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• Israel’s Netanyahu says he has formed new government

  21-12-2022 23:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced late Wednesday that he has successfully formed a new coalition, setting the stage for him to return to power as head of the most right-wing Israeli government ever.
  Netanyahu made the announcement in a phone call to President Isaac Herzog moments before a midnight deadline. His Likud Party released a brief video clip of the smiling Netanyahu and a recording of the conversation.
  “I wanted to announce to you that t
  
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• Judge grants bail to former RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking secrets

  21-12-2022 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — An RCMP intelligence official accused of violating Canada’s secrecy law has been granted bail.
  The reasons for Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Maranger’s decision Wednesday in the case of Cameron Jay Ortis are covered by a publication ban. 
  Ortis was taken into custody in Ottawa on Sept. 12, 2019.
  The former head of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre is charged with breaching the Security of Information Act as well as two Criminal Co
  
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• B.C. shoppers warned about devious holiday scams - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 22:30 via news.google.com
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• No charges for officers who showed ‘remarkable courage’ in wild B.C. shootout: review

  21-12-2022 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  SAANICH, B.C. — British Columbia’s Independent Investigations Office has cleared police officers who were involved in a wild shootout outside a Saanich, B.C., bank last summer that left twin brothers dead.
  Ronald MacDonald, the office’s chief civilian director, says a review finds the officers showed remarkable courage under potentially deadly circumstances and there are no reasonable grounds to believe they committed an offence.
  Twenty-two-year-old Mathew and Isaac Auchterloni
  
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• Remembering the lives lost in the Vaughan condo shooting rampage

  21-12-2022 21:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — The five people killed after a 73-year-old man went on a shooting rampage at his Toronto-area condo are being remembered as kind community members who were loved by their families. 
  Police have said Francesco Villi, who was involved in a lengthy dispute with his condo board, killed three board members and two of their partners on Sunday night before he was shot dead by police. 
  Here is a look at the lives of the five victims: 
  Rita Camilleri, 57 
  Camilleri was
  
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• Charge dropped against Chilliwack man accused of child porn ... - Hope Standard

  21-12-2022 21:50 via news.google.com
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• Charge dropped against Chilliwack man accused of child porn ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 21:50 via news.google.com
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• Jessie Fleming named Canada Soccer player of the year for second straight time

  21-12-2022 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  TORONTO — Jessie Fleming has been named Canada Soccer’s player of the year for the second year in a row.
  The 24-year old midfielder from London, Ont., shared the women’s national team lead with five goals in 2022 and led the squad with 17 appearances and 1,420 minutes played.
  She was named to the tournament Best XI at the CONCACAF W Championship, where she helped Canada win a silver medal. She tied with teammate Julia Grosso for the tournament scoring lead with three goals, inc
  
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• Hockey Canada, women’s team finalize one-year athlete agreement

  21-12-2022 21:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Hockey Canada has reached a one-year athlete agreement with its national women’s team.
  The agreement covers 28 athletes and is retroactive to Oct. 1, 2022, Hockey Canada said Wednesday in a statement.
  A women’s high-performance advisory committee consisting of current Canadian team veterans Renata Fast, Brianne Jenner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull negotiated the agreement with the national governing body. 
  They secured changes in the commercial usage of player
  
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• Regulations for ban on foreign homebuyers announced, law coming into effect Jan. 1

  21-12-2022 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation has announced regulations for the ban on foreign homebuyers, which comes into effect on Jan. 1. 
  Starting in the new year, foreign commercial enterprises and people will be prohibited from purchasing residential properties in Canada for two years. 
  The ban, which was passed by Parliament on June 23, aims to address housing affordability challenges. 
  There are some exceptions, including for those with temporary work permits
  
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• Golf Canada unveils 2023 national teams under new three-tier system

  21-12-2022 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  An all-time high of 57 athletes were named to Golf Canada’s teams on Wednesday along with eight coaches.
  Golf Canada’s 2023 national team system now features three program tiers: amateurs and professionals are on Team Canada, NextGen is for under-21 amateurs, and the third group is a talent identification system aimed at growing the pool of prospects.
  The updated program tiers are designed to help Golf Canada’s high-performance program increase the number of Canadians on the LP
  
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• Fraser Valley transit drivers vote in favour of job action - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 20:50 via news.google.com
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• Canada Post advises of further mail delivery delays in Chilliwack

  21-12-2022 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The clock is ticking ahead of Christmas, but wintry weather has impacted Canada’s Post ability to deliver Christmas packages to their Fraser Valley destinations.Canada Post wrote on social media Wednesday morning that it cannot promise that mail delivery will occur today (Dec. 21) due to inclement weather and other hazardous driving conditions throughout the Fraser Valley, including Chilliwack.After yesterday’s red red delivery service alert that suspended mail del
  
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• Chilliwack grandma loses all her Christmas money in crypto scam - Terrace Standard

  21-12-2022 20:45 via news.google.com
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• Dining dinosaur fossil has mammal in belly, sheds light on ancient ecosystems

  21-12-2022 20:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  EDMONTON — A rare fossil revealing a dinosaur’s last meal is shedding new light on ancient ecosystems and behaviours. 
  University of Alberta paleontologist Corwin Sullivan says the fossil of a crow-sized, birdlike dinosaur he describes in a new paper has a mammal’s foot in its belly. 
  Microraptor Zhaoianus lived about 120 million years ago and is known to have eaten fish and other lizards.
  But this is one of only a few fossils that show the dinosaur preyed on the smal
  
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• Review: The silent film era roars again in ‘Babylon’ - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
  Review: The silent film era roars again in ‘Babylon’  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Extreme cold warnings blanket Western Canada as winter officially ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
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• Canada’s population growing faster than it has in decades: StatCan - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 20:30 via news.google.com
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• Zelenskyy gets White House welcome from Biden before talks

  21-12-2022 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the White House on Wednesday as the leaders try to show a unified front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Their summit was Zelenskyy’s first known trip outside his home country since the war began in February.Biden and first lady Jill Biden greeted Zelenskyy, who wore casual army green attire, as he got out of his vehicle. He shook hands with Biden before they went inside for their Ova
  
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• Province to suspend power requests from cryptocurrency operations in B.C. through 2024

  21-12-2022 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VICTORIA — The B.C. government announced Wednesday that B.C. Hydro will suspend electricity-connection requests from cryptocurrency mining operations for 18 months in an effort to preserve British Columbia’s supply of clean electricity and support ongoing climate action and economic goals.In a news release Wednesday morning (Dec. 21), the temporary suspension will preserve B.C.’s electricity supply, while giving government and B.C. Hydro sufficient time to engage with industry
  
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• Historic win for Canadian para surfer Victoria Feige - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 20:20 via news.google.com
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• Extreme cold warnings blanket Western Canada as winter officially arrives

  21-12-2022 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  VANCOUVER — Weather warnings or special weather statements are posted in every province and territory except Manitoba as winter storms or extreme cold usher in the official start of winter.
  Environment Canada says wind chill values across all of Alberta and more than half of Saskatchewan will make it feel like minus 40 or colder, while some areas of northern Alberta, the Yukon and Northwest Territories will endure wind chill of minus 50.
  The cold is expected to continue through this week a
  
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• Senior Environment Canada climatologist’s top weather stories of 2022

  21-12-2022 20:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  From “springuary” for the winter that wouldn’t leave to “hotumn” for the fall that never came, Canadians got a whole new vocabulary for wild weather this year. 
  Here is a list of Canada’s top 10 weather stories for 2022 compiled by Environment Canada senior climatologist Dave Phillips:
  1. Hurricane Fiona Slams the East Coast — Fiona combined elements of a hurricane and a cyclone to lash the East Coast with lots of everything. A buoy off Cape Breton
  
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• Chilliwack grandma loses all her Christmas money in crypto scam - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 19:56 via news.google.com
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• Chilliwack grandma loses all her Christmas money in crypto scam ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  21-12-2022 19:56 via news.google.com
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• ‘Weird and wacky’: Hurricane Fiona top weather story in stormy, wet, windy, dry year

  21-12-2022 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  If nothing else, 2022 gave Canadians a slew of new weather words. 
  There was “springuary” for the winter that wouldn’t leave. There was “hotumn” for the fall that never came.
  “Derecho” got new currency after the powerful winds flattened a swath of Ontario. Rain-swamped Montreal gave us “urban flooding.”
  And east coasters learned just what a “hybrid storm” means from hurricane Fiona — the top pick of Environment Canada&r
  
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• Experts say F-35 startup costs will be high due to infrastructure, network upgrades

  21-12-2022 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Experts say they are not surprised that Canada intends to spend billions on an initial set of F-35s given the large startup costs associated with buying a new fighter jet.
  The Canadian Press reported this week that the Department of National Defence has received authorization to spend $7 billion on 16 F-35s and associated gear.
  That works out to about $450 million per plane, which is about four times more than expected and has left some wondering whether Canada is getting a good d
  
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• B.C. international student tricked into creating hostage videos ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 19:24 via news.google.com
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• Christmas light drive-through displays accentuate the holiday spirit in Chilliwack

  21-12-2022 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — While the weather has indeed been frightful the past few days, it’s all the more reason for Chilliwack families to experience the beauty of festive Christmas light displays in the warmth of their vehicles and avoid the bitterly cold subzero temperatures this past week.One of the neatest drive-through Christmas light extravaganzas in all of Chilliwack is back for another year of holiday entertainment.Headlining the list of Sardis-area Christmas light attractions is the fe
  
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• Olympic speedskaters Gilmore Junio, Kaylin Irvine and Marsha Hudey retire

  21-12-2022 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CALGARY — Canadian Olympic speedskaters Gilmore Junio, Kaylin Irvine and Marsha Hudey announced their retirements on Wednesday.
  Junio, from Calgary, won 12 World Cup medals over the course of his 12-year career, including seven in the 500 metres and five in the team sprint.
  He represented Canada at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
  Junio made headlines at the 2014 Sochi Games when he gave his spot in the 1,000-metre final to teammate Denny Morrison, who had missed qualifying in that
  
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• Mall shooter told ex he would `take others’ if he died

  21-12-2022 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  GREENWOOD, Indiana (AP) — The ex-girlfriend of a 20-year-old man who fatally shot three people at an Indianapolis-area mall said he told her he didn’t expect to make it to 21 and that if he killed himself, he would “take others” with him, a police chief said Wednesday.
  Jonathan Douglas Sapirman also had a fascination with Nazi Germany, according to the girlfriend, who was interviewed after the July 17 shooting at the Greenwood Park Mall. But while the three slain victims
  
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• Roughriders sign defensive back Nick Marshall to one-year extension

  21-12-2022 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders have signed defensive back Nick Marshall to a one-year contract extension.
  Marshall set a Roughriders’ record for interceptions returned for touchdowns last season when he earned his fifth career pick-six in a 41-20 win over Montreal in Week 4. He intercepted a Trevor Harris pass in the fourth quarter and returned it 90 yards.
  Marshall had four total interceptions and 24 defensive tackles in 16 games last season.
  In 60 games over four seasons wit
  
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• Public safety minister hopes to table First Nations policing legislation in new year

  21-12-2022 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says he hopes to introduce legislation declaring First Nations policing an essential service in the new year.
  In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, Mendicino says the law is being developed with Indigenous communities, who deserve “the same quality of policing” as non-Indigenous communities. 
  Back in September Mendicino told reporters he would “work around the clock” to have the law ready to be introduc
  
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• US sending $1.85 billion in military aid to Ukraine

  21-12-2022 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it will provide $1.85 billion in military aid to Ukraine, rolling out funding for a Patriot missile battery as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is arriving in Washington for a first trip out of his country since Russia invaded in February.
  The White House announcement came just hours before Zelenskyy was expected to arrive. The package includes $1 billion in weapons and equipment from Pentagon stocks, including the
  
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• Multi-medal day for Canada in World Cup ski cross

  21-12-2022 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  INNICHEN, Italy — Canadians collected three medals in World Cup ski cross Wednesday led by Reece Howden’s silver in the men’s races.
  Canadian men ranked second to fourth with Howden of Cultus Lake, B.C., Calgary’s Brady Leman and Kris Mahler of Canmore, Alta., finishing in that order behind winner Mathias Graf of Austria.
  The three Canadians and Graf raced head-to-head against each other in the final.
  “I’ve never raced with three Canadians in the big final bef
  
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• City of Chilliwack says its public works crews worked all night following latest winter storm

  21-12-2022 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack said on Twitter Wednesday that its public works crews have not stopped working on clearing roads ever since the latest winter storm dropped over 20 centimetres of snow throughout the city.Some areas of Chilliwack were walloped by as much as a foot of snow at higher elevations, while the valley floor saw at least 20 centimetres of snow by Tuesday midday.According to a posting on Twitter Wednesday morning (Dec. 21), the City of Chilliwack says that its ope
  
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• Canada’s population growing faster than it has in decades: StatCan

  21-12-2022 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — As 2022 draws to a close, Canada’s population has already grown more than in any other year since Confederation. 
  Statistics Canada says the country’s population grew by 362,453 people, or 0.9 per cent, between July and October alone. 
  The federal agency is attributing that to a rise in non-permanent residents, including work-permit holders and people fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  
  That influx of people over the three-month period was more th
  
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• Hockey Canada picking up the pieces after disastrous, scandal-filled 2022

  21-12-2022 17:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Hugh L. Fraser didn’t have the nuts-and-bolts knowledge to coach his sons’ hockey teams.
  He did, however, want to pitch in at the frigid rinks across eastern Ontario.
  “By the time my older boy finished novice hockey, he knew more about the fundamentals than I did,” Fraser said. “But they needed somebody running the clocks.
  “So, I started running the clocks.”
  Years later, he watched from afar as Hockey Canada – the game’s steward in this count
  
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• Federal funding of $1.4 million to launch 6.5 kms of greenway in Mission

  21-12-2022 17:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MISSION — The City of Mission announced Monday (Dec. 19) that it is the grateful recipient of $1.4 million in federal funding to launch a 6.5-kilometre greenway route on 7th Avenue.The $1,431,480 funding disbursement is meant to launch Phase 1 of the 7th Avenue Greenway project.Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of International Development and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, made the funding announcement in Ottawa on Monday.At completion of both phases,
  
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• NHLers reflect how 3-on-3 OT has changed since inception: ‘You can’t force it’

  21-12-2022 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  Mark Giordano remembers a time when 3-on-3 overtime was run-and-gun.
  Those chaotic days are long gone.
  Since reducing the number of players in the extra period from four skaters a side down to three ahead of the 2015-16 season, NHL teams have developed systems and strategies to maximize chances — and minimize them against.
  End-to-end action and trading odd-man rushes was the norm early on. Now it’s all about possessing the puck as long as it takes to create an opportunity.
  “You
  
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• CF Montreal trades for defender Aaron Herrera, sends money and pick to Real Salt Lake

  21-12-2022 17:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  MONTREAL — Defender Aaron Herrera was acquired by CF Montreal in trade with Real Salt Lake on Wednesday.
  Herrera’s arrival will help fill the void left by the departure of Canadian defender Alistair Johnston, who Montreal transferred to Scotland’s Celtic earlier this month.
  Real Salt Lake gets $350,000 in 2023 General Allocation Money, $150,000 in 2024 General Allocation Money,  Montreal’s natural first round pick (No. 25 overall) in the 2023 MLS SuperDraft and a 202
  
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• Quebec expanding urgent-care phone line to all children amid ER overcrowding

  21-12-2022 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  LONGUEUIL, Que. — Quebec is expanding a call-in service that allows parents to book urgent medical appointments for sick children, in an effort to reduce emergency room visits.Health Minister Christian Dubé says the 811 appointment-booking service for children — currently available in Montreal and neighbouring regions — will now be available provincewide.
  Dubé told reporters today during a visit to a hospital on Montreal’s South Shore that he expects traffic
  
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• COVID-19 pandemic helped Quebec surpass its emissions target: environment minister

  21-12-2022 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  QUEBEC — The Quebec government is crediting the COVID-19 pandemic for helping the province surpass its climate change targets.
  Quebec cut emissions from greenhouse gases — which trap heat and warm the planet — by almost 27 per cent compared to 1990 levels between 2013-2020.
  The province’s goal was to cut emissions by 20 per cent over that period.
  Environment Minister Benoit Charette says Quebec surpassed its target because of the pandemic-induced economic slowdown and dro
  
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• City’s 2023 Financial Plan adds more RCMP officers and firefighters, with 4.48% property tax increase

  21-12-2022 16:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack plans to beef up on its roster of public safety personnel in its 2023 Financial Plan, accompanied by an anticipated property tax increase of 4.48 per cent in the coming year.An even greater emphasis on public safety will be integrated into the 2023 Financial Plan from the City of Chilliwack as finance staff craft a budget meant to incorporate an increase of only essential public safety personnel at this point.Chilliwack City Council gave the 2023 Financi
  
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• Senators sign defenceman Artem Zub to four-year contract extension

  21-12-2022 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  OTTAWA — Defenceman Artem Zub has agreed to a four-year contract extension with the Ottawa Senators.
  The contract has an average annual value of US$4.6 million.
  Zub will earn $4 million in 2023-24, and then $4.8 million in each of the remaining three seasons. The new contract takes effect on July 1 and includes a 10-team no-trade list.
  Zub had several career highs last season, with six goals, 16 assists, 22 points, and 60 penalty minutes, playing in all but one of Ottawa’s 82 regular
  
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• Slippery roads expected throughout Fraser Valley; UFV campus open - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 16:45 via news.google.com
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• The meat of the story - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Spain records hottest year ever in 2022 - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Canada’s annual inflation rate fell slightly to 6.8% in November - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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• Canada moves to mandate electric vehicle sales starting in 2026 - Chilliwack Progress

  21-12-2022 16:30 via news.google.com
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