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• UFV Cascades women’s basketball team run record to 4-0 - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 23:46 via news.google.com
  UFV Cascades women’s basketball team run record to 4-0  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• U.S Homeland Security concerned about ‘Freedom Convoy’ in Canada, inquiry hears

  14-11-2022 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A senior federal public servant says the United States Department of Homeland Security was concerned that major protest blockades in Canada could catch on south of the border.
  Dominic Rochon, a senior assistant deputy minister with the national and cybersecurity branch of the government, was among the first federal representatives to testify at the public inquiry investigating the Liberal government’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter.
  He says the public saf
  
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• ‘Rich with perspective’: Writing program mentors emerging Indigenous authors - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 23:30 via news.google.com
  ‘Rich with perspective’: Writing program mentors emerging Indigenous authors  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Lettuce prices spike amid shortage, some restaurants pull greens off menus - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 23:30 via news.google.com
  Lettuce prices spike amid shortage, some restaurants pull greens off menus  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Revitalization of Chilliwack waterways the dream behind 'Hope for Hope Slough' event Thursday - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 23:28 via news.google.com
  Revitalization of Chilliwack waterways the dream behind 'Hope for Hope Slough' event Thursday  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Whitecaps part with Canadian striker Cavallini, veteran defender Nerwinski

  14-11-2022 23:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Canadian international striker Lucas Cavallini and longtime defender Jake Nerwinski are among the players who will not be returning to the Vancouver Whitecaps for the 2023 Major League Soccer season.
  The Whitecaps said Monday it will not pick up 2023 player options and will part ways with Cavallini and Nerwinski, along with goalkeeper Cody Cropper, midfielder Leonard Owusu and defender Marcus Godinho.
  Cavallini, Godinho and Owusu are eligible for the MLS re-entry draft, while C
  
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• Work begins to replace battered Glover Road overpass - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 23:00 via news.google.com
  Work begins to replace battered Glover Road overpass  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Brooke Rivers hopes to elevate golf game at Wake Forest

  14-11-2022 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada’s Brooke Rivers is ready to take the next step in her golf career by following in Arnold Palmer’s footsteps.
  Rivers has declared her intention to play for Wake Forest University in the new school year, Palmer’s alma mater. The decision isn’t just based on Palmer’s legacy, but the contemporary reality that the Demon Deacons are the No. 2 ranked women’s golf program in the NCAA.
  “I’m very excited to be going to such a top golf school, I will b
  
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• Israel confirms US probe into Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing

  14-11-2022 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel confirmed on Monday that the United States government has started an investigation into the fatal shooting of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, condemning the probe as a “grave mistake” and vowing not to cooperate.
  Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz made the statement on Twitter, saying Israel has made it clear to the U.S. “that we won’t cooperate with any external investigation.”
  Palestinian officials, Abu Akleh’s family
  
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• Prosecutors: No criminal charges expected from Giuliani raid

  14-11-2022 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors in New York do not plan to bring criminal charges against Rudy Giuliani in connection with a probe into his interactions with Ukrainian figures, they revealed in a letter to a judge Monday.
  They said they made the decision after a review of evidence resulting from raids on his residence and law office in April 2021. Federal prosecutors ware investigating whether Giuliani’s dealings with figures in Ukraine in the run-up to the 2020 election required him to
  
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• Fallout from crypto exchange FTX’s collapse shows importance of regulation: experts - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 22:10 via news.google.com
  Fallout from crypto exchange FTX’s collapse shows importance of regulation: experts  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack's G.W. Graham Grizzlies top St. Thomas More in high-scoring playoff - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 22:00 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack's G.W. Graham Grizzlies top St. Thomas More in high-scoring playoff  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• RCMP arrest Hydro-Québec employee allegedly sending secrets to China

  14-11-2022 21:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A Montreal-area Hydro-Québec employee is facing four espionage-related charges after allegedly sending trade secrets to China “to the detriment of Canada’s economic interests,” the RCMP said Monday.
  Yuesheng Wang, 35, will appear in court in Longueuil, Que., Tuesday to face charges of obtaining trade secrets, using a computer without authorization, and with fraud and breach of trust by a public officer. The force said its national security enforcement te
  
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• Donation to Chilliwack Hospital Foundation will see laparoscopic tool set purchased - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 21:38 via news.google.com
  Donation to Chilliwack Hospital Foundation will see laparoscopic tool set purchased  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Two men who escaped Vancouver Island prison plead not guilty to murder

  14-11-2022 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Two men accused of killing a man the day after escaping a minimum-security federal prison on Vancouver Island have each pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder as their trial gets underway in British Columbia Supreme Court.
  Zachary Armitage and James Lee Busch are charged with killing 60-year-old Martin Payne in July 2019, a day after the pair walked away from William Head Institution, located about eight kilometres from the victim’s home in Metchosin.
  Justice David Cro
  
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• New economic diversification fund launched for rural, forest-dependent B.C. communities - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 21:08 via news.google.com
  New economic diversification fund launched for rural, forest-dependent B.C. communities  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sources: Ticats acquire rights to veteran quarterback Mitchell from Stampeders

  14-11-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Hamilton Tiger-Cats will have first crack at giving quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell a new CFL home.
  According to two league sources, the Ticats have acquired the rights to Mitchell from the Calgary Stampeders. The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because neither club has announced the deal.
  It’s unclear what the Stampeders got in return for Mitchell’s rights.
  Mitchell, 32, joined the Stampeders in 2012 and had played his entire CFL tenure in Calgary, leading the franchise
  
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• Canada captain Sophie de Goede up for World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year

  14-11-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canada captain Sophie de Goede is a nominee for World Rugby’s Women’s 15s Player of the Year award.
  The 23-year-old from Victoria is up against New Zealand’s Ruahei Demant and Portia Woodman, England’s Alex Matthews and France’s Laure Sansus.
  De Goede led Canada to fourth place at the recent Rugby World Cup in New Zealand where the Canadian women pushed top-ranked England to the limit before falling 26-19 in the semifinals. The Canadians then lost 36-0 to France in
  
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• City of Chilliwack looking to fill advisory committees - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
  City of Chilliwack looking to fill advisory committees  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Federal government formally bans top echelons of Iranian regime from entering Canada

  14-11-2022 20:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada’s federal government has formally banned the top echelons of the Iranian regime from entering the country. 
  Federal ministers have confirmed that a new designation is now in place under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act that allows border agents to deny access to Canadian territory. 
  The government had announced an intention to pursue the measure about a month ago, along with funding to better implement economic sanctions it has levied against Iran
  
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• Ontario’s top doctor ‘strongly’ recommends masks, warns mandate on table

  14-11-2022 20:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Ontario’s chief medical officer of health issued a strong recommendation Monday for residents to mask in all indoor public settings in order to protect children from a “triple threat” of respiratory viruses, while warning that a possible mandate remains on the table.
  Dr. Kieran Moore’s advice came as pediatrics hospitals have been overwhelmed in recent weeks by a massive influx of very sick patients. COVID-19 is still circulating, but the larger threats to
  
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• Appeals court ruling keeps Biden student debt plan on hold

  14-11-2022 20:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive student loan debt for millions of borrowers lost another battle in court on Monday when a federal appeals court panel agreed to a preliminary injunction halting the program while an appeal plays out.
  The ruling by the three-judge panel from the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis came days after a federal judge in Texas blocked the program, saying it usurped Congress’ power to make laws. The Texas case was appeal
  
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• Avs winger Rantanen, Bruins goalie Ullmark, Rangers rearguard Fox named NHL 3 stars

  14-11-2022 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Colorado Avalanche right-wing Mikko Rantanen, Boston Bruins goaltender Linus Ullmark and New York Rangers defenceman Adam Fox have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  Rantanen had three goals and four assists in two games for the Avalanche, who increased their winning streak to four games.
  He had two goals, including the game winner, and an assist in a 5-3 win over Nashville on Thursday. He added a goal and three assists in a 4-1 victory over Carolina on Saturday
  
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• Health Canada importing more kids’ pain and fever meds to restock store shelves

  14-11-2022 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Health Canada says it’s importing a foreign supply of children’s pain and fever medications that will be available on retail shelves in the coming weeks.
  The agency had previously announced it was importing children’s acetaminophen and ibuprofen to be distributed to hospitals.
  Now it says it has also secured supply of acetaminophen to be distributed to pharmacies and drugstores.
  The government did not immediately say how much supply is coming or where it’s
  
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• Conditional discharge for man involved in violent assault at Chilliwack grocery store - Hope Standard

  14-11-2022 19:55 via news.google.com
  Conditional discharge for man involved in violent assault at Chilliwack grocery store  Hope Standard
  
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• Ex-PQ member Harold LeBel admits to kissing complainant but denies sex assault charge

  14-11-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RIMOUSKI, Que. — Former Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel has taken the stand in his sexual assault trial and is denying the allegations against him.
  LeBel testified today in Rimouski, Que., that he never assaulted the complainant, whose identity is under a publication ban.
  The woman told the court last week that in his condo in October 2017, LeBel became “aggressive” when she refused his advances, unhooking her bra and insisting on entering a bathroom where
  
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• Russia bans 100 Canadians including Atwood, Jim Carrey - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
  Russia bans 100 Canadians including Atwood, Jim Carrey  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Environment minister says missions cap on oil and gas expected by end of 2023

  14-11-2022 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada’s promised emissions cap on the oil and gas sector won’t be finalized for another year.
  Canadian environment leaders at the COP27 climate talks in Egypt want Guilbeault to unveil the specific limit he intends to impose on emissions from the oil and gas sector and the timeline for how quickly he will require those emissions to come down.
  But Guilbeault says those same climate leaders are very aware that developing regul
  
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• B.C. farmers hail flood recovery near 1-year anniversary but concerns remain

  14-11-2022 19:21 via globalnews.ca
  When a dike was breached and floodwaters started to flow across Sumas Prairie, B.C., a year ago, poultry farmer Corry Spitters said all he could do was let nature take its course.
  
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• Former Hockey Canada executive Nicholson to testify before parliamentary committee

  14-11-2022 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former Hockey Canada president and CEO Bob Nicholson is scheduled to speak before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage on Tuesday.
  Nicholson has been an executive with the Edmonton Oilers since 2014 and has been the NHL team’s chairman since 2019.
  He’s been called before the parliamentary committee as part of its ongoing examination of Hockey Canada.
  The national sport organization has been mired in controversy for months over its mishandling of a sexual assault
  
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• New Democrats call for independent review of government’s COVID-19 response - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 19:15 via news.google.com
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• Nickelback to be inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 19:12 via news.google.com
  Nickelback to be inducted into Canadian Music Hall of Fame  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• RCMP arrest Hydro-Québec employee allegedly sending secrets to China - Chilliwack Progress

  14-11-2022 19:10 via news.google.com
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• Canadian rugby player suffers traumatic brain injury in Bali car crash

  14-11-2022 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DENPASAR, Indonesia — Canadian rugby player Nick Allen was hospitalized in Indonesia with a traumatic brain injury after a car crash last week in Bali, Rugby Canada said.
  Allen, 26, who played for the national sevens team over the last two seasons and represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games last summer, was hurt on Nov. 7, the federation said on Instagram.
  Emergency surgery was required after Allen suffered severe injuries to his head, shoulder and forearm, Rugby Canada said. The slow
  
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• Mental break paid big dividends for Canadian pro fisher Cooper Gallant

  14-11-2022 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  He spent hundreds of hours driving his truck and boat trying to qualify for the Elite Series but it was 10 minutes of reflection that ultimately allowed Canadian Cooper Gallant to break into bass fishing’s top circuit.
  Gallant, of Bowmanville, Ont., punched his ticket with a 14th-place effort in last month’s Southern Open event on South Carolina’s Lake Hartwell. Gallant, who stood tied for 39th after the first day of competition, finished third in the overall Southern standings
  
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• Surrey council considers report that could end transition to municipal police service

  14-11-2022 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — Councillors in Surrey are set to consider a staff report that contains an option to halt all spending and hiring for that city’s fledgling Surrey Police Service.
  The report provides an update on the state of the transition from the RCMP to the municipal police force, also known as the SPS, that was formally established in 2020 under former Surrey mayor Doug McCallum.
  Newly elected Mayor Brenda Locke campaigned to halt the switch and keep the Mounties in Surrey, and the
  
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• Pakistan reverses course, bans ‘Joyland’ from cinemas

  14-11-2022 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has reversed a previous decision to show its Oscar entry, “Joyland,” and has banned it from movie theaters, a government official said Monday.
  The movie, which features a love story between a married man and a transgender woman, is Pakistan’s entry for next year’s Academy Awards and was a prizewinner at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
  In a statement issued late Sunday night, “Joyland” director Saim Sadiq condemned the go
  
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• Raptors guard Trent out against Detroit with sore hip as Raptors’ injury woes grow

  14-11-2022 18:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DETROIT — Raptors guard Gary Trent Jr. has been ruled out for Toronto’s game at Detroit with a sore right hip.
  The Raptors confirmed their latest injury hours before the Raptors and Pistons faced off at Little Caesars Arena.
  The depleted Raptors will also be without star forward Pascal Siakam (right adductor strain) and guard Fred VanVleet (non-COVID illness).
  Backup forward Precious Achiuwa is out with a right ankle sprain, while reserve centre Khem Birch is questionable with a sore
  
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• Suspect in deadly U.Va. shooting taken into custody

  14-11-2022 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The suspect in a shooting at the University of Virginia that killed three members of the football team was taken into custody Monday, more than 13 hours after he allegedly gunned down fellow students in a bus as they returned from a school field trip, authorities said.
  University President Jim Ryan and law enforcement officials were in the middle of a late morning news conference when they received word that Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. had been apprehended.
  Tw
  
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• Maple Leafs say Muzzin out indefinitely with spine injury, Brodie on IR

  14-11-2022 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without veteran defenceman Jake Muzzin for at least the next three months.
  The team said Monday that Muzzin is out indefinitely with a cervical spine injury and will be re-evaluated in late February.
  The 33-year-old Muzzin was injured in Toronto’s 4-2 home loss to Arizona on Oct. 17 after colliding with Coyotes winger Clayton Keller.
  The Maple Leafs had the veteran defenceman on injured reserve two days later and said at the time he would mis
  
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• 3 dead in U.Va. shooting were members of football team

  14-11-2022 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The three students killed in a shooting at the University of Virginia were all members of the school’s football team, the school’s president said.
  President Jim Ryan told a Monday morning news conference the shooting happened Sunday night on a school bus of students returning from an off-campus trip.
  The suspect has identified as Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., who is also student. A search for him was underway Monday.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE.
  
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• Suspected people smugglers open fire at police in Hungary

  14-11-2022 16:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Suspected people smugglers fired shots at Hungarian police from a van carrying migrants on Monday during and after a car chase that ended without injuries in the country’s capital.Two men were taken into custody in Budapest by Hungary’s counterterrorism agents following the chase that began around 20 kilometers (12 miles) southeast of the city, police said in a statement.The suspected people smugglers fired at police from a van with Hungarian license pl
  
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• New Democrats call for independent review of government’s COVID-19 response

  14-11-2022 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — It’s time for Canadians to find out how well the federal government handled COVID-19 with a public inquiry into Canada’s pandemic response, says the NDP. 
  With the final federal public-health restrictions having been lifted in September, NDP health critic Don Davies said it’s about time for the government to look back at whether appropriate actions were taken to manage the crisis. 
  “It’s time to have a proper, comprehensive, full examination
  
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• Federal witnesses begin testimony at Emergencies Act inquiry for the first time

  14-11-2022 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Senior federal civil servants are testifying for the first time at the commission investigating the Liberal government’s history-making decision to invoke the Emergencies Act last winter. 
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, which replaced the War Measures Act in 1988, on Feb. 14, arguing its temporary and extraordinary powers were needed to end blockades in Ottawa and at border crossings.
  The public inquiry is hearing today from the former deputy
  
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• It was Tony Waiters’ way for the Canadian men at the 1986 World Cup

  14-11-2022 16:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The Canadian team that made it to the 1986 World Cup was well-drilled under coach Tony Waiters, who knew what he wanted his players to do and what he didn’t.
  And he made sure they knew it.
  Defender Bob Lenarduzzi first learned the Waiters way with the Vancouver Whitecaps, which continued when the coach took Canada to Mexico for the World Cup
  “We were methodical,” Lenarduzzi said. “And I’m giving kudos to Tony Waiters here. We played the way we needed to play when we
  
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• Biden: Still not enough votes to codify abortion rights

  14-11-2022 15:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AP) — President Joe Biden said Monday that Democrats still lack the votes needed to codify abortion rights into law despite his party’s stronger-than-expected performance in the midterm elections.
  He said Republicans were likely to take control of the House, putting them in position to block any such legislation.
  Although Democrats will maintain, or even expand, their narrow majority in the Senate, some members of his party are unwilling to sidestep filibuster ru
  
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• CIA director Burns to meet Russian counterpart in Turkey

  14-11-2022 15:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — CIA Director Bill Burns will meet in Ankara, Turkey, on Monday with his Russian intelligence counterpart to underscore the consequences if Russia were to deploy a nuclear weapon in Ukraine, according to a White House National Security Council official.
  The official, who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Burns and Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia’s SVR spy agency, would not discuss settlement of the war in Ukrain
  
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• Realtors kick off annual Blanket Drive today

  14-11-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The annual Realtors Care Blanket Drive is underway today. The charity drive supports needy families in the Lower Mainland.
  The 28-year-old campaign is a partnership among the Lower Mainland’s three real estate boards, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver (REBGV), the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB), and the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB).
  This year’s drive will see the combination of the traditional collection of warm clothes and b
  
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• Lost and Found: Ripley’s Resurfaces Lost Apollo 11 Moonwalk Reels

  14-11-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!In 1890, William Dickson unveiled the Kinetograph, making the first moving pictures possible. Within two years, he debuted the Kinetoscope, which projected these primitive films onto the big screen. And in 1894, Dickson’s partner Thomas Edison opened Earth’s first Kinetograph Parlors for public screenings. Dickson, Edison, and their early audiences could never have anticipated how integral moving picture technology would become in the 20th centu
  
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• Chilliwack Independent Film Festival set to take centre stage Friday

  14-11-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Six years in the making and the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival (CIFF) is making waves in the industry. With an expanded line-up of events and films, the 2022 festival is poised to be its largest version yet.CIFF opens Friday and runs through Sunday with more films, more filmmakers and more workshops for young filmmakers to learn and network.Co-founder and festival director Taras Groves explains “the purpose of the festival is to be a platform for different voices f
  
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