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• Canada’s Rahneva slides to skeleton bronze at world championships

  27-01-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. MORITZ, Switzerland — Canada’s Mirela Rahneva slid to a bronze medal Friday in women’s skeleton competition at the bobsled and skeleton world championships.
  The 34-year-old from Ottawa captured her first world championship medal with a combined four-run time of four minutes 34.41 seconds.
  Rahneva was in second place and Jane Channell of North Vancouver, B.C., was third at the halfway point of the event.
  A challenging third run down the world’s only non-refrigerated sl
  
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• Alberta Justice spokespeople deliver duelling statements on prosecutor email review

  27-01-2023 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — An Alberta government email review of whether Premier Danielle Smith’s office interfered with Crown prosecutors has taken a confusing turn, with duelling statements from two spokespeople on what was investigated.
  Ethan Lecavalier-Kidney, a spokesman for Justice Minister Tyler Shandro, has issued a statement that appears to call into question earlier comments made by Alberta Justice communications director Charles Mainville.
  The review was ordered by Smith a week ago to res
  
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• B.C. First Nations face complex, stressful choice: should school sites be excavated?

  27-01-2023 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. — The chief of the Williams Lake First Nation says he would support excavating possible unmarked graves at the site of the former St. Joseph’s Mission residential school if that’s what elders and the community decide is best.
  But the decision is complex, involving dozens of other First Nations whose children also attended the institution, numerous landowners, potential DNA tests, multiple levels of government, the coroner and the RCMP.
  All that is in additio
  
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• Paul Henderson to celebrate 80th with grandson on the ice

  27-01-2023 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Long accustomed to being recognized in most every rink he enters in Canada, Paul Henderson enjoys attending his grandson’s college hockey games in relative anonymity while seated with his wife Eleanor in Section 10 of Buffalo’s Harborcenter.
  Perhaps, Henderson wondered whether it’s a result of crossing the border, where Americans aren’t familiar with him scoring what might be the most iconic goal in Canadian hockey lore to settle the 1972 Summit
  
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• Man who claimed he had bomb near Capitol pleads guilty

  27-01-2023 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who caused evacuations and an hourslong standoff with police on Capitol Hill when he claimed he had a bomb in his pickup truck outside the Library of Congress pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of threatening to use an explosive.
  Floyd Ray Roseberry, of Grover, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to the felony charge in Washington federal court. He faces up to 10 years behind bars and is scheduled to be sentenced in June.An email seeking comment was sent to his attorne
  
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• A Quebec coroner says Montreal’s Champlain Bridge needs anti-suicide barrier

  27-01-2023 21:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner says Montreal’s Samuel-De Champlain Bridge must have a suicide-prevention barrier installed, after a 38-year-old man jumped to his death from the structure last May.
  Dr. Jean E. Brochu said in his report released Jan. 5 that the current barrier along the bridge’s pedestrian pathway should be made impossible to climb.
  He suggested as a model the anti-suicide fence installed in 2004 on the city’s Jacques Cartier Bridge.
  Brochu’s report says
  
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• ‘Why not sign two years?:’ Vancouver Canucks winger Kuzmenko happy with extension

  27-01-2023 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — It’s little wonder Andrei Kuzmenko captured the hearts of Vancouver Canucks fans so quickly. 
  In a season marked by loss and frustration, the Russian forward with the dimpled grin, gravity defying hair and enthusiastic goal celebrations has been a rare bright spot both on and off the ice. 
  And after signing a two-year extension, that bright spot is sticking around. 
  “I am happy in Vancouver. Why not sign to two years? I think is a good deal for two si
  
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• Pence takes full responsibility after classified docs found

  27-01-2023 21:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence said Friday that he takes “full responsibility” after classified documents were found at his Indiana home.
  “Let me be clear about something: Those classified documents should not have been in my personal residence,” Pence said at in an appearance at Florida International University. “Mistakes were made.”
  The discovery made public by Pence’s team earlier this week marked the latest in a string of recover
  
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• GOP Chair Ronna McDaniel defeats rival in leadership vote

  27-01-2023 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Republican National Committee Chair Ronna McDaniel won her bid Friday to lead the GOP for two more years, prevailing in an election that highlighted fierce internal divisions that threaten to plague the party into the next presidential season.
  McDaniel, whom Donald Trump tapped as RNC chair in 2016, won the the secret ballot vote 111 to 51. The high-profile election played out inside a luxury resort on the Southern California coast as the RNC’s 168 voting members – activists and elec
  
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• Canadian police chiefs speak out on death of Black man beaten by U.S. officers

  27-01-2023 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian police chiefs are speaking out on the death of a Black man who was beaten by police during a traffic stop in the United States. 
  The condemnation of the actions that led to Tyre Nichols’ death comes hours before authorities in Memphis, Tenn., plan to release a video of what happened. 
  Nichols died three days after a Jan. 7 confrontation with five officers and his family says the video shows police savagely beating the 29-year-old motorist for three minute
  
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• ‘We must meet this moment’: Trudeau delivers speech to Liberal caucus

  27-01-2023 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on his Liberal caucus to meet the moment as Canadians deal with the high cost of living, a struggling health care system and the effects of climate change. 
  In a 12-minute speech to MPs, Trudeau laid out the minority government’s priorities for the upcoming sitting of the House of Commons, which begins on Monday. 
  Trudeau says his party will push for improvements in public health-care, build a green economy and continue to suppo
  
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• New CONCACAF-CONMEBOL agreement gives Canada games against top-tier opposition

  27-01-2023 21:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada is getting its wish to play more top-tier competition ahead of the 2026 FIFA men’s World Cup.
  CONCACAF, the confederation covering North and Central America and the Caribbean, and South America’s CONMEBOL have signed an agreement to “strengthen and develop” soccer in both regions. The deal includes men’s and women’s national team competitions and a new men’s club tournament.
  The U.S. will host Copa America, the South American championship, in the
  
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• Defence will once again be looked upon to fill the net for CF Montreal

  27-01-2023 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — As the third week of CF Montreal’s training camp draws to an end, the Major League Soccer club’s turbulent off-season continues to draw attention away from the implementation of new head coach Hernan Losada’s tactical philosophy.
  The club confirmed Thursday morning that it had reached an agreement with the Philadelphia Union to send forward Joaquin Torres stateside. In exchange Montreal will receive as much as US$800,000 in general allocation money — $250
  
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• WHO decision on COVID-19 emergency won’t effect Canada’s response: Tam

  27-01-2023 20:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The World Health Organization will announce Monday whether it thinks COVID-19 still represents a global health emergency but Canada’s top doctor says regardless of what the international body decides, Canada’s response to the coronavirus will not change.
  The WHO’s emergency committee, which was struck in 2020 when COVID-19 first emerged as a global health threat, will vote today on whether to maintain the emergency designation.
  WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom
  
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• Chilliwack man who was shot by RCMP officer while holding a 'shish ... - Chilliwack Progress

  27-01-2023 20:41 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack man who was shot by RCMP officer while holding a 'shish ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Italy prop Nemer who gave teammate banana is suspended

  27-01-2023 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Benetton and Italy prop Ivan Nemer was suspended until the end of the season on Friday after giving a rotten banana to a Black teammate.
  During a secret Santa exchange of gifts at a Benetton team dinner on Dec. 20, prop Cherif Traoré was presented with the rotten banana.
  Traoré, who migrated from Guinea as a child and has represented Italy 15 times, posted about the incident on social media at the time, saying how upset he was, especially at the fact that most of
  
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• Medics say gunman wounds 10 in Jerusalem before being slain

  27-01-2023 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — A gunman opened fire Friday night near a synagogue in east Jerusalem, wounding 10 people before he was shot and killed, Israeli police and medics said.
  The shooting in the Jewish neighborhood of Neve Yaakov followed a deadly raid by the Israeli military Thursday in the occupied West Bank that killed nine Palestinians, with a 10th killed later north of Jerusalem.
  After Friday’s shooting, the Magen David Adom emergency service said it was treating 10 wounded, some in c
  
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• Elizabeth May says Greens will investigate after member information shared online

  27-01-2023 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Elizabeth May says the Green Party will investigate and conduct a “root to branch review” of all of its data-retention systems after member information was mistakenly posted online.
  The Green Party leader says she does not know how the security breach happened but says the information, including names and addresses of donors, had been available online through Elections Canada before it was mistakenly posted on the party’s website.
  She says the breach was unintent
  
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• Family of Tyre Nichols pleads for calm as U.S. braces for ‘horrifying’ video evidence

  27-01-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — The family of Tyre Nichols is calling for calm across the United States as the country braces for visceral video evidence of another young Black man dying at the hands of police.
  Authorities in Memphis, Tenn., say the three-minute video — already likened to the explosive 1991 police beating of Rodney King — will be released after 7 p.m. eastern time.
  Rodney Wells, Nichols’ stepfather, says he wants people to go out and protest once they see the video, but he
  
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• Parliament Hill police estimate 500 will attend ‘Freedom Convoy’ anniversary

  27-01-2023 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Parliamentary Protective Service expects 500 people to gather this weekend to mark a year since the “Freedom Convoy” occupied downtown Ottawa.
  The agency, which polices the precinct, says it will curtail some access to Parliament Hill.
  The public can still use the central and east gates to access the Hill lawn, but not the gates closest to the West Block, where the Liberals are holding their caucus meeting this weekend.
  The Parliamentary Protective Service says pub
  
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• Western Forest Products’ Port Alberni, B.C., mill closes as company seeks viable path

  27-01-2023 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — More than 100 workers in Port Alberni are the latest forest industry employees to face layoffs as Western Forest Products confirms it will not restart its sawmill in that Vancouver Island city.
  The Alberni-Pacific Division facility has been closed since last fall, but the curtailment was only expected to last for six months, unless market conditions changed.
  Western Forest Products announced Thursday that the mill will not restart “in its current configuration” and
  
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• Video shows struggle for hammer during Pelosi attack

  27-01-2023 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Video released publicly Friday shows the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fighting for control of a hammer with his assailant during a brutal attack in the couple’s San Francisco home last year.
  The body-camera footage shows suspect David DePape wrest the tool from 82-year-old Paul Pelosi and lunge toward him the hammer over his head. The blow to Pelosi occurs out of view and the officers — one of them cursing — rush into the house and jump on DePape.
  Pelosi, a
  
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• Caufield: surgery ‘best decision,’ but would be playing in Canadiens playoff push

  27-01-2023 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The decision to undergo right shoulder surgery was a calculated group decision, but not a very popular one for Cole Caufield. 
  After talks with Canadiens management and his agent Pat Brisson, Caufield took the decision to go forward with a procedure that will be performed by Dr. Peter Millett on Wednesday. 
  However, he says he would still be on the ice had the Canadiens been in a playoff spot. 
  “I didn’t want to stop playing,” Caufield said in a
  
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• Expansion Vancouver FC to face provincial rival Pacific FC in 2023 CPL season opener

  27-01-2023 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Expansion Vancouver FC will kick off life in the Canadian Premier League at provincial rival Pacific FC on April 14 at Starlight Stadium in Langford, B.C.
  The Friday night matchup serves as the opener to the league’s fifth season.
  The two B.C. teams share the same ownership in SixFive Sports & Entertainment, whose lead investors are former Canadian internationals Rob Friend and Josh Simpson and entrepreneur Dean Shillington.
  The CPL announced its opening weekend fixtures on Friday, wit
  
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• Veteran Canadian goalkeeper Erin McLeod announces retirement from international game

  27-01-2023 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Veteran goalkeeper Erin McLeod, who survived a string of injuries to win 119 caps for Canada over a distinguished senior career that spanned more than two decades, has announced her retirement from international soccer.
  McLeod, who turns 40 on Feb. 26, plans to continue playing club football for at least one season. The Orlando Pride announced Tuesday that McLeod and her new wife, midfielder Gunny Jonsdottir, have left the NWSL club for Jonsdottir’s native Iceland where both will play.
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• Grey Cup hero Robbie Smith signs extension with Toronto Argonauts

  27-01-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Grey Cup hero Robbie Smith is staying put.
  The Canadian defensive lineman signed a contract extension with the Toronto Argonauts on Friday. Smith was slated to become a free agent next month.
  The 25-year-old from Brampton, Ont., played a pivotal role in Toronto’s 24-23 Grey Cup win over the Toronto Argonauts in November. He blocked Marc Liegghio’s 47-yard field goal try with 54 seconds remaining to cement the Argos’ upset victory, the franchise’s 18th CFL
  
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• Toronto FC lands a new No. 1 goalkeeper in U.S. international Sean Johnson

  27-01-2023 17:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC landed its new goalkeeper Friday, signing U.S. international Sean Johnson through 2024.
  The free agent, who spent the last six seasons with New York City FC, was signed using targeted allocation money.
  The 33-year-old Johnson is a 13-year veteran of Major League Soccer. He played all 34 regular-season matches for NYCFC last year with a career-high 14 clean sheets.
  Johnson has won 10 caps for the U.S and was part of the American squad team at the recent World Cup in Qatar.
  Toronto conc
  
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• Review of oilsands cleanup funding program needs public input, says Alberta NDP

  27-01-2023 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s New Democrat Opposition says a government review of the program that’s supposed to ensure oilsands companies can clean up their mines was conducted too privately and should have been done in public.
  Environment critic Marlin Schmidt said Albertans now know even less than before the review of the Mine Financial Security Program began. 
  “Given how much money is at stake and how important this sector is to our economy, the fact the public was comple
  
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• US charges 3 in plot to kill Iranian-American author

  27-01-2023 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has charged three men in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist who has spoken out against human rights abuses in Iran, officials said Friday.
  The men, Rafat Amirov, 43, of Iran, Polad Omarov, 38, of the Czech Republic and Slovenia and Khalid Mehdiyev, 24, of Yonkers, New York, were charged with money laundering and murder-for-hire in a superseding indictment unsealed in federal court in New York.It is the second time in two years th
  
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• Pierre Poilievre tells Tory caucus cities are turning into ‘crime zones’

  27-01-2023 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre doubled down on his belief that “everything feels broken” Friday, as he laced into Prime Minster Justin Trudeau for suggesting otherwise. 
  Poilievre addressed Tory MPs at their two-day caucus retreat ahead of the return of the House of Commons next week. 
  The meetings come as the country faces the possibly of an economic recession. 
  Poilievre began his speech outlining the ways Canadians are hurting — whether fr
  
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• Toronto Maple Leafs star Matthews sidelined for at least three weeks with knee sprain

  27-01-2023 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews will miss at least three weeks with a knee sprain, the team announced Friday.
  The 25-year-old centre has 25 goals and 53 points in 47 contests this season.
  Matthews missed two games earlier this month with an undisclosed injury and an illness.
  Last season’s Hart Trophy winner as NHL MVP was on the ice for Mitch Marner’s overtime goal against the New York Islanders on Wednesday.
  The team said in a tweet the injury was suffered during that game.
  
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• U.S. senators call for trade crackdown on Canada over dairy quotas, digital policies

  27-01-2023 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — A pair of senior U.S. senators is urging the Biden administration to get tough with Canada for “flouting” obligations to its North American trade partners. 
  Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Sen. Mike Crapo lay out their concerns in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai. 
  The letter says American dairy producers still aren’t getting the access to the Canadian market they’re entitled to under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada
  
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• Turner Construction, Clark Builders to build $73 million, six-storey student housing facility at UFV in Abbotsford

  27-01-2023 16:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Turner Construction Company and Clark Builders announced this week that they have been selected to build student housing at the University of Fraser Valley in Abbotsford.In a statement on the Turner Construction website, Turner said the sustainably-built facility will be located in the heart of the UFV campus and offer students an affordable housing option.
  The six-storey, $73 million mass timber building will feature 398 beds on the university’s Abbotsford campus.
  The s
  
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• Arctic Winter Games a family affair for siblings Brooklyn and Jordan Wills

  27-01-2023 16:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Arctic Winter Games are a family affair for siblings Brooklyn and Jordan Wills of Team Alberta North.
  Mother Ashleigh is a mission staff member for the team and father Cory previously competed and coached at the Games. Two of the teens’ aunts were also competitors and their grandmother is a mission staff member who has coached and served as a judge.
  So there will be no shortage of advice opportunities for Brooklyn, 13, and her 15-year-old brother Jordan ahead of their Arctic sports com
  
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• Residential subdivision of 14 lots proposed for 4.6-acre parcel on Thompson Road in Popkum

  27-01-2023 16:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Regional District board of directors gave first reading Thursday night (Jan. 26) to a bylaw that would rezone property located at 9868 Thompson Road in Popkum, in preparation for a future public hearing and a proposed 14-lot subdivision.FVRD Bylaw 1680, 2022 aims to facilitate the redevelopment of the Thompson Road property, which is 4.64 acres in size. It contains a single-family home that was built in 1990.The proposed 14-lot subdivision will now head to a
  
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• Chilliwack BIA planning merchants-only meeting on safety and security on March 1 at the Coast Hotel

  27-01-2023 15:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Downtown Chilliwack Business Improvement Association has scheduled a merchants-only meeting for Wednesday, March 1 for tenants and business owners on safety and security.
  BIA executive director Trevor McDonald says the meeting at the Coast Hotel is designed to provide up-to-date information to Chilliwack merchants and building owners.“It is a merchant awareness meeting with guest speakers and group discussion to follow presentations,” McDonald wrote in his emai
  
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• FVRD board quietly approves camping fee increases at Vedder River Campground

  27-01-2023 15:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK – Without fanfare or comment, the Fraser Valley Regional District board voted Thursday night (Jan. 26) to accept fee increases at the FVRD-managed Vedder River Campground, a popular summertime venue along the banks of the Vedder River near Yarrow.
  Elected officials from FVRD voted to adopt amendments to FVRD Vedder River Campground Amendment Bylaw No. 1689, 2023, which calls for a number of fee increases.The fee increases apply to nightly campground rates for non-serviced site r
  
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• Biden taps Zients as White House chief of staff

  27-01-2023 15:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Jeff Zients on Friday as his next White House chief of staff, tapping an experienced technocrat who headed his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic as Biden prepares for a reelection bid while facing an onslaught of investigations from a newly empowered House Republican majority.Zients succeeds Ron Klain, a longtime fixture in Biden’s political orbit who led the White House through its highs — passage of conseq
  
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• District of Kent says it will contribute $6.4 million towards new Lets’emot Regional Aquatic Centre

  27-01-2023 15:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — The District of Kent says it will contribute $6.4 million towards the estimated $20 million cost of building the Lets’emot Regional Aquatic Centre.According to minutes from its meeting on Monday, January 23, the District will pitch in $4.4 million from the city’s Community Works Fund and $2 million from its general capital reserve.
  “In a continued effort to remain transparent and reinforce their commitment to the building of the Lets’emot Regional Aquatic
  
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• Argentina rallies for three late tries to defeat Canadian men at Sydney Sevens

  27-01-2023 14:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SYDNEY, Australia — Canada’s men fell victim to a furious Argentina comeback on Friday, conceding three late tries to lose 24-19 at the HSBC Sydney Sevens.
  The game was the first for the South Americans since winning last weekend’s tournament in Hamilton, New Zealand, where they edged the host All Blacks 14-12 in the final after beating Canada 29-14 in pool play.
  The Canadian women lost twice Friday, beaten 14-12 by the U.S. and 19-5 to Britain in Pool B play.
  The Argentina men
  
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• Chilliwack's oldest known resident, Hedy Sutulov, dies at 108 - Chilliwack Progress

  27-01-2023 14:30 via news.google.com
  
  Chilliwack's oldest known resident, Hedy Sutulov, dies at 108  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Watchdog blames Syria’s air force for deadly chlorine attack

  27-01-2023 12:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.
  A report published Friday by a team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons offered the latest confirmation that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons during his coun
  
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• Djokovic tops Paul; faces Tsitsipas in Australian Open final

  27-01-2023 12:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Novak Djokovic put aside some shaky play in the early going and took over his Australian Open semifinal against unseeded American Tommy Paul on Friday, winning 7-5, 6-1, 6-2 to close in on a 10th championship at Melbourne Park and 22nd Grand Slam title overall.
  Djokovic’s parents and brother are in town for the tournament for the first time since he claimed major trophy No. 1 there back in 2008, but his father stayed away from this match after getting caug
  
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• Hockey, jobs, children, guitar, custom suit all in a day in the life of a PHF player

  27-01-2023 12:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadians make up 44 per cent of Premier Hockey Federation players this season, with two of seven teams in the women’s league based north of the border.
  The PHF has upped the ante in its bid to be the professional women’s hockey league of record in North America, starting with the doubling of this year’s salary cap of US$750,000 per team to $1.5 million in 2023-24.
  This season’s average salary is $34,000 on a 22-player roster, although the range is from $13,500 up to the
  
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• Gunman kills security chief at Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran

  27-01-2023 11:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed the Azerbaijan Embassy in Iran’s capital Friday, killing the head of security at the diplomatic post and wounding two guards, authorities said.
  Tehran’s police chief, Gen. Hossein Rahimi, blamed the attack on “personal and family problems,” according to Iranian state television. However, the assault comes as tensions have been high for months between neighboring Azerbaijan and Iran
  
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• In The News for Jan. 27: Concerns over state of provincial health systems

  27-01-2023 10:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 27 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  A new survey suggests the vast majority of Canadians have concerns about the state of the health-care system, particularly in Atlantic provinces.
  Leger and The Association for Canadian Studies surveyed approximately 1,500 Canadian adults over a two-day period in January.
  About 86 pe
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada to rule on constitutionality of mandatory firearm sentences

  27-01-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada plans to rule today on the constitutionality of mandatory minimum sentences in cases involving armed robbery and recklessly firing a gun.
  In one case, Jesse Dallas Hills pleaded guilty to four charges stemming from a May 2014 incident in Lethbridge, Alta., in which he swung a baseball bat and shot at a car with a bolt-action rifle, smashed the window of a vehicle and fired rounds into a family home. 
  Hills argued the minimum four-year sentence for
  
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• Provincial governments not jumping to act on tighter alcohol warning guidelines

  27-01-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — Politicians in charge of provincial and territorial liquor laws aren’t hurrying to adopt or promote newly updated guidelines that advise a steep drop in Canadian drinking habits.
  Across Canada, the responsible ministers declined interview requests from The Canadian Press. In written responses, they didn’t commit to changing marketing methods for alcohol and noted they’re awaiting Ottawa’s lead on whether to slap warning labels on products.
  In some cases, s
  
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• Focus on retaining nurses before recruiting nurses from other provinces: association

  27-01-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Efforts to lure nurses from other provinces are underway in several parts of the country, but the head of a national nurses association says the poaching won’t solve anything unless working conditions are improved.
  “We know that nurses are facing inadequate working conditions, and that is the main reason many are leaving their jobs,” Sylvain Brousseau, the president of the Canadian Nurses Association, said in an interview Thursday. “If working conditions
  
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• Ottawa preparing to announce revival of federal body offering cabinet legal advice

  27-01-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is preparing to revive an independent commission that would offer advice to cabinet on reforming Canadian laws. 
  Justice Minister David Lametti’s office says it is hoping to make an announcement about the commission “soon,” but has offered little detail — other than saying the minister is “eager to get it going again.” 
  In the 2021 federal budget, Ottawa committed to spend $18 million over five years and $4 milli
  
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