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• Blue Jays beat Braves, lose to Rays in split-squad spring training games

  09-03-2023 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  George Springer hit a two-run homer as a Toronto Blue Jays split squad beat the Atlanta Braves 3-1 in spring training baseball action Thursday.
  Another Jays split squad was defeated 6-1 by Tampa Bay at the Rays’ spring facility.
  Cavan Biggio also homered for the Jays in their win over Atlanta at their spring complex at Dunedin, Fla,
  Biggio’s homer gave the Jays a 1-0 lead after three innings.
  Sam Hilliard homered in the top of the seventh for Atlanta to tie the game 1-1, but Springer
  
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• Canadians can experience several means of foreign interference: expert

  09-03-2023 23:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Allegations of foreign interference in Canada’s democracy have dominated discussions on Parliament Hill for the past week, with the prime minister unveiling new measures aimed at investigating what happened in the last two federal elections and several committees studying the issue. 
  University of Calgary political science professor Lisa Young said the government’s role in regulating election interference is “tricky” because of the many forms it can ta
  
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• Law delaying expansion of assisted dying regime to March 2024 passes

  09-03-2023 23:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Liberal bill to delay the planned expansion of Canada’s medically assisted dying regime has passed third reading in the Senate.
  The expansion, which was originally slated for March 17, would include people whose sole underlying condition is a mental disorder.
  Justice Minister David Lametti announced the delay in February, saying more time was needed to ensure health-care professionals and Canadian society were prepared for the expansion. 
  That will now happen one year
  
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• LETTER: Majority of Chilliwack school trustees demonstrating ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Germany: Deaths, injuries in shooting inside Hamburg church

  09-03-2023 23:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Shots were fired inside a church in the northern German city of Hamburg on Thursday night, and an unspecified number of people were killed or wounded, police said.
  Police said on Twitter that the shooting took place in the Gross Borstel district, a few kilometers (miles) north of the downtown area of Germany’s second-biggest city.
  They said that “several people were seriously wounded, some of them fatally,” but didn’t give a precise figure.
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• Chance encounter sees B.C. duo partying with soccer legend David ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• St-Onge, COC respond to letter calling for hard ban of Russian, Belarusian athletes

  09-03-2023 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s sport minister and the Canadian Olympic Committee have restated that Russia and Belarus should be excluded from the next Olympics, but differ on if athletes from those countries could be allowed to compete under a neutral flag.
  Pascale St-Onge and the COC issued separate statements on Thursday in response to an open letter signed by 42 retired Canadian Olympians the day before. The letter urges the COC to not allow Russian or Belarusian athletes to compete under a neutral flag at
  
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• Get ready for a sizzling-hot season of events in Downtown ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 23:23 via news.google.com
  
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• Split verdict for ex-Fox execs in soccer rights bribe case

  09-03-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) —A former Fox executive was convicted Thursday of paying tens of millions of dollars in bribes to nab broadcasting rights to the World Cup and other top soccer matches. A second ex-executive was acquitted.
  A Brooklyn federal jury deliberated four days before returning the verdicts. Hernan Lopez was convicted. Carlos Martinez was acquitted.
  Prosecutors said the case revealed the corruption of international soccer. Defense lawyers said the former Fox execs were framed by an adm
  
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• Chilliwack City Council rejects Fairfield Island rezoning application after heavy opposition from neighbours

  09-03-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council has voted to reject a rezoning application that would have converted two single-family lots into an eight-lot subdivision on an already busy street in Fairfield Island.Council voted unanimously at its meeting Tuesday evening (Mar. 7) to reject the rezoning application for 46193 Strathcona Road and 10195 Williams Road after receiving a petition with 43 signatures and six emails opposing the application.Fairfield Island-area residents said the eight-lot s
  
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• Prospects Taylor, Brodrique set for their CFL audition at national combine

  09-03-2023 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jake Taylor won’t have to venture far to participate in the CFL’s national combine.
  The versatile University of Alberta Golden Bear will be among 87 prospects participating in the combine March 21-25 at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium. Taylor, of Beaumont, Alta., has done much of his post-season preparation at the facility.
  But initially, the six-foot-two, 215-pound Taylor wasn’t thrilled about the combine being in Edmonton. He participated in U Sports’ 2022 East-We
  
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• Northern Ontario’s Tanner Horgan books playoff ticket at Tim Hortons Brier

  09-03-2023 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON, Ont. — Northern Ontario coach Mike Harris didn’t say a word when Tanner Horgan vented some frustration by smacking the top of a water bottle a few times after giving up a mid-game steal on Thursday.
  Lead Colin Hodgson, a grin on his face, later grabbed a napkin and helped soak up some of the spilled liquid on the coach’s bench. 
  Some intensity can often be a good thing for a Northern Ontario foursome that’s now playoff-bound at the Tim Hortons Brier. 
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• Prosecutors say Chilliwack pastor's Charter challenge over COVID ... - Hope Standard

  09-03-2023 22:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Prosecutors say Chilliwack pastor's Charter challenge over COVID ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 22:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Chiefs ban RCMP’s ‘militarized’ squadron from Gitxsan lands in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Poulin leads experienced Team Canada in quest for third straight women’s hockey title

  09-03-2023 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Captain Marie-Philip Poulin will lead an experienced squad when Canada seeks its third straight women’s world hockey title next month.
  Hockey Canada released its 23-player roster for the tournament, which runs April 5-16 in Brampton, Ont.
  Eighteen players selected to the roster were part of Canada’s championship team last year in Denmark.
  All players except forward Danielle Serdachny, 21, have appeared in a world championship before.
  Sarah Fillier, who led Canada with
  
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• U.S. President Joe Biden’s long-awaited Canada visit to happen March 23-24

  09-03-2023 22:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to Ottawa on March 23 for his first in-person visit to Canada since taking office in 2021. 
  The White House says Biden will spend two days in Canada, during which he will sit down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  A visit to Canada is customarily one of a new U.S. president’s first foreign trips, but the COVID-19 pandemic got in the way of that tradition when it came to Biden.
  Indeed, Biden’s second positive test for COVI
  
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• Former Paralympian Patrick Jarvis named Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton interim CEO

  09-03-2023 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Former Paralympian Patrick Jarvis was named the interim chief executive officer for Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton on Thursday.
  Jarvis’s appointment comes after a tumultuous year for Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton that saw more than 70 current and former athletes call for change within the organization, citing a toxic environment of maltreatment. He’s tasked with helping Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton create a supportive culture that ensures wellness for all participants including a
  
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• White Rock Wave crushes competition in Chilliwack meet - Surrey - Surrey Now Leader

  09-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• White Rock Wave crushes competition in Chilliwack meet ... - Cloverdale Reporter

  09-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• March snow measurements near normal in much of B.C. - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 21:18 via news.google.com
  
  March snow measurements near normal in much of B.C.  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Abbotsford’s Boseko and Nelson Lokombo honoured at The Game ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 21:17 via news.google.com
  
  Abbotsford’s Boseko and Nelson Lokombo honoured at The Game ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack musician Jamison Isaak up for Juno for Electronic Album ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 20:47 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP raised $2900 for the Special Olympics with polar ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 20:04 via news.google.com
  
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• Arctic rivers slowing with climate change: UBC Okanagan - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack real estate sales warming up after frigid January

  09-03-2023 19:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — After a dismally low level of real estate sales activity in the month of January, sales of single-family homes increased substantially in February in Chilliwack and the surrounding communities.According to figures released earlier this week from the Chilliwack and Real Estate Board, 194 housing units were sold in February 2023, a substantial increase over January in which only 120 homes were sold.
  In February, 96 single-family homes, 48 attached townhouses, 37 apartments, thre
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays fans fifth least annoying in Major League Baseball

  09-03-2023 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto Blue Jays fans have earned themselves a good reputation around Major League Baseball.
  A recent survey of fans voted Blue Jays supporters the fifth least annoying and 11th best-behaved in all of MLB.Fans of the New York Yankees, Toronto’s division rival, have the distinction of being the most annoying and the worst behaved.
  Houston Astros shortstop Jose Altuve was named baseball’s most annoying player by the survey of 999 fans.
  Despite retiring on Oct. 3, Chicago White Sox man
  
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• Former CFL player Darnell Sankey making quick adjustment to playing in XFL

  09-03-2023 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It hasn’t taken Darnell Sankey long to adjust to life in the XFL.
  Sankey, the CFL’s leading tackler in each of the last two seasons, had eight tackles (five solo, two for loss) and half a sack in the Arlington Renegades’ 10-9 win over the Orlando Guardians on Sunday. That earned Sankey defensive player of the week honours in just his second XFL game while platooning at linebacker.
  Sankey will make his first XFL start Sunday when Arlington (2-1) visits the St. Louis Battlehawks
  
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• Watchdog investigating how B.C. RCMP unit handles resource ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Anxiety, fear fill West Virginia’s transgender-health clinic - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• RCMP watchdog investigates force how B.C. unit handles resource project protests

  09-03-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The RCMP watchdog has launched a systemic investigation of the national police force’s British Columbia unit that deals with protests against logging and pipeline projects.
  Civilian Review and Complaints Commission chairperson Michelaine Lahaie says in a statement issued today that the investigation will look into the activities and operations of the RCMP “E” Division Community-Industry Response Group.
  The group is tasked with providing a co-ordinated response to
  
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• Alberta agency to conduct independent probe of B.C. RCMP Prince George detachment

  09-03-2023 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team will lead a probe into allegations of historic misconduct by members of the Prince George RCMP detachment, and the failure of the force to act on the complaints.
  A statement from the Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, Mike Farnworth, says the allegations are disturbing and are being taken very seriously.
  The independent commission that ensures the impartial examination of complaints abo
  
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• B.C. coal mines’ economic impact overstated, thwarting ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack and Sardis libraries offer up heaps of free events for kids ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 17:53 via news.google.com
  
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• Hockey gold for Chilliwack's Aynsley D'Ottavio at Canada Winter ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 17:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Cariboo woman delivers baby in minivan en route to hospital - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 17:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Federal environment minister says Alberta silence over oilsands spill ‘worrisome’

  09-03-2023 17:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Alberta’s nine-month silence over two releases of toxic oilsands tailings water is worrisome.
  He says Alberta is supposed to notify the federal government over such releases within 24 hours.
  In this case, Alberta government agencies seem to have known about seepage from Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsand tailings pond for nine months before making a public statement on it.
  Environmental incidents in Alberta are normally first reported to
  
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• ‘Really worrisome’: Survey suggests some Alberta doctors have anti ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• BC Civil Liberties Association revokes award granted to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond

  09-03-2023 17:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Another award has been stripped from Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, the former judge, law professor and British Columbia representative for children and youth whose claims of Indigenous ancestry have been discredited.
  A statement from the BC Civil Liberties Association says it has rescinded the Reg Robson Award given to Turpel-Lafond as part of its 2020 Liberty Awards. 
  The association says board members believed Turpel-Lafond’s representations about her professional acco
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: B.C.’s Budget is working for British Columbians

  09-03-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  British Columbia led a strong pandemic recovery, but we know that some businesses, individuals, and families are still feeling its effects and are struggling with rising costs because of global inflation.
  Our government’s priority is supporting British Columbians, and the items outlined in our new B.C. Budget for 2023, like housing, healthcare, the environment, and much more, will serve British Columbians for decades to come and will help give relief now to the people who need it most.
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• Security committee of parliamentarians begins latest foreign interference study

  09-03-2023 16:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The committee of parliamentarians that oversees national security says it has begun a study of foreign interference, following a request from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  In a statement, the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians says it will examine the state of foreign interference in Canada’s democratic processes since 2018.
  The review will continue the work done in its previous review of the government’s response to foreign interference,
  
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• RCMP investigating two alleged clandestine Chinese police stations in Quebec

  09-03-2023 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec RCMP say they are investigating two alleged secret police stations operated by Chinese authorities in the province.
  In a statement, the federal police force says its Integrated National Security Team has opened investigations into the suspected police stations in Montreal and Brossard, a suburb just south of the city.
  Sgt. Charles Poirier says Canadians of Chinese origin were victims of activities carried out by the stations, adding that any type of intimidation, hara
  
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• US court records show political pressure behind Fox News ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Traffic impacted on BC Highway 1 in Abbotsford after vehicle incident - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 16:18 via news.google.com
  
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• City of Chilliwack to use $16.3 million funding for racquet sport facilities, wastewater treatment plant and more

  09-03-2023 15:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The City of Chilliwack plans to use over half of a $16.3 million funding allocation announced by the provincial government last week for racquet sport facilities and a “biological treatment expansion” of its wastewater treatment plant.On its meeting agenda this past Tuesday (Mar. 7), Chilliwack City Council approved a list of recommended projects in conjunction with afunding dispersal of $1 billion from the B.C. government through the Growing Communities Fund that
  
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• Convicted B.C. killer dies in custody at Mountain Institution in Agassiz

  09-03-2023 15:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — A B.C. man convicted of both manslaughter and second-degree murder has died at Mountain Institution, a medium-security prison west of Agassiz.
  The Correctional Service of Canada confirmed Tuesday (Mar. 7) that Gary Donald Johnston died in prison this past Sunday.At the time of his death, Johnston had been serving an indeterminate sentence that began on November 3, 2011 for second-degree murder. His family has been notified, correctional staff said.As with all cases involving the
  
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• Ottawa to fast-track purchase of weapons for Canadian troops in Europe: Minister

  09-03-2023 15:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand says Ottawa will fast-track the purchase of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and anti-drone weapons for the Canadian military with a mechanism last used during the war in Afghanistan.
  Anand announced the plan in a keynote speech to the defence community this morning, saying the new weapons are needed now for Canadian troops in Latvia and other parts of Europe.
  The defence minister also emphasized the need to update Canada’s long-term plan for the militar
  
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• 2 Chilliwack women recognized for 'outstanding' work in community ... - Chilliwack Progress

  09-03-2023 15:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Raptors’ VanVleet heavily criticizes officiating after loss

  09-03-2023 14:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES — Fred VanVleet tried to take a double breath before addressing reporters. But the Toronto Raptors guard was unable to suppress his frustration with referee Ben Taylor and his crew.
  VanVleet was extremely critical of Taylor after the Raptors’ 108-100 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night — not only for being called for a technical foul, but for the disparity in fouls and free throws.
  “I don’t mind it. I’ll take the fine. I don’t
  
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• ‘Doesn’t really matter where we’re seeded:’ Ravens eye four-peat at U Sports Final 8

  09-03-2023 12:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Entering the U Sports men’s Final 8 championship coming off a loss, again, is not a matter of concern for the Carleton Ravens.
  Winners of the last three national titles, the Ravens come in as the third seed after falling 79-57 to the Ottawa Gee-Gees in the Ontario University Athletics title game. Carleton went into the 2022 Final 8 as the seventh seed — and with an at-large berth after falling to Queen’s in the OUA semifinals — and found their way to a record 16th title.
  
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