory, falling in two straight games to the visiting Seattle Mariners.
  “We sat in here five days ago and felt very good about us making a deep run and were con
  
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• Toronto Raptors hope technology off the court leads to success on it

  11-10-2022 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Back in the day, a basketball player might sneak into a gym to work on his shot late at night.
  Now a Toronto Raptor can do it and have a machine verbally and visually track his shot. And then file it away for future comparison.
  The NBA franchise showed off its new multimedia analytic board Tuesday, a giant screen that stretches 37 metres long and three metres high on a wall alongside one of its practice courts at the OVO Athletic Centre.
  Comprised of 448 video boards, the massive
  
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• Victoria man found dead in Spain, more than two months after going missing: police

  11-10-2022 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — A Victoria man who disappeared in Spain in July has been found dead in that country.A statement from Victoria police says 67-year-old Scott Graham was last seen in Madrid.
  The statement says his body has been located but it doesn’t say where or when.
  A high-risk missing person alert was issued in both Spanish and English on Aug. 8, about three weeks after Graham was reported missing.
  He was suffering from a medical condition that had the potential to become life-threatenin
  
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• Vancouver Canucks Brock Boeser returns from hand injury ahead of season opener

  11-10-2022 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Brock Boeser will start the season with the Vancouver Canucks after all.The 25-year-old right-winger returned to full practice with his teammates Tuesday, just over two weeks after the Canucks announced he had undergone surgery for a hand injury suffered at training camp in Whistler, B.C.
  At the time, the team said the forward would be out three to four weeks, but head coach Bruce Boudreau said Tuesday that Boeser will be a “game-time decision” when the Canucks open
  
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• First two Abbotsford Canucks games streaming for free on AHLTV – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 22:26 via theprogress.com
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• Brett Favre says he’s ‘unjustly smeared’ in welfare case

  11-10-2022 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says he is being treated unfairly in news coverage of a Mississippi welfare scandal, including about payments he received to help fund a pet project of his — a volleyball arena at the university he attended and where his daughter was playing the sport.
  “I have been unjustly smeared in the media,” Favre said in a statement to Fox News Digital, which was published Tuesday. “I have done nothing wrong, and it is
  
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• Trudeau announces money for Quebec firm that produces minerals for electric cars

  11-10-2022 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SOREL-TRACY, Que. — The federal government says it will invest $222 million to help a Quebec company increase production of critical minerals for goods such as electric cars and batteries. 
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement today after visiting the Rio Tinto Fer et Titane facility in Sorel-Tracy, Que., about 90 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  Trudeau says the funding will come through the Strategic Innovation Fund and will allow the company to increase production o
  
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• Christian Cage excited for All Elite Wrestling’s first events in Canada

  11-10-2022 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  It’s been more than a decade since professional wrestling legend Christian Cage has been able to perform in his home and native land. He’ll finally get his chance this week.
  Raised in Orangeville, Ont., but billed from Toronto, the 48-year-old Cage will be on the card as All Elite Wrestling holds its first events outside of the United States. Cage is set to accompany Luchasaurus to the ring when he wrestles Jungle Boy on Wednesday as AEW’s flagship show “Dynamite” g
  
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• Vancouver man wins $500K from lotto ticket purchased in Abbotsford – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 20:59 via theprogress.com
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• ‘Defending Saskatchewan’: Moe prepared to take legal actions over pollution laws

  11-10-2022 20:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he is prepared to take legal actions over federal regulations on pollution.
  The Saskatchewan Party government has outlined a policy and steps it plans to take to maintain control over electricity as well as emissions from fertilizer and oil and gas production. 
  It also includes a proposed bill to clarify the province’s constitutional rights and to pursue greater control over its immigration. 
  Moe released the pol
  
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• Chilliwack school board candidate planning to sue for defamation | CityNews Vancouver - CityNews Vancouver

  11-10-2022 20:58 via vancouver.citynews.ca
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• Cabaret blends with theatre for biographical musical about Josephine Baker on Chilliwack stage – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 20:33 via theprogress.com
  Cabaret blends with theatre for biographical musical about Josephine Baker on Chilliwack stage – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quick Quotes: Scott Smith out as Hockey Canada’s president and CEO, board resigns

  11-10-2022 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Scott Smith left his role as Hockey Canada’s president and CEO on Tuesday after months of controversy over how the national sport organization handled allegations that a group sexual assault involving members of the 2018. The entire board of directors also resigned.
  The wholesale change at the national sport organization came after a disastrous hearing involving Hockey Canada executives before the standing committee for Heritage Canada last week.
  Here are some reactions from across Canada
  
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• Prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed in 'Serial' case – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
  Prosecutors drop charges against Adnan Syed in 'Serial' case – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Smashing success: NASA asteroid strike results in big nudge

  11-10-2022 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.
  The space agency attempted the first test of its kind two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth’s way.
  The Dart spacecraft carved a crater into the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, hurling debris out into space and creating a cometlike t
  
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• United Conservative Party Leader Danielle Smith sworn in as Alberta’s new premier

  11-10-2022 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Danielle Smith has become Alberta’s new premier.
  Smith was sworn into office by Lt.-Gov. Salma Lakhani in a ceremony at Government House in Edmonton.
  Smith will also serve as intergovernmental affairs minister and plans to announce a revised cabinet on Oct. 21.
  In her first remarks as premier, the United Conservative Party leader promised to govern on core values of freedom, family, faith, community and free enterprise.
  She also promised to challenge the federal carbon tax
  
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• Cap on international students’ working hours should be lifted permanently: advocates

  11-10-2022 19:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Advocates who want the federal government to lift the cap on working hours for international students say a new pilot project that allows them to work more should be made permanent.
  Last week Immigration Minister Sean Fraser announced the government would temporarily remove the 20-hour cap on the number of hours international students can work off-campus to address labour shortages.
  The cap will be lifted from Nov. 15 until the end of next year.
  The International Sikh Students Ass
  
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• Search for missing 43-year-old Tammy White comes to a devastating end

  11-10-2022 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The search for missing 43-year-old Tammy White has come to a devastating end.Tammy’s sister-in-law, Elya White, reported late Sunday night (Oct. 9) in a Facebook post that her body was recovered in the Fraser River on Sunday afternoon.“This is how I will remember you, my sweet sister (in-law). I will remember your laughter, silliness, tenderness, smiles, and heartfelt love,” White wrote.White expressed thanks to first responders and rescue personnel who worke
  
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• VIDEO: Demand soars for kids' books addressing violence, trauma – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• King Charles II to be crowned May 6 next year, palace says

  11-10-2022 19:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — King Charles III will be crowned at Westminster Abbey on May 6 in a ceremony that will embrace the past but look to the modern world after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II.Tuesday’s announcement from Buckingham Palace comes amid speculation that the coronation will be shorter and less extravagant than the three-hour ceremony that installed Elizabeth in 1953, in keeping with Charles’ plans for a slimmed down monarchy. While the palace provided few d
  
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• Canada’s Dalton Kellett announces he’s leaving AJ Foyt Racing

  11-10-2022 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada’s Dalton Kellett says he’s leaving AJ Foyt Racing.
  Kellett debuted on the IndyCar Series for Foyt in 2020 and became the team’s veteran driver this past season.
  The 29-year-old from Stouffville, Ont., made the announcement over social media on Tuesday morning.
  Kellett says in an Instagram post that the decision did not come to him lightly.
  He says he does not have any immediate update on his plans for the 2023 season.
  Kellett finished 25th overall in the final 2022 IndyC
  
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• A list of major corporate sponsors that have pulled support for Hockey Canada

  11-10-2022 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Hockey Canada is continuing to lose major sponsorships as the fallout from its mishandling of sexual assault allegations deepens.
  The organization announced the departure of CEO Scott Smith, with the entire board agreeing to step down, on Tuesday, just a couple days after interim board chair Andrea Skinner submitted her resignation.
  Here is a quick look at major corporate sponsors who have pulled support:
  Bauer Hockey: The company has paused its role as the official equipment provider for Hockey
  
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• PQ leader wants to take seat in Quebec legislature without swearing oath to King

  11-10-2022 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon is refusing to swear an oath to King Charles III.
  Before they can take their seats in the legislature, newly elected members are required to swear an oath to the British Crown and to the Quebec people.
  St-Pierre Plamondon, who is scheduled to be sworn into office on Oct. 21, is asking the legislature to stop requiring that members pledge allegiance to the King.
  He told reporters in Montreal today that he has sent a fo
  
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• Toronto Arrows sign New Zealand-born hooker Gene Syminton

  11-10-2022 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows have signed New Zealand-born hooker Gene Syminton for the 2023 Major League Rugby season. 
  The 25-year-old arrives from New Zealand’s Hawke’s Bay, for whom he played in the National Provincial Championship.
  “Gene is a tough and gritty hooker who leads from the front and will bring physicality to our front row,” Arrows COO and GM Mark Winokur said in a statement. “He’s a no-nonsense player who will fit in well with our cu
  
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• Walker campaigning with 2 GOP senators after abortion report

  11-10-2022 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker is slated to campaign Tuesday with Sens. Rick Scott of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas, offering the latest sign that the national GOP is digging in on Walker’s candidacy as he tries to get past a renewed spotlight on his rocky past.Scott, who chairs Republicans’ Senate campaign arm, and Cotton, a potential 2024 presidential candidate, will hold an event in metro Atlanta with Walker as the football legend con
  
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• Big additions bring big expectations this season for Ottawa Senators

  11-10-2022 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Senators have been perennial basement dwellers for five years running, but the team finally seems poised to make significant progress.
  The past few difficult years have been spent building a young core that started with workhorse defenceman Thomas Chabot and went on to include captain Brady Tkachuk and forwards Drake Batherson, Josh Norris and Tim Stutzle.
  With the additions of veteran Claude Giroux, high-scoring winger Alex DeBrincat and goaltender Cam Talbot, the Sena
  
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• New coach Bowness brings fresh approach to Winnipeg Jets this season

  11-10-2022 17:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — A big smile crossed Nate Schmidt’s face as he described the fresh approach and one fun surprise during a practice at Winnipeg Jets training camp.
  New Jets head coach Rick Bowness had players scrimmaging with opposite-handed sticks, plus goalies Connor Hellebuyck and David Rittich manned the creases without sticks. 
  “It was amazing. I loved it,” said Schmidt, who’s entering his 10th NHL season. “Variety is the spice of life and you add new thing
  
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• UPDATE: Body of missing 43-year-old Chilliwack woman found in Fraser River near Mission – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 17:49 via theprogress.com
  UPDATE: Body of missing 43-year-old Chilliwack woman found in Fraser River near Mission – Chilliwack Progress  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UPDATE: Body Of Missing 43-year-old Chilliwack Woman Found In Fraser River Near Mission - Abbotsford News

  11-10-2022 17:49 via abbynews.com
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• CEO Scott Smith out at Hockey Canada, board of directors resigns

  11-10-2022 17:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY, AB – Scott Smith spent nearly three decades climbing the ladder at Hockey Canada.He lasted just over three months at the top thanks to a series of scandals that have rocked the sport’s national federation to its core.
  Smith is out as Hockey Canada’s president and CEO, the organization announced Tuesday. The board of directors has also resigned.
  Smith was unable to survive the fallout related to Hockey Canada’s handling of sexual assault allegations and how settle
  
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• 6 temperature records set in B.C. on Thanksgiving Day – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 17:33 via theprogress.com
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• Several federal cabinet members expected to testify at ‘Freedom Convoy’ hearings

  11-10-2022 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Eight federal cabinet members, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, are among those slated to testify at the public inquiry into the government’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act.
  High-profile members of the convoy that blocked Ottawa streets last winter, including Pat King and Tamara Lich, are also expected to appear during the six weeks of hearings that begin Thursday. 
  Also on the list of anticipated witnesses are the head of the Canadian Security Intelli
  
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• Chilliwack Chamber to hold lively panel discussion featuring Stólō leaders – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 16:50 via theprogress.com
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• Sentencing to begin for Dutch man guilty of harassment linked to death of B.C. teen

  11-10-2022 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — The first day of a scheduled four-day sentencing hearing begins in a British Columbia court for a Dutch man found guilty of harassing Port Coquitlam, B.C., teen Amanda Todd.
  Aydin Coban, who is in his mid-40s, was convicted in August on charges of extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of child pornography.
  The offences relate to online stalking and abuse suffered by Todd, who was 15 when s
  
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• Calgary Flames seek to turn entertaining off-season into longer playoff run

  11-10-2022 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — No NHL team lost more and gained more than the Calgary Flames after their most successful season in years.
  Newcomers Jonathan Huberdeau and Nazem Kadri can bring offensive firepower and other intangibles to compensate for departed wingers Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk. Will they?
  Masterful wheeling and dealing in the off-season does not guarantee a championship, Calgary’s general manager cautioned.
  “This idea of winning in the summer is a load of crap I think,&r
  
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• Westshore Terminals reaches tentative deal with union, work resumes at terminal – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Trudeau condemns deadly Russian strikes on Kyiv, Ukrainian cities – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Supreme Court rejects appeal from Dylann Roof, who killed 9

  11-10-2022 16:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Dylann Roof, who challenged his death sentence and conviction in the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation.
  Roof had asked the court to decide how to handle disputes over mental illness-related evidence between capital defendants and their attorneys. The justices did not comment Tuesday in turning away the appeal.
  Roof fired his attorneys and represented himself during the sentencing phase
  
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• Canada sending 40 military engineers to Poland to train Ukrainian forces

  11-10-2022 15:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada is sending 40 military engineers to Poland to train Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia.
  Defence Minister Anita Anand announced the deployment during a visit to Warsaw this morning before a planned meeting with NATO counterparts in Belgium.
  The new contribution is on top of the roughly 225 military trainers working with Ukrainian forces as part of a British-led training mission.
  It is also in addition to the deployment of three Hercules transport planes to Scotla
  
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• Bauer pauses role as official equipment provider to Hockey Canada’s men’s teams

  11-10-2022 14:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Bauer Hockey is putting its partnership with Hockey Canada on ice, calling the repeated breach of trust by the national organization’s leadership “extremely disturbing.”
  The company says it’s pausing its role as the official equipment provider to Hockey Canada’s men’s teams and its sponsorship of men’s tournaments.
  It says Hockey Canada will be able to purchase gear for men’s programs, with profits being invested in hockey programs for girls, women
  
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• Westshore Terminals reaches tentative deal with union, work resumes at terminal

  11-10-2022 14:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Westshore Terminals Investment Corp. says it has reached a tentative agreement with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union, ending a strike that began last month.
  The company says work resumed at the terminal on Oct. 9.
  Terms of the six-year agreement with Local 502 were not immediately available. The deal is subject to a ratification vote by the end of the month.
  The company says negotiations with Local 502 were the first of three union locals. It says talks with ILWU
  
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• 22 people facing charges following undercover drug trafficking operation in Quesnel

  11-10-2022 13:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUESNEL — Close to two dozen people are facing charges following a two-month undercover operation targeting drug traffickers in Quesnel.
  Quesnel RCMP Sgt. Clay Kronebusch says the operation took place this past July and August and was instigated by the Quesnel Crime Reduction Unit (CRU). He says the goal of the operation, dubbed Project E-NANDU 2022, was to target the impact of the supply of illicit drugs in Quesnel.
  “During the project, the police made 42 purchases of heroin, fentan
  
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• Israel says ‘historic’ sea border deal struck with Lebanon

  11-10-2022 11:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister said Tuesday that the country has reached an “historic agreement” with neighboring Lebanon over their shared maritime border after months of U.S.-brokered negotiations.
  At stake are rights over exploiting undersea natural gas reserves in areas of the eastern Mediterranean that the two countries — which do not have diplomatic relations — claim.Premier Yair Lapid called the deal an “historic achievement that will st
  
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• Trick or Treat with Tim Hortons – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  11-10-2022 10:30 via theprogress.com
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• Trudeau condemns Russia, U.K. killer of Canadian sentenced : In The News for Oct. 11

  11-10-2022 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 Oct. 11 …What we are watching in Canada …Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned Russia’s latest attacks on Ukraine as the country unleashed a lethal barrage of strikes against multiple Ukrainian cities on Monday, including downtown Kyiv where at least six people were killed.While speaking on the phone with Ukrainian P
  
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• An election, then a trial, poses unusual test for Surrey’s Mayor McCallum

  11-10-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — Incumbent Mayor Doug McCallum of Surrey, B.C., is facing consecutive challenges — one at the ballot box and the other in a courtroom.
  It’s an unusual turn of events for McCallum, who was elected on a law-and-order platform in 2018 that included a flagship promise to scrap Canada’s largest RCMP detachment and create a Surrey police force. He now awaits trial on a public mischief charge.
  McCallum is being challenged for the top job by seven contenders, includ
  
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• ‘Some heroes wear moccasins:’ Saskatchewan stabbing victims died helping others

  11-10-2022 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  REGINA — Some of the people who died in the stabbing massacre on James Smith Cree Nation last month were killed because they were trying to help others, RCMP say.
  Residents put themselves at risk and in some cases paid with their lives for simply trying to protect others in their community, Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore told The Canadian Press in a recent interview.
  “I think of that saying ‘Not all heroes wear capes.’ I learned that some heroes wear moccasins be
  
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• Chilliwack election: Candidate sign vandalized | CityNews Vancouver - CityNews Vancouver

  11-10-2022 09:00 via news.google.com
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