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• B.C. officer who died in avalanche posthumously promoted to detective, funeral hears

  18-01-2023 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NELSON, B.C. — The British Columbia constable who died in an avalanche last week has been posthumously promoted to detective for his dedication as an officer and commitment to improving his skills in the department. 
  Nelson Police Service Chief Const. Donovan Fisher announced Wade Tittemore’s promotion at his funeral service today, saying they had already planned to move the constable up to their general investigation section before he died. 
  Tittemore, who was 43, died whi
  
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• B.C. signs ‘historic’ deal with First Nation after court fight over treaty rights

  18-01-2023 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. — A B.C. First Nation and the province have signed what the government is calling a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development. 
  The agreement, signed Tuesday with the Blueberry River First Nations in northeastern B.C., includes a $200-million restoration fund and timelines for coming up with plans to manage watersheds and oil and gas activities in parts of the First Nations’ claim area, which covers four per cent of the
  
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• Vancouver FC adds to roster by signing Lebanese international Gabriel Bitar

  18-01-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Midfielder/forward Gabriel Bitar is the seventh player to sign with expansion Vancouver FC ahead of the 2023 Canadian Premier League season.
  The 24-year-old from Ottawa spent last year with now-defunct FC Edmonton, recording five goals and an assist in 22 appearances. He dropped back to midfield with the Eddies from his normal role as striker.
  “Gabriel is a powerful presence with the ball at his feet,” Vancouver head coach Afshin Ghotbi said in a statement. “He has an ability t
  
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• Maurice saw tough days ahead with retooled Panthers: ‘It was going to be a challenge’

  18-01-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Paul Maurice expected some growing pains.
  Hired to lead the Florida Panthers – a team coming off its best-ever regular-season, but a disappointing playoff performance – the veteran head coach also knew there would be tough days.
  A completely new system. A roster renovation. A team looking for a different identity.
  “It was part of the job interview,” Maurice said of the outlook before he was handed the keys to the organization. “(General manager Bill Zito) had a real
  
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• B.C. government, Blueberry River First Nations reach land ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec minimum wage set to rise by a dollar to $15.25 as of May 1

  18-01-2023 23:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec’s minimum wage is set to rise by one dollar to $15.25 as of May 1.
  Labour Minister Jean Boulet announced the increase in Quebec City, saying it will benefit about 298,900 workers, including 164,100 women.
  The increase from the current $14.25 wage is the largest percentage increase in the province’s minimum wage since 1995.
  The Quebec government says it is seeking to improve the purchasing power of low-income earners and encourage participation in the labour market.
  Boulet says
  
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• Ottawa, N.W.T. spend $14M in improvements to Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway

  18-01-2023 23:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INUVIK, N.W.T. — The federal and Northwest Territories governments are together spending $14 million toward the rehabilitation of the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highway.
  They say work on the 137-kilometre highway is to include raising low-profile embankment areas, improving drainage and installing guardrails. 
  The highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk opened in November 2017.
  It was the first all-season road in Canada’s Arctic and was built in an area of continuous permafrost.
  The fede
  
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• Predators forward McCarron reinstated by NHL/NHLPA assistance program

  18-01-2023 23:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Nashville Predators forward Michael McCarron has been returned to available status after receiving care from the NHL and NHL Players’ Association’s player assistance program.
  McCarron entered the program on Dec. 11 for an unspecified reason.
  The NHL and NHLPA started the player assistance program in 1996, giving players access to a confidential phone line and counsellors in each city in the league. The jointly funded group assists players and their families with menta
  
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• Overwhelmed food charities say solution to hunger is higher incomes, not more funding

  18-01-2023 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — A Newfoundland and Labrador non-profit says dwindling funding and overwhelming demand is forcing the closure of its food helpline, but it’s not looking for more money to keep it going.
  Instead, Josh Smee, Food First N.L.’s chief executive officer, has joined a growing chorus of Canadian food charities who say the country’s worsening hunger problem will best be solved through policies that ensure people have the money they need to afford food.
  The
  
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• Commissioner recommends delaying Quebec nurse exam amid concerns over high fail rate

  18-01-2023 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A preliminary investigation into why more than half of candidates failed Quebec’s nurse licensing exam last fall has found “concerning elements” surrounding both the exam and student preparation.
  André Gariépy, the commissioner who oversees access to professional orders, is recommending that the next date to write the exam be pushed back while the probe continues.
  The interim report released today found that just 45.4 per cent of nursing students
  
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• Hootsuite lays off 7% of staff to position its business for long term

  18-01-2023 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Social media technology company Hootsuite Inc. is laying off seven per cent of its staff in its third job cut in the last year.
  The Vancouver company says the latest round of layoffs amounts to about 70 people and is meant to position the business for the long term.
  The job cut comes after Hootsuite reduced its workforce by five per cent in November and 30 per cent in August.
  This latest round of Hootsuite layoffs comes the same day as Microsoft cut 10,000 workers and days afte
  
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• Injured Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky out three months

  18-01-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens say forward Juraj Slafkovsky will be out three months with a lower-body injury.
  Montreal provided an injury update on several players Wednesday, a day after placing forwards Slafkovsky, Joel Armia and Jake Evans on injured reserve.
  Slafkovsky, the first-overall pick in the 2022 NHL draft, sustained the injury in Montreal’s 2-1 win over the New York Rangers on Sunday. The Canadiens said the injury does not require surgery.
  He has four goals and six as
  
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• Canadian freestyle skier Rachael Karker skies for joy post-Beijing

  18-01-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — What Rachael Karker wants to do in her first season after winning an Olympic medal is unwind and ski.
  The Canadian earned halfpipe bronze in her Olympic debut last year in Beijing behind champion Eileen Gu and Canadian teammate Cassie Sharpe.
  Karker’s weeks leading up to Beijing felt fraught with risk. 
  Possible injury or catching COVID-19 factored into every decision. 
  She declined her X Games invitation to Aspen, Colo., in order to stay healthy for Beijing.
  Obje
  
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• Canada’s Washington has grown into one of the NCAA’s top scorers in her fifth season

  18-01-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  For the three weeks in December that Canadian Keishana Washington led the NCAA in scoring, the congratulatory messages poured in.
  To the point it became overwhelming.     
  “It was a lot of messages from family, close friends, a lot of people reaching out to me on social media accounts, some people that were at the game, fans, agents … I had a lot of people blowing me up,” Washington said. “I had to put my phone on do not disturb for a little while, ju
  
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• Federal committee will probe government contracts with McKinsey

  18-01-2023 22:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A federal committee overseeing government operations is launching a parliamentary inquiry into contracts awarded to consulting firm McKinsey & Company.
  The firm recently came into the spotlight after news reports highlighted the rapid growth of the company’s work with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government. 
  The government says it has awarded 23 contracts to McKinsey since 2015 that are together worth $101.4 million.  
  On Wednesday, members of the gov
  
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• Canada’s Adam Hadwin and Brooke Henderson enter first golf tournaments of 2023

  18-01-2023 21:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Two of the biggest names in Canadian golf will return to competitive play on Thursday.
  Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., is in the field for the American Express, his first PGA Tour event in 2023. Brooke Henderson of Smiths Falls, Ont., will tee it up at the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions, the elite event that starts the LPGA Tour’s season.
  Hadwin hasn’t played since the Cadence Bank Houston Open on Nov. 13, where he tied for seventh. He said that starting 2023 at the
  
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• Statistics Canada finds people of colour generally more educated but paid less

  18-01-2023 21:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Statistics Canada reports that visible minorities are generally more likely than their white counterparts to earn a university degree but less likely to find a job that pays as well.
  The findings published today based on data from the 2021 and 2016 censuses show that two years after graduating, visible minorities reported lower employment earnings and lower rates of unionization and pension plan coverage.
  Employment income averaged $45,700 annually among racialized women with univ
  
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• Toronto Arrows return entire coaching staff for 2023 MLR season under Peter Smith

  18-01-2023 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows are returning their coaching staff for the 2023 Major League Rugby season under head coach Peter Smith.
  Smith is entering his fifth season as an Arrows coach and the second at the helm.
  Rob Howley, the former Welsh international and British and Irish Lion scrum half, will serve as attack coach in his third campaign with the Arrows.
  Francois Ratier, formerly head coach of the Canada’s women’s team and interim coach of the Canadian men, is defence and
  
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• B.C. chiropractor charged with 2 counts of sexual assault - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. chiropractor charged with 2 counts of sexual assault  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• BC RCMP - Chilliwack man arrested in connection to BB gun incidents - BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca

  18-01-2023 20:41 via news.google.com
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• Polar bear attack victims young mother and 1-year-old son

  18-01-2023 20:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 24-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son were identified Wednesday as the victim of a fatal polar bear attack in an isolated Alaska Native village.
  Summer Myomick of Saint Michael and her son, Clyde Ongtowasruk, were killed in the attack, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement.
  The attack occurred near the school in Wales.
  Poor weather and a lack of runway lights at the Wales gravel air strip prevented troopers and wildlife officials from making it to Wales on
  
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• Canadian middlweight Marc-Andre Barriault to fight on high-profile UFC 285 card

  18-01-2023 20:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian middleweight Marc-Andre (Power Bar) Barriault has been matched against Julian (The Cuban Missile Crisis) Marquez on the high-profile UFC 285 fight card that features a heavyweight title fight between Jon (Bones) Jones and France’s Cyril (Bon Gamin) Gane.
  The show is scheduled for March 4 in Las Vegas at the T-Mobile Arena.
  Jones, a former UFC light-heavyweight champion, and Gane, a former UFC interim heavyweight title-holder, are meeting to decide who fills the championship void l
  
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• B.C. Mounties investigate criminal claims against tribal police officer - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. Mounties investigate criminal claims against tribal police officer

  18-01-2023 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHISTLER, B.C. — A British Columbia First Nation police service says RCMP are investigating allegations of criminal conduct involving one of its members. 
  The Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police Service says in a statement that it became aware of alleged activities involving the member in December. 
  Because those allegations were reported to have occurred outside its jurisdiction, the service says it reported the claims to RCMP, which has confirmed an investigation is ongoing.&
  
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• B.C. court tosses lawsuit alleging province broke rules to report emission targets

  18-01-2023 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia judge has tossed out a lawsuit that accused the B.C. government of violating its own rules to account for greenhouse gas emission targets.
  In dismissing the lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club of British Columbia, Justice Jasvinder Basran finds the environment and climate change minister has “reasonably complied” with the Climate Change Accountability Act.
  It requires the government to publish annual reports outlining progress toward emissions target
  
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• Canada’s World Cup-bound men’s basketball team to play Spain, Argentina in friendlies

  18-01-2023 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canada’s men’s basketball team will play exhibition games against Spain and Argentina this summer in preparation for the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
  The Canadians, who have clinched a World Cup berth and are 10-0 in qualifying, will play host Spain on Aug. 17 and Argentina on Aug. 18 in Granada.
  Players will gather in Toronto for training camp in early August to begin World Cup preparations.
  Canada secured its World Cup berth with a 94-56 win over Venezuela on Nov. 11 in Edm
  
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• Construction set to begin this week on Chilliwack Landing parking lot project

  18-01-2023 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Construction is set to begin this week on a project that will see the parking lot at the city-owned Chilliwack Landing fully completed.
  The City of Chilliwack said in a statement Wednesday morning that construction to finish the parking lot at the Chilliwack Landing, 9145 Corbould Street, will begin Thursday (Jan. 19). Access to the Landing will remain available from Corbould Street and Spadina Avenue. Residents can expect some traffic delays.The project is expected to be comp
  
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• Alberta judge investigated for perceived racist remarks won’t face sanctions

  18-01-2023 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council says it will take no further action against an Alberta judge after receiving a complaint that comments he made about a medical examiner from Nigeria could be perceived as racist.
  Dozens of medical and legal experts filed the complaint in 2019 against Justice Terry Clackson for comments he made in finding an Alberta couple not guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life in the death of their 19-month-old son.
  Clackson said in his decision that
  
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• B.C. First Nation says unique deal gives it veto power over proposed coal mine

  18-01-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A British Columbia First Nation is celebrating a deal with a coal company that it says gives it veto power over a proposed mine on its land.
  Chief Heidi Gravelle of the Tobacco Plains First Nation in southeast B.C. says the agreement with NWP Coal sets the band up as both regulator and reviewer of the project, with the right to turn it down.She says the deal gives the band unprecedented involvement in assessing and reviewing the project, which would be located near Sparwood, B.C.
  Gravelle says s
  
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• RCMP dismantles super drug lab in Abbotsford and Surrey, uncovers enough fentanyl for 27 million doses

  18-01-2023 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Three men in British Columbia face a litany of drug-related charges after federal RCMP drug agents raided and dismantled a super drug lab in Abbotsford and Surrey this past week.According to a statement from Cpl. Arash Seyed, media relations officer for the Federal Serious & Organized Crime (FSOC) unit, the B.C. RCMP Federal Policing Clandestine Laboratories Enforcement and Response team (CLEAR) arrested three men for their alleged involvement in the operation of a sophist
  
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• Defensive lineman Lorenzo Mauldin IV signs contract extension with Ottawa Redblacks

  18-01-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Defensive lineman Lorenzo Mauldin IV is staying put.
  The CFL’s top defensive player last season was slated to become a free agent next month. But Mauldin signed a one-year contract extension to remain with the Ottawa Redblacks.
  The six-foot-four, 259-pound Mauldin had a CFL-high 17 sacks last season, his first with Ottawa.
  He also registered 43 tackles and two forced fumbles in 18 regular-season games.
  “Lorenzo Mauldin is a player who gives everything he can every time he hits the fi
  
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• Wrestling returns to Chilliwack Secondary with Freaky Friday meet - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 19:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Trooper, Chilliwack to perform at Red Deer's Centrium in March ... - Red Deer Advocate

  18-01-2023 19:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Prison staff at Kent seize over $100,000 in contraband containing drugs, weapons

  18-01-2023 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — It’s never a dull day, week or month at Kent Institution, the maximum-security penitentiary west of Agassiz, where authorities have intercepted yet another significant stash of illicit drugs and weapons meant to be utilized inside the prison.The Correctional Service of Canada announced Tuesday (Jan. 17) in a news release that contraband and unauthorized items were seized during an exceptional search that spanned 10 days at the federal prison, between January 1 and January 1
  
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• Oilsands execs say a ‘just transition’ isn’t a worry — it’s their next big ‘boom’

  18-01-2023 19:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The CEOs of some of the biggest oilsands companies in Alberta say transitioning their workforce for a net-zero emissions future isn’t about cutting jobs, but is about creating them.
  Cenovus CEO Alex Pourbaix says the consortium of oilsands behind an alliance to decarbonize their companies estimates that reaching their goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 will create 35,000 jobs.
  Derek Evans, CEO of MEG Energy, says he is actually worried that Canada doesn’t have the labo
  
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• Poilievre’s claims on bail reform not backed by evidence, experts say

  18-01-2023 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Experts say reforming Canada’s bail system to keep certain offenders behind bars will not reduce crime, but it will put more people in jails — contrary to what Pierre Poilievre says. 
  The Conservative leader has been calling for change to target repeat offenders as a way to bolster public safety, telling reporters this week he did not think that would result in more people being detained.
  Scrutiny of the system has ramped up after news that one of two people charg
  
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• Veteran Canadian fullback David Mackie signs two-year extension with B.C. Lions

  18-01-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Veteran Canadian fullback David Mackie signed a two-year contract extension with the B.C. Lions on Wednesday.
  Mackie was eligible to become a free agent Feb. 14.
  The 28-year-old from Jackson’s Point, Ont., had 94 yards rushing and a touchdown on 19 carries while adding seven catches for 41 yards in 14 regular-season games last year.
   He also registered three special-teams tackles.
  Mackie has appeared in 56 career regular-season games with the Lions since being select
  
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• Vancouver to fund plans to renew its embattled Chinatown ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• NHL: Players can decide what causes to support after Provorov opts out of Pride night

  18-01-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The NHL says players are free to decide which of their team’s initiatives they support. 
  The league’s statement comes a day after Philadelphia Flyers defenceman Ivan Provorov refused to participate in his team’s Pride Night.
  Provorov didn’t warm up with his teammates ahead of Philadelphia’s game against the Anaheim Ducks because of Russian Orthodox beliefs.
  The Flyers wore Pride-themed jerseys and used sticks wrapped in rainbow tape during their pre-game activi
  
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• Blue Jays add national women’s team veteran Stephenson to coaching staff in Vancouver

  18-01-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Ashley Stephenson, a long-time player and coach with Canada’s women’s baseball team, is joining the Toronto Blue Jays’ organization as a coach.
  Stephenson has been added to the Vancouver Canadian’s coaching staff for the upcoming Minor League Baseball season. The Canadians are the Blue Jays’ High-A affiliate are currently the only MiLB team based in Canada.
  Stephenson, 40, spent 15 years as a player with Canada’s national team, helping Canada
  
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• Zellers returning to Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 18:23 via news.google.com
  
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• Dump truck catches fire on Port Mann Bridge - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 18:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Motorized recreational groups in B.C. object to Cascade Skyline Gondola, say they want solutions

  18-01-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Motorized off-road groups in British Columbia have expressed multiple concerns with the state of the proposed Cascade Skyline Gondola Project east of Chilliwack, saying the project as designed limits access to vital recreational opportunities for their members.
  In a letter dated January 6 and addressed to media and local governments, executives from four off-road groups in B.C. say if the gondola moves forward as presented, it will severely limit access for quad riders, snowmo
  
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• Thompson Rivers University admin sexually harassed women ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 17:45 via news.google.com
  
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• No injuries as Vancouver Island slide forces evacuation of two Campbell River condos

  18-01-2023 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CAMPBELL RIVER, B.C. — Residents of two condominiums in Campbell River, B.C., spent the night out of their suites after a landslide on the hill behind their homes.
  A release from the City of Campbell River says the slide happened about 7 p.m. Tuesday, affecting the Hillside Place and neighbouring Beechwood Manor condos.
  The city says no one was hurt, but evacuation of the buildings at 738 and 758 Island Highway South was ordered as a precaution.
  Acting city manager Drew Hadfield says the s
  
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• Anger grows in Virginia city where first-grader shot teacher - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Child’s breathing tube can be removed despite parents’ protest: Quebec appeal court

  18-01-2023 17:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s Court of Appeal says a Montreal hospital can permanently remove a breathing tube from a child who has been in a coma since June.
  The decision by the province’s high court agrees with a Quebec Superior Court ruling that permitted the Sainte-Justine hospital to go ahead with the procedure despite the parents’ objections.
  The hospital went to court after the parents of the five-year-old boy refused to consent to the procedure unless the hospital was willi
  
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• Bridget Carleton, Lynx to play Chicago Sky in WNBA pre-season game in May in Toronto

  18-01-2023 17:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The WNBA is coming to Toronto, for one game at least.
  The Minnesota Lynx, whose roster features Canadians Bridget Carleton and Natalie Achonwa, will play the Chicago Sky at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena in a pre-season matchup on May 13, the first WNBA game ever played in Canada.
  But WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert said the game, which is being held in partnership with NBA Canada and Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., is more about the globalization of the game than
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Eby’s strata policy brings all chaos and no benefit

  18-01-2023 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Captain Chaos, also known as Premier David Eby, has struck again with botched strata legislation that is causing fear, confusion and concern among strata councils throughout British Columbia.The NDP’s legislation, which removed age restrictions and requires buildings to accept renters has led to strata councils across the province increasingly moving to adopt a loophole limiting residency to those 55 years old and above. At the time, Eby argued this legislation would help people of all age
  
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• Canadian fighting with Ukrainian forces dies in battle: reports - Chilliwack Progress

  18-01-2023 16:20 via news.google.com
  
  Canadian fighting with Ukrainian forces dies in battle: reports  Chilliwack Progress
  
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