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• B.C. tables new legislation promising 'stronger oversight' of health professionals – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2022 23:55 via news.google.com
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• Ukrainian aid fundraiser questions Smith’s apology on Russian invasion comments

  19-10-2022 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — A former member of Alberta’s legislative assembly and key fundraiser for war-torn Ukraine says he’s skeptical about Premier Danielle Smith’s apology for remarks she made about the country’s conflict with Russia. 
  Thomas Lukaszuk, who has been raising millions of dollars in humanitarian aid with former Alberta premier Ed Stelmach for Ukraine, said he wants details on how Smith’s stated views have evolved, adding it is damaging the fundraising ef
  
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• Canada beats Portugal and Hong Kong at world mixed curling championship

  19-10-2022 23:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABERDEEN, United Kingdom — Canada’s Jean-Michel Menard defeated Hong Kong’s Jason Chang 8-3 on Wednesday to cap a two-win day at the world mixed curling championship.
  Menard, from Gatineau, Que., pulled away with four points in the fifth end. Chang scored a single in the sixth end before conceding. 
  Earlier in the day, Menard beat Portugal’s Bridget Ribau 7-4. Menard will close round-robin play Thursday against Slovenia’s Stefan Sever. 
  Canada (6-1) has al
  
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• Argos defender Chris Edwards relishes the chance to return interceptions for TDs

  19-10-2022 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — He hasn’t played offence since high school but Chris Edwards still knows what to do when he gets his hands on a football.
  The Toronto Argonauts linebacker/defensive back has returned both of his interceptions this season for touchdowns. He has scored five TDs over his five-year CFL career, four coming in the last two seasons alone.
  The 29-year-old native of Southfield, Mich., played on both sides of the ball (including quarterback) growing up and also returned kicks. He shi
  
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• Longtime CP journalist Alan Black, known for being ‘fast off the draw,’ dies

  19-10-2022 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Alan Black, a longtime journalist with The Canadian Press who worked 17 Olympics and was the “eyes and ears” of the national wire agency while most of the country was sleeping, has died. He was 64.
  Black was found dead inside his northwest Toronto apartment on Monday after living with serious health issues in recent years, his friends and former colleagues said Wednesday.
  “He set extremely high standards for himself, but he met those standards,” said Chris Mayberry, a lon
  
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• Hockey Canada announces women’s hockey team coaching staff for upcoming season

  19-10-2022 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Hockey Canada announced its coaching staff for the women’s national team on Wednesday.
  Troy Ryan, who recently agreed to a four-year contract extension, remains at the helm. The extension, signed in August, makes him the longest-tenured head coach of a national women’s team. 
  Ryan, 50, took over from Perry Pearn midway through the 2019-2020 season and has since led the team to consecutive world titles and an Olympic gold medal in February.
  He will be joined by returning assistan
  
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• Councillor Sue Knott says goodbye in an emotional farewell to City Hall after 14 years of service to Chilliwack

  19-10-2022 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Councillor Sue Knott bid an emotional farewell to her colleagues and city staff during her final council meeting Tuesday, as she leaves municipal office following 14 years of public service.
  One by one, her council colleagues who were present acknowledged her years of service before Knott graciously thanked city staff and recalled the many accomplishments brought about by current and former mayors and council members.“So, today is my last city council meeting, and what a
  
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• BC Centre for Disease Control warns of monkeypox automated call scam – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2022 22:30 via news.google.com
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• Canada adds to Iran sanctions, targeting TV station, entities accused of torture

  19-10-2022 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada is imposing more restrictions on Iranian officials with a focus on entities Ottawa is linking to propaganda and torture.
  The new sanctions target six people and four entities, including the Fars News Agency, which is believed to be affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  Also sanctioned is Iran’s Guardian Council, which blocks electoral candidates who don’t align with the regime’s ideology.
  Among the entities barred from doing business with
  
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• Quebec father charged in killings of two children remains unable to appear in court

  19-10-2022 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAVAL, Que. — A Quebec father accused of killing his two children in their home north of Montreal is still not able to appear before a judge.
  Kamaljit Arora, 45, was charged on Tuesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his daughter Anzel, 13, and son Aaron, 11, in the Montreal suburb of Laval.
  He also faces one count of assaulting his wife by strangulation.
  Arora’s appearance before a judge was put off on Tuesday after Crown and defence lawyers told a judge that
  
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• Disappointed with season, Whitecaps see need for small changes but not an overhaul

  19-10-2022 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Missing the playoffs was a disappointment for the Vancouver Whitecaps but that doesn’t mean the club needs a major overhaul during the off-season, Axel Schuster, the Major League Soccer team’s sporting director, said Wednesday.
  “Everything is on the table,” Schuster told a season-ending news conference. “That doesn’t mean everything has to change.
  “If you play in this league you want to make the playoffs. We missed them. Our job is to l
  
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• ‘Little window’: Coal mine supporters hope for change under new Alberta premier

  19-10-2022 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Supporters of open-pit coal mining say there’s a chance new mines could be built in Alberta’s Rockies after comments from the province’s new premier.“We’re hoping with this little window with Danielle (Smith) that we can crack that open,” said Eric Lowther, a southern Alberta resident and president of Citizens Supportive of Crowsnest Coal.Coal mining in the province’s beloved Rockies was blocked in February 2021 by a ministerial order. T
  
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• City agrees to purchase an estimated 5,500 tonnes of winter road salt ahead of snow season

  19-10-2022 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Whether winter season comes in with a vengeance or a whimper, Chilliwack will be well-equipped for whatever Old Man Winter has up its sleeves.Chilliwack City Council agreed Tuesday (Oct. 18) to purchase up to 5,500 tonnes of winter road salt from low bidder LaFarge Asphalt Technologies at a price of $139.64 per tonne.The city had received two RFQs for the supply and delivery of winter road salt for the upcoming winter season. LaFarge submitted a much lower bid than Mainroad Ma
  
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• Israel: Forces kill Palestinian who shot dead female soldier

  19-10-2022 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman who killed an Israeli soldier earlier this month was shot dead Wednesday after opening fire at a security guard at a West Bank settlement near Jerusalem, Israel’s prime minister said.
  Yair Lapid said Uday Tamimi, from the Shuafat refugee camp near Jerusalem who was the subject of a more than weeklong manhunt, was killed by Israeli security forces. Police said Tamimi opened fire at a security guard, wounding the guard lightly.
  The exchange of fire
  
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• Vancouver task force on Indigenous rights releases report for city council

  19-10-2022 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Vancouver could become the first city in Canada to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples with a plan developed alongside the three First Nations on whose territory the city is located.
  A joint task force with city officials and members of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations has produced a report with 79 calls to action aimed at implementing the United Nations declaration in Vancouver.The report has passed through the councils of the three nati
  
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• NHL’s Kim Davis hopes next Hockey Canada board is ‘diverse and inclusive’

  19-10-2022 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Kim Davis sees only one path forward for Hockey Canada.
  The NHL’s executive vice-president of social impact, growth initiatives and legislative affairs watched from afar as revelation after damning revelation emerged throughout a scandal-filled spring, summer and fall over how the sport’s most powerful national organization handled sexual assault allegations.
  And following last week’s developments — Scott Smith left Hockey Canada as president and CEO, while the entire boa
  
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• Argonauts can clinch first in East Division with victory over Montreal Alouettes

  19-10-2022 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  They’ve endured a sometimes quirky 2022 schedule but it has also delivered head coach Ryan Dinwiddie and the Toronto Argonauts to a very simple and emphatic completion.
  Toronto (10-6) concludes its regular campaign with a home-and-home series versus the Montreal Alouettes (8-8). The two teams square off Saturday night at Molson Stadium before returning to Toronto’s BMO Field on Oct. 29.
  Both teams have cemented East Division playoff berths and home post-season games. Toronto needs ju
  
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• ‘Swift-footed lizard’ named Massachusetts state dinosaur

  19-10-2022 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BOSTON (AP) — A “swift-footed lizard” that lived millions of years ago in what is now Massachusetts has been named the state’s official dinosaur under legislation signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Baker.
  Podokesaurus holyokensis received more than 60% of the roughly 35,000 votes cast in a social media campaign initiated early last year by state Rep. Jack Lewis, beating out another dinosaur that was also discovered in the state.
  “If I think about my own child
  
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• City of Calgary, Flames start negotiating again on a new arena

  19-10-2022 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Arena talks in Calgary are back on.
  The city and Calgary Flames owners confirmed Wednesday negotiations will begin again for a new sports, arts and entertainment building.
  Their previous deal agreed upon in 2019 collapsed late last year when the estimated cost of the project rose and the Flames withdrew.
  Shovels were scheduled to hit the ground this year for a 19,000-seat hockey arena and concert venue to replace the Saddledome, which has been the home of the Flames for 39 years.
  
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• Canada’s Bouchard ousted by Ostapenko in second round of Guadalajara Open

  19-10-2022 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard has been ousted from the Guadalajara Open in the second round after a three-set loss (7-5, 2-6, 6-1) to Jelena Ostapenko on Wednesday.
  The Montreal native hit five aces and converted on seven of her nine break-point chances. The 12th-seeded Ostapenko went eight for 19 on her break-point opportunities and committed seven double faults to Bouchard’s four with no aces.
  Bouchard, 28, defeated Kayla Day in straight sets on Tuesday in t
  
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• Chilliwack residents invited to weigh in on proposed 2023 budget, and whether City should spend more or less on services

  19-10-2022 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Taxpayers with a vested interest in how Chilliwack spends its budgeted resources, from policing to parks and recreation to fire protection and transportation, are asked to get off the sidelines and make their views known.As the City of Chilliwack develops its 2023 – 2032 Financial Plan, members of the public are encouraged to participate in the budget planning process through the interactive Citizen Budget tool.
  Until November 14, residents can go online to let city lead
  
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• Liberal GST rebate bill passes as government pushes cost-of-living measures

  19-10-2022 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — People who receive the GST rebate can expect to see an extra cheque this year that will double the amount of the benefit for the next six months, after the Liberal government’s Bill C-30 became law Tuesday.
  The Senate passed the bill on Tuesday less than a month after the legislation targeting the cost-of-living crisis was introduced in the House of Commons. 
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday that the bill will “make a difference” and noted that t
  
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• Embattled UK leader Liz Truss insists she's 'not a quitter' – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
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• Air quality in Chilliwack, Fraser Valley went from bad to worse with choke-inducing smoke – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2022 19:59 via news.google.com
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• City of Chilliwack lowers flags to half-mast in memory of Burnaby RCMP Constable Shaelyn Yang

  19-10-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The flags at Chilliwack City Hall have been lowered to half-mast to remember the life of RCMP Constable Shaelyn Yang, who died in the line of duty yesterday.In a Twitter post Wednesday (Oct. 19) morning, city staff wrote, “Our thoughts are with all RCMP members and their families during this difficult time. The flags at City Hall are flying at half-mast in honour of the Burnaby RCMP officer who died while on duty yesterday.”
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• DA: Hoarder charged after 300 animals rescued from NY home

  19-10-2022 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MILLER PLACE, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities rescued nearly 300 rabbits, birds and other animals from a filthy home in New York and charged a self-help book author with cruel confinement of animals, prosecutors announced.
  “Operation Open Cage” started Oct. 1 when investigators were contacted by animal control officers who reported a hoarding situation in the hamlet of Miller Place on Long Island, the Suffolk County district attorney’s office said.Officers wearing hazardous mater
  
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• Margaret Reid makes history with election to Chilliwack school board

  19-10-2022 19:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Margaret Reid overcame her own degree of adversity to make history Saturday when she was the first queer woman in the city’s history to be elected to the Chilliwack School District Board of Education.Ahead of Saturday’s municipal election, Reid knew she and her family would have to move after her landlord decided to move into her residence.“My family and I rent, and the landlord decided to move into the house, so we found ourselves looking for a safe, reliabl
  
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• Three B.C. communities in top 5 of Canada's 'rattiest' cities – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2022 19:40 via news.google.com
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• Raptors exercise team options for Scottie Barnes, Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn

  19-10-2022 19:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Raptors exercised team options for budding sophomore Scottie Barnes, Precious Achiuwa and Malachi Flynn on Wednesday.
  For Barnes, the reigning NBA rookie of the year, it’s a third-year option on his rookie contract that keeps him in Toronto through the 2023-24 season. 
  The six-foot-eight, 232-pound forward averaged 15.3 points and 7.5 rebounds in 74 games as a starter last season.
  Achiuwa and Flynn’s options are fourth-year team options, also on their
  
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• Arctic peers warn ‘no return’ to prewar times as Russia frozen from circumpolar talks

  19-10-2022 19:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada’s allies are calling for a rethink in Arctic relations after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
  Washington’s new Arctic policy calls for an increased American military presence in the Far North.
  Finland says that while it needs a functioning relationship with neighbouring Russia, it is warning there will be “no return to the prewar reality.”
  Moscow says it is upgrading military bases to improve its search-and-rescue capacity, and argues there is no
  
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• Roughriders linebacker Sankey leading CFL in tackles once again

  19-10-2022 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  He’s in a different city with a different team but Darnell Sankey is in a familiar place.
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders linebacker has a CFL-high 104 tackles, three more than Hamilton’s Jovan Santos-Knox. Last season — his first in Canada — the six-foot-one, 245-pound Sankey registered a league-leading 97 tackles with the Calgary Stampeders.
  “First and foremost I’m incredibly blessed,” Sankey said in a recent telephone interview. “To be honest, I fe
  
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• Maple Leafs defenceman Jake Muzzin to miss at least three games with neck injury

  19-10-2022 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have placed veteran defenceman Jake Muzzin on injured reserve, the team announced Wednesday.
  The 33-year-old left Monday’s 4-2 home loss to Arizona with a neck injury after colliding with Coyotes winger Clayton Keller in the second period.
  Muzzin, who missed the start of training camp with back discomfort and has a concussion history, will miss at least the next three games — Thursday at home against Dallas, Saturday in Winnipeg and Monday in V
  
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• Second Quebec opposition party plans to refuse to swear loyalty oath to King Charles

  19-10-2022 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A debate over the oath that members of the legislature swear to the Crown is continuing in Quebec as an opposition party says it will refuse to swear it this afternoon.
  The Canadian Press has learned that the 11 elected members of the sovereigntist Québec solidaire don’t plan to declare their allegiance to King Charles III, as required by the Canadian Constitution, when they are sworn in this afternoon.
  Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon s
  
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• B.C. NDP leadership hopeful Appadurai expects exclusion, Eby poised to become premier

  19-10-2022 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The campaign of B.C. New Democratic Party leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai says an NDP report recommends she be disqualified from the race, a decision that would make David Eby the sole contender to become the next premier.
  Campaign spokesman Erik Olesen says they received the report from the NDP’s chief electoral officer Elizabeth Cull, but confidentiality requirements prevent Appadurai from releasing it.
  A statement from Appadurai says she is “disappointed but
  
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• Homicide team identifies man, woman, found dead in vehicle in Burnaby, B.C.

  19-10-2022 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY, B.C. — Homicide detectives have identified the two people found dead in a vehicle in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday.
  A statement from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the bodies of 24-year-old Kiesha Garie and 30-year-old Umair Kasim were inside the vehicle, parked in a neighbourhood in northwest Burnaby.
  The Coquitlam couple had recently been reported missing.
  Detectives say they are working with RCMP in Coquitlam and Burnaby to build a timeline between the period when G
  
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• Weeklong Chilliwack Rotary book sale returns to Heritage Park Oct. 30-Nov. 5

  19-10-2022 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — At a time when the price of gasoline and food, interest rates and seemingly everything else has increased, there’s still a time and place to find the best bargains in town, tax free.The Rotary Club of Chilliwack will hold its 38th annual Rotary book sale starting Sunday, October 30 until Saturday, November 5 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. inside Heritage Park, 44140 Luckakuck Way, where the big red barns are.Since 1984, the Rotary Club of Chilliwack has held its annual book sale
  
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• Denis Shapovalov tops Antoine Bellier to advance to Stockholm Open quarterfinals

  19-10-2022 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  STOCKHOLM — Canada’s Denis Shapovalov is on his way to the Stockholm Open quarterfinals after a 6-4, 7-5 win over Antoine Bellier on Wednesday.
  The Richmond Hill, Ont., native fired eight aces and broke on two of four opportunities in the victory. He also won 86 per cent of his first-serve points.
  Bellier went without a single breakpoint opportunity in the loss.
  Shapovalov, 23, received a bye into the second round as the fourth seed in the tournament.
  He will next face the winner bet
  
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• CEBL unveils newest franchise Calgary Surge, ownership duo

  19-10-2022 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — The Canadian Elite Basketball League introduced its newest franchise on Wednesday — the Calgary Surge.
  The team, which was formerly based out of Guelph, Ont., and known as the Nighthawks, will officially take the court at WinSport Event Centre in the upcoming 2023 season.
  Calgary’s name was decided on by an online grassroots campaign which resulted in Surge being chosen.
  The team logo is that of a hawk and — with an effort to maintain Calgary’s sports mark
  
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• Ottawa, Pacific and Forge coaches up for Canadian Premier League award

  19-10-2022 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Atletico Ottawa’s Carlos Gonzalez, Pacific FC’s James Merriman and Forge FC’s Bobby Smyrniotis are the finalists for Canadian Premier League coach of the year.
  Voting involved the head coach and one assistant from each CPL club, marking the first year that the league’s coaching award will be decided by peers. Coaches could not vote for themselves and assistant coaches could not vote for their boss.
  The winner will be revealed at the league’s awards c
  
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• Vancity to offer carbon footprint tracker for its Visa credit cards

  19-10-2022 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Vancity says it is launching a program that will allow its Visa credit card holders to track the estimated carbon emissions of their purchases. 
  The Vancouver-based credit union says all Vancity Visa credit card holders will be offered the data, which will also include how their spending-linked emissions compare nationally and which purchases have the highest environmental cost.
  Vancity says it is partnering with climate-focused German fintech ecolytiq to offer the carbon
  
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• Panthers put D Aaron Ekblad on long-term injured reserve

  19-10-2022 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SUNRISE, Fla. — The Florida Panthers will be without top defenseman Aaron Ekblad until at least mid-November, and quite possibly longer, after the team putting him on the long-term injured reserve list with a groin injury.
  Players on the LTIR list must miss at least 10 games and 24 days; the Panthers have 11 games in that 24-day window, so Ekblad is out for at least that many. He got hurt in Florida’s loss Monday at Boston.
  “We’re not happy about it and obviously we&rsquo
  
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• Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to skip Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner

  19-10-2022 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has declined an invitation to attend the Parliamentary Press Gallery dinner on Saturday night, an event that was on a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19.
  It’s tradition for political party leaders of all stripes to attend the event and deliver a speech, often filling it with jokes at their own expense and getting a few digs in at their critics too.
  A spokesman for Poilievre simply says he’s “not coming” to the gala that wil
  
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• Governments weren’t always working in tandem during ‘Freedom Convoy’: Trudeau

  19-10-2022 17:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there were times during the “Freedom Convoy” protests last winter that the three levels of government were not working together as well as they could.
  But he says what’s important is that in the end, everyone came together to end the occupation of downtown Ottawa.
  A transcript released Tuesday of a phone call between Trudeau and Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson shows that Trudeau accused Ontario Premier Doug Ford of “hiding from hi
  
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• Police chief said ‘Freedom Convoy’ would end by first Monday: ex-police board chair

  19-10-2022 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The former chair of Ottawa’s police board says the chief of police told her in late January that he would be very surprised if the “Freedom Convoy” protesters stayed for longer than one weekend.
  Former police board chair and current city councillor Diane Deans is speaking at the federal inquiry into the government’s use of the Emergencies Act.
  Documents tabled with the commission show former police chief Peter Sloly told the police board in a briefing on Ja
  
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• BC NDP leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai says report seeks her disqualification

  19-10-2022 16:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The campaign of B.C. New Democratic Party leadership contender Anjali Appadurai says a report from the campaign recommends she be disqualified from the race.
  Campaign spokesman Erik Olesen says they received the report from the NDP’s chief electoral officer Elizabeth Cull, but confidentiality requirements prevent Appadurai from releasing it.
  A statement from Appadurai issued late Tuesday says she is “disappointed but not surprised” by the finding that disquali
  
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• CAMERON: Boosting 2022 local election turnout in B.C. unlikely – Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  19-10-2022 15:30 via news.google.com
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Repeat offenders now using swords, crossbows machetes and poles – what next?

  19-10-2022 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  As if it were straight out of a movie, a sword was used to attack a gas station clerk during a robbery in Abbotsford just a couple of weeks ago. Swiftly arrested by the tenacious Abbotsford Police Department, it likely comes as no surprise that this incident involved a repeat offender. We are seeing a rising number of violent attacks across the province. This dangerous and scary reality is fuelled by rampant prolific offenders thanks to former Attorney General David Eby’s catch-and-release
  
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• What Does a Self-Portrait Made by an AI Look Like? Ask Ai-Da

  19-10-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Using artificial intelligence (AI) to generate photos from keywords is an exciting new way to create some really interesting art. In fact, using AI to create art has even started to become a viral trend on social media!
  Aidan Meller however, took computer generated art to a whole new level by helping to design Ai-Da, a human-like robot who can paint!
  Meet Ai-Da
  Despite being a machine powered by artificial intelligence, Ai-Da — the world’s first
  
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• Arctic-Dwelling Greenland Shark Caught off Coast of Belize

  19-10-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!A Greenland shark, which has the potential to live between 250 and 500 years, was captured in July 2022 off the coast of Belize, surprising a group of researchers. That’s because these sharks (scientific name Somniosus microcephalus) usually reside in the Arctic — not the Caribbean Sea!
  Sink or Swim
  When they first reeled in their catch, the group believed the black, haggard-looking fish with light blue eyes was dead. Ph.D. candidate Devanshi Ka
  
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• A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund reports Q3 profit up, raises distributions

  19-10-2022 14:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund has raised its monthly payment to unitholders as it reported its third-quarter profit and royalty income rose compared with a year ago.
  The hamburger chain says it will now pay a monthly distribution of 16 cents per unit, up from 15.5 cents per unit, starting with its October distribution that is payable Nov. 30.
  The increase comes as A&W reported net income of $9.6 million for the quarter ended Sept. 11, up from a profit of $8.9 millio
  
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