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• Conservative party admits error in failing to give notice of Patrick Brown fundraiser

  02-03-2023 23:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Conservative Party of Canada says it made a mistake in failing to give notice of a fundraiser held by disqualified leadership contestant Patrick Brown.Spokeswoman Sarah Fischer says the party did not post details of the $1,700-per-ticket event Brown held last week on its website, which is required by Elections Canada.
  Brown, who is currently mayor of Brampton, Ont., held the fundraiser to help pay down the campaign debt he accumulated during last year’s leadership bid.Th
  
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• Former Olympian Charmaine Crooks appointed Canada Soccer’s ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
  Former Olympian Charmaine Crooks appointed Canada Soccer’s ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Quebec man found guilty of promoting hatred against Jews files application for appeal

  02-03-2023 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec man found guilty of wilfully promoting hatred against Jews is seeking leave to appeal his conviction.
  Gabriel Sohier Chaput’s lawyer wrote in an application for permission to appeal filed last week that the trial judge created the appearance of bias in the courtroom.
  Sohier Chaput was found guilty of promoting hatred by a Quebec court judge in late January in connection with a 2017 article published on the neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, one of hundreds of ite
  
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• Guelph Gryphons teammates prepared to battle at CFL combine

  02-03-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  They’ve been longtime teammates at the University of Guelph, but receiver Clark Barnes and defensive back Siriman Bagayogo will be all business at the CFL combine.
  Both players will attend the combine, which goes March 22-26 in Edmonton. They’ll not only meet with CFL coaches, GMs and scouts but also participate in individual tests including the 40-yard dash, vertical jump, shuttle runs and bench press.
  And like they’ve done many times at practice, Barnes and Bagayogo will be p
  
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• Lots of laughs as Jest Ladies Comedy returns to Chilliwack stage ... - Hope Standard

  02-03-2023 22:59 via news.google.com
  
  Lots of laughs as Jest Ladies Comedy returns to Chilliwack stage ...  Hope Standard
  
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• Lots of laughs as Jest Ladies Comedy returns to Chilliwack stage - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 22:59 via news.google.com
  
  Lots of laughs as Jest Ladies Comedy returns to Chilliwack stage  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Lots of laughs as Jest Ladies Comedy returns to Chilliwack stage ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  02-03-2023 22:59 via news.google.com
  
  Lots of laughs as Jest Ladies Comedy returns to Chilliwack stage ...  Agassiz Harrison Observer
  
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• Oilers acquire veteran forward Nick Bjugstad from Coyotes

  02-03-2023 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers acquired forward Nick Bjugstad and defenceman Cam Dineen from the Arizona Coyotes for a third-round pick in the 2023 NHL draft and blue-liner Michael Kesselring on Thursday.
  The move less than 24 hours before the league’s 3 p.m. Friday trade deadline will see the Coyotes retain 50 per cent of Bjugstad’s remaining US$900,000 salary.
  Set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer, the 30-year-old has 13 goals and 23 points in 59 games in 2022-
  
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• Yukon budget lays out $48.2-million surplus, funding for dental, inflation relief

  02-03-2023 22:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WHITEHORSE — The Yukon government is predicting a $48.2-million surplus in 2023 with a budget promising cash for housing, health care, infrastructure and inflation relief.
  The document, tabled by Finance Minister Sandy Silver, is the first budget of new Premier Ranj Pillai, who took over the top job from Silver earlier this year.
  Silver told the legislature that the government is delivering programs and services that meet today’s needs while investing in infrastructure for the future
  
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• Alejandro Kirk welcomed to Blue Jays spring training after birth of first child

  02-03-2023 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNEDIN, Fla. — The familiar horns of “El Mechon” by Banda MS blared in the Toronto Blue Jays minor league facility on Thursday to welcome back catcher Alejandro Kirk.
  Kirk was trumpeted in to the clubhouse after missing the start of spring training to be with his wife Sophia for the birth of their first child, Emilia Jolene Kirk Castañeda. Kirk said it was “awesome” that his Blue Jays teammates played his memorable walk-up music for his first full day back.
  
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• RCMP make two arrests, seize firearms, right-wing political material west of Montreal

  02-03-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — RCMP say two men face charges in connection with a large firearms seizure last year just west of Montreal.
  Authorities say Jordan Madden, 29, and Joshua Madden, 31, of Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., are facing seven charges related to the trafficking, transfer, possession and storage of firearms.
  Police say the force’s integrated national security team raided a home Nov. 30, discovering 37 firearms, weapons parts, military accessories, more than 10,000 rounds of ammunition and 20
  
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• B.C. firm gets approval from Health Canada to make and sell cocaine

  02-03-2023 22:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY, B.C. — Health Canada has granted a British Columbia cannabis company the right to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine. 
  Adastra Labs says in a news release that Health Canada gave it approval on Feb. 17 for an amendment under its controlled substance dealer’s licence. 
  It says the amended licence allows the company to “interact” with up to 250 grams of cocaine and to import coca leaves in order to make and synthesize the substance. 
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• Chilliwack RCMP officers take the icy plunge for a great cause Thursday at Cultus Lake

  02-03-2023 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Despite blustery, bone-chilling winds and temperatures lingering in the lower single digits, RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk says she just knew she had to take the plunge into the icy-cold waters of Cultus Lake Thursday morning at main beach.
  The frigid temperatures of Cultus Lake were no match for a group of gutsy officers and staff from the Chilliwack RCMP detachment as they raised awareness and funding for the exemplary athletes of Special Olympics B.C.
  “You know what? I knew
  
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• B.C. to ask Ottawa for money laundering law changes after case fails to yield charges

  02-03-2023 22:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s attorney general says she will lobby the federal government to amend Canada’s financial crime law after a multi-year money laundering investigation by police failed to produce any charges.
  Niki Sharma says B.C. will ask for changes to the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to bring Canadian law into harmony with the United States and United Kingdom.
  She says the push comes after Wednesday’s “frustrating&rdq
  
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• Manitoba RCMP say 2 teenage girls died after being found in the cold on First Nation

  02-03-2023 22:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. THERESA POINT, Man. — RCMP say two teenage girls died in the cold outside a home on a remote First Nation in Manitoba. 
  Mounties were called after the 14-year-old girls were found Wednesday in St. Theresa Point First Nation, a fly-in community about 610 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg.  
  The girls were brought to the local nursing station but they both died.
  Mounties say it is believed the teens were outside for a period of time.
  The temperature was around -23 C overnight in
  
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• Canadian players want talks with Canada Soccer before next president chosen

  02-03-2023 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s men’s and women’s soccer teams have called on Canada Soccer to consult with the players “on the best path forward” before the next permanent president is chosen.
  Former Olympian Charmaine Crooks has taken over as acting president in the wake of Nick Bontis’ resignation. An election will be held in May to determine who finishes out Bontis’s term, which runs through the summer of 2024.
  “This change in board leadership at Canada Soccer is one
  
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• Columbia Valley reeling after avalanche kills three, injures four ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• RCMP confirm three foreign national skiers have died in an avalanche near Invermere, B.C.

  02-03-2023 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INVERMERE — Mounties in southeast British Columbia say three foreign nationals who were heli-skiing have died following an avalanche Wednesday.According to Cpl. James Grandy, the Columbia Valley RCMP was notified of an avalanche on Wednesday (Mar. 1) at 12:40 p.m. The report of an avalanche was triggered southwest of Invermere, B.C. An initial report concluded that multiple people who had been heli-skiing in the area were caught up by the avalanche.
  Rescue efforts that began initially with
  
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• Who’s left? NHL trade deadline day shaping up to be a dud after flurry of action

  02-03-2023 20:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Bo Horvat was the first to go at the end of January. 
  Vladimir Tarasenko moved on next. Ryan O’Reilly wasn’t far behind.
  NHL trade boards had already shed three big names two weeks before the league’s deadline.
  Then the floodgates opened over the weekend. The deluge hasn’t stopped.
  General managers have been working at breakneck speed — especially since Sunday — as teams manoeuvre and jockey for position ahead of Friday’s 3 p.m. cutoff.
  And televisi
  
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• B.C. doctor disciplined for therapy that included hypnosis, psilocybin ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 20:43 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. doctor disciplined for therapy that included hypnosis, psilocybin ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders sign veteran CFL receiver Derel Walker

  02-03-2023 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed American free-agent receiver Derel Walker on Thursday.
  The six-foot-two, 187-pound Walker had 65 catches for 874 yards and a TD in 16 regular-season games with the Edmonton Elks in 2022.
  Walker spent six of his seven CFL campaigns with the Alberta squad, the exception being 2019 when he played for the Toronto Argonauts.
  Walker, 31, was the CFL’s top rookie in 2015 (winning a Grey Cup with Edmonton that year) and has registered three 1,000-
  
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• Quebec health minister says emergency room death of 86-year-old woman ‘disturbing’

  02-03-2023 20:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé says details surrounding the death of an 86-year-old woman in an emergency room last week are “disturbing” and “unacceptable.”
  First reported by TVA Nouvelles, the family of Gilberte Gosselin says she was left to die in a hallway of the emergency room at Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Lévis, Que., and spent 48 hours without food or water before she died.
  A spokesperson for Dubé says he has requested
  
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• George Santos now under investigation by House Ethics panel

  02-03-2023 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Thursday announced that it has launched an investigation into New York Republican Rep. George Santos, the embattled first-term Republican who has admitted fabricating major parts of his resume while running for office.
  The committee voted earlier this week to open the probe, which it said will look at whether Santos may have “engaged in unlawful activity with respect to his 2022 congressional campaign.”The panel said it will also
  
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• Oceana Canada celebrates commitment to protect B.C. Seamounts - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
  Oceana Canada celebrates commitment to protect B.C. Seamounts  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Kobe Bryant family settles photo lawsuit for $28.5 million - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
  Kobe Bryant family settles photo lawsuit for $28.5 million  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Best of MWC: Screens that roll, ChatGPT interactive glasses - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
  Best of MWC: Screens that roll, ChatGPT interactive glasses  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• LETTER: Coalition of 125+ B.C. groups call for pay equity legislation - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 20:10 via news.google.com
  
  LETTER: Coalition of 125+ B.C. groups call for pay equity legislation  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Justice Dept: Trump can be sued by police for Jan. 6 actions

  02-03-2023 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump can be sued by injured Capitol Police officers and Democratic lawmakers over the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department said Thursday in an ongoing federal court case testing the limits of executive power.
  The department wrote that although a president enjoys broad legal latitude to communicate to the public on matters of concern, “no part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incit
  
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• AP sources: Biden not expected to veto GOP effort on DC laws

  02-03-2023 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden isn’t expected to veto Republican-sponsored resolutions that would block new District of Columbia laws that change how the nation’s capital votes and how the city prosecutes and punishes crime, according to people familiar with the matter.City officials have spent nearly two decades trying to redo Washington’s criminal laws, including redefining crimes, changing criminal justice policies and reworking how sentences should be handed do
  
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• Former housekeeper ordered to repay $110K to Abbotsford man’s ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 19:48 via news.google.com
  
  Former housekeeper ordered to repay $110K to Abbotsford man’s ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alex Murdaugh killed wife, son to buy time, prosecutor says - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
  Alex Murdaugh killed wife, son to buy time, prosecutor says  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alberta band chief angry over silence from Imperial Oil after oilsands tailings spill

  02-03-2023 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A northern Alberta band chief says he’s angry over not being notified for nine months after two separate releases from an oilsands tailings pond. 
  Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation says a pond on Imperial Oil Ltd.’s Kearl mine was seeping into groundwater and onto the surface for nine months before his community was notified Feb. 6. 
  At least 5.3 million litres of water containing toxic chemicals have been released and the seepage continues.  
  The Albe
  
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• Supreme Court to look at issue of Crown liability when a law is struck down

  02-03-2023 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will examine whether the Crown enjoys absolute immunity from a civil suit seeking damages over passage of a law that is found to be unconstitutional.
  The top court has agreed to hear the federal attorney general’s appeal in the case of a New Brunswick man who filed an action for damages over legislative measures that made him ineligible for a criminal pardon.
  Joseph Power served a prison sentence after being convicted of criminal offences in the 1
  
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• Toronto FC gets positive news about injury to Italian star winger Lorenzo Insigne

  02-03-2023 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The injury news on Toronto FC star Lorenzo Insigne is positive.
  Insigne, who hobbled off the pitch in last weekend’s season-opening loss at D.C. United, trained briefly Friday and is listed as questionable for Saturday’s match at Atlanta United.
  Coach Bob Bradley says it doesn’t seem like the lower body injury will keep him out long.
  The 31-year-old Italian exited last weekend after feeling something in the lower leg.
  Insigne was running after the ball when he s
  
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• High avalanche risk closes Highway 1 between Revelstoke and ... - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Tydel Foods raising funds to support Ukrainian families in Chilliwack, will collect meat for them

  02-03-2023 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack small business owner Brigida Crosbie and her husband Tony consistently sell chicken and beef at competitive prices below the big box stores.
  But it’s the humanitarian side of her small business in downtown Chilliwack that continues to distinguish her from other butchers and retailers in town.
  Crosbie, who handed out over 1,010 meals at Christmas over a period of one and a half weeks thanks to approximately 100 volunteers, and donated hundreds of articles of cl
  
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• Canada, China had better relationship at time of Trudeau Foundation pledge: Rosenberg

  02-03-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The former head of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says the level of caution Canadian institutions must now take when dealing with China was not top of mind when the charitable organization accepted a pledge from a Chinese billionaire.
  Morris Rosenberg was president of the Trudeau Foundation from 2014 to 2018, which is when the charity was given $200,000 by Zhang Bin, a political adviser to the Chinese government, and another wealthy Chinese businessman.
  The charity set up t
  
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• Greece train crash death toll rises to 57 amid search

  02-03-2023 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The death toll from the head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train in Greece has risen to 57. Police spokeswoman Constandia Dimoglidou said in a briefing Thursday that 48 people injured in the crash remain in the hospital, six of them in intensive care units.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
  THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Emergency crews cut through the mangled remains of a passenger train on Thursday, pr
  
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• FVHCF, CGH hosting 23rd annual Run for Mom on Mothers Day, May 14

  02-03-2023 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — On an already special day dedicated to the amazing, tireless work of moms everywhere, an upcoming event in May in Chilliwack is one of the best ways to support the women and babies in the maternity department at Chilliwack General Hospital.The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation (FVHCF), along with Chilliwack General Hospital, will host the 23rd annual 5k Run for Mom to raise funds for the maternity department in support of mothers and babies on Sunday, May 14.Participants ar
  
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• Light standard 'sheared off' in collision on Hwy 1 east of Chilliwack ... - Hope Standard

  02-03-2023 18:08 via news.google.com
  
  Light standard 'sheared off' in collision on Hwy 1 east of Chilliwack ...  Hope Standard
  
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• Montreal university says no indication donation by Chinese billionaire was suspect

  02-03-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal university that was promised an $800,000 donation as part of an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Justin Trudeau says the pledge came at a different time in Canada-China relations. 
  Université de Montréal spokesman Jeff Heinrich says that when the donation was announced in 2016, scientific and economic relations between the two countries were more open and there was no suggestion of possible links to political interference. 
  
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• Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow

  02-03-2023 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data showed Thursday.
  The latest survey found that moderate or severe drought covers about 49% of the state, nearly 17% of the state is free of drought or a condition described as abnormally dry. The remainder is still abnormally dry.
  Just three months ago virtually all of California was in drought, in
  
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• Housing prices in Fraser Valley increase slightly, home sales rise

  02-03-2023 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — The Fraser Valley Real Estate Board says housing prices in the region between White Rock and Abbotsford posted a slight but positive bump in February after nearly a year of month-over-month decreases.Similarly, sales, though still trending lower than normal, also recorded their first monthly gain since October.
  In a news release Thursday morning, the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board (FVREB) says it processed 898 sales on its Multiple Listing Service in February, an increase of 43.5
  
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• Court reduces sentence for Moncton Mountie killer Justin Bourque - Chilliwack Progress

  02-03-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
  Court reduces sentence for Moncton Mountie killer Justin Bourque  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Bay du Nord not liable for end-use emissions, marine shipping, company lawyer says

  02-03-2023 17:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A lawyer representing the Norwegian energy firm behind a proposed offshore oil project in Newfoundland and Labrador says the company is only responsible for the immediate environmental impact of the project itself.
  Environment groups and eight Mi’kmaq communities in New Brunswick are asking the Federal Court this week to overturn Bay du Nord’s federal approval for using a flawed environmental assessment.
  They say the review didn’t look at the end-use greenhouse g
  
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• De Grasse looks to be at peak condition as targeted return to competition approaches

  02-03-2023 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Reaching peak health has been the theme of the off-season for superstar sprinter Andre De Grasse.
  The Markham, Ont., native dealt with a nagging foot injury and a second bout of COVID in 2022. The latter happened under a month before the world championships, where he failed to qualify for the 100-metre final, then pulled out of the 200 before leading Canada to gold in the 4×100 relay.
  With a “tough” 2022 season behind him, however, the reigning Olympic 200 champion says the goa
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Protecting our communities from extreme weather

  02-03-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  When disastrous floods hit the Fraser Valley in 2021, people’s safety and livelihoods were threatened in a way we had not seen before. I am so proud of the resilience and bravery that people in the Fraser Valley showed during those hard days, and I hope that we don’t have to witness British Columbians go through something like that again any time soon.
  The fact is, climate change means that these types of disasters will happen in our province again. Keeping people safe is our governm
  
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• Veteran running back Andrew Harris officially returns to Toronto Argonauts

  02-03-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Veteran Canadian running back Andrew Harris is officially back with the Toronto Argonauts.
  The CFL club announced Thursday that Harris, 35, of Winnipeg, was returning for the 2023 season although sources had indicated last month Harris would be back to help Toronto defend its Grey Cup title.
  Contract details weren’t divulged but the sources said last month Harris had agreed to a one-year deal with Toronto.
  Harris ran for 490 yards on 114 carries (4.3-yard average)and added
  
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• Greater Vancouver home sales up 77% from Jan., down 47% from last year: board

  02-03-2023 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says February’s home sales were up 76.9 per cent from January, but down 47.2 per cent from the year before.
  The board says sales for the month totalled 1,808, roughly 33 per cent below the 10-year February sales average.
  The board says the numbers reflect a continued reluctance from prospective home sellers to list their properties, pushing sales well below historical norms.
  However, the number of homes for sale in the region hav
  
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• Bruins lock up Pastrnak with 8-year, $90M deal through 2031

  02-03-2023 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Bruins have signed forward David Pastrnak to an eight-year contract extension that will pay him $90 million — the sixth-largest deal in NHL history.
  The deal locks up one of the league’s MVP candidates through the 2030-31 season for $11.25 million a season. He had been eligible to become a free agent after this season.
  Pastrnak, 26, is second in the league this season with 42 goals, adding 38 assists while leading Boston to the best record in the NHL. H
  
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