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• UFV Cascades basketball teams drop three of four in Langley - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 23:51
  UFV Cascades basketball teams drop three of four in Langley  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Former CFL player Jerome Messam gets 18-month suspended sentence in voyeurism case

  05-12-2022 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — A former running back with the Calgary Stampeders, who filmed a sexual encounter with a woman without her permission, won’t be going to jail but will have a criminal record.
  Jerome Messam has received an 18-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty earlier this year to a charge of voyeurism.
  Court heard Messam and the woman followed each other on social media while he was a running back for the Canadian Football League team and, in November 2016, they had dinner togeth
  
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• Ex-Miami congressman Rivera arrested in Venezuela probe

  05-12-2022 23:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Miami congressman who signed a $50 million consulting contract with Venezuela’s socialist government has been arrested in connection to an ongoing federal criminal investigation, law enforcement officials said.
  David Rivera, a Republican who served from 2011 to 2013, was arrested Monday at Atlanta’s airport, said Marlene Rodriguez, spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami. She said Rivera was indicted by a Miami grand jury last month
  
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• B.C. to start public push to get more kids vaccinated against flu as cases climb

  05-12-2022 23:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government will be using its provincial health registry to contact parents in an attempt to increase flu vaccine rates for children. 
  While the province is on track for a record number of people getting their flu shot this year, Dr. Penny Ballem, with BC Vaccine Operations, says only 20 per cent of children under five have been vaccinated.
  Ballem says they’ll be sending texts and emails to families of about 150,000 children under five inviting th
  
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• Civil rights group says Vancouver has at least one secret police station

  05-12-2022 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — A Spanish civil rights group says Vancouver has at least one secret police station operated by Chinese authorities. 
  The group Safeguard Defenders said in a report in September that there were Chinese police operations around the world, including three in Toronto, and an updated report names another 48 locations. 
  Safeguard Defenders – a not-for-profit human rights group – says two of the new locations are in Canada: one in Vancouver and the second unknown
  
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• Neymar scores, Brazil beats South Korea 4-1 at World Cup

  05-12-2022 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DOHA, Qatar (AP) — It was the same old Neymar out there, looking fit and scoring a goal to move closer to Pelé’s all-time record and lead Brazil into the World Cup quarterfinals.
  Neymar returned from injury and converted a first-half penalty in Brazil’s 4-1 win over South Korea in the round of 16 on Monday. He reached 76 goals with the national team, one shy of the mark set by Pelé, who said he would watch the match from his hospital bed in Sao Paulo.
  The 82-year-
  
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• Jeanson, Forsythe among testifying athletes as safe sport study continues

  05-12-2022 22:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Genevieve Jeanson’s story began, she said, when her coach first hit her on the head in training at the age of 14.
  The Canadian cyclist said in testimony in front of members of Parliament on Monday — apologizing for her blunt language — that the physical abuse turned to sexual assault by the age of 15, and that she was first administered performance enhancing drugs at 16.
  A positive doping test would ultimately be her escape.
  “(I received) threats like ‘I’m in
  
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• Loblaw exec pushes back on claim that grocery giant is profiteering from inflation

  05-12-2022 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Loblaw executive is disputing an accusation that the grocery giant is taking advantage of inflation to drive up its own profits. 
  The company’s senior vice president of retail finance, Jodat Hussain, testified at the House of Commons agriculture committee today as part of its study of food inflation. 
  Hussain told MPs Loblaw has been raising prices because suppliers are charging more, and that the company’s gross margins on food have remained stable.
  The ex
  
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• Permanent residents can now apply to join the Canadian Armed Forces

  05-12-2022 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Permanent residents can now apply to join the Canadian Armed Forces, regardless of whether they have been trained by a foreign military.
  It’s the latest effort by Canada’s military to boost recruitment numbers, which are lagging well behind the target of adding 5,900 new members by March. 
  Officials have blamed a series of factors including the COVID-19 pandemic and reputational issues stemming from a number of high-profile sexual misconduct cases for the current
  
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• Alberta’s United Conservative caucus votes to propose changes to sovereignty bill

  05-12-2022 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s governing United Conservative caucus says it is proposing two changes to fix concerns with a bill that grants unchecked powers to Premier Danielle Smith and her cabinet.The caucus says in a news release that it has voted to propose an amendment to clarify that any changes cabinet makes to laws under the sovereignty act can’t be done in secret and must go back to the house for debate and approval.The caucus has also voted to change the act to more narrowly d
  
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• Bonds, Clemens Hall of Fame bids now on even shakier ground

  05-12-2022 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens were rejected by baseball writers in their bids for the Baseball Hall of Fame ten times. On Sunday, the duo chased by steroid suspicions got another rebuke from a panel that included many of their peers.
  The door hasn’t formally shut on their Cooperstown chances. But the latest letdown means the pair — with eight MVPs and seven Cy Young Awards between them — may never be celebrated with the sport’s greatest individual h
  
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• Military officer Dany Fortin acquitted on 1988 sexual assault charge

  05-12-2022 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GATINEAU, Que. — A Quebec civilian judge has acquitted Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin of sexual assault over an allegation that dates back to 1988.
  Judge Richard Meredith said he believes the complainant was sexually assaulted, but said the Crown did not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that it was Fortin who had assaulted her.
  Fortin was the military officer in charge of the federal government’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout until May 2021, but he was removed from that position after the alleg
  
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• Delta, B.C., mayor calls for review of snow alerts after winter maintenance ‘failure’

  05-12-2022 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  DELTA, B.C. — A Metro Vancouver mayor is calling for the B.C. government to review its snow removal contracts and consider using its emergency alert system to better inform drivers of dangerous road conditions. 
  In a letter to Transportation Minister Rob Fleming, Delta Mayor George Harvie describes the response to heavy snowfall in the region last week as a “recent failure of provincial highway winter maintenance.”
  He says some drivers from Delta were stranded in their car
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP investigate incident at Chilliwack Secondary

  05-12-2022 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP attended Chilliwack Secondary School on Yale Road Monday morning (Dec. 5) and placed the school on a brief hold and secure while they investigated a threat at the high school.
  According to multiple reports on social media this morning, Chilliwack Secondary was placed on the hold and secure while police investigated the threat.
  A hold and secure is meant to protect staff and students from an outside threat when it is much safer for school personnel and pupils to
  
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• Actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan among notable names to cameo as ‘Nutcracker’ cannon dolls

  05-12-2022 21:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canadian actress Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Olympic hockey players Sarah Nurse and Renata Fast are among the celebrities set to appear as cannon dolls in “The Nutcracker.”
  The National Ballet of Canada says this season’s lineup of cameos includes Ramakrishnan, star of Netflix’s “Never Have I Ever” and Disney’s “Turning Red.”
  Other notable guests include actors Graham Greene, Julie Nolke and Gina Louise Phillips will portray col
  
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• Military officer Dany Fortin acquitted on 1988 sexual assault charge - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 21:30
  Military officer Dany Fortin acquitted on 1988 sexual assault charge  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C. property assessments higher, but market has changed: assessor - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 21:30
  B.C. property assessments higher, but market has changed: assessor  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Trudeau urges vaccinations amid a rise in kids’ illnesses clogging hospital ERs

  05-12-2022 21:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The prime minster says he is “extremely worried” about a rise in respiratory illnesses among children as hospitals across the country report they are struggling to keep up with high volumes of patients. 
  Justin Trudeau is urging Canadians to get vaccinated against both COVID-19 and influenza and says officials will consider the advice of public health authorities when it comes to measures like mandatory masks.
  He says it’s everyone responsibility to “step up again&rd
  
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• Lake Country RCMP investigating antifreeze dog poisonings - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 21:20
  Lake Country RCMP investigating antifreeze dog poisonings  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadiens forward Gallagher out at least two weeks with lower-body injury

  05-12-2022 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The Montreal Canadiens say forward Brendan Gallagher will miss at least two weeks with a lower-body injury.
  Gallagher missed games at Calgary and Edmonton last week because of the injury. He had played every game of the season up to that point.
  Gallagher has three goals and five assists in 22 games.
  The Canadiens gave the update on Gallagher’s injury before facing the Canucks on Monday night in Vancouver.This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 5, 2022.T
  
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• 2,400 pills found in crowded home during Vernon drug bust - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 21:00
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• B.C. property assessments higher, but market has changed: assessor

  05-12-2022 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s property assessment agency is warning homeowners that figures released next month estimating the value of their home will likely be higher than the current market price. 
  BC Assessment says in a statement that most owners can expect to see a five to 15 per cent rise in values when notices are issued Jan. 3. 
  However, it says those figures are based on the real estate market as of July 1, 2022, and conditions have changed.
  Since then, interest
  
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• Trudeau listening to ‘concerns’ assault-style gun definition covers hunting rifles

  05-12-2022 20:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is listening to concerns that some of the firearms his government is looking to ban are in fact used more for hunting.
  The remarks at a press conference in Ontario today suggest Trudeau is shifting his tone on a piece of gun-control legislation being studied by members of Parliament.A Liberal amendment to Bill C-21 would enshrine a regulatory ban on so-called assault-style weapons by inking an evergreen definition for such firearms into law.
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• Oxford Dictionaries names ‘goblin mode’ its word of the year - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 20:30
  Oxford Dictionaries names ‘goblin mode’ its word of the year  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022 - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 20:30
  Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2022  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• UN summit: Don’t repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 20:20
  UN summit: Don’t repeat mistakes on nature, scientists warn  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada ‘watching closely’ as U.S. pressed to fix Inflation Reduction Act ‘glitches’

  05-12-2022 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is “watching closely” as Europe presses for changes to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act.
  President Joe Biden last week acknowledged “glitches” in the law — the very components that brought Canada’s auto sector under its protectionist umbrella.The bill, signed into law in August, expressly made electric vehicles built in Canada and Mexico eligible for U.S. tax incentives.Biden says it was never his in
  
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• Mississippi revises demands on Favre in welfare lawsuit

  05-12-2022 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Human Services on Monday changed its demands against retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre in a lawsuit that seeks repayment of misspent welfare money that was intended to help some of the poorest people in the U.S.
  The department dropped its demand of $1.1 million against Favre, acknowledging he has already repaid that money for an unfulfilled pledge of public speeches. But it made a new demand of up to $5 million against Favre and a unive
  
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• Canada’s Ismael Kone leaves Montreal for England’s Watford in wake of World Cup

  05-12-2022 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Midfielder Ismael Kone is leaving CF Montreal for England’s Watford, becoming the second member of Canada’s World Cup squad to switch teams since leaving Qatar.
  Watford, which plays in England’s second-tier Championship, said the 20-year-old Kone will join the club Jan. 1 on a 4 1/2-year contract.
  Kone follows former Montreal teammate Alistair Johnston in heading to Europe. The 24-year-old fullback/wingback’s transfer to Scotland’s Glasgow Celtic was confirmed Satur
  
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• McDavid, Cozens, Robertson named NHL’s three stars of the week

  05-12-2022 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  NEW YORK — Edmonton Oilers captain Connor McDavid, Buffalo Sabres centre Dylan Cozens and Dallas Stars left-wing Jason Robertson have been named the NHL’s three stars of the week.
  McDavid led the league with 11 points (five goals, six assists) in four multi-point performances to lead the Oilers to a 3-1-0 week.
  The two-time reigning NHL scoring champion finished the week with two goals and two assists in a 5-3 win over Montreal on Saturday.
  It was McDavid’s NHL-best fifth four-
  
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• Croatia beats Japan in penalty shootout at World Cup

  05-12-2022 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  AL WAKRAH, Qatar (AP) — Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic saved three penalty kicks in his team’s 3-1 win over Japan in a shootout at the World Cup on Monday, securing a return to the quarterfinals for the runner-up in the 2018 tournament.
  Mario Pasalic converted the clinching penalty for Croatia after the teams were tied at 1-1 after extra time
  Livakovic saved penalties from Takumi Minamino, Kaoru Mitoma and Maya Yoshida.
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• Pierre Poilievre pumps natural gas during northwest B.C. tour - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 19:00
  Pierre Poilievre pumps natural gas during northwest B.C. tour  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Asking long-term care residents their views - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 19:00
  Asking long-term care residents their views  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ottawa calls for project proposals that help internationally trained health workers

  05-12-2022 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HALIFAX — The federal government says that in order to address major labour shortages in health care, it will put $90 million toward projects that remove barriers preventing qualified new Canadians from working in their field.
  Minister of Immigration Sean Fraser says the federal government is calling for proposals for projects that offer Canadian work experience for internationally trained health professionals or streamline the process that recognizes international medical credentials.
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• ‘Coyote’ takes home best feature, best performance awards at Whistler Film Festival

  05-12-2022 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WHISTLER, B.C. — Montreal-educated filmmaker Katherine Jerkovic’s movie “Coyote” was the big winner at the Whistler Film Festival.
  The film about a widower asked to take care of a grandson he didn’t know he had took home the $35,000 Borsos award for best Canadian feature.
  The film’s star, Jorge Martinez Colorado, received the best performance in a Borsos competition film award for what jurors described as a “masterful, heartbreaking and uplifting perform
  
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• VIDEO: Canadian-funded group works to remove landmines left in Ukraine - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 18:10
  VIDEO: Canadian-funded group works to remove landmines left in Ukraine  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Russia’s Putin drives across repaired bridge to Crimea

  05-12-2022 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to boost Russian morale Monday by driving a vehicle across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb had damaged in October.Putin took the wheel of a Mercedes to drive across the bridge that links Russia’s mainland with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014.Like other Western automakers, Mercedes halted sales of vehicles to Russia and stopped production at its assembly plant near Moscow after the start of Russ
  
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• Redblacks fill out coaching staff, add Miles as defensive co-ordinator

  05-12-2022 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Ottawa Redblacks have named Barron Miles as their defensive co-ordinator for the upcoming CFL season.
  Miles returns to the CFL as a defensive co-ordinator after he was fired, along with head coach Khari Jones, four games into the Montreal Alouettes’ 2022 season.
  The 50-year-old Miles, from Roselle, N.J., was defensive co-ordinator and defensive backs coach for the Bishop’s Gaiters during the 2022 U Sports season.
  The Redblacks have filled several key roles on their
  
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• Polytechnique announces 2022 Order of the White Rose scholarship recipient

  05-12-2022 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — A Quebec environmental engineering student intent on researching solutions to the global climate crisis is the latest recipient of a $30,000 prize established in honour of the 14 women killed 33 years ago at Montreal’s École Polytechnique.
  The engineering school announced Sophia Roy is this year’s winner of its Order of the White Rose scholarship, which was established in 2014 to commemorate the victims and survivors of the shooting on Dec. 6, 1989.
  Roy says s
  
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• Canada imposes more sanctions in Haiti, targeting country’s wealthiest people

  05-12-2022 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canada is imposing more sanctions on Haitian elites it accuses of empowering gangs in the Caribbean country.
  The new sanctions freeze Canadian assets held by three of the country’s wealthiest people.
  They include Gilbert Bigio, who is often called the richest person in Haiti, as well as Reynold Deeb and Sherif Abdallah.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly accuses the trio of providing “illicit financial and operational support to armed gangs” through mon
  
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• More snow in the forecast Tuesday for Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 16:44
  More snow in the forecast Tuesday for Fraser Valley, Lower Mainland  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Emhoff to host Jewish leaders for discussion of antisemitism

  05-12-2022 16:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will host Jewish leaders this week to discuss a rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States.The White House roundtable on Wednesday follows a surge in anti-Jewish vitriol spread by a famous rapper, an NBA star and other prominent people.Emhoff is the first Jewish person among the top four officials — the president, vice president and their spouses — in the executive branch of gov
  
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• Richard Serra’s art installation hard to miss in Qatar desert, once you get there

  05-12-2022 16:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  ZEKREET, QATAR — Art stands tall in the desert some 75 kilometres northwest of Doha.
  You need a rugged vehicle and no small resolve to find it, given signage is almost non-existent. The last few kilometres take time as you cross the desert on a slightly flattened but irregular path well away from the closest blacktop. Proceed with caution.
  But “East-West/West-East” by American sculptor Richard Serra is worth the effort.
  Completed in 2014, the installation comprises four giant s
  
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• Fraser Valley small flock poultry operators encouraged to attend final avian flu information session

  05-12-2022 14:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Small flock farmers in the Fraser Valley’s poultry industry are being encouraged to participate in a virtual information session this evening (Dec. 5) on the topic of Avian Influenza.
  The session will be led by B.C. government veterinary specialists. The topics will include improving flock or farm biosecurity against disease outbreaks, recognizing the signs of avian influenza in a flock, what to expect if a flock is determined to have avian flu, and how foreign disease r
  
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• Grocery bills will continue to rise in 2023

  05-12-2022 14:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — An average family of four can expect to fork out nearly 11-hundred dollars more for groceries next year.
  Canada’s latest Food Price Report says food inflation is here to stay — at least for the first half of next year.The report predicts a single woman in her 40s — the average age in Canada — will pay over 37-hundred dollars for groceries next year, a single man the same age will pay nearly 42-hundred, and the average family of four can expect to spend 16-t
  
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• PODCAST: Goalie Devan Dubnyk reflects on stellar NHL career - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 14:40
  PODCAST: Goalie Devan Dubnyk reflects on stellar NHL career  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Ukraine reports new barrage of Russian strikes

  05-12-2022 14:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian officials are reporting a new barrage of Russian missile strikes across the country.Media reports referred to explosions in several parts of the country, including the cities of Odesa, Cherkasy and Kryvyi Rih. In Odesa, the local water supply company said a missile strike cut power to pumping stations, leaving the entire city without water.
  “The enemy is again attacking the territory of Ukraine with missiles!” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of
  
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• 1980 Florida homicide cold case of Chilliwack's Evelyn Fisher solved - Chilliwack Progress

  05-12-2022 14:03
  1980 Florida homicide cold case of Chilliwack's Evelyn Fisher solved  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sudanese generals, pro-democracy group sign framework deal

  05-12-2022 11:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s ruling generals and the main pro-democracy group on Monday signed a framework deal until elections but key dissenters have stayed out of the agreement.The deal pledges to establish a new, civilian-led transitional government to guide the country to elections and offers a path forward in the wake of Sudan’s stalled transition to democracy following the October 2021 coup.
  The deal — the first of at least two planned accords — was signed
  
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• In The News for Dec. 5: Can Ottawa be compelled to repatriate 19 Canadians from Syria

  05-12-2022 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  A Federal Court is slated to begin two days of hearings today into the Liberal government’s refusal to repatriate 19 Canadian women and children who are being held in northeastern Syria.
  Family members for the six women and 13 children are expected to argue that t
  
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