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• Chilliwack RCMP investigate early morning weapons incident near Central Elementary

  23-11-2022 23:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP released details Wednesday (Nov. 23) of an early morning weapons incident that involved a man at a home about four blocks northeast of Central Elementary School just north of downtown Chilliwack Wednesday morning.At approximately 8:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Chilliwack RCMP were called to a residence located in the 46100 block of Cleveland Avenue for a weapons-related call involving an individual in medical distress.
  According to a news release from RCMP Sgt. Krista
  
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• Coquihalla open in both directions following police incident, investigation continues - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 23:50
  Coquihalla open in both directions following police incident, investigation continues  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Feds file judicial review of $40B Indigenous child-welfare settlement

  23-11-2022 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government is asking a judge to review some aspects of the $40-billion settlement agreement over discrimination in the Indigenous child-welfare system, after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal rejected the deal in late October. 
  The tribunal’s finding threw the landmark settlement — the largest in Canadian history — into question. 
  In 2019, the tribunal ordered the federal government to compensate children and families. 
  The ruling came
  
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• Abby PD seizes fentanyl, meth, coke and heroin following search warrants

  23-11-2022 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ABBOTSFORD — The Drug Enforcement Unit of the Abbotsford Police Department announced Wednesday (Nov. 23) that it has disrupted the operations of a street-level narcotics ring in Abbotsford and Surrey that involved guns, including suppressors.In July 2022, the DEU launched a drug trafficking investigation into the numerous Abbotsford overdose deaths connected to a known drug trafficking operation within city limits. DEU investigators were able to identify and target the suppliers and street
  
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• Jury finds former PQ legislator Harold LeBel guilty of sexual assault

  23-11-2022 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  RIMOUSKI, Que. — Former Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel was found guilty on Wednesday of sexually assaulting a woman at his residence in 2017.
  A jury of nine women and three men took two days to reach a decision after being sequestered since Monday in Rimouski, Que. 
  The jury rejected the 60-year-old LeBel’s account of what happened at his condo on the night in October 2017. LeBel had testified that he and the complainant kissed after a third person who was
  
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• Sports-betting marketplace taking notice of Canada at World Cup

  23-11-2022 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canada’s return to the World Cup wasn’t a victorious one but it certainly created plenty of action in Ontario’s legal sports-betting market.
  Belgium defeated the Canadians 1-0 on Wednesday in the tournament opener for both teams. Canada was making its first World Cup appearance since 1986 when it went 0-3 and didn’t score a goal.
  Canada, ranked No. 41 globally, put up a spirited effort against the second-ranked Belgians in their Group F contest. The Canadi
  
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• BC RCMP - Chilliwack RCMP respond to early morning weapons call - BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca

  23-11-2022 23:07
  BC RCMP - Chilliwack RCMP respond to early morning weapons call  BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca
  
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• Southside Church committing $250K to make Christmas brighter for Chilliwack families

  23-11-2022 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Southside Church in Chilliwack has an ambitious but generous plan to make Christmas brighter for single parents and local families who might be struggling to make ends meet this year.Cognizant of all that’s happening with rising inflation and the financial struggles that families face here in Canada, Southside Church will conduct its annual “All is Bright” campaign this Saturday, November 26.“This Christmas in Chilliwack, we’re committing $250,000
  
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• B.C. human rights tribunal awards $150,000 in child welfare discrimination case

  23-11-2022 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — An Afro-Indigenous woman has been awarded $150,000 in compensation by the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal after her children were wrongfully seized by a child welfare agency. 
  The tribunal found the Vancouver Aboriginal Child and Family Services Society’s decision to take custody of the woman’s four children for nearly three years was based on stereotypes about her as an Indigenous mother with mental health issues. 
  The compensation for injury to th
  
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• Canadian men push Belgium to the limit but lose 1-0 in return to World Cup

  23-11-2022 22:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Canada put on a show in its return to the World Cup after a 36-year absence but failed to convert its chances in a valiant 1-0 loss to Belgium on Wednesday.
  The 41st-ranked Canadians looked anything but awed at the occasion, repeatedly forcing the second-ranked Belgians onto the back foot.
  And Canada had a glorious chance to score its first-ever World Cup goal and take the lead in the 10th minute, only to see Thibaut Courtois, the Inspector Gadget-like Belgian goalkeeper
  
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• Trans-Canada Highway near Golden reopening to the public - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 22:00
  Trans-Canada Highway near Golden reopening to the public  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Depleted Maple Leafs acquire defenceman Timmins in trade with Coyotes

  23-11-2022 21:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired defenceman Conor Timmins from the Arizona Coyotes in exchange for forward Curtis Douglas.
  The 24-year-old Timmins has three assists through six games with the Tucson Roadrunners this season. He has also skated in two games with Arizona.
  The Maple Leafs are in need of defensive depth after losing their top three rearguards to injury. Jake Muzzin (neck) and Morgan Rielly (knee) are on long-term injured reserve, while T.J. Brodie is out with an
  
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• Quebec judicial council rejects complaint over judge’s sexual assault ruling

  23-11-2022 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Quebec judicial council has rejected complaints about a judge who granted a conditional discharge to a young engineer who pleaded guilty to sexual assault and voyeurism.
  Quebec court Judge Matthieu Poliquin’s June 2022 decision to grant Simon Houle probation and a conditional discharge — in part because a conviction would have made it hard for Houle to travel for his job as an engineer — caused an uproar in the province.
  In a decision posted to its website
  
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• Rejecting unproven claims the right way for inquiry heads to proceed: Murray Sinclair

  23-11-2022 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The commissioner presiding over the public inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act is rejecting a request from a lawyer for “Freedom Convoy” organizers to call witnesses over an unsubstantiated claim that hateful imagery spotted at the protests in Ottawa was staged.
  Justice Paul Rouleau says in his written reasons that claims by Freedom Corp. lawyer Brenda Miller are “troubling” and have “little foundation in evidence.”
  Miller has accused lo
  
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• Tasing house guests, stalking exes: Annual report reveals B.C. cops’ misconduct - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 21:42
  Tasing house guests, stalking exes: Annual report reveals B.C. cops’ misconduct  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Trudeau elaborates on what Chinese ‘interference’ he discussed with Xi Jinping at G20

  23-11-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered his most detailed explanation yet about what kind of “interference” he brought up with Chinese President Xi Jinping in a meeting earlier this month.
  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asked in question period today what specific interference the Prime Minister’s Office was referring to when it offered limited details about the leaders’ conversation at the G20 summit in Indonesia.
  Trudeau replied that his governmen
  
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• Jury in Nunavut coroner’s inquest makes recommendations to government, RCMP

  23-11-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  POND INLET, Nunavut — A jury in a coroner’s inquest that examined the suicide of a man following a standoff with police in Nunavut has recommended improving cultural and mental health supports and police containment measures during critical incidents.
  The inquest, held last week, examined the death of Jessie Peterloosie, who died at a home in the hamlet of Pond Inlet on March 8, 2018.
  The jury heard officers faced challenges containing the home, as other residents were able to get cl
  
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• Jewish groups ‘horrified’ by video showing Montreal driver hitting baby in carriage

  23-11-2022 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Jewish groups in Quebec say they are deeply disturbed and horrified after a driver was video-recorded hitting a baby in a stroller that was being pushed along a Montreal intersection by an Orthodox Jewish woman.
  The video, circulated widely on social media and taken from a surveillance camera installed on a nearby apartment building, shows the vehicle driving off after hitting the baby and not stopping. The one-year-old baby was taken to hospital for observation and was uninjure
  
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• New-look Team Canada returns to Whistler for bobsled, skeleton World Cup

  23-11-2022 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Canadian bobsledder Cynthia Appiah knows she’s on the radar heading into a new season. 
  The 32-year-old Torontonian grabbed attention last year, finishing third overall in the women’s monobob world series and taking eighth place finishes in both monobob and two-woman bobsled at the Beijing Olympics.
  Expectations are high as Appiah and the rest of Team Canada kick off a new bobsled and skeleton World Cup season in Whistler, B.C., on Thursday. 
  “The opportunity is there
  
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• Lake Louise World Cup future cloudy, Canada’s racers laud where they launched careers

  23-11-2022 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  If it is the last year of World Cup alpine ski racing in Lake Louise, Alta., after three decades there, Canada’s team wants to make it memorable.
  The men open the international speed season with Friday’s downhill followed by super-G races both Saturday and Sunday at the Banff National Park resort.
  “The downhill is the iconic one and it’s something I think a lot of people will cherish this year,” said Canadian racer James Crawford.
  The women arrive next week for a pa
  
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• Mission Museum undergoing roof repairs

  23-11-2022 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION —The roof of the Mission Museum is currently being restored with cedar shingles that will preserve the historic value of this iconic downtown building for the foreseeable future.The roof restoration project started earlier this month and will be complete in early 2023. In addition to the roof, crews will clean the museum’s exterior walls.The project is part of a larger asset management plan that charts future building restoration projects with careful consideration of heritag
  
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• Canadian-Israeli teen killed in Jerusalem attack while on his way to seminary

  23-11-2022 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM — A rabbi with a seminary in Jerusalem has identified a 16-year-old Canadian-Israeli student as a person killed in one of two blasts that went off near bus stops in the city.Rabbi Refaen Rockmill says Aryeh Shechopek was a very special student who was always smiling.
  He says the teen will be missed greatly by those at the Harei Yehuda Yeshiva school.
  Rockmill says the boy hadn’t been feeling well in the morning and was contemplating whether or not to attend classes.He says
  
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• More missiles hit as Ukrainians brace for ‘worst winter’ since Second World War

  23-11-2022 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KYIV, Ukraine — Another barrage of Russian missile strikes hit Ukraine Wednesday, dealing a setback to the country’s struggle to restore its power network as winter sets in.
  “As we speak now, Russia has launched a new wave of missile attacks on Ukrainian critical civilian infrastructure,” Oleg Nikolenko, the spokesman for Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Ministry, said in an interview.
  Because of the latest strikes, the interview took place in a ministry bunker several sto
  
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• Quebec town tries cowboy tactics after crop-trampling cattle evade capture for months

  23-11-2022 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — A small Quebec town is resorting to cowboy tactics to round up a herd of runaway cattle that have evaded capture for months and have been wreaking havoc in farmers’ fields.
  The mayor of St-Sévère, in Quebec’s Mauricie region, says the 20 or so young animals jumped out of their field at the end of July and have been on the lam ever since.
  Jean-Yves St-Arnaud estimates the animals have caused between $20,000 and $25,000 of damage by flattening crops and che
  
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• Competition watchdog pushes back on concerns Shaw has about its business - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 19:30
  Competition watchdog pushes back on concerns Shaw has about its business  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. premier wins labour praise for poking Ontario, rejecting notwithstanding clause - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 19:30
  B.C. premier wins labour praise for poking Ontario, rejecting notwithstanding clause  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: David Eby ignored serious mismanagement at BC Housing

  23-11-2022 19:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The NDP have a lot to answer for on the housing file. Not only has the government failed to build anything close to the 114,000 housing units they promised, it turns out former Housing Minister and current Premier David Eby buried a report that outlines severe financial and organizational mismanagement at BC Housing and Atira Women’s Resources Society, B.C.’s largest housing provider.When he was minister, Eby ignored the findings of a now-leaked BDO report that showed considerable fi
  
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• Early-season results prompt Chilliwack Chiefs roster shuffle - Hope Standard

  23-11-2022 19:10
  Early-season results prompt Chilliwack Chiefs roster shuffle  Hope Standard
  
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• Early-season results prompt Chilliwack Chiefs roster shuffle - Agassiz Harrison Observer - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  23-11-2022 19:10
  Early-season results prompt Chilliwack Chiefs roster shuffle - Agassiz Harrison Observer  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• PHOTOS: Artists’ paddles hung in Victoria symbolize commitment to reconciliation - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 19:00
  PHOTOS: Artists’ paddles hung in Victoria symbolize commitment to reconciliation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• BC NDP housing legislation advances toward third reading after Tuesday votes - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 19:00
  BC NDP housing legislation advances toward third reading after Tuesday votes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Federal Liberal cabinet minister from Alberta concerned with proposed sovereignty act

  23-11-2022 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — A federal Liberal cabinet minister from Alberta says he’s concerned that Premier Danielle Smith is moving forward with her proposed sovereignty act.
  Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault, who’s an Edmonton member of Parliament, has posted a statement on social media responding to Smith’s televised address to Albertans.
  Smith announced Tuesday evening a $2.4-billion plan to help families, seniors and the vulnerable deal with inflation.
  She also renewed a promise t
  
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• Miami police arrest man in 4 killings on Oklahoma pot farm

  23-11-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Authorities want a man brought to back to Oklahoma to face charges in the execution-style killings of four people at a marijuana farm after he was arrested in South Florida.The suspect in the weekend killings, Wu Chen, was taken into custody by Miami Beach police and brought to the Miami-Dade County Detention Center, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.He was arrested “after a car tag reader flagged (the) vehicle he was driving,” the bureau said. The suspect will
  
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• School placed in hold-and-secure as Chilliwack RCMP respond to weapons call - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 18:30
  School placed in hold-and-secure as Chilliwack RCMP respond to weapons call  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Rules for electric scooter use coming to Langley Township - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 18:30
  Rules for electric scooter use coming to Langley Township  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• FVRD says province should address Aboriginal land title claims surrounding proposed gondola, not itself

  23-11-2022 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District board of elected officials will review the proposed Cascade Skyline Gondola, also known as the Bridal Falls Gondola, at its monthly board meeting tomorrow (Nov. 24) at 6 p.m. at FVRD headquarters, 45950 Cheam Avenue in Chilliwack.
  The matter will be discussed under agenda item 13.3, titled “Crown Land Tenure Referral for Cascade Skyline Gondola (Bridal Falls Gondola), Electoral Areas D and E.”More specifically, the FVRD board wil
  
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• Former champions McNair, Barrieau top field for Canadian driving championship event

  23-11-2022 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Former champions Doug McNair and Gilles Barrieau top the field for the 2022 Canadian driving championship.
  This year’s event will be held Thursday at Century Mile Racetrack and Casino. McNair, of Guelph, Ont., and Barrieau, of Moncton, N.B., will be among eight drivers competing over eight races on the card.
  The overall winner will represent Canada at the ’23 world driving championships that will be held in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium from Aug. 14-18.
  McNair
  
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• Georgia high court allows Saturday voting for Senate runoff

  23-11-2022 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia counties will be allowed to hold early voting this Saturday in the U.S. Senate runoff election between Democratic incumbent Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, under a Wednesday ruling from the state Supreme Court.
  The court issued a unanimous, one-sentence ruling declining to review or stay a ruling by the state’s intermediate appellate court. Republicans had objected to the Saturday voting.
  Warnock and Walker, the former University of G
  
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• Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry: RCMP union calls for more resources

  23-11-2022 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — The group that represents almost 20,000 regular members of the RCMP has submitted a list of 28 recommendations to the inquiry investigating the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia.
  The National Police Federation is calling on the province to overhaul the way it pays for policing services, to ensure the RCMP receives adequate, stable funding to deal with understaffing.
  As well, the federation wants the province to adopt policing standards, something the Justice Department is a
  
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• BC NDP housing legislation advances toward third reading after Tuesday votes

  23-11-2022 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The first two pieces of legislation proposed by Premier David Eby have passed second reading and return to the legislature today as he follows through on a pledge to act quickly on key issues facing British Columbia.
  The Housing Supply Act and Building and Strata Statutes Amendment Act both passed Tuesday after time limits were imposed on debate.
  New Democrats and the two Green Party members voted in favour while Opposition Liberal Leader Kevin Falcon and the other 25 BC Liberal
  
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• More answers sought into death of Indigenous man in Abbotsford prison - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 17:57
  More answers sought into death of Indigenous man in Abbotsford prison  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Robbery, chase, shooting, crash and police response cause mayhem in Coquitlam, B.C.

  23-11-2022 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COQUITLAM, B.C. — A search is underway for two people linked to a violent series of events that brought the Tuesday evening rush hour to a standstill along a section of Highway 1 through Coquitlam, B.C.
  A statement from Coquitlam RCMP says officers were called to an armed robbery at a car dealership in Port Coquitlam just before 4 p.m., Tuesday.
  Police say four suspects fled in a stolen vehicle and responding officers were involved in an exchange of gunfire before the stolen sedan crashed
  
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• Canadian men lay claim to the turf at World Cup stadium before tournament opener

  23-11-2022 17:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  AL RAYYAN, Qatar — Canada came armed to the World Cup.
  During World Cup qualifying the Canadian men travelled with a sword which bears the words ‘Nihil timendum est,’ which is ‘Fear Nothing’ in Latin. And the sword has made its way to Qatar.
  The finale of Canada Soccer’s “Anything is Possible” documentary series shows captain Atiba Hutchinson complete with sword, surrounded by his teammates in a circle in the middle of the pitch at Ahmad bin Ali St
  
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• Alta.’s tactic of doling out cash fuels inflation rather than easing it: economists

  23-11-2022 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Economists say provinces peppering the public with cash to deal with soaring prices compounds inflation rather than easing it.
  Travis Shaw says the move fails to quell inflation because having extra money means people can keep spending and demand for products and service will stay high, keeping decades-high inflation from budging.
  The senior vice-president of public finance at DBRS Morningstar says if people had less money to spend while prices were high it would weigh on inflation and contribut
  
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• Billions: B.C. auditor highlights costs of 2021 disasters, pandemic relief payments - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 17:14
  Billions: B.C. auditor highlights costs of 2021 disasters, pandemic relief payments  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• BBB warning of online shopping scams this holiday season - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 16:45
  BBB warning of online shopping scams this holiday season  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• NHL notebook: Early season ‘Fire Lindy’ chants didn’t ‘sit well’ with surging Devils

  23-11-2022 16:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Miles Wood was in his car and not in a good mood.
  New Jersey Devils fans were in the same boat for different reasons.
  A team with heightened expectations after a mostly miserable decade had just dropped its second straight game to open a season that was supposed to be different.
  And the locals were already extremely restless.
  Chants of “Fire Lindy” directed at veteran head coach Lindy Ruff rained down from the stands inside Prudential Center that night.
  “We’ve definitely
  
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• Vancouver city council approves funding for more police, mental-health nurses - Chilliwack Progress

  23-11-2022 16:30
  Vancouver city council approves funding for more police, mental-health nurses  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• From Mexico to Qatar, Jamie Lowery’s Canadian World Cup adventure continues

  23-11-2022 15:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DOHA, Qatar — Thirty-six years later, Jamie Lowery is back at the World Cup.
  Lowery, one of two amateurs on the Canadian team that played at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, has returned to the soccer showcase, this time as a fan with a group of eight friends. They plan to meet some fellow Victoria fans in the days to come at the tournament.
  Originally it was just to watch the Canada games. But the group, which is staying at local apartments they secured, saw other matches they wanted to take
  
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• The Real-Life Origins of 15 Movie Monsters

  23-11-2022 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not!Most people think superhero movies when it comes to blockbuster films that rake in the big bucks. It’s not uncommon for them to regularly cross the $1 billion line. Although the same can’t be said for horror flicks, that doesn’t mean they should be overlooked regarding revenue generation. Horror movies remain serious Hollywood profit makers. And since they don’t cost nearly as much to produce as flicks inspired by Marvel and DC, they
  
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