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• Abbotsford school trustees defend 24% pay increase by previous ... - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 23:48
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• Jury finds Hugo Chavez’s ex-nurse guilty of money laundering

  13-12-2022 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MIAMI (AP) — The former nurse of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been found guilty of money laundering in connection to bribes paid by a billionaire media mogul to green light lucrative currency transactions when she served as the country’s national treasurer.A jury in south Florida deliberated for just a few hours Tuesday before finding Claudia Diaz and her husband, Adrían Velasquez, guilty of five of the six counts detailed in a 2020 indictment accusing them of tak
  
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• B.C. mother loses appeal over Indigenous smudging in school - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 23:30
  B.C. mother loses appeal over Indigenous smudging in school  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Woman who stabbed two Castlegar teens sentenced to six years - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 23:20
  Woman who stabbed two Castlegar teens sentenced to six years  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Demand for Chilliwack Community Services gift hampers at an all-time high - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 23:18
  Demand for Chilliwack Community Services gift hampers at an all-time high  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canada’s Maddie Szeryk excited to return to LPGA Tour for second season in 2023

  13-12-2022 23:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  After the most stressful two weeks of her season, Maddie Szeryk and her family are returning to Canada for a relaxing Christmas break with her extended family in London, Ont.
  Szeryk qualified for her second season on the top women’s golf circuit on Sunday, finished the Q-Series tied for 17th at 17-under par to earn her LPGA Tour card for 2023. The 26-year-old Szeryk said that she was ready for some well-earned down time after the gruelling eight-round event at the Robert Trent Jones Golf T
  
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• Biden signs gay marriage bill at White House ceremony

  13-12-2022 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed gay marriage legislation into law Tuesday before a crowd of thousands, a ceremony that reflected growing acceptance of same-sex unions.“This law and the love it defends strike a blow against hate in all its forms,” Biden said on the South Lawn of the White House. “And that’s why this law matters to every single American.”
  Lawmakers from both parties were there, as well as first lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kam
  
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• Students turn to TikTok to fill gaps in school lessons - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 22:30
  Students turn to TikTok to fill gaps in school lessons  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Review: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is a big screen blast - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 22:30
  Review: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is a big screen blast  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Álvarez surges, scores, carries Argentina to World Cup final - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 22:30
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• Fusion breakthrough a milestone for climate, clean energy - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 22:30
  Fusion breakthrough a milestone for climate, clean energy  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Danish PM: After weeks of talks, deal on centrist govt

  13-12-2022 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Acting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Tuesday an agreement has been struck to form a new center-led government after 42 days of talks following the Nov. 1 general election.
  Frederiksen said the governing coalition would include her own Social Democrats, the Liberal Party and the newly created Moderate party of former Danish Prime Lars Løkke Rasmussen. It will be presented later this week.
  Details of who will be the different get the different
  
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• Timeline of investigation into slayings of four women in Winnipeg

  13-12-2022 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Winnipeg police have charged Jeremy Skibicki, 35, with first-degree murder in the deaths of four women. Investigators believe the killings of Rebecca Contois, 24; Morgan Beatrice Harris, 39; Marcedes Myran, 26; and a fourth unidentified woman whom Indigenous leaders have named Buffalo Woman, or Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe, happened over two months.
  Here is a timeline of the case so far: 
  March 15 – Police believe Buffalo Woman was killed on or around this date.
  May 1 – Poli
  
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• Peru judge denies ousted leader Pedro Castillo’s jail appeal

  13-12-2022 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — A judge ordered ousted Peruvian President Pedro Castillo to remain in custody on Tuesday, denying his appeal as authorities build a rebellion case against him.
  Supreme Court Judge Cesar San Martin Castro’s decision could further inflame violent protests across the country, where people have been demanding Castillo’s freedom, the resignation of his successor and the immediate scheduling of general elections to pick a new president and replace all members of Con
  
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• Messi, Argentina beat Croatia 3-0 to reach World Cup final

  13-12-2022 22:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LUSAIL, Qatar (AP) — Lionel Messi is back in the World Cup final with Argentina on his mission to win soccer’s biggest prize for the first time.
  And, at 35, he could hardly be playing any better.
  Messi converted a penalty and had a hand in the other two goals by Julián Álvarez, leading Argentina to a 3-0 win over Croatia on Tuesday that set up a meeting with either France or Morocco in Sunday’s title match.
  It will be Messi’s second World Cup final — A
  
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• First Nations groups determining next steps in landfill search, consulting experts

  13-12-2022 22:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WINNIPEG — Indigenous groups are considering their own study into a potential search of a landfill outside Winnipeg for the remains of two women believed to be the victims of an alleged serial killer after police declined to look there. 
  Long Plain First Nation Chief Kyra Wilson said leaders are meeting this week to form a committee of experts to put together a search and budget plan. 
  They are hoping to present a plan to provincial and federal governments and request funding.&nb
  
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• New complex care housing services will open in Chilliwack - Fraser Health Authority

  13-12-2022 22:01
  New complex care housing services will open in Chilliwack  Fraser Health Authority
  
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• Fast Air charter service launches in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 21:59
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• Cromwell says it’s clear ‘efforts were made’ to improve Hockey Canada board

  13-12-2022 21:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Former Supreme Court judge Thomas Cromwell said Tuesday it was apparent a “serious effort” was made to improve diversity, gender balance and range of experience on Hockey Canada’s board of directors.
  The candidates — five women and four men — were named a day earlier to fill the vacant board seats at the national sport organization. Hockey Canada’s provincial and territorial members will hold a Saturday vote on whether to accept or reject the en
  
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• What a Liberal win in an Ontario byelection might mean for the Tories and the NDP

  13-12-2022 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A Liberal win in a federal byelection in Ontario before the holidays has some Conservatives feeling a little blue — and a little worried about what happened to the New Democrats. 
  Former provincial cabinet minister Charles Sousa handily won the riding of Mississauga-Lakeshore Monday night in a race that saw just over a quarter of eligible voters cast a ballot. 
  The Conservatives had been tempering expectations for their candidate, local police officer Ron Chhinzer,
  
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• Defence lawyer in trial of escaped B.C. inmate says Crown did not prove guilt

  13-12-2022 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The defence lawyer in the B.C. Supreme Court murder trial of an escaped inmate says the jury must acquit his client because the evidence doesn’t align with the prosecution’s theory of events. 
  Ryan Drury told a jury in closing arguments that DNA evidence and lack of blood splatter on the clothes of James Lee Busch, means either that his client wasn’t in the house, he didn’t take part in the murder or his only involvement was in cleaning up the crime
  
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• Gift card scam catching B.C. holiday shoppers off guard - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 21:30
  Gift card scam catching B.C. holiday shoppers off guard  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Free CP Holiday Train event returns to Agassiz this weekend after pandemic hiatus

  13-12-2022 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  AGASSIZ — The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train will return to the Agassiz community this weekend following virtual concerts in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021, as it seeks to raise money, food and awareness for local food banks in what should be an entertaining Christmas-time event.
  The Holiday Train event kicks off at 5:30 p.m. this Saturday, December 17 in Centennial Park in Agassiz. The festivities will feature food, drinks, and live music performances from Mackenzie Porter and V
  
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• Coaching Association of Canada announces new mental health and sport project

  13-12-2022 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Coaching Association of Canada announced a new mental health and sport project funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada on Tuesday. 
  The National Mental Health and Sport project will be launching in February 2023. CAC hopes to increase mental health literacy among coaches at all levels of sport and in all provinces and territories. 
  “This project is an important opportunity for the CAC to raise awareness and literacy on mental health within the sport commun
  
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• Rescue group captures wrong-way warbler that should be wintering far south

  13-12-2022 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BURNABY, B.C. — A tiny warbler spotted flying in a Vancouver parking garage is not only on the wrong side of the country, it’s on the wrong continent for this time of year. 
  The Wildlife Rescue Association says it captured the prothonotary warbler without incident out of concern for its health.
  It’s only the 11th time the bright yellow bird has been spotted in B.C., and association manager Jackie McQuillan says the species would normally migrate in summers to Quebec and On
  
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• Osorio hopes decision to stay with TFC will help grow the game at home

  13-12-2022 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Canadian international Jonathan Osorio’s recent experience at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar played a massive part in his decision to stay home and re-sign with Toronto FC.
  The veteran midfielder committed to a new three-year contract plus a 2026 option with Toronto on Monday using targeted allocation money.
  Osorio entertained offers to continue his career in Europe and explained his decision to remain with Toronto FC at a press conference at BMO Field on Tuesday.
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• Trudeau says he’s not willing to kick health-care reform down the road any longer

  13-12-2022 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s not willing to kick health-care reform down the road any farther, with governments appearing to have reached a stalemate in health-care funding negotiations.
  Provincial premiers have called for a meeting with Trudeau for more than a year to discuss their demand that the federal government pay a larger share of health-care costs.
  In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, Trudeau said his government is ready and willing to offer m
  
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• Chilliwack gas prices jump 15-20 cents in past 24 hours

  13-12-2022 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Unleaded gasoline prices jumped about 15-20 cents in the past 24 hours throughout Chilliwack, as the days of cheap gas around $1.30 per litre didn’t stick around for long.
  During the past week, gas prices had been hovering in the $1.319 to $1.329 range, including a low of $1.307 at the Esso at Young Road and First Avenue Monday afternoon near downtown Chilliwack.
  By Tuesday morning, those low prices had given way to a price around $1.529 per litre at five gas stations on
  
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• Empty Stocking Fund: Chilliwack kids can rest assured that new PJs ... - The Province

  13-12-2022 20:03
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• Sticking with RCMP would save Surrey, B.C., $235 million: report

  13-12-2022 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SURREY, B.C. — City council in Surrey, B.C., has voted to send a plan to the province to keep the RCMP as its police force, saying it would save $235 million over five years.
  Mayor Brenda Locke, who campaigned on a promise to retain the RCMP, says that savings for Surrey taxpayers is enormous and the city must stick with the Mounties because it can’t afford to make the change. 
  The report says the cost of 734 officers with the Surrey Police Service would be $249,460 per officer,
  
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• MLA Kelli Paddon announces 22 complex-care housing spaces coming to Chilliwack, south of downtown

  13-12-2022 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-Kent MLA Kelli Paddon says the advent of 22 spaces for individuals with complex mental-health and substance-use challenges will fill a huge need within Chilliwack.Paddon made the announcement Tuesday morning (Dec. 13) at the Chilliwack Primary Care Clinic, at 7955 Evans Road, in what she believes will be a game-changer.
  “I’m very grateful to be here to share some fantastic news for our community on behalf of the Minister of Mental Health and Addictions,
  
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• Quebec hockey league aware of sexual assault allegations against two former players

  13-12-2022 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League says it is aware of sexual assault allegations against two former players.
  The league said today it only recently learned of the alleged 2016 assault involving two former Drummondville Voltigeurs players and another young man.
  The charges against the two former players were first reported by Radio-Canada.
  Radio-Canada says two of the accused — who were minors at the time of the incident and cannot be named — have pleaded guilty t
  
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• CFL releases 2023 season schedule with new twist

  13-12-2022 19:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  The CFL has released its 2023 season schedule on Tuesday, with a bit of a twist.
  For the first time since 2008, divisional playoff games are set to be played on Saturdays, with the semifinals taking place on Nov. 4 before the divisional finals go Nov. 11.
  In addition, the league has reduced the number of times teams host games in consecutive weeks and halved the instances of teams playing back-to-backs against the same opponent.
  The regular-season slate will begin June 8 with the B.C. Lions taki
  
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• Any two athletes can compete together domestically in ice dance, pairs: Skate Canada

  13-12-2022 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Skate Canada has updated its policies so that ice dance or pairs teams competing domestically can be composed of any two athletes.
  Canada’s governing body of figure skating announced Tuesday that its definition of “team” for athletes training in the Podium Pathway will be revised to consisting of “two skaters.”
  The previous definition was one woman and one man.
  Skate Canada said in a tweet that there are no new event categories, and any team can enter
  
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• Mission’s Dhivaan Bhogal developing and producing for UFV in sophomore season - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 19:30
  Mission’s Dhivaan Bhogal developing and producing for UFV in sophomore season  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack home sales and inventory dip in November - Hope Standard

  13-12-2022 19:30
  Chilliwack home sales and inventory dip in November  Hope Standard
  
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• Scientists declare 2 Hawaii volcanoes have stopped erupting

  13-12-2022 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. scientists declared Tuesday that two active Hawaii volcanoes — one where lava destroyed hundreds of homes in 2018 and another where lava recently stalled before reaching a crucial Big Island highway — have stopped erupting.
  “Kilauea is no longer erupting,” the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said in a statement Tuesday, followed by a separate one saying, “Mauna Loa is no longer erupting.”
  Alert levels for
  
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• US poised to approve Patriot missile battery for Ukraine

  13-12-2022 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot down incoming Russian attacks, U.S. officials said Tuesday.The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public.
  Ukrainian President Vol
  
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• New complex-care housing services will open in Chilliwack | BC Gov News - BC Gov News

  13-12-2022 19:17
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• New complex-care housing services will open in Chilliwack | BC ... - BC Gov News

  13-12-2022 19:17
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• 8 in France convicted of roles in Bastille Day truck attack

  13-12-2022 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PARIS (AP) — A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera city of Nice.The judge’s verdict followed 3 1/2 months of sometimes heart-wrenching testimony from survivors of the 2016 attack, who during the trial described the horrors and carnage they witnessed that Thursday summer night and the impact on their lives sin
  
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• Society must decide where ‘line is going to be’ on assault-style firearms: Trudeau

  13-12-2022 18:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government is trying to find the dividing line between guns suitable for hunting and ones that have no place in society because they pose significant dangers in the wrong hands.
  Trudeau said in an interview with The Canadian Press that while the effort is sparking disagreement, it’s up to society to figure out “where that line is going to be.”
  The government wants to reinforce a May 2020 regulatory ban on an array of guns it
  
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• CRA should warn benefits applicants about risk of clawbacks: Taxpayers’ watchdog

  13-12-2022 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson François Boileau says the Canada Revenue Agency should warn Canadians applying for benefits about the risk of potential clawbacks to other income supports.Boileau recommended in his latest annual report that the CRA make it clear to applicants that benefits that increase their income could affect other benefits they receive.
  Boileau said during a news conference today that the recommendation was inspired by the experience of some seniors during
  
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• Trade Minister Mary Ng broke ethics rules over contract to friend, commissioner rules

  13-12-2022 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner says Trade Minister Mary Ng broke the rules when her office awarded a contract to one of her friends. 
  Commissioner Mario Dion released a report today after the federal Conservatives filed a complaint back in the spring, raising concerns over the fact that Ng’s office awarded media training contracts to the firm Pomp and Circumstance. 
  The firm was co-founded and run by Amanda Alvaro, a friend of Ng’s.&
  
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• Parliamentary study says government should explain new extreme intoxication law

  13-12-2022 17:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is recommending the federal government launch a public awareness campaign to plainly explain an extreme intoxication policy that caused confusion when it was rushed into law earlier this year.The law, which was passed in June, updates the Criminal Code after a Supreme Court ruling struck down the ban on using self-induced intoxication as a legal defence in a criminal case.
  The new law says “extreme intoxication” renders a person unaware of, or
  
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• Public Notice Council Meetings 2023 - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 17:30
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• Notice of Tax Sale and Redemption Period - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 17:30
  Notice of Tax Sale and Redemption Period  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Notice of Intention - Chilliwack Progress

  13-12-2022 17:30
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• Focus turns to financing in final days of global biodiversity conference

  13-12-2022 17:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Negotiators at a global conference on saving the world’s biodiversity are sharpening their focus on how to pay for it, as environment ministers from around the globe converge in Montreal for the final days of COP15.
  Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says setting ambitious targets for preserving land and water won’t help if there isn’t adequate funding.   
  He acknowledges reaching an agreement on how developed countries can help pay for bi
  
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• ‘Extreme shifts:’ New report details effects of changing Arctic climate

  13-12-2022 17:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  YELLOWKNIFE — A new report details how widespread changes in the Arctic, from warming air temperatures to sea-ice loss, have affected animals, plants and people living there. 
  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its latest annual Arctic report card Tuesday, complied by more than 100 experts from 11 countries. It provides an update on vital signs in the region and includes new chapters on precipitation, the impacts of rapid climate change on Indigenous communit
  
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