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• Canada’s Robertson, Boser drop down a weight class to fight on UFC Kansas City card

  21-02-2023 23:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Gillian (The Savage) Robertson will join fellow Canadian Tanner (The Bulldozer) Boser in moving down a weight class to compete on a UFC Fight Night card April 15 in Kansas City.
  The five-foot-five Robertson, whose previous 13 UFC fights were at flyweight (125 pounds), will take on unbeaten Venezuelan strawweight Piera (La Fiera) Rodriguez at 115 pounds.
  Boser, whose previous eight UFC fights were as a heavyweight, will drop down to light-heavyweight against Moldova’s Ion (The Hulk) Cutelab
  
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• Winnipeg Jets place rookie forward Cole Perfetti on injured reserve

  21-02-2023 23:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — The Winnipeg Jets placed forward Cole Perfetti on injured reserved Tuesday.
  The 21-year-old suffered an upper-body injury in Sunday’s 4-2 loss at New Jersey before sitting out Monday’s 4-1 victory over the New York Rangers.
  The 10th overall pick at the 2020 NHL draft has eight goals and 30 points in 51 games with the Jets this season.
  Perfetti has added six goals and 15 points in 17 appearances with the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose.
  Winnipeg recalled
  
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• Vigils for anniversary of Ukraine invasion planned in B.C. communities - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Seattle council poised to vote on outlawing caste discrimination - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Parliamentary committee expanding its study on foreign election ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Major League Soccer revamps and expands post-season format for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Hong Kong pulls visa for man behind gene-edited babies claim - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• More provincial money announced for climate change preparedness ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:16 via news.google.com
  
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• Meet author-illustrators of On Being Yukiko at the Chilliwack Museum - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:13 via news.google.com
  
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• “On Native land” anthem lyrics nothing new for some First Nations people

  21-02-2023 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jason Bird chuckles when he talks about the fuss that singer Jully Black has raised by changing a line in Canada’s national anthem to “on native land.”
  The professor of governance at the First Nations University of Canada says he and his friends used to sing the opening lines to O Canada that way all the time when he was in school.
  Black’s version of the song at the NBA all-star game has raised plenty of dissonance on social media.
  But Bird says he doesn’t find chan
  
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• Woman and 14-year-old girl found dead in Richmond, B.C., home: RCMP

  21-02-2023 23:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — Police in Metro Vancouver say homicide investigators have been deployed after the bodies of a 43-year-old woman and a 14-year-old girl were found inside a home.RCMP in Richmond, B.C., say officers responded to a report of a deceased woman inside the home on the city’s west side, where they also found the girl’s body.
  The Mounties say in a statement the two victims were related, and investigators believe the deaths were an “isolated incident with no outsta
  
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• Mould endangers 60 tenants of rundown B.C. building: BCCDC report - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  Mould endangers 60 tenants of rundown B.C. building: BCCDC report  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Folks invited to giddyup and go to Chilliwack Hospice Society ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 22:56 via news.google.com
  
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• SD33 trustees inundated with hundreds of emails following recent school board meeting

  21-02-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Chilliwack Board of Education has been inundated with over 300 emails following a contentious meeting earlier this month in which several speakers had their microphones cut.According to school board trustee Heather Maahs, the longest-serving current member of the Chilliwack school board, trustees have received at least 345 emails in the wake of its meeting on Tuesday, February 7 during which at least three speakers were cut off.Not all of the 345 emails have come from Chil
  
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• Accused extremist recruiter expected to plead guilty to terrorism charges

  21-02-2023 22:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An accused extremist recruiter is returning to the Ontario Superior Court on Thursday and is expected to plead guilty to terrorism offences, eight years after he was first charged.
  Awso Peshdary’s criminal trial had been on hold pending a decision in Federal Court, where his lawyers were arguing that charges should be dropped because Canada’s spy agency was authorized to surveil him based on misleading information. 
  The Federal Court has not yet made a ruling, but
  
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• Woman, teen girl found dead inside Richmond home - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 22:35 via news.google.com
  
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• Petition calls for pro hockey’s first Black coach to be inducted into Hall of Fame

  21-02-2023 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A grassroots effort is underway to get professional hockey’s first Black coach, John Paris Jr., inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  Hockey Nova Scotia launched a petition dubbed “Paris to Toronto” on Feb. 1, calling on the Nova Scotia-born Paris to be recognized by the Toronto-based hall for his contributions to the game.
  Paris, 76, said in an interview from Halifax Tuesday that all the attention was unexpected. “It’s humbling, I can most certain
  
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• Major League Soccer revamps and expands post-season format for 2023

  21-02-2023 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Major League Soccer has revamped its playoff format with two extra teams making the post-season from each conference and an expanded first round featuring best-of-three series.
  The Eastern and Western Conference will each send nine teams to the post-season, one up from last year.
  At the end of the regular season, the top seven teams from each conference will automatically make the first round of the playoffs. The eighth- and ninth-place teams in each conference will try to join them via a single
  
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• Saskatchewan chief to lead advisory committee on residential school documents

  21-02-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A chief in Saskatchewan who became well-known after his First Nation found what are believed to be 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school will lead a new committee for sharing documents connected to the institutions. 
  The federal government says Chief Cadmus Delorme of Cowessess First Nation will be the chairperson of the residential school documents advisory committee.
  The committee is to develop recommendations on the identification and sharing of documents with th
  
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• Meta testing new subscription service for verified accounts - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec premier to visit Newfoundland and Labrador for talks on Churchill Falls deal

  21-02-2023 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec Premier François Legault will travel to Newfoundland and Labrador on Thursday for two days of talks on a new Churchill Falls hydroelectricity deal.
  Legault made the announcement during question period at the Quebec City legislature.
  The 1969 agreement with Newfoundland and Labrador allows Hydro-Québec to purchase the majority of the electricity generated at the station in central Labrador — and therefore reap most of the profits.
  As of 2019, the deal has yielded close
  
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• Veteran offensive lineman Neufeld looking forward to CFL/CFLPA joint venture

  21-02-2023 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — He’s preparing for a 12th CFL season, but Pat Neufeld is also looking ahead to when he’s no longer a football player.
  The Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ offensive lineman will be among six players who will participate in the CFL mentorship program. The joint venture between the league and CFL Players’ Association exposes participants to pro football’s business side.
  Upon retirement, the six-foot-five, 290-pound Neufeld would like to remain in the game workin
  
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• B.C. municipalities awaiting details of $1B community grant ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Calgary Flames place defenceman Michael Stone on IR, recall Walker Duehr from AHL

  21-02-2023 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Flames have placed defenceman Michael Stone on injured reserve, the club announced Tuesday.
  The 32-year-old has five goals and five assists in 46 games in 2022-23.
  Stone, whose ailment wasn’t disclosed by the team, has 40 goals and 144 points in 550 regular season appearances split between Phoenix/Arizona and Calgary. The Winnipeg native has added six points (three goals, three assists) in 15 playoff contests.
  The Flames called up defenceman Walker Duehr from it
  
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• B.C. adds $180 million to help communities prepare for natural disasters

  21-02-2023 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Local governments and First Nations in British Columbia are getting more support to prepare for the risk of natural disasters related to climate change.
  The Ministry of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness says it will add $180 million to support projects that help communities prepare for and mitigate the effects of natural disasters.
  The ministry says the government’s Community Emergency Preparedness Fund has previously supported projects that include a dike in Merr
  
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• Mexico’s ex-public security chief convicted in US drug case

  21-02-2023 21:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former Mexican presidential cabinet member was convicted in the U.S. on Tuesday of taking massive bribes to protect the violent drug cartels he was tasked with combating.Under tight security, an anonymous New York federal court jury deliberated three days before reaching a verdict in the drug trafficking case against former Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna.He is the highest-ranking current or former Mexican official ever to be tried in the United States
  
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• B.C. government will provide Surrey with police service answer by spring: Farnworth

  21-02-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government will hand down its decision on which force will police the City of Surrey before spring, but the public safety minister says no matter what the answer, local taxpayers will fund the changes. 
  Mike Farnworth says he expects a decision from his ministry on either returning to the RCMP or staying with the Surrey police transition before property tax notices are mailed to residents in late May or early June.
  Surrey Mayor Brenda Locke tabled the c
  
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• Manitoba’s Jones wins fourth straight at Tournament of Hearts

  21-02-2023 20:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Manitoba’s Jennifer Jones drew closer to the playoffs at the Canadian women’s curling championships Tuesday with a 10-8 win over Kerry Galusha of Northwest Territories.
  Manitoba joined Northern Ontario’s Krista McCarville at 4-1 atop Pool B.
  Six-time champion Jones won four in a row after opening the Scotties Tournament of Hearts with a loss to McCarville.
  Galusha dropped to 3-2 and into a tie with Ontario’s Rachel Homan.
  New Brunswick’s Andre
  
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• Russia suspends only remaining major nuclear treaty with US - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder after downtown Vancouver ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Enfamil maker recalls potentially contaminated baby formula - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Indigenous stories and folk music will weave together at concert in ... - Hope Standard

  21-02-2023 20:25 via news.google.com
  
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• Indigenous stories and folk music will weave together at concert in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 20:25 via news.google.com
  
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• Indigenous stories and folk music will weave together at concert in ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  21-02-2023 20:25 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘She was unstoppable’: Tenne Andersen identified as Nelson’s ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 20:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Tennis Canada head Downey announces retirement after Grand Slam, Davis Cup success

  21-02-2023 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Tennis Canada president and chief executive officer Michael Downey announced Tuesday he will retire at the end of the year.
  Canadian tennis players have enjoyed considerable success during Downey’s 15 years as head of the organization.
  His second term as president and CEO, which started in 2017, includes Bianca Andreescu’s 2019 U.S. Open victory and Canada’s first Davis Cup title last year.
  Downey joined Tennis Canada in 2004, and his first term saw the developm
  
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• Driver killed in crash along Highway 99 in Richmond - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 19:40 via news.google.com
  
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• City of Chilliwack sustains over $160K in vandalism, damage in 2022

  21-02-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Selfish vandals, graffiti “artists” with too much time on their hands, and other crooks made life a little more difficult last year for city employees who would rather be dealing with other tasks and responsibilities.The City of Chilliwack wrote in its fourth quarter report that it incurred over $160,000 in 2022 due to graffiti and vandalism of operations infrastructure, recreation facilities, and civic facilities, as well as wire theft from streetlighting.Accordin
  
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• Island high school student designs Canada’s official Pink Shirt Day ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Snowfall warning as storm hits parts of Coquihalla Highway ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 18:41 via news.google.com
  
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• Biden in Poland says US and allies ‘have Ukraine’s back’

  21-02-2023 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden, returning on Tuesday to the Polish castle where he spoke shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine last year, said the war had hardened Western resolve to defend democracy around the globe.He warned that there were “hard and bitter days ahead,” but pledged that the United States and its allies would “have Ukraine’s back” as the war enters its second year.“Democracies of the world will stand guard over freedo
  
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• World No. 1 Iga Swiatek cruises to win over Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in Dubai

  21-02-2023 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI CITY, United Arab Emirates — World No. 1 Iga Swiatek cruised to a 6-1, 6-1 win over Canada’s Leylah Fernandez in second-round action Tuesday at the Dubai Tennis Championships.
  Fernandez, from Laval, Que., is still trying to get back into the form that propelled her to the 2021 U.S. Open final since recovering from a stress fracture in her foot that derailed the end of her 2022 campaign.
  She has shown recent progress, with a run to the quarterfinals last week in Doha, Qatar, and
  
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• Montreal Alouettes sign veteran Canadians Vincent Desjardins, Jake Harty to deals

  21-02-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Alouettes signed defensive lineman Vincent Desjardins and receiver Jake Harty to one-year deals Tuesday.
  Both players are Canadians.
  The six-foot-one, 275-pound Desjardins had a tackle in four regular-season games with Montreal last year. The Quebec City native spent his first two CFL seasons with the Calgary Stampeders (2019, 2021), recording three tackles, a forced fumble and fumble recovery in 20 regular-season contests.
  The six-foot-two, 210-pound Harty register
  
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• RCMP announce charges against 25-year-old Mission man for Heritage Park arsons

  21-02-2023 18:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mission RCMP announced Monday, February 20 that the B.C. Prosecution Service has approved six charges of arson against 25-year-old Mission man Joseph Kraakman for his alleged involvement in a series of intentionally-set fires in Heritage Park.According to a news release from Constable Harrison Mohr, media relations spokesperson for the Mission RCMP detachment, Heritage Park in Mission is one of the city’s most popular parks, with areas of dense forest, numerous walking trai
  
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• Suspects involved in commercial burglary released from custody, await March 14 court date

  21-02-2023 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Three suspects involved in a commercial burglary of a business in the 42200 block of Industrial Way in January have been released from custody and now await a court date in mid-March.
  Last week, Chilliwack RCMP announced they were looking to return two stolen Husqvarna chainsaws in connection with a commercial break and enter in early January.
  On Monday, February 20, Chilliwack RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk reported that the three suspects consist of a 53-year-old Chilliwack man, a
  
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• Man charged with attempted murder after downtown Vancouver shooting

  21-02-2023 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A man has been charged after a shooting in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that sent a man to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.
  The Vancouver Police Department says the 32-year-old has been charged with attempted murder and discharging a firearm.
  In an earlier statement after the Sunday afternoon shooting, the department said officers were working on East Hastings Street around 2:30 p.m. when the 31-year-old victim was repeatedly shot. 
  It says some officers began
  
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• Parliamentary committee looks to expand its study on foreign election interference

  21-02-2023 17:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is set to decide whether or not it will expand its current study on foreign election interference to include more details about the 2021 federal election.
  The meeting today is in response to a report last week from the Globe and Mail newspaper that said China worked in the last federal election to defeat Conservative politicians considered unfriendly to Beijing and to help ensure a Liberal minority government.
  The House of Commons procedure and House affa
  
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• Legault pitches English Canada for closure of Roxham Road and transfer of migrants

  21-02-2023 17:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s premier is making a pitch to English Canada for the closure of an irregular border crossing used by asylum seekers and for would-be refugees to be transferred outside his province.
  The Globe and Mail today published an English-language letter by François Legault in which he says the sooner the federal government closes Roxham Road, the better.
  The message is similar to one Legault wrote to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday, but the Globe’s lette
  
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• Veteran Canadian linebacker Muamba re-signs with Toronto Argonauts

  21-02-2023 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO, Ohio — Henoc Muamba will help the Toronto Argonauts defend their Grey Cup title.
  The veteran Canadian linebacker re-signed with the CFL club on Monday. Muamba, 33, became a free agent on Feb. 14.
  The six-foot, 230-pound linebacker capped the 2022 season in impressive fashion, being named the top Canadian and MVP of Toronto’s 24-23 Grey Cup victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. He became just the second player to record the historic double, joining Argos running back Andrew
  
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• Ukraine appeals to Canada’s rail manufacturers to repair war ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-02-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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