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• Teck to sell closed Quintette mine to Conuma Resources for $120M, plus royalties

  19-12-2022 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Limited says it has reached a deal to sell its closed Quintette steelmaking coal mine in northeast British Columbia to Conuma Resources Ltd.
  Teck says Conuma Resources will pay $120 million in cash for the mine, plus an ongoing 25 per cent net profits interest royalty payable after Conuma recovers its investment in Quintette.
  The Quintette mine is located near Tumbler Ridge, B.C. and was in operation for 18 years, until Teck closed the mine in 2000.
  Teck has been
  
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• High court temporarily blocks lifting of asylum restrictions

  19-12-2022 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is temporarily blocking an order that would lift pandemic-era restrictions on asylum seekers. But it is leaving open the prospect of lifting the restrictions by Wednesday.The order Monday by Chief Justice John Roberts comes as conservative states are pushing to keep limits on asylum seekers that were put in place during the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. They are appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort before the limits are set
  
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• Canada’s David Cameron records remarkable comeback win at world darts championship

  19-12-2022 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON — Canadian David (Excalibur) Cameron, winning nine of the last 10 legs in a remarkable comeback, defeated England’s Ritchie (Madhouse) Edhouse in first-round play Monday at the Cazoo World Darts Championship.
  The 53-year-old from Fall River, N.S., was one leg away from defeat and had survived six match darts, down two sets and two legs to none, when he rallied. He won the next six legs to even the match at two sets apiece and led 2-0 in the fifth set before Edhouse finally won
  
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• Totem pole stolen from Kwikwetlem First Nation - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 23:30 via news.google.com
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• Missing elderly man with dementia believed to be in Kelowna

  19-12-2022 23:29 via globalnews.ca
  RCMP said Benjamin Archie, who has dementia, was unhappy Thursday morning when he left his care home to hitchhike to Kamloops. Police believe he made it to Kelowna.
  
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• Righty Chris Bassitt has high expectations for Toronto Blue Jays

  19-12-2022 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Chris Bassitt’s expectations for the 2023 Blue Jays are as high as those of the average Toronto fan.
  Bassitt and the Blue Jays announced that they had agreed to a US$63 million, three-year deal on Friday. The 33-year-old right-handed pitcher said that although he was pursued by several teams in free agency the Blue Jays were the right fit because he feels they could win it all.
  “I think they’re capable of winning a World Series, or I would not have come,” said Bassitt in
  
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• New nature deal needs co-operation between Ottawa, provinces, First Nations: experts

  19-12-2022 23:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Now that the world has come together for a new deal to protect what’s left of the planet’s biodiversity, observers say Canada’s various layers of government will have to do the same. 
  Ottawa can make the international promises, but it’s the provinces and territories that control activities that have the most impact on ecosystems such as agriculture, forestry and resource development, said Melanie Snow of Ecojustice.
  “The provinces and territories do have the mo
  
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• Found: Missing senior from Chilliwack believed to be in Kelowna - AM 1150 (iHeartRadio)

  19-12-2022 23:18 via news.google.com
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• Ottawa hasn’t been upfront in past about China risks for businesses: Joly

  19-12-2022 23:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Ottawa has not been clear with Canadian businesses in past years about the risks of operating in China.
  In a discussion with the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations, Joly says it’s up to businesses to choose how much they invest in China, but the federal government has a duty to help them navigate the risks. 
  This month, the government unveiled its long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy, which seeks closer economic, milita
  
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• Big business development under construction in Rosedale includes ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 23:07 via news.google.com
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• Missing senior with dementia attempting to hitchhike from Chilliwack ... - Hope Standard

  19-12-2022 23:00 via news.google.com
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• Shots fired between Merritt police and suspicious vehicle - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 22:50 via news.google.com
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• Canadian Judicial Council recommends Quebec judge’s removal from bench

  19-12-2022 22:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council is recommending that a Quebec Superior Court judge be removed from the bench for what it calls serious misconduct.
  The council says in a statement that following an inquiry, it has concluded the conduct of Justice Gérard Dugré undermined the public’s confidence in the judiciary and he cannot continue in his role.
  In July, an inquiry committee recommended he be removed from office due to “aggressive and disagreeable” att
  
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• Holiday season power outages increasing drastically as storms ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 22:20 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack family facing numerous life hurdles receives $6000 in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 21:44 via news.google.com
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• Phone scam involving group of fraudsters hits Abbotsford ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 21:34 via news.google.com
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• RCMP saw potential wolf-human ‘conflict,’ zoo declared no risk: B.C. escape documents

  19-12-2022 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Internal RCMP documents show police sawpotential for human-wolf “conflict” after the animals escaped their enclosure at the Greater Vancouver Zoo in August, despite the facility announcing there was no danger to the public. 
  The zoo in Aldergrove was shut for three days while workers and conservation officers searched for the wolves, which Langley RCMP said got loose when someone deliberately cut a hole in their enclosure.
  Documents provided to The Canadian Pre
  
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• Advocates say complainants should be able to opt out of publication bans

  19-12-2022 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Advocates are calling for the federal government to update laws around publication bans to better support victims who want to come forward and tell their stories.
  Morrell Andrews says she fought against a publication ban on her name last year because she wanted to be able to talk about her experience with sexual assault. 
  She says she’s optimistic that message is now being heard in Ottawa. 
  NDP MP Laurel Collins has introduced a parliamentary petition calling for c
  
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• Report shows B.C. has honoured pledge to deliver pandemic-postponed surgeries: Dix

  19-12-2022 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Health Minister Adrian Dix says the latest report on surgery volumes in the province “demonstrates the strength” of the surgical system.
  Dix makes the comment as the Health Ministry releases its mid-year progress report on the New Democrat government’s surgical renewal commitment.
  The report says 99.9 per cent of patients whose surgeries were postponed during the first wave of COVID-19 have now had their procedure, while 99.2 per cent of surger
  
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• Fraser Valley residents warned against non-essential travel as new storm brews

  19-12-2022 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER – Environment Canada is warning residents of Chilliwack and Abbotsford to avoid driving if possible, as another winter storm targets the Fraser Valley Monday evening.
  It has issued a winter storm warning for the Fraser Valley, forecasting up to 20 cm of snow to fall over the region late Monday evening through Tuesday. Exacerbating the problem is will be strong winds which could reduce visibility to zero.
  The national weather agency says a low pressure system is arriving in Washin
  
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• B.C. Lions sign Canadian OL Andrew Peirson to contract extension

  19-12-2022 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions have signed offensive lineman Andrew Peirson of Kingston, Ont., to a two-year contract extension.
  The Gannon University product was eligible for free agency in February.
  The six-foot-three, 300-pound lineman will play his fifth season with the Lions in 2023.
  Vancouver signed Peirson as a non-drafted free agent before training camp in 2018. 
  He’s dressed for every Lions game the last two seasons and twice started at right guard in 2022.
  The Lions (12-6)
  
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• B.C. universities to receive $4.3 million for innovation research funding: minister

  19-12-2022 20:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Four British Columbia universities will receive $4.3 million from a government research and innovation program to help fund projects in the fields of health, technology and natural resources. 
  Jobs Minister Brenda Bailey says the University of B.C., Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria and Vancouver Island University will receive the funding, with the bulk going to projects at the Vancouver and Okanagan UBC campuses.
  She says the funds will contribute to 18 proj
  
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• Libyan court sentences 17 former IS members to death

  19-12-2022 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — A Libyan court sentenced 17 former members of the Islamic State group to death, a statement from the country’s Tripoli-based top prosecutor said on Monday.
  The death sentences were given out to those convicted of participating in the killing of 53 people in the western city of Sabratha and destruction of public property, according to the statement. Another 16 militants were given prison sentences, two of them for life. The court did not specify when the sentenc
  
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• Toronto FC bolsters backline by signing veteran free agent centre back Matt Hedges

  19-12-2022 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Toronto FC has bolstered its defence by signing free agent Matt Hedges to a two-year contract.
  The 32-year-old spent the past 11 seasons with FC Dallas, serving as captain the last eight years. 
  The six-foot-four centre back made 349 appearances in all competitions for Dallas, which in 2014 made him became the youngest captain in franchise history.
  Hedges was named MLS Defender of the Year in 2016 and is a three-time MLS all-star (2017, 2018, 2019).
  Toronto conceded a franchise-record 66 go
  
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• ‘Perfect storm’ of inflation, high prices driving more into ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 20:25 via news.google.com
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• Four runaway cows in Quebec caught in covert operation and returned to thankful owner

  19-12-2022 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — An official with Quebec’s farmers union says it took a covert operation and the help of fresh snow to round up four cows from a herd of cattle that have been on the loose for months in central Quebec.
  Martin Marcouiller, president of the regional chapter of the Union des producteurs agricoles, says the four runaways were reunited with their owner in St-Sévère, Que., about 130 kilometres northeast of Montreal.
  Marcouiller says the farmers union kept Saturday&rsq
  
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• Mark Winokur steps aside as Tim Matthews takes over as GM of the Toronto Arrows

  19-12-2022 20:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Mark Winokur, who has headed up the Toronto Arrows since their inception in 2017, has stepped down as the Major League Rugby’s team’s chief operating officer and general manager.
  Tim Matthews took over Winokur’s duties in the role of vice-president and GM on Monday. Winokur will stay on as a senior adviser and report to club president Bill Webb, the team said.
  Winokur led the Arrows through two exhibition seasons before the team joined Major League Rugby in 2019
  
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• Royal couple’s three-day visit to Canada for Platinum Jubilee cost at least $1M

  19-12-2022 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Canadian taxpayers spent at least $1 million hosting King Charles III, who was then Prince of Wales, when he visited Canada earlier this year. 
  The RCMP provided a breakdown of the nearly $450,000 in costs it incurred for the three-day visit this past May by Charles and Camilla, the Queen Consort, who was then Duchess of Cornwall.
  The Mounties spent around $235,000 on travel and about another $212,000 on overtime. 
  They say there may be additional costs to process, addin
  
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• Chilliwack's Aynsley D'Ottavio makes Team BC roster for Canada ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 19:45 via news.google.com
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• Jan. 6 panel pushes Trump’s prosecution in forceful finish

  19-12-2022 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is wrapping up its investigation of the violent 2021 U.S. Capitol insurrection, with lawmakers opening a final public meeting Monday and poised to make an extraordinary recommendation: The Justice Department should consider criminal charges against former President Donald Trump.
  Chairman Bennie Thompson said the criminal justice system can provide accountability, adding, “We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help p
  
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• Brittney Griner says she’ll play basketball in Arizona again - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 19:30 via news.google.com
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• Inside gig work: Trading flexibility for uncertainty, risk and racism - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 19:00 via news.google.com
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• Maple Leafs acquire Dryden Hunt from Avalanche for Denis Malgin

  19-12-2022 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs have acquired Dryden Hunt from the Colorado Avalanche for fellow forward Denis Malgin, the club announced Monday.
  Hunt, 27, has put up 14 goals and 42 points in 193 regular-season games in parts of six NHL seasons with the Florida Panthers, Arizona Coyotes, New York Rangers and Avalanche. 
  The Cranbrook, B.C., native has two goals in 28 games with the Avalanche and Rangers this season.
  Acquired from Florida for forward Mason Marchment in February 2020
  
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• Endangered wildlife committee keeps B.C’s humpback whales on ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 18:30 via news.google.com
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• Canada wins way back into women’s world junior curling championship

  19-12-2022 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LOHJA, Finland — Emily Deschenes skipped Canada to an undefeated record at the world junior B women’s curling championship Monday and secured her team’s spot in the 2023 world junior championship.
  Deschenes, vice Lauren Ferguson, second Alison Umlah and lead Cate Fitzgerald edged Scotland 5-4 in Monday’s final to go 8-0.
  Canadian women placing ninth in the 10-country 2022 world juniors meant the country had to earn its way back to the top-tier women’s tournament via
  
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• World archery championship in 2024 awarded to Lac La Biche, Alta.

  19-12-2022 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Lac La Biche, Alta., has been chosen to host the 2024 world archery field championship by the world’s governing body of the sport.
  The town northeast of Edmonton was the site of the world archery 3D championship, which is targets shaped like animals, in 2019.
  The 2024 championship includes three bow disciplines of compound, recurve and barebow on a target course in forest and grasslands. The finals will take place at a golf course.
  Dustin Watson of Lakefield, Ont., won gold in the under-21
  
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• Here are the main points in the global biodiversity deal adopted at COP15 in Montreal

  19-12-2022 17:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Negotiators in Montreal have adopted a new agreement aimed at halting the destruction of nature and beginning to repair the damage. Here are six of the main commitments in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework.
  30 by 30 — The framework’s signature pledge is the agreement to ensure 30 per cent of the world’s land, water, coast and marine areas fall under some form of conservation by 2030. Another target in the agreement stipulates that at least 30 p
  
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• Goaltender Stuart Skinner signs three-year contract extension with Edmonton Oilers

  19-12-2022 17:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers have signed goaltender Stuart Skinner to a three-year, US$7.8-million contract extension.
  The 24-year-old from Edmonton has a record of 9-8-0-1, a goals-against average of 2.83 and a .915 save percentage for the Oilers this season. Skinner made 40-plus saves in three wins.
  He was drafted by Edmonton in the third round (78th) of the 2017 entry draft. Skinner has appeared in 33 NHL games with a career goal-against average of 2.82 and a .912 save percentage.This
  
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• CRTC gets new chair with broadcasting regulator in spotlight over contentious bills

  19-12-2022 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez has appointed the next head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. 
  Vicky Eatrides will serve as the broadcasting regulator’s chair and CEO for a five-year term starting on Jan. 5. 
  Eatrides was most recently an assistant deputy minister at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, a role she took on in 2019 after serving in several senior roles at the Competition Bureau. 
  She replaces I
  
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• World Curling Federation extends competition ban on Russia, Belarus

  19-12-2022 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  PERTH, United Kingdom — The World Curling Federation has extended a ban on Russia and Belarus from its events through to the end of the 2022-23 season.
  Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and Belarus supported it, the WCF booted both countries from all events, including the world championships, and made the ban effective until the end of 2022.
  “This has now been extended following concerns that their involvement would damage the integrity of the events due to the ongoin
  
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• Ottawa to attempt confiscating Russian oligarch assets, a first in sanctions regime

  19-12-2022 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it plans to target a Russian oligarch using a law to confiscate and divert assets held by people who have been sanctioned.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada will try to seize and forfeit US$26 million, or about C$36 million, from a firm owned by Roman Abramovich.
  Abramovich is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the former owner of Chelsea Football Club in England.
  Joly’s office says she “will now consider ma
  
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• Yukon wind chill below -50 C, more snow for southern B.C., as frigid system hits

  19-12-2022 17:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Weather alerts blanket most of British Columbia, Yukon and a large portion of Alberta as a bitterly cold system sweeps across those regions and another round of snow threatens southern B.C.
  Environment Canada says the unseasonably cold temperatures will bring wind chill values in parts of B.C. and Alberta to near or below — 40 C, while it could feel as cold as -54 C overnight in northern Yukon.
  The weather office predicts frigid conditions are expected to last for much of
  
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• Negotiators reach nature deal at COP15 despite objections from ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest voted news story of the year - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Elon Musk Twitter poll ends with users seeking his departure - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Dozens hurt in turbulent Hawaii flight, 11 seriously - Chilliwack Progress

  19-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• ‘Freedom Convoy’ protest voted The Canadian Press news story of the year

  19-12-2022 16:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The “Freedom Convoy” protest over COVID-19 health restrictions has been voted The Canadian Press news story of the year.
  The protest was by far the top pick in a vote by editors from newsrooms across the country, who were asked to choose the biggest story of 2022.
  After nearly two years in and out of lockdowns to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, the federal government issued a vaccine mandate for cross-border truck drivers late in 2021.
  That fuelled disconten
  
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• Dutch leader apologizes for Netherlands’ role in slave trade

  19-12-2022 15:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologized Monday on behalf of his government for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery and the slave trade, despite calls for him to delay the long-awaited statement.
  “Today I apologize,” Rutte said in a 20-minute speech that was greeted with silence by an invited audience at the National Archive.
  Rutte went ahead with the apology even though some activist groups urged him to wait until next year’s
  
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• Residents clear to return to Toronto-area condo after six shot dead, including gunman

  19-12-2022 13:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VAUGHAN, Ont. — Residents who were evacuated from a Toronto-area condo where a lone gunman opened fire and killed five people can return to the building this morning.York Regional Police say officers were called to the Vaughan, Ont., condo for an active shooting around 7:20 p.m. Sunday.Police say the gunman was shot after an “interaction” with officers, but they have not released any further details.They say five people were found dead and another person was sent to hospital in
  
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• Court: UK plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is legal

  19-12-2022 11:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONDON (AP) — Judges at Britain’s High Court say the U.K. government’s controversial plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda is legal.
  But two judges also ruled that the government failed to consider the circumstances of the individuals it tried to deport.
  The ruling is a partial victory for the government but is likely to face further legal challenges.
  Several asylum-seekers, aid groups and a border officials’ union filed lawsuits to stop the Conservative
  
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