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• Man who crashed through gates of Rideau Hall to threaten PM loses sentence appeal

  17-03-2023 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Ontario Court of Appeal has quashed a sentencing appeal in the case of a Manitoba man who stormed the gates of Rideau Hall in 2020 and sought an armed confrontation with the prime minister. 
  A decision dated Thursday says the six-year sentence handed to Corey Hurren in March 2021, less a year for the time he spent in custody before his sentencing, was “entirely fit.”
  Hurren, a sausage-maker who served with the military’s Canadian Rangers, had pleaded gui
  
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• Chilliwack school trustee censured - CityNews Vancouver

  17-03-2023 23:26 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack school trustee censured after saying ‘children belong to their parents’ - CityNews Vancouver

  17-03-2023 23:26 via news.google.com
  
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• Vancouver Hyatt Regency apologizes to First Nations group after ... - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Upper Fraser Valley RCMP ask for input on policing priorities - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Woodbine Entertainment, HBPA reach agreement on two-year contract

  17-03-2023 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The 2023 thoroughbred racing season at Woodbine Racetrack will start on time.
  Woodbine Entertainment and the Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association of Ontario (HBPA) agreed on a two-year deal Friday.The agreement commits $62 million in purses for the 2023 and 2024 thoroughbred racing meets. It also includes a 133-race day meet in 2023 and 129 dates in 2024.
  Woodbine said in a statement that despite fewer race days in 2024, it expects the number of races offered to
  
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• Girard scores twice as Whale opens PHF semifinal with 5-3 win over Six

  17-03-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Taylor Girard scored the game-winning goal and added an empty-netter as the Connecticut Whale held on for a 5-3 win over the Toronto Six to open a Premier Hockey League semifinal series.
  Girard gave the Whale a 4-1 lead with a short-handed goal 25 seconds into the third period.
  Two goals from Toronto forward Michela Cava cut the Whale’s lead to 4-3, but the Six were unable to find an equalizer.
  The Whale lead the best-of-three semifinal 1-0, with the next games scheduled fo
  
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• LETTER: Blatant inequality of funding for the Chilliwack Youth ... - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Surrey man charged with stabbing murder in Vancouver’s Chinatown - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 22:29 via news.google.com
  
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• Kikuchi gives up first runs of spring in Jays loss to Phillies

  17-03-2023 22:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto starter Yusei Kikuchi was tagged with his first earned runs of spring training as the Blue Jays were swept by Philadelphia in a pair of split-squad games Friday.
  Kikuchi, who is having an impressive spring for Toronto, took the loss in an 8-1 defeat to the Phillies at Dunedin, Fla.
  Another Jays split squad lost 4-2 at the Phillies’ spring facility at Clearwater, Fla.
  Kikuchi gave up two runs on one hit while striking out three and walking three over 3 1/3 innings.
  Despite getting t
  
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• Vernon Olympian raising funds with Super Bowl winner Gronk - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Decorated swimmer Oleksiak to miss Canadian trials as she recovers from surgery

  17-03-2023 21:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Decorated swimmer Penny Oleksiak will miss the upcoming Canadian swimming trials as she continues to recover from knee surgery.
  Swimming Canada said in a release that Oleksiak has advanced in her rehabilitation program after undergoing surgery to repair the meniscus in her left knee last fall.
  However, the organization says she has also been working through complications in her left knee and her shoulder.
  The 22-year-old Oleksiak, from Toronto, is Canada’s most decorated Ol
  
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• The road to electric vehicle ownership - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• LETTER: Prolific offenders are a blight on Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Lance Reddick, ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick’ star, dies at 60 - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Veto of Kansas bill on trans athletes sets up override fight

  17-03-2023 21:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly for the third year in a row Friday, setting up a hotly contested fight in the Republican-controlled Legislature to override her.
  Kelly’s action was expected because of her two previous vetoes. Kansas Republicans made Kelly’s vetoes a major issue in multiple television attack ads when she ran for reelection last year, winning narrowl
  
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• Officials discussing security in case of Trump indictment

  17-03-2023 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials in New York are making security preparations for the possibility that Donald Trump could be indicted in the coming weeks by a Manhattan grand jury and appear in a courtroom in an investigation examining hush money paid to women who alleged sexual encounters with the former president, four law enforcement officials said Friday.
  There has been no public announcement of any timeframe for the grand jury’s secret work, including any potential vote
  
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• Protests erupt in France over Macron’s retirement age push - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Defending set pieces key as Whitecaps continue quest for win against Galaxy

  17-03-2023 20:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — It’s a new week, but the goal remains the same for the Vancouver Whitecaps — earn their first win of the Major League Soccer season. 
  The Whitecaps (0-2-1) will take their quest for points to Southern California on Saturday, taking on the L.A. Galaxy (0-1-1), another side that’s seeking its first victory of the 2023 campaign. 
  “Obviously, they’re going to be a good team. They have good players,” said Whitecaps striker Brian White.&n
  
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• B.C. high court orders a new trial for former X-ray tech convicted of sexual assault

  17-03-2023 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia man convicted of sexually assaulting two women has been granted a new trial after the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled the trial judge used inadmissible evidence to support a guilty verdict.
  Allen Brooks was convicted by a provincial court judge in 2020 for sexual assaults that allegedly happened in 1990 and 1997 while he was working as an X-ray technician at a hospital in Maple Ridge.
  Brooks was acquitted of a third count of sexual assault that was alleged to have
  
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• St. Patrick’s Day rites: Parades, bagpipes, clinking pints - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 20:45 via news.google.com
  
  St. Patrick’s Day rites: Parades, bagpipes, clinking pints  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• More time needed to determine cause of blaze at Golden courthouse - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack hockey squad participates in Orange Jersey Project - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 20:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack hockey squad participates in Orange Jersey Project ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  17-03-2023 20:20 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. man arrested for allegedly wielding syringe with needle attached to toy arrow

  17-03-2023 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO — Police say they have arrested a man in Nanaimo, B.C., who was allegedly threatening people with a toy bow and arrow that had a syringe with a needle attached to the arrow’s tip. 
  Mounties say they were called to the parking lot of the Port Place Mall in the Vancouver Island city on Monday after the man was reportedly threatening people with a stick and the toy bow and arrow.
  Police say the arrow “appeared to have” a hypodermic needle attached to the end, an
  
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• MLA Paddon hopes new housing west of Young Rd. will address backcountry homeless camps

  17-03-2023 19:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-Kent MLA Kelli Paddon hopes the advent of 49 supportive housing units and 42 permanent shelter beds on property just west of Young Road in Chilliwack will make a dent in the ongoing issue of homeless encampments in the Chilliwack River Valley.In a statement released to Fraser Valley Today Friday morning (Mar. 17), Paddon says a recent funding announcement of $200,000 by the B.C. government to cover abandoned encampment cleanup costs is only one piece of the puzzle i
  
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• Toronto FC feeling the frustration of early-season injuries, blown leads

  17-03-2023 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It’s early in the MLS season, but frustration is growing at Toronto FC.
  Injuries to key personnel have denied coach Bob Bradley a chance to field his first-choice team. Toronto (0-1-2) has led in all three games but has been unable to hold out for the win. 
  TFC continues its quest for a first victory of the season Saturday when Inter Miami (2-1-0) comes to BMO Field.
  Toronto is winless in its last nine league games (0-6-3) dating back to last season. Its last victory c
  
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• NBA fines Grizzlies’ Brooks $35k for shoving camera person

  17-03-2023 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — The NBA fined Memphis Grizzlies guard-forward Dillon Brooks US$35,000 on Friday for shoving a camera person on the sideline after chasing a loose ball in a loss in Miami.
  Joe Dumars, the NBA’s executive vice president and head of basketball operations, announced the fine.
  Brooks shoved the person with 2:40 left in the second quarter of Memphis’ 138-119 loss in Miami to the Heat on Wednesday night.
  Brooks, from Mississauga, Ont., was disciplined for the second time th
  
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• ‘Troubled’ Eby seeks CSIS briefing on alleged Chinese meddling in Vancouver election

  17-03-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — British Columbia Premier David Eby says he’s “very troubled” by allegations of Chinese interference in Vancouver’s municipal elections last year and he’s asked Canada’s intelligence agency for a briefing.
  Eby says Canadians deserve a “thorough and independent investigation” into the claims reported in the Globe and Mail newspaper this week that China’s consulate in Vancouver meddled in the municipal polls by using diaspora c
  
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• Canada Soccer general secretary Earl Cochrane to appear before Heritage Committee

  17-03-2023 19:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s Canada Soccer general secretary Earl Cochrane’s turn Monday to appear before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa.
  Cochrane will be accompanied by Canada Soccer board members Paul-Claude Berube and Stephanie J. Geosits.
  Monday’s hearing follows March 9 testimony on the ongoing soccer labour dispute by captain Christine Sinclair and teammates Janine Beckie, Sophie Schmidt and Quinn, who goes by one name.
  The players, who have made a combined 732 appearances
  
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• Mass to be held in honour of victims in Quebec town where pedestrians struck by truck

  17-03-2023 18:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AMQUI, Que. — A memorial mass will be held this evening in the Quebec town where two people were killed and nine injured when a pickup truck crashed into pedestrians.
  Two men, Gérald Charest and Jean Lafrenière, died after being struck on Monday afternoon.
  Police have said those injured in the crash range in age from less than a year old to 77, and on Thursday a Quebec City hospital said two injured adults remained in critical condition.
  The mass will be held at Saint-Beno&ic
  
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• Wisconsin Democratic Secretary of State La Follette resigns

  17-03-2023 18:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette resigned on Friday, three months into his 11th consecutive term in office.
  Gov. Tony Evers appointed former Treasurer Sarah Godlewski, who ran for U.S. Senate last year but lost in the primary, to fill out the four-year term. Wisconsin’s secretary of state is not in charge of elections and has almost no official duties.La Follette, 82, won reelection in November over a Republican who wanted to shift
  
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• Tiny B.C. island community’s answer to climate change? Feed ... - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Unionized staff at Iqaluit Housing Authority go on strike over wages

  17-03-2023 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — Unionized staff with the Iqaluit Housing Authority formed a picket line in chilly temperatures outside the housing office in the Nunavut capital Friday morning, demanding better wages.The Nunavut Employees Union, a component of the Public Service Alliance of Canada North, served the housing authority strike notice Monday, saying wage increases being offered by the employer do not reflect the cost of living in the city given inflation.
  The unions said they were served wit
  
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• Tuberculosis outbreak declared in Pond Inlet, Nunavut

  17-03-2023 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  POND INLET, Nunavut — The Nunavut Department of Health has declared a tuberculosis outbreak in Pond Inlet.
  The territory’s chief public health officer says there are currently five active cases and 22 latent cases of TB in the hamlet.
  He says the growing number of cases suggests enhanced public health followup is needed. 
  Pond Inlet is on the northern end of Baffin Island and is home to more than 1,500 people.
  Nearly 900 kilometres away, an outbreak of tuberculosis has been ongo
  
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• Ottawa requests joint ‘working group’ on oilsands contamination with Alberta

  17-03-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The federal environment minister wants to set up a new group with the Alberta government and Indigenous communities to monitor contamination problems in the oilsands. 
  Steven Guilbeault proposed the idea to his provincial counterpart, Sonya Savage, in a letter dated yesterday obtained by The Canadian Press. 
  In it, he says two releases of oilsands tailings from Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine and delays in informing people have caused Indigenous groups to lose trust.
  Guilbeaul
  
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• Hockey Canada hires human rights leader as first vice-president, diversity, inclusion

  17-03-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Hockey Canada has hired human rights leader Irfan Chaudhry as its first vice-president of diversity and inclusion. 
  The national sports organization announced the move Friday, saying in a release that Chaudry will lead the development of “a vision and strategy to create and sustain a culture within hockey that embraces and promotes equity, diversity and inclusion.”
  Chaudry has served as director of the office of human right, diversity and equity at Edmonton&rsquo
  
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• Chilliwack Community Services hires new executive director - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 18:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Second-degree murder charges laid in random Vancouver stabbing

  17-03-2023 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Police Department says a suspect has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a man in Chinatown, following a five-week investigation by VPD personnel.
  “This violent offence caused significant concern about crime and public safety in the neighbourhood,” said Constable Tania Visintin. “Our homicide team worked quickly to collect key evidence that led to the arrest of the suspect, and we hope this arrest will restore a sense of ease i
  
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• Canada’s Reece Howden wins World Cup ski cross gold to lock up Crystal Globe

  17-03-2023 18:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  THE BLUE MOUNTAINS, Ont. — Canada’s Reece Howden led from start to finish to win gold at the ski cross World Cup finals on Friday and secure the Crystal Globe as the overall season leader.
  Howden, from Cultus Lake, B.C., held off Germany’s Florian Wilmsmann for the victory in the four-man big final at Craigleith Ski Club.
  Youri Duplessis Kergomard of France took bronze.
  Two Canadians joined women’s champion Fanny Smith of Switzerland on the podium.
  Courtney Hoffos of Wind
  
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• Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen artifacts - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Joly calls out Israel judiciary reform and ‘unilateral actions’ that undermine peace

  17-03-2023 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly is pushing Israel to drop its reform of the country’s judiciary after two months of mass protests.
  An official readout of a conversation Joly had with her Israeli counterpart Eli Cohen says that she “underscored Canada’s support of democracy, the rule of law and the institutions that uphold them.”
  A Global Affairs Canada source familiar with the conversation says Joly specifically noted Israel’s judicial reform and
  
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• Posthumous album set from ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ rapper Coolio - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 17:40 via news.google.com
  
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• Vancouver hotel issues apology for discriminatory actions of employee

  17-03-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A Vancouver hotel has apologized for the actions of an employee after the B.C. Association of Aboriginal Friendship Centres said one of its members endured a humiliating interaction with the staff member. 
  The association has posted a letter of apology on its website from the general manager of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Patrick Gosselin.
  The letter, dated March 15, says the hotel team “deeply regrets” that the association’s cultural adviser felt discrimina
  
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• Canada’s Davies, David and Fleming up for CONCACAF Player of the Year

  17-03-2023 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Three Canadians have been nominated for CONCACAF Player of the Year in 2022.
  Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David are up for the men’s award while Jessie Fleming is one of six finalists for top women’s honours.
  Davies and David are up against Americans Tyler Adams and Christian Pulisic, Jamaica’s Andre Blake and Mexico’s Guillermo Ochoa.
  The other women’s nominees are Americans Alex Morgan and Sophia Smith, Mexico’s Alicia Cervantes, Haiti’s Melchie Dumorn
  
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• Bus strike starts Monday in Chilliwack, Abbotsford; HandyDART to operate at essential levels only

  17-03-2023 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — After three days of failed negotiations, CUPE 561 released a statement Friday morning (Mar. 17) saying that it will launch a full walkout starting on Monday.The walkout means there will be no bus service in Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Mission, Hope, Agassiz-Harrison, and no Fraser Valley Express bus service either.HandyDART will operate at essential service levels for passengers requiring treatment for cancer, multiple sclerosis, and renal dialysis, CUPE said in a statement posted
  
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• THE MOJ: Saluting the wisdom — and the resolve — of Solomon ... - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Slovakia, after Poland, agrees to give Ukraine Soviet jets - Chilliwack Progress

  17-03-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• CF Montreal looking forward to home crowd as search for first points continues

  17-03-2023 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — After an extended time away that included two weeks of training camp in Florida and three Major League Soccer road games, CF Montreal will finally be playing in front of a home crowd this weekend.
  A celebratory mood will be mixed with a sense of nervous anticipation Saturday at Olympic Stadium as the MLS club is seeks its first points, and its first goal, of the 2023 season in its home opener against the Philadelphia Union.
  Montreal has disappointed to start this MLS campaign af
  
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• Valley Huskers announce commitment of G.W. Graham senior linebacker

  17-03-2023 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Valley Huskers football club in Chilliwack announced this week that G.W. Graham senior linebacker Aiden Parks, who played in all 12 games during the Grizzlies’ memorable run to the provincial championship in 2022, has committed to play for them.Parks, a 6-foot, 210-pound middle and outside linebacker, was the fifth-leading tackler on a G.W. team that had an outstanding defensive squad. He had 26 tackles on defence, including seven that were for loss of yards, nine ad
  
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