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• Connor McDavid, Oilers ready to face the Maple Leafs after brief injury scare

  10-03-2023 23:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Connor McDavid experienced another sinking feeling — if only for a brief moment.
  The superstar captain of the Edmonton Oilers had just been the victim of a friendly fire collision with teammate Derek Ryan late in Thursday’s victory over the Boston Bruins.
  McDavid immediately grabbed at his left leg after crumpling to the ice as the franchise and fanbase held its collective breath, but got to the bench on his own before helping close out a gutsy, 3-2 statement win over
  
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• B.C. firefighter pleads guilty to voyeurism - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Thompson pitches three perfect innings as Blue Jays down Red Sox 2-0

  10-03-2023 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT MYERS, Fla. — Zach Thompson pitched three perfect innings to pick up the win, and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Boston Red Sox 2-0 in spring training baseball action Friday.
  Thompson struck out two and didn’t allow a baserunner over his three innings of work.
  Relievers Thomas Hatch, Sem Robberse and Jimmy Robbins combined to scatter five hits over six innings, with Robbins picking up the save.
  Wynton Bernard drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the third inning. Rai
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada restores voyeurism conviction against ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
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• 'The best therapy': Breast cancer survivors invite others to join ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 22:51 via news.google.com
  
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• Joly pushes China to include Ukraine in peace talks, as South Africa seeks resolution

  10-03-2023 22:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is asking China to expand its talks with Russia on a peace plan for Ukraine to include Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
  Joly says that earlier this month at the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting, she asked her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang to have Chinese President Xi Jinping speak with Zelenskyy.
  She was speaking at a public discussion on multilateralism with Norwegian Foreign Affairs Minister Anniken Huitfeldt in Ottawa.
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• Ontario’s McEwen and Wild Card 1’s Bottcher win qualifier games at Brier

  10-03-2023 22:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON, Ont. — Ontario’s Mike McEwen and Wild Card 1’s Brendan Bottcher are moving on to the final four at the Tim Hortons Brier.
  McEwen beat Alberta’s Kevin Koe 9-8 and Bottcher topped Northern Ontario’s Tanner Horgan 8-5 in today’s crossover elimination games at Budweiser Gardens.
  They will advance to the four-team Page playoffs with seeding games scheduled for the evening. 
  Unbeaten Manitoba skip Matt Dunstone and Team Canada’s Brad Gushue earned
  
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• Environmental groups celebrate as ExxonMobil gives up oil exploration permits in B.C.

  10-03-2023 22:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Environmental groups are celebrating after ExxonMobil relinquished offshore oil and gas exploration permits in British Columbia dating back more than 50 years. 
  Lawyer Ian Miron with Ecojustice Canada says the company has been dropped from a Federal Court lawsuit filed by the David Suzuki Foundation and World Wildlife Fund Canada last year challenging the Canadian government’s continual renewal of the permits. 
  Miron says the permits formerly held by Exxon cover
  
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• Veterans Affairs closes assisted-dying investigation, says four cases ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Elektra Women’s Choir comes to Agassiz this weekend - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Einarson set for long-awaited trip to Sweden seeking first world curling title

  10-03-2023 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Kerri Einarson looked at Facebook on Friday and saw a memory flash on the screen from March 2020, before life as she knew it came to a halt due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  There she was standing in Winnipeg’s Fort Rouge Curling Club, preparing to embark for Sweden and her first women’s world curling championship.
  Turns out her trip was delayed by three years.
  “All of a sudden, it was cancelled,” Einarson said Friday after practice at the very same curling cl
  
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• Toronto FC’s new kit draws wide range of reviews from players and supporters

  10-03-2023 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Captain Michael Bradley will be wearing Toronto FC’s new home uniform when he leads the MLS team out Saturday for its home opener against the Columbus Crew.
  And like many of the club’s supporters, at least judging from social media, Bradley is split on the new kit.
  “The jersey itself I like a lot. I don’t like that it’s our home kit,” Bradley said after training Friday, echoing the view of some fans. “For me, our home kit should be all re
  
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• B.C. dropping COVID-19 vaccine requirement for provincial public servants

  10-03-2023 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia is rescinding its policy that required provincial public servants to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
  The province says that from April 3, BC Public Service employees will no longer be required to provide proof of vaccination.
  The Ministry of Finance says in a statement the decision to rescind the policy was made “based on the high level of vaccination among public-service employees and the current state of the pandemic.”
  It says more than 98 per cent
  
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• Toronto FC’s Jonathan Osorio now listed as a designated player, helping salary cap

  10-03-2023 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian midfielder Jonathan Osorio has joined Italian stars Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi as a designated player on Toronto FC’s books.
  It’s purely an accounting move with nothing changing in the three-year contact, with an option for 2026, that Osorio signed in December. Making him a designated player gives TFC more room in its salary cap budget.
  Under MLS rules, a DP aged at least 24 only counts for US$651,250 against the salary cap — regardless o
  
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• Giant ant fossil discovered near Princeton by local resident - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 21:34 via news.google.com
  
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• Class-action lawsuit proposed for shareholders affected by Adastra ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada’s 2023 federal budget coming March 28: Finance Minister ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Toronto facing injuries up front, chilly conditions for home opener against Columbus

  10-03-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC will have to deal with a makeshift offence and chilly conditions for its home opener Saturday against the Columbus Crew.
  Toronto (0-1-1) is short on strikers with Adama Diomande and Ayo Akinola both injured.
  Diomande had to leave last weekend’s 1-1 tie in Atlanta in the 45th minute and Akinola, who replaced him, exited in the 73rd minute. Coach Bob Bradley said both players had their hamstrings tighten up.
  “We have some decisions to make,” Bradley said Friday.
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• Class-action lawsuit proposed for shareholders affected by Adastra cocaine claim

  10-03-2023 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver-based law firm says it has filed a proposed securities class-action lawsuit on behalf of anyone who acquired shares in a B.C. company that recently announced plans to commercialize cocaine.
  Adastra Labs CEO Michael Forbes released a statement on Feb. 22 saying the company would “evaluate how the commercialization of (cocaine) fits” with the firm’s business model. 
  The company revised the statement on March 3 after both Premier David Eby and Pr
  
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• 2023 Fraser Valley Cultural Diversity Awards presented in 8 ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 20:56 via news.google.com
  
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• Suspicious fire breaks out at the same Second Avenue home in Chilliwack Friday

  10-03-2023 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A suspicious fire broke out at an unoccupied home at 46290 Second Avenue in Chilliwack Friday morning (March 10) just after 10:45 a.m., attracting at least 20 firefighters who were able to suppress the fire and stop it from spreading to neighbouring homes.The residence was the scene of a recent fire back on Tuesday morning, February 28 in which 25 firefighters from four fire halls responded to 46290 Second Avenue in Chilliwack.There was already a blue industrial-type fence aro
  
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• Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown denies Arizona altercation allegations

  10-03-2023 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Russell Brown is speaking out about an alleged altercation in Arizona that triggered a complaint to the Canadian Judicial Council. 
  Brown is denying details in a newspaper story published Thursday that reported allegations he “harassed” a group of friends during a Jan. 28 encounter at a Scottsdale resort.
  The Vancouver Sun cites a police report in which the complainant, Jon Crump, accuses Brown of being intoxicated and “creeping out
  
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• Provincial funding for homeless camp cleanups in Chilliwack fails to address the real issue

  10-03-2023 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As wonderful as it was to hear this week that the B.C. government will provide $200,000 to the Fraser Valley Regional District to create a fund to help cleanup efforts in the Chilliwack River Valley, there are significant limitations associated with the funding announcement.The B.C. government announced Wednesday (Mar. 8) that it will allocate $200,000 to the Fraser Valley Regional District to cover cleanup efforts such as covering the tipping fees for refuse, removal of destr
  
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• Lower Mainland high school closed over asbestos concerns - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 18:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada bans Russian steel, aluminum imports as part of sanctions regime

  10-03-2023 18:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada is banning the import of Russian steel and aluminum as part of its sanctions regime.
  Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says this will help undermine Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
  The Department of Industry says Canada imported $208 million in steel products from Russia in 2021 and $79 million last year.
  Canada also imported $44 million in aluminum from Russia in 2021, followed by $16 million last year.
  Russia’s trade with Canada plummeted in the fi
  
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• THE MOJ: Good reasons to be stuck on Cactus League baseball - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• China accuses Canada of smearing reputation over alleged secret ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada restores voyeurism conviction against B.C. hockey coach

  10-03-2023 18:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada has overturned a British Columbia court ruling and restored two voyeurism convictions against a former Metro Vancouver minor hockey coach.
  Randy Downes had coached minor hockey and children’s baseball in Burnaby and Coquitlam for 30 years when he was charged in 2016 after border agents found images on his phone as he returned to Canada from Washington state.
  All the images involved youths who were clothed and none were deemed pornographic, but Dow
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada’s 2023 federal budget coming March 28, says Freeland

  10-03-2023 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will table the 2023 federal budget on March 28.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Early Start: Curling Canada’s Murdoch starting HPD job now rather than end of season

  10-03-2023 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON, Ont. — David Murdoch is starting his position as Curling Canada high-performance director a couple months earlier than originally planned. 
  The two-time world champion, who served as national and Olympic coach for British Curling over the last quadrennial, officially started work with the Canadian sport organization on Wednesday.  
  Murdoch, who was named to the post on Feb. 2, originally planned to begin his new duties at the end of the curling season. 
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• Ontario judge dismisses breach of trust charges against former Liberal MP Raj Grewal

  10-03-2023 18:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An Ontario judge has dismissed two breach of trust charges against a former Liberal MP who had been accused of using his political office for personal gain. 
  Ontario Superior Court of Justice judge Sylvia Corthorn revealed her decision in Raj Grewal’s case this morning, bringing an end to the criminal trial that has dragged on since last summer. 
  She said a reasonable jury, properly instructed, would not have been able to render a guilty verdict, and she found Grew
  
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• Veterans Affairs closes assisted-dying investigation, says four cases were ‘isolated’

  10-03-2023 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Canada says it is closing its investigation into reports that former service members were offered medically assisted deaths.
  The department says in a final report today that it has concluded the issue was “isolated” to a single employee who raised assisted dying as an option with four veterans.
  Veterans Affairs says it reviewed hundreds of thousands of files and followed up with hundreds of former service members and family members as part of its inves
  
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• ‘Recovery scams’ targeting sextortion victims are on the rise, experts ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Coach Losada betting on youth as CF Montreal looks for first points.

  10-03-2023 17:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The start to the Hernan Losada era at CF Montreal has not gone according to plan, with the still searching for its first goal — let alone its first points — this Major League Soccer season.
  CF Montreal (0-2-0) has been outscored 3-0 over two games to start its season-opening road trip and is only one of four MLS teams that have yet to find the back of the net. Next up, they face off against a notoriously difficult opponent in Nashville SC.
  Montreal has failed to pick
  
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• Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won? - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
  Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Businessman Pierre Karl Peladeau purchases Montreal Alouettes from CFL

  10-03-2023 17:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Pierre Karl Peladeau is the new owner of the Montreal Alouettes.
  The Montreal business was unveiled as the franchise owner by the CFL at a news conference Friday morning at Olympic Stadium.
  Peladeau, the president/chief executive officer of Quebecor Inc., has a reported net worth of US$1.9 billion.
  Peladeau will represent the Alouettes as their lead governor on the CFL’s board of governors.
  The move comes just over a week after the CFL entered into an exclusive negotiation
  
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• House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19

  10-03-2023 16:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted unanimously Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic.
  The 419-0 vote was final approval of the bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law.
  Debate was brief and to the point: Americans have questions about how the deadly virus started and what can be done to prevent future outbreaks.The
  
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• Federal Court approves ‘historic’ $2.8 billion residential day schools ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Emergency crews respond to window cleaning platform stuck on ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Captain Christine Sinclair slams Canada Soccer at parliamentary ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-03-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Iran, Saudi Arabia agree to resume ties, with China’s help

  10-03-2023 16:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed Friday to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after seven years of tensions between the Mideast rivals. The major diplomatic breakthrough negotiated with China lowers the chance of armed conflict between the nations — both directly and in proxy conflicts around the region.The deal, struck in Beijing this week amid its ceremonial National People’s Congress, represents a major diplomatic victory for
  
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• Flyers fire embattled GM Fletcher, give Briere interim job

  10-03-2023 16:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Flyers have fired general manager Chuck Fletcher and promoted franchise great Danny Briere to the interim job, the latest front-office shakeup for an organization that has not won a Stanley Cup since 1975.
  Fletcher, who was also president of hockey operations, was fired a week after he failed to make any major moves at the trade deadline.The Flyers, who had just one playoff berth during Fletcher’s 4 1/2 years on the job, play Saturday in Pittsburg
  
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• Ottawa claws back $82M from health transfers to 8 provinces charging private fees

  10-03-2023 15:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says he is clawing $82 million in federal health transfers to the provinces for charging patients for services that should have been covered by the public purse.
  Eight provinces will see reductions in their next health transfer from the federal government over fees charged to patients in 2020 and 2021.
  Most of the deductions are related to fees for diagnostic services such as MRIs and CT scans.
  The federal Liberal government enacted a new policy on
  
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• B.C. govt. fails to fund transit expansion, so City of Chilliwack funds road repairs instead

  10-03-2023 15:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Money that had been budgeted to provide expanded bus service on five primary bus routes in Chilliwack, including the Vedder bus (No. 51) and Evans (No. 52), will now be redirected to road rehabilitation projects around town after the B.C. government’s 2023 budget did not fund transit expansion in Chilliwack.
  According to agenda item 15.2.1 on Tuesday’s Chilliwack City Council meeting, city staff submitted a request to councillors to approve a reallocation of $323,0
  
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• Missing teenager from Mission located

  10-03-2023 14:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — A teenager from Mission who had been missing for nearly a week and a half has been located safe and sound.
  According to a news release at 2:47 a.m. Friday morning from Constable Harrison Mohr, media spokesperson for the Mission RCMP detachment, Mounties were pleased to confirm that Elizabeth Sebastiano, 14, has been located and safe and sound.“Thanks to the media and public for your assistance,” Constable Mohr wrote in a statement.Sebastiano was last seen on Tuesday,
  
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• Liberals to begin public consultations on setting up a foreign influence registry

  10-03-2023 14:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is launching public consultations on a foreign influence transparency registry to help prevent other countries from meddling in Canadian affairs.
  The Liberals have been under intense scrutiny in recent weeks over allegations, detailed in media reports citing unnamed security sources and highly classified documents, that they did not act when warned that China was trying to interfere in the last two federal elections.
  Mendicino says the consul
  
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• China accuses Canada of smearing reputation over alleged secret police stations

  10-03-2023 14:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BEIJING — China on Friday accused Canada of smearing its reputation over allegations China is secretly operating two overseas police stations in Quebec.
  Canada should “stop sensationalizing and hyping the matter and stop attacks and smears on China,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a daily briefing.
  “China has been … strictly abiding by international law and respecting all countries’ judicial sovereignty,” Mao said.
  The spokesperson did n
  
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• Mikaela Shiffrin gets her record 86th World Cup victory

  10-03-2023 14:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ARE, Sweden (AP) — American skier Mikaela Shiffrin won her record-tying 86th World Cup race Friday with victory in a giant slalom.
  Shiffrin’s win matched the overall record set by Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark 34 years ago.
  The 27-year-old American protected her half-second lead from the first run and finished 0.64 seconds ahead of Federica Brignone.
  It was Shiffrin’s fourth straight wire-to-wire win in World Cup giant slaloms since January. In that time, she also took gold in
  
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• In The News for March 10 : How did Canada’s job market fare last month?

  10-03-2023 10:17 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 March 10 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Statistics Canada is set to release its February labour force survey this morning.
  The data will give an update on how the labour market is faring amid high interest rates and a slowing economy.
  In January, the economy added 150,000 jobs, which was a higher number than expected, wh
  
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• Federal and provincial justice ministers meeting to discuss bail reform

  10-03-2023 10:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Justice Minister David Lametti is preparing to face off with his provincial counterparts in Ottawa Friday on whether to reform Canada’s bail system, as premiers, federal Conservatives and law enforcement leaders demand more restrictions.
  But while he has signalled an openness to reform, Lametti has also cautioned that more-restrictive laws could bump up against the Charter of Rights and Freedoms — and experts warn there are already too many innocent people awaiting tri
  
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