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• Drought prompts request for Metro Vancouver residents to take shorter showers

  13-10-2022 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Water use in Metro Vancouver is much higher, while reservoir levels are lower than normal, prompting the regional district to ask millions of residents and businesses to conserve. 
  A statement from the regional district of Metro Vancouver says water use is up by 20 per cent for this time of year because of the extended dry, warm weather. 
  It says the area’s watersheds have received about 50 millimetres of rain since the start of August, when it would typically s
  
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• Former Brier champ Menard wearing Canadian colours again at world mixed playdowns

  13-10-2022 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Jean-Michel Menard settled for silver in his lone previous appearance at a world curling championship. The 2006 Brier champion is hoping to earn gold in his long-awaited return.
  The 46-year-old from Gatineau, Que., will skip the Canadian entry at the world mixed curling championship starting Saturday at the Curl Aberdeen facility in Scotland.
  Menard will wear the Maple Leaf with wife, Annie Lemay, at lead, along with second Ian Belleau and third Marie-France Larouche, who are also off-ice partne
  
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• B.C. care aides, lab assistants, health facility cleaners reach new labour deal

  13-10-2022 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Unions representing care aides, lab assistants and cleaning staff have reached a new labour agreement with health employers in B.C.
  The B.C. government says in a statement the Facilities Bargaining Association, which represents about 60,000 people delivering health services throughout the province, has ratified a new contract.
  It says the nine-union association is led by the Hospital Employees’ Union, which represents about 93 per cent of the health workers covered by the
  
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• Redblacks look to keep playoff hopes alive in rematch with Alouettes

  13-10-2022 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks would love nothing more than to carry the momentum from their recent victory over the Montreal Alouettes into a rematch.
  With new interim head coach Bob Dyce at the helm, the Redblacks (4-11) posted a 24-18 win over the East Division’s second place Alouettes (7-8) on Monday.
  Now the two teams will square off for the final time this season Friday night at TD Place.
  While slim, Ottawa’s playoff hopes are still alive. But the club has a challenge ahea
  
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• Get ready to howl with Juno award winner Norman Foote in Chilliwack – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  13-10-2022 23:08 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• A timeline of what led up to the invocation of the Emergencies Act

  13-10-2022 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — As public hearings begin into the federal government’s first use of the Emergencies Act legislation, inquiry commission lawyers have prepared a rough timeline of the events that led up to the historic invocation. 
  The timeline is not exhaustive, and commission lawyers expect many more key elements will be explored throughout the six weeks of public hearings. 
  Nov. 19, 2021
  — The Public Health Agency of Canada announces new border measures will be imposed in e
  
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• Stampeders, Tiger-Cats clash in CFL game crucial to their playoff goals

  13-10-2022 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Playoff intrigue permeates Friday’s game between the Calgary Stampeders and visiting Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  With three games remaining in the CFL’s regular season, the Stampeders and B.C. Lions (both 10-5) are neck and neck down the stretch for second in the West Division and the right to host the division semifinal.
  Hamilton (5-10) needs to get ahead of the Saskatchewan Roughriders (6-10) to avoid losing an East Division playoff spot to a crossover team from the West.&
  
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• Fireball seen over B.C., Washington, Oregon sparks social media storm – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 22:45 via theprogress.com
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• Toronto Maple Leafs sign prospect Fraser Minten to entry-level contract

  13-10-2022 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed forward prospect Fraser Minten to an entry-level contract.The team announced the news Thursday ahead of its home opener against the Washington Capitals.Minten, 18, attended this year’s Leafs’ development camp and appeared in a pre-season game against the Ottawa Senators on Sept. 24.Toronto selected the six-foot-one, 185-pound Vancouver native in the second round (38th overall) at the NHL entry draft in July.Minten spent last season
  
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• Los Angeles councilmen resist resignation in racism scandal

  13-10-2022 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two Los Angeles City Council members held out Thursday against overwhelming calls to resign for joining in bare-knuckles banter during a private meeting where a colleague was recorded making crude and racist remarks.Pressure mounted on Gil Cedillo and Kevin de Leon to follow the lead of former council president Nury Martinez, who stepped down Wednesday for comparing another colleague’s Black son to a monkey, belittling Mexicans from the state of Oaxaca and making c
  
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• Karate Quebec postpones competition after losing Criminal Code exemption

  13-10-2022 22:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Karate Quebec says plans for its Quebec Cup were postponed Thursday due to “confusion in the interpretation and application of the Criminal Code” that makes karate competitions illegal without a provincial decree.
  The weekend competition in Montreal was to be used as a selection event for the Canada Games. However, the sport no longer has an exemption under the Code since karate is not on the Olympic program for the 2024 Paris Games, Karate Quebec said in a release Thursday. 
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• Charges laid in Ottawa under new crime of harassing a health worker

  13-10-2022 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A 58-year-old Ontario man is facing charges under a new law against intimidating a health-care worker.
  Ottawa police say there is a warrant out for the arrest of Louis Mertzelos in relation to threatening phone calls made to a health-care worker.
  Ottawa family physician Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth says she was threatened after appearing on a national television show advocating for people to keep wearing masks.
  She says police told her about the charges this morning, stemming from multip
  
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• Sand bags, tiger dams on standby for possible flooding after drought: B.C. government

  13-10-2022 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it’s ready to deploy sand bags and tiger dams in case flooding follows the ongoing drought. 
  Emergency Management BC says when rain falls after long dry spells, the parched soil can increase runoff and river flow.
  It says the transition to the rainy season doesn’t typically cause extensive flooding and the devastation wreaked by last year’s atmospheric rivers was rare. 
  However, it adds that flooding is natural in
  
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• Jan. 6 takeaways: Ahead of election, warnings on democracy

  13-10-2022 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is issuing a stark warning in its final public hearing before the midterm election: The future of the nation’s democracy is at stake.The panel returned Thursday for an October hearing, weeks ahead of the election, with new details about President Donald Trump’s state of mind on Jan. 6, 2021 as he egged on his supporters with false claims of election fraud, pushed to accompany them to the Capitol while lawmakers were counting the vote
  
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• HFX Wanderers FC fire coach Stephen Hart, who has led CPL team since inception

  13-10-2022 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — HFX Wanderers FC have fired Stephen Hart, the Canadian Premier League team’s first and only coach, in the wake of an 8-15-5 season
  The Halifax side finished seventh in the eight-team league this year.
  “I met with Stephen yesterday and informed him that I felt it was time for new leadership at our football club,” Derek Martin, the club’s founder and president, said in a statement. “Stephen handled this conversation with the same class and dignity he h
  
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• High court rejects Trump plea to step into Mar-a-Lago case

  13-10-2022 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected former President Donald Trump’s plea to step into the legal fight over the FBI search of his Florida estate.
  The justices did not otherwise comment in turning away Trump’s emergency appeal.
  Trump had pressed the court on an issue relating to classified documents seized in the search of Mar-a-Lago.Mark Sherman, The Associated Press
  
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• SD33 enrolment continues to climb year after year, though a budget deficit of $500K may loom

  13-10-2022 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Not only has the City of Chilliwack grown steadily over the past five years as the second-fastest growing municipality in all of Canada, behind only Kelowna, it stands to reason that its public school system is growing in a parallel fashion.
  And that it did, according to the latest student head count numbers released by SD33 Superintendent Rohan Arul-pragasam at Tuesday night’s (Oct. 11) Chilliwack school board meeting.
  Arul-pragasam told six of the seven trustees presen
  
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• Lineup of female comedians coming to Chilliwack stage for Jest Ladies Comedy – Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  13-10-2022 21:08 via agassizharrisonobserver.com
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• Police: Missing Georgia toddler believed dead, mom a suspect

  13-10-2022 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Police who spent more than a week searching for a toddler who was reported missing from his home have gathered enough evidence to conclude that the boy is dead and name his mother as a suspect in his death and disappearance, the police chief said Thursday.
  Authorities are still searching for the body of 20-month-old Quinton Simon, Chatham County police Chief Jeff Hadley said during a news conference. Police consider the boy’s mother, Leilani Simon, a suspect, but
  
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• B.C. Lions defensive lineman Richardson out for season with Achilles injury

  13-10-2022 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — B.C. Lions defensive lineman Steven “Stove” Richardson is out for the rest of the CFL season.
  The club announced Thursday the 26-year-old American has suffered a setback in his rehabilitation from a ruptured Achilles tendon, an injury that has prevented him from suiting up for the Lions all season. 
  B.C. signed the five-foot-11, 304-pound University of Minnesota product as a free agent in February but Lions head coach and general manager Rick Campbell said in A
  
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• RCMP shines spotlight on youth partner violence, invites community to Purple Lights event Saturday at Cottonwood Cinemas

  13-10-2022 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Partner violence isn’t just limited to adults.As the Chilliwack RCMP continues to shine a light on domestic violence for the month of October, RCMP media relations officer Corporal Carmen Kiener of the Chilliwack RCMP says it is just as important to bring awareness about partner violence involving youth.“Because teenagers are still maturing, an intimate relationship for them can be challenging and is more likely to include communication issues, jealousy, and insecu
  
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• Quebec rights body probes case of Inuk teen allegedly put in isolation, denied care

  13-10-2022 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s youth rights commission is investigating the case of an Inuk teenager who was allegedly placed in isolation at a Montreal-area rehabilitation centre while in pain and in need of medical care.
  The commission said in a recent news release that the minor was allegedly placed in isolation for prolonged periods, which caused his condition to worsen due to the delay in access to care.
  The director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal says she was approached i
  
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• Air Canada responds to international travel demand with summer route expansion – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 20:30 via theprogress.com
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• Mélanie Joly pushes LNG ties in Japan and South Korea, amid North Korea missiles

  13-10-2022 20:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada is set to become a major energy supplier for Japan and South Korea.
  She is visiting both countries this week, and says there is an appetite for liquefied natural gas from Canada, beyond a looming megaproject.
  A major export terminal is set to open in 2025 in Kitimat, B.C., with Japanese and Korean companies holding a 20 per cent stake.
  Joly says projects like this will help Canada shore up energy security in the region, wher
  
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• Chiefs Trade Muller to Fort McMurray Oil Barons

  13-10-2022 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Chilliwack Chiefs have traded 2003-born forward Chad Muller to the Fort McMurray Oil Barons of the AJHL in exchange for future considerations.
  “Moving Chad Muller is one of the tougher decisions I have had to make as GM of the Chiefs. Ultimately this is a situation that is a better fit for Chad as a player. It also allows our team more opportunity to make corresponding moves and to continue to develop our younger players,” said Head Coach and General Manager Brian Maloney.
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• Climate change fears high but vary by region, new poll suggests

  13-10-2022 20:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Millions of Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario will receive their quarterly carbon price rebate payments on Friday.
  But a new poll suggests residents of most of those provinces are the least likely in Canada to be worried about climate change or believe it is caused by human activity.
  The data is contained in a poll published this week by Leger that is based on an online survey it did last weekend.
  It suggests fewer people in Ontario and the Prairies believe
  
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• PODCAST: Black Press insiders McKinley, Wolf preview 2022-23 NHL season – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 20:00 via theprogress.com
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• Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse handed fine for interference against Canucks

  13-10-2022 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Oilers defenceman Darnell Nurse has been fined for interference during Edmonton’s 5-3 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.The NHL’s department of player safety handed Nurse a US$5,000 penalty for the play, which saw the veteran blue liner lay a late hit on Vancouver’s Kyle Burroughs in the final minute of the first period.Burroughs went down hard in the corner but got up without any assistance.Game officials gave Nurse a two-minute minor penalty for int
  
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• PHOTOS: Education minister officially opens 'beautiful' new Stitó:s school in Chilliwack – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 19:40 via theprogress.com
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• Why Do Witches Ride Brooms?

  13-10-2022 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Witches are common stars of all manner of media, from books to TV shows and from movies to Halloween costumes. The thing about these varied takes on witches, however, is just how much they all have in common: long robes, pointed hats, magic wands, and general malevolence. Then, of course, there’s the traditional witchy mode of transport: the broomstick.
  Broom flight has long been associated with witches. In the Harry Potter series, witches and wizards
  
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• U.S. is holding Nexus trusted-traveller program 'hostage,' Canadian envoy says – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 19:30 via theprogress.com
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• Jan. 6 hearing focuses on Trump with ‘surprising’ details

  13-10-2022 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is focused Thursday on “surprising” details including evidence from Donald Trump’s Secret Service about the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol in what is likely to be its last public hearing before the November midterm elections.
  The 10th public session, which convened shortly after 1 p.m., is expected to delve into Trump’s “state of mind” and the central role the defeated president played in the multipart effort
  
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• Drought conditions challenging on B.C.’s south coast, but fish protected: BC Hydro

  13-10-2022 18:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A new report from BC Hydro says its power generating system is meeting challenges caused by severe drought in several British Columbia regions, even as levels in some southwestern reservoirs are at or near record-breaking lows.
  The B.C. government’s five-level drought map shows sections of Vancouver Island and the inner south coast are at the highest ranking, meaning it is almost certain that drought in those regions will adversely affect everything from jobs to ecosystem
  
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• B.C. woman charged after men drugged, robbed, while using escort service

  13-10-2022 18:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — Twenty-one charges, including one of manslaughter, have been laid against a Vancouver woman accused of drugging and robbing men as they used an escort service.
  Surrey RCMP says an investigation began after its community response unit linked multiple reports of victims being drugged and robbed.
  In one case in February 2021, a man died, allegedly after being given a substance during an encounter.
  The police investigation covered Surrey, Burnaby, Langley and Vancouver and the R
  
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• Veteran offensive lineman Revenberg approaching milestone with Hamilton Tiger-Cats

  13-10-2022 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAMILTON — Brandon Revenberg has quietly become a model of consistency with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.
  The six-foot-four, 301-pound offensive lineman has missed just one game since being taken third overall in the 2016 CFL draft. On Friday night, the veteran guard will appear in his 100th career regular-season contest when Hamilton visits the Calgary Stampeders.
  “He’s exactly what you hope (for) when you draft a lineman like that, you hope they’re all 10-year guys,” O
  
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• Hockey Canada board resigned after justice Thomas Cromwell’s recommendation

  13-10-2022 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  A former Supreme Court justice recommended wholesale change at Hockey Canada a day before the embattled sports organization’s president/CEO and board resigned on Tuesday.
  Hockey Canada released a memo from justice Thomas Cromwell Thursday alongside his interim report reviewing the organization’s governance. 
  The memo, dated Monday, says “there can be no serious debate” Hockey Canada’s leadership had lost the confidence of important stakeholders and that calls f
  
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• EU report: Frontex covered up Greek pushbacks of migrants

  13-10-2022 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ATHENS (AP) — A much-anticipated report by the European Union’s anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in Greece’s illegal pushbacks of migrants to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such incidents in violation of peoples’ “fundamental rights.”The 120-page Olaf report was made public Thursday by the Germany-based freedom of information portal FragDenStaat together with media organiz
  
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• Feds don’t know how many employees speak an Indigenous language at work

  13-10-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it doesn’t know how many of its employees are expected to speak an Indigenous language as part of their job. 
  It comes as Ottawa faces calls to expand the compensation it offers to employees who speak both French and English to public servants who speak an Indigenous language. 
  The bilingualism bonus is an extra $800 per year employees receive if they work in a position where it’s required they speak both of Canada’s official
  
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• Police: 2 officers may have been ‘lured’ into deadly ambush

  13-10-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Authorities said Thursday they believe that two police officers who were shot dead in Connecticut had been drawn into an ambush by a 911 call about possible domestic violence.
  State police said the 911 call about a dispute between two siblings appears to have been “a deliberate act to lure law enforcement to the scene” in Bristol.
  Sgt. Dustin Demonte and Officer Alex Hamzy were killed. A third officer, Alec Iurato, was wounded but expected to recover.
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• Michigan State U. leader, hired after Nassar scandal, quits

  13-10-2022 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The president of Michigan State University announced his resignation Thursday, three years after he was hired in the wake of the Larry Nassar sexual assault scandal.
  Samuel Stanley Jr. said he has lost confidence in the school’s governing board and can no longer serve.
  “I gave my contractually required 90-day notice of resignation,” Stanley said in a video announcement.
  Since summer, Stanley has been under fire by some trustees, namely for the depart
  
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• Trevor and the giant pumpkin raise money for BC Children's Hospital – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 18:00 via theprogress.com
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• B.C. government announces 102 new licensed before and after-school child care spaces at Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt, Watson and Central

  13-10-2022 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack families stand to benefit from the addition of 102 new licensed before and after-school spaces at three schools within the Chilliwack School District.
  According to a news release from the B.C. government Wednesday (October 12), more parents in Chilliwack can pursue work, school and other opportunities by virtue of the ChildCareBC New Spaces Fund that will create 54 child care slots at Stitó:s Lá:lém Totí:lt Elementary/Middle, 24 at Watson
  
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• UBCIC backs Turpel-Lafond after investigation questions her Indigenous heritage – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 17:30 via theprogress.com
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• Sajjan likens Russian missile strikes on Ukraine cities to Holodomor famine

  13-10-2022 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure have him thinking about a historical famine.
  The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions between 1932 and 1933, and Canada recognizes it as a genocide.
  This week, Russian missiles killed civilians and damaged some electrical infrastructure across Ukraine.
  Sajjan says that amounts to war crimes and it will be harder for Ukrainians to
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Improving our health care system for people across the province

  13-10-2022 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  People across Chilliwack have told me how important quality healthcare is to them, and our government is working hard to make sure that all British Columbians can have easier access to healthcare where and when they need it.
  Last week we announced a new health human resource strategy as well as incentives to attract more doctors across the province. Through these initiatives, we’re going to train, hire and retain more healthcare workers so we can provide the best care for you and your fell
  
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• U.S. is holding Nexus trusted-traveller program ‘hostage,’ Canadian envoy says

  13-10-2022 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Canada’s envoy to the United States says the cross-border Nexus trusted-traveller program is being “held hostage” by a U.S. effort to renegotiate the 20-year-old agreement. 
  Kirsten Hillman made the comments at a daylong summit on Canada-U.S. border issues taking place at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. 
  The 13 enrolment centres in Canada, jointly staffed by Canadian and U.S. officers, remain closed amid a dispute over legal protections for
  
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• Quebecer charged in 22-year-old murder after beefed-up cold case unit logs 1st arrest

  13-10-2022 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A Quebec man has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault in the homicide of a junior college student 22 years ago.
  A Crown prosecutor says Marc-André Grenon was charged in court this morning in connection with the murder of Guylaine Potvin, a 19-year-old who was found dead in her apartment in Jonquière, Que., north of Quebec City, on April 28, 2000.
  Quebec provincial police confirmed today that Grenon’s arrest is the first since th
  
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• Inquiry into Liberal government's use of Emergencies Act kicks off – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• 'American Idol' finalist dies in vehicle crash – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  13-10-2022 16:30 via theprogress.com
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• Canadian women unchanged at No. 7 in last FIFA rankings before 2023 World Cup draw

  13-10-2022 16:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada’s women are unchanged at No. 7 in the latest FIFA world rankings.
  The U.S. continues atop the list with Olympic silver medallist Sweden moving up to No. 2, dropping Germany one place. England stands fourth followed by France with Spain — fresh from a 2-0 win over the Americans — moving up to No. 6 from No. 8 with the Netherlands dropping below Canada. Brazil and North Korea fill out the top 10.
  The new rankings will be used to determine the seedings for the draw for the
  
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