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• UFV Cascades basketball teams sweep Griffins in Edmonton - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 23:28 via news.google.com
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• Rough seas cause cancellation of 18 B.C. Ferries sailings - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 22:29 via news.google.com
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• Arson suspected in Abbotsford fire

  07-11-2022 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — Police in Abbotsford are dealing with a suspected arson. The fire was reported early Saturday morning at Clearbrook Village at 3030 Trethewey Street.
  In a news release, the Abbotsford Police Department says the home was occupied when emergency crews arrived on the scene. Abbotsford Fire Rescue Service and Abbotsford Police Patrol Members managed to assist with the evacuation of everyone in the building and no occupants were injured.
  The Major Crimes unit of the Abbotsford Poli
  
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• Bonds, Clemens, Palmeiro on Hall of Fame committee ballot

  07-11-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Steroids-tainted stars Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Rafael Palmeiro are on the eight-man ballot for the Hall of Fame’s contemporary baseball era committee, which meets Dec. 4 in San Diego.
  Albert Belle, Don Mattingly, Fred McGriff, Dale Murphy and Curt Schilling also are on the ballot announced Monday for the 16-member committee, which considers candidates whose careers were primarily from 1980 on. A candidate needs 75% to be elected and anyone who does wil
  
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• Canada captain Christine Sinclair challenges Canada Soccer to step up in new memoir

  07-11-2022 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Christine Sinclair reviews her distinguished soccer career and lays down a challenge for the future in her new memoir “Playing the Long Game.”
  The Canada captain says it’s high time for Canada Soccer, the sport’s domestic governing body, to ensure an equal playing field for women. That includes establishing a women’s domestic pro league so the Canadian women don’t get passed by other countries.
  “In Canada we assume that we will be fine,” Sinclair w
  
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• Another 171 overdose deaths in B.C. for September from toxic drug supply: coroner

  07-11-2022 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — Nearly six people a day are dying of overdoses in British Columbia, a toll the corner says puts the province on track to surpass 2,000 drug deaths for another year.  
  The service says 171 people died of toxic drugs in September, bringing the total for the year to 1,644, the largest number ever recorded for the first nine months of a calendar year. 
  A statement from Chief Coroner Lisa Lapointe says illicit drug toxicity is the leading cause of unnatural death in B.C. an
  
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• Fernandez, Andreescu to lead Canadian squad against Italy and Switzerland at BJK Cup

  07-11-2022 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Armed with a well-rounded lineup that has plenty of star power, Canadian captain Sylvain Bruneau is aiming high at this week’s Billie Jean King Cup. 
  “We’re capable of everything really,” he said Monday on a pre-tournament video call from Glasgow.
  The 12-team finals bracket features four groups at Emirates Arena. In Group A, Canada will open against Italy on Thursday and take on Switzerland on Friday.
  Leylah Fernandez and Bianca Andreescu will likely serve as the sin
  
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• ‘Deeply concerning’: Police investigating threats against B.C. Jewish film festival - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 20:40 via news.google.com
  ‘Deeply concerning’: Police investigating threats against B.C. Jewish film festival  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Senators ponder loosening French requirements for diplomats as Canada pivots to Asia

  07-11-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Senate committee studying the future of Canada’s foreign service is pondering whether French needs to be a lower priority for recruiting diplomats.
  The foreign-affairs committee is looking at whether Global Affairs Canada is successfully meeting the country’s foreign policy goals.
  Staff recruitment and the role language plays in the process are among the issues being investigated.
  Sen. Yuen Pao Woo says than many from his province of British Columbia speak Asian lang
  
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• UFV students host forum pushing for disability rate increase - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
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• Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl: ‘It was now or never’ - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
  Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl: ‘It was now or never’  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Putin’s chef’ admits to US election meddling - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
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• Minister links chronic pain with toxic drug overdoses, commits $5M to pain network

  07-11-2022 20:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The federal government is putting $5 million toward chronic pain resources in what Carolyn Bennett, minister of mental health and addictions, says is part of an effort to help stop people with untreated pain from seeking relief through toxic street drugs. 
  She says up to $4.5 million over five years will go toward expanding the Pain Canada Network, enhancing national collaboration, scaling up best practices and expanding resources for those living with chronic pain. 
  
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• Robertson, MacKinnon and Karlsson named NHL three stars of the week

  07-11-2022 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Dallas Stars winger Jason Robertson, Colorado Avalanche centre Nathan MacKinnon and San Jose Sharks defenceman Erik Karlsson have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  Robertson scored four goals and added four assists in three games to push his goal streak to a career-high five games. 
  The 23-year-old Robertson capped his week by scoring the game-winning goal in the Stars’ 6-2 win in Edmonton on Saturday.
  MacKinnon recorded seven assists in two games to
  
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• B.C., Teck opposed to international study of Kootenay watershed pollution - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 20:08 via news.google.com
  B.C., Teck opposed to international study of Kootenay watershed pollution  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Veterans’ parade returns to national Remembrance Day after two-year hiatus - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
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• PM free to reopen Constitution if he has problem with notwithstanding clause: Ford

  07-11-2022 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is free to reopen talks with the provinces about the notwithstanding clause and the Constitution, though he’d recommend against it.
  Ford made the comments today after being criticized for pre-emptively invoking the notwithstanding clause in legislation that imposed a new contract for 55,000 Ontario education workers.
  The clause lets legislatures override parts of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for a fi
  
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• Arctic chill, more snow for parts of B.C., following powerful weekend storm

  07-11-2022 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Repair crews have made progress restoring electricity to the hundreds of thousands of British Columbia homes that were blacked out during powerful weekend storms, but Environment Canada says snow and wind remain factors.
  Snowfall, Arctic outflow and wind warnings remained up Monday for large parts of the southern Interior, north and central coasts, and eastern Vancouver Island.
  Kamloops and the north Okanagan, which were blanketed by snow Sunday, braced for up to 15 centimetres
  
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• Snowfall alert for Coquihalla, Connector and Okanagan - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
  Snowfall alert for Coquihalla, Connector and Okanagan  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Officials: US aid worker shot dead in Baghdad in rare attack

  07-11-2022 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Assailants shot dead an American aid worker in Baghdad on Monday in a rare killing of a foreigner in the Iraqi capital in recent years, two police officials said.
  The man was shot as he drove through the central Karrada district on the east bank of the Tigris River but the reason for the killing was not immediately clear, they said.
  No one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.
  U.S. Embassy officials when contacted by The Associated Press said they had only just
  
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• John Lennon’s killer says there was “evil in my heart”

  07-11-2022 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The man who gunned down John Lennon outside his New York City apartment building in 1980 told a parole board that he knew it was wrong to kill the beloved former Beatle, but that he was seeking fame and had “evil in my heart.”
  Mark David Chapman made the comments in August to a board that denied him parole for a 12th time, citing his “selfish disregard for human life of global consequence.” Chapman, in a transcript released by state officials Monday under a freedom of inf
  
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• Artist Cedric Laquieze Turns Dead Insects Into Fairies!

  07-11-2022 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Netherlands-based artist Cedric Laquieze turns dead insects into fairies! Believe It or Not!, Cedric has created hundreds of these peculiar pixies since starting more than a decade ago, and no two are alike.
  A Bug’s Life
  To start, Cedric collects dead insect specimens given to him by breeders. He carefully takes apart the ethically sourced insects’ delicate exoskeletons and wings. Cedric can then rearrange and combine them into a new creation, s
  
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• Judo Canada signs on to federal government’s Abuse-Free Sport program

  07-11-2022 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Judo Canada says it’s joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government’s new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport.
  Starting on Jan. 2, Judo Canada and its stakeholders will have access to the services of the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC), which serves as the central hub of Abuse-Free Sport.
  Judo Canada is the latest sports body to sign on to the program after allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses have rocked
  
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• Canada camp in Bahrain ‘devastated’ by news of goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau’s broken leg

  07-11-2022 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada’s first training session Monday at a pre-World Cup training camp in Bahrain was overshadowed with the panful news that goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau was back in the U.S., recovering from surgery to repair a broken leg.
  Crepeau was hurt playing for Los Angeles FC in Saturday’s MLS Cup final. The injury occurred in extra time when the 28-year-old from Candiac, Que., charged out of his penalty box in search of an under-hit back pass, only to collide heavily with onrushing Philadelphi
  
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• Feds hold groundbreaking ceremony for Moderna’s mRNA vaccine factory in Montreal area

  07-11-2022 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAVAL, Que. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today took part today in a groundbreaking ceremony for biotechnology company Moderna’s new mRNA vaccine factory in Laval, Que., a suburb of Montreal.
  The factory is expected to be completed in 2024 at the earliest and produce 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year.
  It will manufacture vaccines against COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.
  Trudeau was accompanied by several
  
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• Canadian Press NewsAlert: CUPE to end education worker protests in Ontario

  07-11-2022 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — A union representing 55,000 Ontario education workers who walked off the job Friday says protest sites “will be collapsed starting” Tuesday in response to Premier Doug Ford saying he will repeal legislation that imposed a contract on them.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• PHOTOS: High School cross country champions crowned in Greater Victoria - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 18:00 via news.google.com
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• Climate conference hears loss of Arctic summer sea ice now inevitable by 2050

  07-11-2022 17:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Scientists are telling the global climate conference in Egypt that the loss of summer Arctic sea ice is now inevitable.
  The report, delivered today at the COP 27 meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, says there’s no way that the complete disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic can be avoided.
  The State of the Cryosphere report says complete melting will take place in at least one year before 2050 even if global warming is held to 1.6 degrees Celsius.
  The report calls the melting a terminal dia
  
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• Putin-linked businessman admits to US election meddling

  07-11-2022 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Kremlin-connected entrepreneur Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted Monday that he had interfered in U.S. elections and would continue to do so — confirming for the first time the accusations that he has rejected for years.
  “We have interfered, are interfering and will continue to interfere. Carefully, precisely, surgically and in our own way,” Prigozhin said in remarks posted on social media.
  The statement, from the press service of his catering company that earned him the nickname &ldq
  
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• Veterans’ parade returns to national Remembrance Day after two-year hiatus

  07-11-2022 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Legion is welcoming back one of the most iconic aspects of Canada’s national Remembrance Day ceremony following a two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: the veterans’ parade.
  Involving veterans of all ages and backgrounds, the parade is one of the most tangible ways for those who have served in uniform to honour fallen comrades ⁠ — and for Canadians to express appreciation for their service.
  Those participating gather about an h
  
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• Quebec Liberal Leader Dominique Anglade resigns for ‘the good of the party’

  07-11-2022 16:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Dominique Anglade is resigning as leader of the Quebec Liberal Party, five weeks after the Liberals suffered a crushing defeat in the provincial election.
  Anglade told reporters today she is also resigning as member for the Montreal riding of St-Henri—Ste-Anne, effective Dec. 1.
  Her leadership had been under pressure since the party elected just 21 members in the Oct. 3 election — down from 31 in the 2018 vote.
  The party maintained official Opposition status but saw
  
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• Military investigating after Canadian soldier dies in Iraq

  07-11-2022 16:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces says it is investigating the death of a Winnipeg-based soldier who was serving in Iraq.
  Capt. Eric Cheung, 38, died Saturday under what the military is calling “non-operational related circumstances,” though the exact details are now under investigation. 
  In a statement, the military says Cheung was working as an operations officer with the 38 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters in Winnipeg before deploying to Iraq.
  Cheung had been a memb
  
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• Provincial and territorial health ministers meeting with federal counterpart in B.C. - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Presidential push: Biden, Obama, Trump stump before Tuesday’s midterm elections - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Jimmy Kimmel to host Oscars again: ‘Great honor or a trap’ - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Presidential push: Biden, Obama, Trump stump before Tuesday’s midterm elections

  07-11-2022 15:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Presidents past and present are making one final push as the 2022 U.S. midterm election campaigns finally approach the finish line.
  Joe Biden and Barack Obama reunited the 2008 Democratic ticket over the weekend in Pennsylvania, down the road from where Donald Trump was teasing a 2024 comeback bid. 
  Trump has another rally tonight in another vital battleground, Ohio, while Biden will retreat to safer political ground in Maryland.
  Polls suggest the momentum is with the Rep
  
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• Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl: ‘It was now or never’

  07-11-2022 15:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child, the performance would have to top anything she’d done before.
  “If I’m going to leave my baby, I’m going to leave my baby for something special,” the multi-Grammy winner said.
  That something special turned out to be the upcoming 2023 Super Bowl halftime show. “It was now or never for me,” she said.
  The singer h
  
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• Fraser Valley fights food waste — save your scraps from the landfill! - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 15:00 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack Community Arts Council starts the season off right with the return of the Christmas Craft Market! - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 15:00 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack Community Arts Council starts the season off right with the return of the Christmas Craft Market!  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Teri Westerby eyes ambitious agenda as Canada’s first transgender man to be elected school trustee

  07-11-2022 14:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Now that Teri Westerby has made history as the first transgender man in Canada to be elected as a school trustee, he has an ambitious agenda and tangible goals ahead of him before he takes the oath of office today, November 7.
  Westerby finished fifth out of 15 candidates with 7,584 votes to earn a seat on the Chilliwack School District Board of Education in the October municipal election.“Chilliwack stepped up on October 15 and decided that it was time to move forward!&r
  
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• Mission RCMP search for missing person

  07-11-2022 14:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — RCMP is Mission are reaching out to the public in an effort to locate 49-year-old Paul Reimer. Reimer was last seen in the afternoon of October 26 atMission Memorial Hospital . Police believe his cell phone has been turned off.
  Reimer identifies as transgendered and may go by the name of Jessica. Reimer is described as:
  Caucasian
  Medium build
  Green eyes
  Short brown and greying hair
  Stands approximately 5’9″ tall and weights approximately 180 poundsRCMP became aware Re
  
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• Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers buying IAA in deal worth US$7.3 billion, including debt

  07-11-2022 14:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc. says it has signed a deal to acquire U.S. company IAA Inc. in a transaction valued at about US$7.3 billion including the assumption of US$1.0 billion of net debt.
  IAA auctions vehicles on a digital platform.
  “Their highly complementary business in an adjacent vertical will allow us to unlock additional growth,” said Ritchie Bros. chief executive Ann Fandozzi, who will be CEO of the combined company.
  “Through our trusted brands, s
  
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• Survey shows Christmas bells will be ringing on Canada’s cash registers - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 14:05 via news.google.com
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• Library puzzle sale cancelled for 2023 in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 14:00 via news.google.com
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• Nick Carter responds to the death of brother Aaron Carter. - Chilliwack Progress

  07-11-2022 10:30 via news.google.com
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• Health ministers meeting, Emergencies Act inquiry continues : In The News for Nov. 7

  07-11-2022 10:22 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 Nov. 7 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Canada’s health ministers are set to meet in British Columbia this week, four months after premiers from across the country gathered in Victoria to show a united front of frustration over what they called a “crumbling” health-care system.
  All 13 provincial and terri
  
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• Windsor mayor, Mendicino texted about Emergencies Act before it was invoked: document

  07-11-2022 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The mayor of Windsor, Ont., will testify today at a public inquiry into the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act to clear ‘Freedom Convoy’ protesters blockading streets around Parliament Hill and several border crossings. 
  The scheduled testimony from Drew Dilkens comes as a piece of evidence shows he exchanged texts with Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, who sought the mayor’s support for “any additional authorities” to ke
  
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• Provincial and territorial health ministers meeting with federal counterpart in B.C.

  07-11-2022 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Canada’s health ministers are set to meet in British Columbia this week, four months after premiers from across the country gathered in Victoria to show a united front of frustration over what they called a “crumbling” health-care system.
  All 13 provincial and territorial health ministers are expected to meet with their federal counterpart, Jean-Yves Duclos, today and tomorrow in Vancouver.
  A media advisory from Health Canada says it’s the first time all
  
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• ‘We are resilient’: Hay River, N.W.T., still recovering months after historic flood

  07-11-2022 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HAY RIVER, N.W.T. — Kandis Jameson remembers hearing trees on the shore of the Hay River “snapping like toothpicks” as water levels quickly rose this spring. 
  “It was the eeriest feeling,” the mayor of Hay River, N.W.T., said. “That’s one thing that will always be in my memory.” 
  The town and nearby K’atl’odeeche First Nation Reserve experienced their worst flooding on record in mid-May. As floodwaters encroached into homes, s
  
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• Quebec’s highest court to begin hearing appeals on provincial secularism law

  07-11-2022 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s highest court is set to begin hearing appeals on the constitutionality of the province’s secularism law, known as Bill 21.
  Both the Quebec government and groups opposing the law are challenging an April 2021 court decision that largely upheld the controversial religious symbols law, while striking down provisions that related to English-language school boards and a ban on members of the provincial legislature wearing face coverings
  The law prohibits public s
  
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