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• Downtown Chilliwack to undergo lighting improvements; BIA says better lighting could help curb vandalism

  15-11-2022 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The job of slowly but surely revitalizing downtown Chilliwack is a long, arduous one, but it’s one that BIA Executive Director Trevor McDonald and his board of directors are always cognizant of.
  Earlier this month, McDonald revealed in his monthly newsletter to downtown merchants that there are plans afoot to vastly improve street lighting within the jurisdiction of the Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association.
  “Mayor Ken Popove, President John Schulsta
  
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• Alleged Chinese spy at Hydro-Québec formally charged, considered flight risk

  15-11-2022 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONGUEUIL, Que. — A former employee of Quebec’s hydro utility made a first appearance in court Tuesday on charges that he fraudulently obtained a trade secret for the benefit of China, and he was ordered to remain detained ahead of a bail hearing.
  Yuesheng Wang, 35, appeared in Quebec court in the Montreal suburb of Longueuil, Que., by videoconference and was assisted by a translator. Wang was detained at the RCMP’s headquarters in Montreal.
  The resident of Candiac, Que., on Mo
  
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• Montreal COVID response had negative ‘collateral impacts’ on population, report finds

  15-11-2022 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The COVID-19 pandemic and the health measures brought in to limit it caused widespread collateral impacts that disproportionately harmed the most vulnerable, Montreal’s public health director said Tuesday. 
  Mylène Drouin presented a report on the city’s COVID-19 management that includes 11 recommendations to help it respond to future health crises more efficiently and equitably. 
  One of her key recommendations is to develop a surveillance system to m
  
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• Non-disclosure agreements complicate safe sport reporting in Canada

  15-11-2022 23:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The past few months have seen an outpouring of Canadian athletes decrying the maltreatment and abuse experienced in their sports.
  But how many other athletes have been silenced by non-disclosure agreements? And how will those gag orders impact the work of agencies hoping to clean up sport?
  Canada’s sport minister Pascale St-Onge launched the Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC) in June, as a one-stop, independent complaint investigator. And the Standing Committ
  
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• Saskatchewan mother accused of faking death, fleeing the country faces more charges

  15-11-2022 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SASKATOON — An Indigenous woman from Saskatoon who was arrested in the United States after police say she faked her own death is facing more charges in Canada. 
  The 48-year-old woman and her seven-year-old child disappeared in July, prompting a missing persons investigation and extensive community searches.
  They were found in Oregon City, Ore., in August before she was transferred back to Saskatchewan.
  The woman cannot be named due to a publication ban on information that could identi
  
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• Chilliwack provincial ridings could have radically redrawn boundaries by next election - Hope Standard

  15-11-2022 22:53 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack provincial ridings could have radically redrawn boundaries by next election - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 22:53 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack provincial ridings could have radically redrawn boundaries by next election - Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  15-11-2022 22:53 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack Provincial Ridings Could Have Radically Redrawn Boundaries By Next Election - Abbotsford News

  15-11-2022 22:53 via news.google.com
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• Castlegar resident behind launch of Paddle BC initiative - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 22:15 via news.google.com
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• Volcanic Activity on the Moon? It’s More Recent than You Think

  15-11-2022 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Billions of years may sound like a long time to most people, but when it comes to scientific research and more specifically, geology, it’s all relative. This may explain why scientists are going wild about a sampling of lunar rock recently brought back from the moon. They reveal a far more dynamic history of volcanism than ever previously imagined. As a result, these findings are rewriting the history of Earth’s loyal satellite.
  Surprisingly, th
  
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• Canada’s Brooke Henderson plans to play in LPGA season finale despite injured back

  15-11-2022 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NAPLES, Fla. — Canada’s Brooke Henderson is planning to tough it out for the final event of the LPGA Tour season.
  Henderson offered no explanation when she withdrew from the Pelican Women’s Championship on Saturday.
  But the native of Smiths Falls, Ont., said on Tuesday that it was an upper-back injury.
  She issued a statement explaining the withdrawal and saying she planned to rest as much as possible but still compete in the CME Group Tour Championship.
  The CME Group Tour Champ
  
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• US Catholic bishops elect Timothy Broglio as new president

  15-11-2022 21:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services, who oversees Catholic ministries to the U.S. armed forces, was elected Tuesday as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
  Broglio, 70, was elected from a field of 10 candidates. He will succeed Archbishop José H. Gomez of Los Angeles, who assumed the post in 2019.
  Usually the election of a new USCCB president is a formality, with the bishops elevating the conference’s vice president to
  
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• Chilliwack veteran has wish granted to see navy vessel ‘one last time’ - Hope Standard

  15-11-2022 21:30 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack veteran has wish granted to see navy vessel 'one last time' - Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  15-11-2022 21:30 via news.google.com
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• Ana Vitoria scores late goal to lift Brazil over Canada 2-1 in international friendly

  15-11-2022 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAO PAULO — Ana Vitoria scored in stoppage time to lift Brazil to a 2-1 win over Canada on Tuesday in an international friendly.
  Ashley Lawrence’s penalty kick in the 60th minute had seemingly earned Canada a draw, but Brazil earned a corner kick after the 90th minute.
  Although Canadian goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan stopped an initial header on the set piece, it ricocheted back into play and Vitoria kicked it for the winning goal.
  The Canadian national women’s team had won their p
  
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• Mother of Canadian detained in Syria accuses of Ottawa of shirking duty to help

  15-11-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The mother of a Canadian man being held in northeastern Syria accuses the federal government of doing “precisely nothing” to secure his release.
  Sally Lane is urging the Liberal government to send a delegate overseas to help free son Jack Letts and other Canadians detained in atrocious conditions.
  Letts, who turned 27 this week, is one of several Canadian citizens among the many foreign nationals in Syrian camps run by Kurdish forces that reclaimed the war-torn region
  
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• Canada monitoring reports of Russian missiles hitting Poland: Anand

  15-11-2022 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand says she is in contact with Polish authorities over reports that two people were killed when Russian missiles hit the NATO ally.
  Anand would only say that Canada is monitoring the situation as she entered the House of Commons for question period this afternoon.
  The Associated Press reports Russian missiles crossed into Polish territory during a massive barrage that hit Ukraine’s power grid and cut electricity to much of Moldova.
  That report is at
  
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• B.C. Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke going to workouts with NFL teams

  15-11-2022 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — B.C. Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke is heading to the U.S. to workout with NFL teams. 
  The 24-year-old Victoria native says he’s looking for an opportunity where he can be on the field and making an impact for a team, and he’s willing to come back to the Lions if that opportunity isn’t available in the NFL.
  Rourke drew attention this year in his first season as starter, throwing for 3,349 yards with 25 touchdowns and 10 interceptions in 10 regular-sea
  
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• Defence closes case in sexual assault trial of ex-PQ legislator Harold LeBel

  15-11-2022 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RIMOUSKI, Que. — The defence for former Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel closed its case today in his trial for sexual assault.
  Earlier in the day, Superior Court Justice Serge Francoeur called prosecutor Jérôme Simard to order because the lawyer brought up a declaration the accused made to police during his 2020 arrest.
  Simard told jurors LeBel had talked about the 2012 assassination attempt against ex-PQ leader Pauline Marois.
  The prosecutor suggested Le
  
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• Biden asks for more than $37 billion in Ukraine aid

  15-11-2022 21:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is asking Congress to provide more than $37 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine, a massive infusion of cash that could help support the nation as Russian forces suffer battlefield losses in their nine-month-old invasion.The administration’s funding request, which comes as lawmakers begin their post-election session, also seeks $9.25 billion in COVID-19 funding to prepare for a possible winter surge and help combat the virus nationwide. Government
  
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• B.C. man can have inflatable spa on patio, despite strata objections - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 21:00 via news.google.com
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• Trump Org.’s longtime CFO testifies at company’s fraud trial

  15-11-2022 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s longtime finance chief took the witness stand Tuesday at the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial, making his long-awaited turn as the star prosecution witness after pleading guilty to evading taxes on $1.7 million in company-paid perks, including a Manhattan apartment and luxury cars.
  Allen Weisselberg, a senior adviser and former chief financial officer at Trump’s company, has intimate knowledge of the company’s financial de
  
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• Chilliwack Mural Festival getting big financial boost from B.C. govt.

  15-11-2022 20:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — It’s not unusual for start-up non-profit organizations to have shoestring budgets in their first couple of years, particularly as nascent festivals get off the ground into more stable financial footing.
  To support local festivals all across the province, the B.C. government announced last week that it will provide the Chilliwack Mural Festival with funding of $11,474 towards next year’s event happening August 12, 2023.The cash infusion enables the Mural Festival to
  
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• UPDATE: Poland: Russian-made missile fell on our country, killing 2 - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
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• McCarthy clears first step to House speaker, but grind ahead

  15-11-2022 20:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leader Kevin McCarthy cleared the first major step Tuesday toward becoming House speaker, winning majority support from colleagues on a secret ballot. He now faces a weeks-long slog to quell objections from his right flank before a final vote.
  McCarthy has led House Republicans this far, and with them now on the cusp of majority control, he has a chance to seize the gavel from Nancy Pelosi if Democrats are defeated.“We’re going to have the ability t
  
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• Chilliwack Jets take league-leading Langley Trappers to overtime - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 20:15 via news.google.com
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• Trudeau pledges cash for infrastructure and making vaccines in developing countries - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
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• Earth at 8 billion: Consumption not crowd is key to climate - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 20:00 via news.google.com
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• Blue Bombers star quarterback Collaros headlines 2022 CFL all-star team

  15-11-2022 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Zach Collaros of the Grey Cup-bound Winnipeg Blue Bombers headlines the CFL’s 2022 all-star team.
  The 27-player all-star roster was released Tuesday by the CFL in advance of the league championship this Sunday in Regina.Collaros had a league-leading 37 touchdown passes and was second with 4,183 passing yards this season. The reigning CFL outstanding player is a finalist for this year’s award.
  He was one of six Winnipeg players honoured as the Blue Bombers try for a th
  
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• G.W. Graham JV knocks off St. Thomas More 44-37 in playoff thriller

  15-11-2022 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY — Small plays here and there at just the right time paid off in a big way for the G.W. Graham JV Grizzlies football team on Thursday.
  G.W. parlayed a 28-point second half performance and several critical defensive plays into a 44-37 playoff win over St. Thomas More in Burnaby.The victory advances the Grizzlies to face the Vancouver College Fighting Irish this Thursday, Nov. 17. Kick-off is 1 p.m. at O’Hagan Field in Vancouver.G.W. Graham stepped up big time on defence by hold
  
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• Auditor general finds aging icebreakers, aircraft hamper monitoring of Arctic waters

  15-11-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  More than a decade of delay and inaction has left the ships, planes and satellites that Canada relies on to monitor its rapidly opening Arctic on track to be retired before they can be replaced, the auditor general says. 
  “The federal government has not taken the required action to address long-standing gaps affecting its surveillance of Canada’s Arctic waters,” says the report released Tuesday. 
  “The federal organizations that are responsible for safety and sec
  
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• Trudeau deletes tweet that cited false information in denouncing the Iranian regime

  15-11-2022 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says it deleted a tweet that his account posted overnight denouncing the Iranian regime based on false information that had been circulating on social media.
  The message said Iran’s decision to impose the death penalty on nearly 15,000 protesters was “barbaric,” but that number has been widely discredited as disinformation. 
  The Prime Minister’s Office says the tweet, which was online for about 11 hours, was
  
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• Steve Martin, Harry Bliss team up on ‘Number One Is Walking’ - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
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• Judge overturns Georgia’s ban on abortion after 6 weeks

  15-11-2022 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ATLANTA (AP) — A judge overturned Georgia’s ban on abortion starting around six weeks into a pregnancy, ruling Tuesday that it violated the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Supreme Court precedent when it was enacted.
  Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney’s ruling applies statewide. The ban had been in effect since July.
  It prohibited most abortions once a “detectable human heartbeat” is present. Cardiac activity can be detected by ultrasound in cells within
  
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• Abbotsford woman featured in film about psilocybin use in cancer treatment - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 18:48 via news.google.com
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• Health Canada won’t say how much new kids’ pain medicine coming, where it’s going

  15-11-2022 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Health Canada officials say more doses of children’s painkillers and fever medication will be available soon but it won’t say how many or where exactly they’ll be sent.
  Senior officials are answering questions at a House of Commons committee as hospitals and nervous parents with sick kids at home struggle to find children’s Tylenol and Advil.
  Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma says the first signs of supply issues arose in April but it wasn’t un
  
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• Multiple shootings reported around Merritt - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 18:45 via news.google.com
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• AthletesCAN latest organization to join federal government’s Abuse-Free Sport

  15-11-2022 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — AthletesCAN, the association of Canada’s national team athletes, has joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government’s new program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport.
  AthletesCAN will have access to the new Office of the Sport Integrity Commissioner (OSIC), which is the central hub of Abuse-Free Sport, following a transition period that will end no later than Dec. 21.
  “We are happy to have joined Abuse-Free Sport and to soon have the OSIC to administer
  
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• Police: Knife used in targeted attack of dead Idaho students

  15-11-2022 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four University of Idaho students found dead in an off-campus home were targeted and the killer or killers used a knife or other “edged weapon,” police disclosed Tuesday.
  Investigators were trying to establish a timeline to recreate the victims’ activities on Saturday night and early Sunday morning, “following all leads and identifying persons of interest,” the Moscow Police Department said in a news release. The killings likely occurred in
  
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• Grand piano scam targets Langley Hospice Society - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 18:25 via news.google.com
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• Electric vehicle charging stations expanding across Chilliwack

  15-11-2022 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — A fully operational electric vehicle (EV) charging station at the Tourism Chilliwack centre on Luckakuck Way is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to expanding the EV charging network across the city.
  The City of Chilliwack announced earlier in November in its monthly transportation newsletter that more EV stations are coming to Sardis Sports Complex in Sardis as well as the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre.Abbotsford-based Fraser City Installations was previously awar
  
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• Russian parliament displays art by Griner case figure Bout

  15-11-2022 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MOSCOW (AP) — A show of prison artwork by Viktor Bout, the Russian arms trader serving 25 years in the United States and the focus of speculation about a prisoner swap that could free WNBA star Brittney Griner, opened Tuesday at the upper chamber of the Russian parliament.
  The exhibition at the Federation Council underlines Russia’s strong interest in the release of Bout, whom Russian officials say is an “entrepreneur” who was unjustly arrested and sentenced to 25 years b
  
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• Herdman always believed Canada belonged at World Cup. Now an entire country does too

  15-11-2022 17:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  John Herdman believed when virtually no one else did. Canada was going to the World Cup in 2022.
  That was the message at his first camp in charge, in March 2018 in Murcia, Spain.
  “He told us the goal in that very first meeting — which was to qualify for the World Cup. He said it then and there,” said Toronto FC midfielder Jonathan Osorio.
  “He had the vision long before anybody else did. Nobody there was thinking about 2026. We were all focused on the next thing right in f
  
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• Luge Canada the latest Canadian sport organization to join Abuse-Free Sport

  15-11-2022 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Luge Canada has joined Abuse-Free Sport, the federal government’s new independent program to prevent and address maltreatment in sport.
  Luge Canada is the latest national sports federation to sign on to the program after allegations of sexual misconduct and other abuses have roiled organizations like Hockey Canada and Gymnastics Canada.
  “Luge Canada believes that everyone in sport has the right to enjoy a positive experience regardless of skill level or ability,&rdquo
  
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• Canada’s Auger-Aliassime downs top-seeded Nadal at ATP Finals

  15-11-2022 17:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TURIN, Italy — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime scored a 6-3, 6-4 win over top-seeded Rafael Nadal in round-robin play at the ATP Finals on Tuesday.
  Auger-Aliassime, seeded fifth in the season-ending men’s championship, won 81 per cent of his first serve points and delivered 15 aces
  The win evens Auger-Aliassime’s round-robin record to 1-1 after the Canadian dropped Sunday’s opener 7-6 (4), 6-4  to Norway’s Casper Ruud.
  Nadal, meanwhile, falls to 0-2 with o
  
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• Life sentence sought for teen in Michigan school shooting

  15-11-2022 17:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors said they’ll seek a life sentence with no chance for parole for a 16-year-old boy who killed four fellow students at a Michigan school and pleaded guilty to murder and terrorism.
  They disclosed their plans in a court filing Monday, three weeks after Ethan Crumbley, 16, withdrew a possible insanity defense and acknowledged the shooting at Oxford High School in November 2021.
  A first-degree murder conviction typically brings an automatic life prison sentence
  
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• Auditor general calls for stronger federal action on cloud cybersecurity

  15-11-2022 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal auditor general says government departments have not always effectively implemented measures to ensure secure storage of information in the digital cloud.
  In a report tabled in Parliament today, Karen Hogan says requirements were not always clear for putting information in the cloud — computer servers located in data centres.
  Hogan says these shortcomings increase the risk of security breaches as cyberattacks become more common and sophisticated.
  She urges the go
  
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• Sedins, Luongo, Alfredsson enshrined in Hockey Hall of Fame - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Jay Leno suffers burns in gasoline fire, says he’s ‘OK’ - Chilliwack Progress

  15-11-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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