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• Little Mountain stairs now under construction will be 'gateway' to new Chilliwack park space - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 23:50 via news.google.com
  Little Mountain stairs now under construction will be 'gateway' to new Chilliwack park space  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Buy BC program launched at Save-On-Foods across the province

  08-11-2022 23:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COQUITLAM — The provincial government has recognized Save-On-Foods effort to promote BC Tree Fruits with Buy BC branding in its stores across British Columbia. The new partnership was announced in a newly opened Save-On-Foods store in Coquitlam.
  The government says consumers will be able to easily identify local B.C. products with the Buy BC branding, when shopping at a Save-On-Foods store. Under the program, consumers will see Buy BC banners or stickers on display shelves, helping them to
  
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• Chilliwack home prices projected to fall in latest BCREA forecast - Hope Standard

  08-11-2022 23:30 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack home prices projected to fall in latest BCREA forecast  Hope Standard
  
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• World Series, football dominate week’s TV ratings

  08-11-2022 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the 20 most-watched programs in prime-time television for the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, according to the Nielsen company.
  1. NFL Football: Tennessee at Kansas City, NBC, 17.69 million.
  2. “NFL Pregame” (Sunday), NBC, 13.81 million.
  3. World Series Game 5: Houston at Philadelphia, Fox, 12.77 million.
  4. World Series Game 6: Philadelphia at Houston, Fox, 12.55 million.
  5. World Series Game 4: Houston at Philadelphia, Fox, 11.81 million.
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• First Nations and Inuit Policing Program expanding into Nunavut

  08-11-2022 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — A national policing program aimed at serving Indigenous communities is expanding to Nunavut. 
  Through the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program, new RCMP officers are to be hired across the territory over the next three years. 
  The territorial and federal governments say the agreement means residents will have a greater say in how policing is conducted in their communities. 
  Officers will be given a unique mandate developed in consultation with communit
  
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• Canadian moguls king Mikael Kingsbury gears up to add to his records

  08-11-2022 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The smell of competition in the air still gets Mikael Kingsbury’s adrenalin pumping, even after years of winning everything there is to win in his sport.
  The world’s most accomplished moguls skier is about to depart for a training block in Finland, where the World Cup season opens Dec. 4-5 in Ruka.
  “I still can feel the vibration,” Kingsbury told The Canadian Press on Tuesday. “It’s kind of like, as we say, a drug to me. I love the feeling of feeling a bit ner
  
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• Quebec religious symbols ban violates equality right that can’t be overridden: lawyer

  08-11-2022 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Lawyers for groups opposing Quebec’s religious symbols ban told the province’s Appeal Court today that the law violates a constitutional gender equality provision that can’t be overridden by the notwithstanding clause.
  The law known as Bill 21, which bans the wearing of religious symbols by teachers, police officers and other government employees deemed to be in positions of authority, proactively invokes the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to shiel
  
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• Sex assault trial of ex-PQ member Harold LeBel begins

  08-11-2022 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — The sex assault trial involving former Quebec politician Harold LeBel is underway at the courthouse in Rimouski, Que.
  LeBel, a former Parti Québécois member of the legislature, has pleaded not guilty to one count of sexual assault.
  The identity of the alleged victim is protected by a publication ban.
  LeBel was arrested Dec. 15, 2020, for an alleged incident in October 2017, which led to his removal from the PQ caucus.
  On Monday, 14 jurors were chosen to hear the case
  
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• This year’s World Series is 2nd-least watched on TV

  08-11-2022 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Houston Astros’ six-game victory over the Philadelphia Phillies finished as the second least-watched World Series on television.
  The six games averaged 11,784,000 on Fox, down 1.3% from the 11,940,000 for the Atlanta Braves’ six-game win over the Astros last year and ahead of only the 9,946,000 for the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in 2020.
  Houston’s 3-1 win in Game 6 on Saturday night was seen by 12,549,000 viewe
  
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• MLS Cup final averages combined 2.155 million viewers

  08-11-2022 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles FC’s victory over the Philadelphia Union on penalty kicks in the MLS Cup final was the second highest in the league’s 27-year history for combined U.S. viewers.
  Saturday’s game averaged a combined 2.155 million viewers on Fox and Univision, a 38% increase from the 2021 final between NYCFC and the Portland Timbers, which also went to penalty kicks.
  It was the second-most watched club soccer match of the season by English-language viewers in t
  
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• Former Pacific FC captain Jamar Dixon moves into CPL team’s front office

  08-11-2022 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Former captain Jamar Dixon has moved into the Pacific FC front office as the Canadian Premier League club’s manager of football and player development.
  Dixon, 33, announced Sept. 30 that this would be his last season as a player. The veteran midfielder and Pacific, which won the CPL title in 2021, lost 3-1 on aggregate to Atletico Ottawa in the 2022 playoff semifinals.
  The club announced his new role Tuesday.
  “Pacific FC has been such a big part of my life and I am excited to continu
  
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• Mountie pleads guilty to assault on student in Kelowna, B.C., during wellness check

  08-11-2022 21:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KELOWNA, B.C. — An RCMP officer from Kelowna, B.C., has pleaded guilty to assaulting a nursing student during a wellness check in January 2020. 
  Const. Lacy Browning pleaded guilty to one count of assault on what was supposed to be the first day of her trial on Monday. 
  Browning was accused of punching and dragging University of British Columbia student Mona Wang after the woman’s boyfriend called police asking them to check on her. 
  Surveillance video taken from insid
  
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• New Alberta energy minister to keep coal moratorium, consider well clean-up breaks

  08-11-2022 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s new energy minister says that for now, he will maintain an order protecting the Rocky Mountains from coal development.
  But Peter Guthrie says his department is already working on a program to give oil companies royalty breaks to clean up old wells. 
  Speaking at an Edmonton press conference on funding for a hydrogen project, Guthrie confirmed he has no plans to withdraw the order — although he wouldn’t say how long it will remain.
  The order from t
  
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• Nunavut politicians admonish ministers for not providing clear, prompt answers

  08-11-2022 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut Premier P.J. Akeeagok says it’s clear better communication and partnership is needed after members of the legislature chastised territorial ministers for failing to provide adequate and timely answers to their questions.
  Solomon Malliki, chairperson of regular members’ caucus, presented a motion Monday admonishing the executive council. He said members are concerned they have not been receiving clear, candid and comprehensive answers to their question
  
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• Mission sewer project reaches substantial completion

  08-11-2022 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — The City of Mission has reached substantial completion of its Forcemain upgrade project, adding the capacity of a new 900mm diameter steel sewer pipe to the city’s infrastructure.
  In a news release, the City states the project was substantially completed in mid-May on budget and on schedule. Since then the shoreline has been rebuilt and protected with rocks or rip-rap.“Now that it’s completed, the Forcemain project will be out of sight and out of mind for most i
  
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• Alberta Opposition demands Smith revoke call for advice from COVID ‘bioweapon’ doc

  08-11-2022 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition says Premier Danielle Smith must cancel the invitation for advice from Dr. Paul Alexander, a high-profile critic of mainstream COVID-19 science who has referred to the pandemic vaccine in interviews and online posts as a “bioweapon.”
  NDP health critic David Shepherd said Smith also needs to also reveal the names of the medical team she says is now providing her public health advice.
  “Paul Alexander is a discredited conspiracy theorist
  
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• Alberta Court of Appeal dismisses unvaccinated woman’s case for organ donation

  08-11-2022 21:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s Court of Appeal has dismissed the case of a woman who was unable to get an organ transplant because she refused to take a COVID-19 vaccine. 
  Annette Lewis was diagnosed with a terminal disease in 2018 and was told she would not survive unless she received an organ transplant.
  She was placed on a transplant waitlist in 2020, but was told a year later she would need to get the vaccine to receive an organ. 
  Lewis argued the vaccine requirement violates her
  
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• Trudeau announces half a billion dollars more for rural high-speed internet access

  08-11-2022 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OROMOCTO, N.B. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is announcing an extra $475 million to the federal government’s fund for delivering high-speed internet to rural homes across the country.
  Trudeau made the announcement today in Oromocto, N.B., where he said the money will help connect another 60,000 homes in Canada to high-speed internet.
  The money is in addition to the $2.75 billion already in the government’s Universal Broadband Fund, which is dedicated to connecting 98 per cent
  
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• Quebec coroner says delays in getting to hospital ‘very likely’ led to baby’s death

  08-11-2022 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A seven-month-old baby from a northern First Nations community who died of meningitis in April might have survived if it hadn’t taken so long to get her to hospital, a Quebec coroner has concluded.
  Niteïyah Chilton died of bacterial meningitis after it took about five and a half hours to bring her to a regional hospital by ambulance, and more than eight and a half hours to get her to a specialized pediatric centre in Montreal.
  Coroner Géhane Kamel wrote in her
  
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• Safety knowledge, maintenance partly to blame for deadly sinking in B.C.: report

  08-11-2022 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RICHMOND, B.C. — An investigation by the Transportation Safety Board into the sinking of a fishing boat in which two of the three crew members died identifies several “systemic safety issues.”
  The Arctic Fox II reported taking on water off the west coast of Vancouver Island in August 2020, and with its main engine shut down, the crew prepared to abandon ship. 
  The crew partially put on their immersion suits, but the life raft they were trying to deploy went into the ocean
  
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• B.C. regional district seeks emergency extension as winter water supply ‘uncertain’

  08-11-2022 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SECHELT, B.C. — British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast Regional District says continued “uncertainty” about its water supply means it will seek an extension of the state of local emergency declared last month.
  A statement from the regional district says it is working to secure the water supply for users of its main Chapman reservoir, but uncertainty of that supply in the coming months prevents removal of stringent water use restrictions.
  Environment Canada data shows the regio
  
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• Trump ally faces election defender in Arizona governor race

  08-11-2022 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PHOENIX (AP) — The appeal of Donald Trump’s movement will be put to the test Tuesday in the race for governor of Arizona, a crucial battleground state where the former president’s allies have taken control of the Republican Party.
  Republican Kari Lake, a former television news anchor, says she would not have certified the state’s 2020 election results. Her television-ready demeanor, confrontations with journalists and combative message for Democrats made the first-time ca
  
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• Parliamentary budget officer says climate change already costing economy billions - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
  Parliamentary budget officer says climate change already costing economy billions  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Norway: Princess gives up royal duties amid fiancé questions - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
  Norway: Princess gives up royal duties amid fiancé questions  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. regional district seeks emergency extension as winter water supply ‘uncertain’ - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
  B.C. regional district seeks emergency extension as winter water supply ‘uncertain’  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Nanaimo to host 55-Plus B.C. Games in 2025 - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 19:35 via news.google.com
  Nanaimo to host 55-Plus B.C. Games in 2025  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. firefighters now covered for 2 more types of cancer - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
  B.C. firefighters now covered for 2 more types of cancer  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Taxing corporate share buybacks unlikely to boost investment in operations: experts

  08-11-2022 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Experts say the federal government’s proposed corporate share buyback tax is unlikely to encourage companies to spend more on growing their operations. 
  In last week’s mid-year budget update, the Liberals committed to imposing a two per cent tax on stock buybacks that would go into effect in 2024. 
  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the measure is meant to encourage companies to invest their profits in their operations and workers. 
  Rick Robertson,
  
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• B.C. prisoners pitching in to keep memory of wartime sacrifices alive - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 19:10 via news.google.com
  B.C. prisoners pitching in to keep memory of wartime sacrifices alive  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Reconciliation a ‘call to action to all of us,’ Jody Wilson-Raybould says in new book

  08-11-2022 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Jody Wilson-Raybould says she wants people to see reconciliation as “a call to action to all of us.” 
  The former Independent member of Parliament and justice minister explores the topic in a new book out today called “True Reconciliation: How to Be a Force for Change.”
  It’s different from her last book, which chronicled her rise in the Liberal Party of Canada to her eventual departure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government over the
  
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• Chilliwack woman finds 2 gold rings in thrift store jacket - Hope Standard

  08-11-2022 18:55 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack woman finds 2 gold rings in thrift store jacket  Hope Standard
  
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• Canada Ravens women look to end Rugby League World Cup campaign on a winning note

  08-11-2022 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Canada Ravens look to end their Rugby League World Cup campaign on a winning note Wednesday against tournament debutant Brazil in Leeds, England.
  Having lost to Papua New Guinea (34-12) and England (54-4), the Canadian women cannot advance to the semifinals. Pride and third place in Group A are on the line Wednesday at Headlingley Stadium.
  Brazil is also winless, having lost 72-4 to England and 70-0 to Papua New Guinea.
  For Canada captain Gabrielle Hindley, the tournament has been positive.
  
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• Parliamentary budget officer says climate change already costing economy billions

  08-11-2022 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The parliamentary budget officer says climate change is already hurting the Canadian economy.
  A new analysis released today shows that in 2021, Canada’s GDP was 0.8 per cent lower than what it could have been without climate change, which amounts to $20 to $25 billion less in economic activity.
  That is linked to issues such as lower agricultural outputs, higher energy use, property damage and productivity limitations from extreme heat or forced industrial closures due to wea
  
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• New Zealand prop Isaac Salmon returns for second season with the Toronto Arrows

  08-11-2022 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Prop Isaac Salmon has re-signed with the Toronto Arrows for the 2023 Major League Rugby season.
  The 26-year-old from New Zealand was named the Arrows forward of the year in his debut 2022 season with the team. The five-foot-eleven, 255-pounder played in 16 matches, including 12 starts, collecting 518 carry metres on 79 carries with one try.
  “Isaac is a no-nonsense pro at prop who leads by example and gives us a direct approach that we need lots of,” Arrows COO and GM
  
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• Ecuador keeps World Cup place after ruling by sports court

  08-11-2022 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Ecuador kept its place at the World Cup but will be deducted three points in qualifying for the 2026 tournament because of a false document being used to get a passport for a Colombia-born player, sport’s highest court ruled Tuesday.The Court of Arbitration for Sport’s ruling comes 12 days before Ecuador plays host Qatar in the opening game at the World Cup and ended the hopes of Chile and Peru, who had each appealed to replace their South American
  
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• VIDEO: Crash on Highway One in Langley snarls morning traffic - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 18:15 via news.google.com
  VIDEO: Crash on Highway One in Langley snarls morning traffic  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• IIO investigating September Abbotsford police arrest

  08-11-2022 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) is examining a September event in Abbotsford that resulted in serious injuries to one man.
  According to information provided by the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner, police were called to an alleged theft and disturbance at a business on George Ferguson Way on September 8. Upon the arrival of the police, there was an altercation before the man was taken into custody. A short time later, the man went into medical dis
  
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• Indigenous languages, consultation among issues raised before Pope Francis’s visit - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 18:00 via news.google.com
  Indigenous languages, consultation among issues raised before Pope Francis’s visit  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• CRIME STOPPERS: Most Wanted – Week of November 6, 2022

  08-11-2022 17:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Here are three people wanted by police in our region this week. This list isprovided by Crime Stoppers.Name: Shawn Rivers
  Image: RCMP Supplied
  Age: 43
  Height: 5’11” ft
  Weight: 157lbs
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Green
  Wanted: Assault causing Bodily Harm
  Warrant in effect: November 1, 2022
  Parole Jurisdiction: Chilliwack, B.C
  Name: Christopher EllisImage: RCMP supplied
  Age: 45
  Height: 6’1” ft
  Weight: 201lbs
  Hair: Brown Eyes: Brown
  Wanted: Kidnapping x3, Robbery, Po
  
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• Nicole strengthens to tropical storm en route to Bahamas

  08-11-2022 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MIAMI (AP) — Nicole strengthened to a tropical storm Tuesday as it churned toward the northwestern Bahamas and Florida’s Atlantic coastline, forecasters said.
  A range of warnings and watches remain in place. Many areas are still reeling from damage caused by Hurricane Ian, which hit Florida’s southwestern Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm in late September, before dumping heavy amounts of rain across much of central part of the state. Forecasters said heavy rain could fall on ar
  
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• Colorado votes on decriminalizing ‘magic mushrooms’ - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
  Colorado votes on decriminalizing ‘magic mushrooms’  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. actor Ryan Reynolds confirms interest in buying Ottawa Senators - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
  B.C. actor Ryan Reynolds confirms interest in buying Ottawa Senators  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds confirms interest in buying Ottawa Senators

  08-11-2022 15:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Ryan Reynolds has confirmed the rumours — he is interested in buying the Ottawa Senators.
  The Canadian movie star spoke about possibly taking over the NHL club on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
  Reynolds is already co-owner of the Welsh soccer club Wrexham with fellow actor Rob McElhenney.
  Fallon asked Reynolds about purchasing the Senators from the estate of former owner Eugene Melnyk and the Canadian actor said that he is trying to buy the NHL team.
  Forbes magazine currently values t
  
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• Missing Woman Found Inside 23-Foot-Long Sumatran Python

  08-11-2022 15:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!The tropical rainforests of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia represent a veritable “Garden of Eden.” Millions of verdant acres of lush jungle remain untouched, providing habitats for thousands of plant and animal species. As with Eden, these pristine natural landscapes hide a dangerous serpent — the reticulated python.
  Unlike the story of Adam and Eve, however, reticulated pythons don’t talk, and they’re not especially intere
  
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• Abbotsford mayor lays out a vision for the future during Inaugural Meeting

  08-11-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD – Abbotsford Mayor Ross Siemens and the eight newly elected councillors took their oath of office in front of a full house at the Matsqui Centennial Auditorium Monday night (Nov. 7).
  Mayor Siemens gave the Inaugural address laying out what he saw as the City of Abbotsford’s strengths and challenges. Diversity being a strength was a key point of emphasis for the mayor as well as the need for the diverse community to come together. Plans to attract more economic development
  
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• PODCAST: Finishing details for real-time heritage home reno - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 14:40 via news.google.com
  PODCAST: Finishing details for real-time heritage home reno  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• RCAF squad praised for Agassiz-area rescues during last year’s floods - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 14:00 via news.google.com
  RCAF squad praised for Agassiz-area rescues during last year’s floods  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ex-Miss America adds intrigue to North Dakota House race

  08-11-2022 13:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Republican Rep. Kelly Armstrong hopes to claim a third term for North Dakota’s sole U.S. House seat on Tuesday in a race that was upended by the late entry of former Miss America Cara Mund.
  Armstrong ran unopposed in the June Republican primary and was poised for an easy win in the highly conservative state against a little-known Democrat, Mark Haugen, who opposes abortion rights. Then, Mund entered the race in August as an independent, citing her support for ab
  
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• World Cup ambassador: Homosexuality is ‘damage in the mind’

  08-11-2022 11:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BERLIN (AP) — An ambassador for the World Cup in Qatar has described homosexuality as a “damage in the mind” in an interview with German public broadcaster ZDF only two weeks before the opening of the soccer tournament in the Gulf state.
  Former Qatari national team player Khalid Salman told a German reporter in an interview that being gay is “haram,” or forbidden in Arabic, and that he has a problem with children seeing gay people.
  Excerpts of the television intervi
  
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• Rebel Wilson welcomes first child by surrogate - Chilliwack Progress

  08-11-2022 10:30 via news.google.com
  Rebel Wilson welcomes first child by surrogate  Chilliwack Progress
  
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