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• Canada’s Marino and Sebov advance to second round at Miami Open

  21-03-2023 23:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino and Toronto’s Katherine Sebov have advanced to the second round of the Miami Open.
  Marino moved on with a 7-6 (4), 6-2 win over Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan on Tuesday.
  Sebov, who qualified for the main draw on Monday, posted a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win over Linda Fruhvirtova of Czechia in the first round. Fruhvirtova, ranked 50th in the world, came into the tournament 122 places ahead of Sebov in the WTA rankings.
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• Vancouver park board offers tips on how to ‘respect’ city’s coyotes - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
  Vancouver park board offers tips on how to ‘respect’ city’s coyotes  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• NBA suspends Grizzlies’ Dillon Brooks for 18th technical

  21-03-2023 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — The NBA has suspended Memphis Grizzlies forward Dillon Brooks for one game without pay for his 18th technical foul this season.Joe Dumars, the league’s executive vice president and head of basketball operations, announced the suspension Tuesday. Brooks also was s uspended for a loss to the Clippers on March 5 after receiving his 16th technical foul in a loss to Denver on March 3.Brooks, from Mississauga, Ont., earned his latest suspension Monday night with 7:26 left in the
  
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• Canada Basketball enters into jersey sponsorship deal with Sun Life

  21-03-2023 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Insurance company Sun Life has entered into a multi-year jersey sponsorship agreement with Canada Basketball.
  Canada senior national teams will feature the Sun Life logo on the front of their jerseys, starting July 1 when the women’s team competes in the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup.
  The men’s team will wear the new jersey at the FIBA Men’s Basketball World Cup, starting August 25 in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.
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• Film honours Surrey Sikh caretaker slain by skinheads in 1998 - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  Film honours Surrey Sikh caretaker slain by skinheads in 1998  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Abbotsford man, 18, spits at police after getting caught speeding in parents’ Honda CRV

  21-03-2023 22:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — An 18-year-old Abbotsford man faces charges of assaulting a police officer and obstruction, in addition to traffic-related infractions, after he was observed driving recklessly Monday night in Abbotsford.According to a news release from Abbotsford Police Department Sgt. Paul Walker, Abbotsford Police patrol officers were conducting routine patrols at 11:16 p.m. on Monday, March 20 along South Fraser Way at Clearbrook Road when they witnessed a black Honda CRV traveling 90 kilo
  
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• Abbotsford teen driver spits in face of cops following traffic stop - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 22:53 via news.google.com
  
  Abbotsford teen driver spits in face of cops following traffic stop  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Manitoba agrees to pay $17 million and apologize to settle disabled abuse lawsuit

  21-03-2023 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government has agreed to pay $17 million and apologize in the legislature to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of former residents who say they were abused at a centre for people with intellectual disabilities.
  The class-action settlement agreement, which still requires court approval, would also see a monument built at the Manitoba Developmental Centre’s cemetery and funding flow to projects that help people with disabilities live in the community.
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• VIDEO: Law-abiding Canada geese obey crosswalk rules in Harrison - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 22:17 via news.google.com
  
  VIDEO: Law-abiding Canada geese obey crosswalk rules in Harrison  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Highlights of Quebec 2023-24 budget

  21-03-2023 22:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard presented his fifth budget on Tuesday, for the province’s 2023-24 fiscal year. Here are some highlights:
  — Income tax cuts of one percentage point on the first two income tax brackets, starting in 2023, which will save a single earner up to $814 per year.
  — GDP growth is projected to fall to 0.6 per cent in 2023 from 2.8 per cent in 2022, before rising to 1.4 per cent in 2024.
  — Government spending will be about $148 billion in the 2023
  
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• UPDATE: Kelowna council appalled by attack on international student - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 21:54 via news.google.com
  
  UPDATE: Kelowna council appalled by attack on international student  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alberta premier says changes coming to ensure prompt reporting of oilsands spills

  21-03-2023 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says laggardly public notification of Imperial Oil oilsands wastewater spills has illuminated the need for Alberta to ensure future alarms are sounded quicker.
  Smith says her government is working with the province’s oilsands regulator to develop better policies to give affected groups timely notification.
  “Good practice and being a good neighbour (means) more communication is better,” Smith said Tuesday at an unrelated news conference in
  
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• Families of Montreal fire victims facing agonizing wait for answers - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Def Leppard drummer recovering from attack outside hotel - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Western running back Edwards entering CFL combine somewhat under the radar

  21-03-2023 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Keon Edwards will head to the CFL’s national combine somewhat under the radar.
  The Western Ontario running back certainly earned his chance to audition before CFL coaches, general managers and scouts this week in Edmonton. 
  He was a 2022 All-Canadian after accumulating 1,533 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns on 205 carries (7.5-yard average) and breaking the 100-yard rushing plateau in all 11 games he played. 
  But the five-foot-11, 230-pound Toronto native was left off the CFL Scou
  
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• Vancouver Whitecaps striker Sergio Cordova out 6-8 weeks with hamstring strain

  21-03-2023 20:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps say newly acquired striker Sergio Cordova will miss the next six to eight weeks with a hamstring strain.
  The team says Cordova suffered the injury in the first half of Vancouver’s 1-1 road draw with the L.A. Galaxy on Saturday. 
  The ‘Caps (0-2-2) acquired the 25-year-old Venezuelan international from German Bundesliga side FC Augsburg on Feb. 20, and he’s since appeared in six games across all competitions for Vancouver.
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• B.C. announces more funding for highway cell coverage - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 20:16 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. announces more funding for highway cell coverage  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Unionized municipal workers in Chilliwack area support striking bus drivers

  21-03-2023 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — CUPE Local 458, which represents over 500 municipal workers from Chilliwack, FVRD, Cultus Lake Park Board and surrounding government agencies, says it supports unionized bus drivers who are on their second day of an indefinite work stoppage impacting B.C. Transit service in Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Mission.The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 458 wrote on its Facebook page that it backs the efforts of striking bus drivers who are seeking higher wages compared to thei
  
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• Canadian military rolls out new housing benefit for struggling troops

  21-03-2023 20:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is rolling out a new housing benefit that a senior commander says will help troops struggling to find affordable accommodations while saving the military money.
  The Canadian Forces Housing Differential will supplement members’ incomes when they have to live and work in areas of the country with high rental costs.
  That includes Canadian Forces Base Comox on Vancouver Island, where some members were recently told they could contact Habitat for Humanit
  
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• Vancouver park board offers tips on how to ‘respect’ city’s coyotes

  21-03-2023 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Now that coyote denning season is in full swing, the Vancouver park board is offering some tips for “peaceful coexistence” between the animals and humans. 
  Their pups are born in the spring, and the board says that makes coyotes more active as they protect their dens and seek food for their young. 
  Normally they’re only seen at dawn and dusk, but the board says that behaviour changes in spring, when they’re spotted in the daytime and they becom
  
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• Trump waits out grand jury as New York braces for protests - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Procession for Edmonton police officers shot and killed responding to call

  21-03-2023 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Hundreds of police cars have lined streets in Edmonton as the bodies of two slain city officers are transported from the medical examiner’s office to a funeral home. 
  Blue ribbons are wrapped around street lights along the five-kilometre procession route. 
  Civilians are also standing along the streets to show their support, some wearing blue ribbons and scarves.
  The bodies of Const. Brett Ryan and Const.Travis Jordan are to be kept at the Serenity Funeral Home un
  
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• Undefeated Switzerland edges Canada 7-6 at world women’s curling championship

  21-03-2023 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANDVIKEN, Sweden — Three-time defending champion Switzerland remained undefeated at the women’s world curling championship with a 7-6 win over Canada in Tuesday’s afternoon draw.
  Silvana Tirinzoni’s squad led 6-4 following a three-point fifth end and a steal of one in the sixth.
  After a blank seventh, Canada skip Einarson scored one in the eighth and tied the match 6-6 with a steal in the ninth.
  With the hammer in the final end, Tirinzoni scored one to cement the win and
  
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• Canada’s passport application backlog ‘completely eliminated,’ minister says

  21-03-2023 19:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Families Minister Karina Gould announced today that the federal government has now “completely eliminated” the backlog of passport applications that caused major delays — and major political strife — last year. 
  She also announced that Ottawa is launching a new digital tool that will allow Canadians to check the status of their Service Canada application online, as long as they provide an email address.
  The update comes after Gould said in late January
  
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• Federal minimum wage rising to $16.65 per hour on April 1

  21-03-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal minimum wage is rising to $16.65 per hour on April 1, up from $15.55.
  The government says the increase is based on the consumer price index, which rose 6.8 per cent in 2022.
  The federal minimum wage applies to the federally regulated private sectors, including banks, postal and courier services, and interprovincial air, rail, road, and marine transportation. 
  Ottawa set a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour in 2021 and increases it each year based on inflation.
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• Hate crimes unit joins probe of international student’s assault in Kelowna, B.C.

  21-03-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KELOWNA, B.C. — RCMP in Kelowna, B.C., confirm the BC Hate Crimes Team has joined an investigation into an attack on an international student in the city.
  A statement from the Kelowna detachment says its general investigations team is leading the file and is seeking video from the area around a bus stop where the assault happened on March 17.
  Police say a suspect group has been identified, but no arrests have been made.
  The reason for the attack and the details linked to it are still being
  
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• Edmonton zoo says 47-year-old Asian elephant Lucy is too sick to be moved

  21-03-2023 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Valley Zoo is releasing medical information about an elephant in its care named Lucy after animal rights groups protested for years that she should be moved to a sanctuary.
  The zoo says it has been working closely with the animal advocacy group Free the Wild since October 2022.
  It says most visiting experts agreed that the 47-year-old Asian elephant is unfit to travel.
  In a news release, it says Lucy is to remain at the zoo, where she has been living for more than 4
  
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• B.C. pharmacist who faked his COVID-19 vaccinations suspended for 30 days

  21-03-2023 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A British Columbia pharmacist has been disciplined for claiming to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and falsifying provincial health records to hide his unvaccinated status.
  The College of Pharmacists of BC says on a post on its website that its inquiry committee has suspended Aftabahmed Shaikh for 30 days and placed a permanent letter of reprimand on his file.
  In the post dated March 10, the college says Shaikh was practising in “various locations” in B.C. and admits
  
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• Ottawa needs ‘made-in-Canada’ response to U.S. Inflation Reduction Act: climate group

  21-03-2023 18:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — As the federal government readies its spring budget, a climate group is urging Ottawa to pursue a “made-in-Canada” response to U.S. clean energy incentives. 
  The Canadian Climate Institute published a report today with recommendations for the federal government on how to respond to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act passed last summer.
  The institute says the federal government shouldn’t try to match the incentives and subsidies offered by the U.S. and instead
  
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• Strong earthquake rattles Pakistan, residents flee homes

  21-03-2023 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A strong earthquake has rattled Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and other parts of the country.
  Residents in the capital Tuesday fled their homes as walls started swaying and the quake was felt across the country. Pakistan’s meteorological office said the earthquake was a magnitude 7.7.
  There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.The Associated Press
  
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• N.W.T. diamond mine reports spill of 450M litres of wastewater

  21-03-2023 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — The Diavik Diamond Mine in the Northwest Territories says 450 million litres of wastewater spilled due to a broken pipeline.The spill took place on Feb. 7 but wasn’t reported until late last week.
  The Northwest Territories government says pipeline operators did not believe it needed to be reported as the wastewater leaked into a containment pond that was its final destination.The government says its inspectors have confirmed the spill is within the pond and none has bee
  
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• Woodbine Entertainment hires longtime trainer Dan Vella as Horse People Liaison

  21-03-2023 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Woodbine Entertainment has hired longtime trainer Dan Vella as its Horse People Liaison.
  Vella will assume his new position April 1. He’ll serve as point of contact for owners and trainers regarding race conditions, track surface matters, backstretch maintenance, equine safety and race-day logistics.
  The 67-year-old amassed more than 800 career wins and $39 million in earnings over five decades as a conditioner.
  “I am so excited to have this opportunity to work for Wo
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP capture nearly naked man after he breaks into shop, steals items

  21-03-2023 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Stealing items from residential neighbourhoods in an era of seemingly ubiquitous security cameras is already risky business.But the job got a lot harder for a burly man who decided to get the job done Saturday morning (Mar. 18) without any clothes on except for socks, triggering several calls to the Chilliwack RCMP detachment.Chilliwack RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk said Mounties in Chilliwack received multiple reports of a suspicious male in the area of Chilliwack Central Road and
  
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• Pride flag won’t fly at City of Mission facilities - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 17:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Breakthrough season continues for St. Louis City SC’s Canadian defender Kyle Hiebert

  21-03-2023 17:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Centre back Kyle Hiebert, who has helped expansion St. Louis City SC to a record 4-0-0 start in Major League Soccer, has been called up by Canada coach John Herdman for upcoming CONCACAF Nations League matches.
  The 25-year-old from La Salle, Man., replaces the injured Kamal Miller of CF Montreal.
  The 53rd-ranked Canadian men play at No. 86 Curacao on Saturday before returning home to host No. 81 Honduras next Tuesday at BMO Field.
  The games are the first for Canada since the World Cup in Qatar.
  
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• Reborn Ringling Bros. circus to leap on tour - minus animals - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 17:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Heather Maahs responds to Chilliwack School Board censure - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 17:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Heather Maahs Responds To Chilliwack School Board Censure - Abbotsford News

  21-03-2023 17:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Halifax high school student charged with attempted murder after school stabbings

  21-03-2023 16:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A 15-year-old student has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after two staff members at a Halifax high school were stabbed on Monday.
  Halifax Regional Police issued a statement today saying the two victims are recovering in hospital and are listed in serious but stable condition.
  They confirmed that the accused — a student at the school — was treated in hospital for stab wounds, but there was no indication of how he received those wounds.
  Police say offi
  
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• Some landowners not letting residential school survivors search property: official

  21-03-2023 16:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A special official tasked with providing the government with advice on unmarked graves says some landowners are refusing to provide survivors access to their property. 
  Kimberly Murray testified today before a committee of senators about her role and the main concerns she says she has heard from Indigenous communities. 
  Murray says residential school survivors need to have better access to land, adding some landowners have refused to provide access to their properties &l
  
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• B.C. pharmacist suspended for faking his own COVID vaccine records - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. pharmacist suspended for faking his own COVID vaccine records  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP arrest man for apparent disturbance outside SD33 office

  21-03-2023 16:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Details are limited, but police in Chilliwack responded to a disturbance last Tuesday in which a man may have utilized a megaphone to disrupt the Chilliwack school board meeting.
  According to RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk, media spokesperson for the Chilliwack RCMP detachment, Mounties were called to a disturbance in the 8400 block of Cessna Drive on Tuesday, March 14.The school district office is located at 8430 Cessna Drive to be exact.
  Sgt. Vrolyk said police attended and arreste
  
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• Trustee Heather Maahs challenges SD33 board censure

  21-03-2023 16:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack school board trustee Heather Maahs is defending herself after the Chilliwack Board of Education censured her last week.The Chilliwack School District released a statement last Friday, March 17 that said Maahs did not uphold certain responsibilities in her support of a campaign against staff-selected learning resources in the district, and in her opposition to a student-led event conducted in accordance with the core values promoted by the school district.
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• Families of Montreal fire victims could face long wait for answers, police say

  21-03-2023 15:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Police say the families of the presumed victims of a deadly fire in Old Montreal could be facing a long wait for answers, as investigators are working to enter a building described as a “scene of destruction.” 
  Insp. David Shane told reporters today that the unstable structure of the building and the difficulty of recovering bodies could mean an agonizing delay for the loved ones of the people missing.
  One woman has been found dead and six people remain missing
  
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• Moscow summons Canada envoy over Joly ‘regime change’ comment - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 15:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow’s court case begins for Deer Valley ski crash - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 15:30 via news.google.com
  
  Gwyneth Paltrow’s court case begins for Deer Valley ski crash  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Moscow summons Canada envoy over Joly ‘regime change’ comment

  21-03-2023 15:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Russia has summoned a senior Canadian diplomat in Moscow over Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly’s musings about “regime change.”
  According to state media, Moscow summoned Canadian chargé d’affaires Brian Ebel on Monday to tell him the comments were unacceptable. 
  Joly said earlier this month that western sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are having an impact, because the world is seeing effects “on society and
  
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• Hearings begin before Supreme Court on federal environmental impact assessment law

  21-03-2023 15:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Arguments are underway before the Supreme Court of Canada in a long-awaited case over the federal Impact Assessment Act.
  The court is expected to hear from legal experts and environmental groups that support the law.
  Nine of 10 provinces, led by Alberta, argue that the law intrudes on provincial jurisdiction.
  Alberta is particularly concerned about the effect the law might have on its ability to export its oil through pipelines.
  Last May, the Alberta Appeal Court ruled the law was
  
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• Vote to force top aide to testify on foreign interference not a confidence matter: PM

  21-03-2023 14:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a motion to compel his chief of staff to testify about foreign interference at a parliamentary committee will not be considered a matter of confidence in the Liberal minority government.
  There will be a vote later today on a Conservative motion to get Katie Telford to appear before the House of Commons ethics committee by mid-April.
  The Liberals have filibustered another committee for weeks to prevent a similar motion from passing there, so the C
  
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• PODCAST: Iceberg Homes, maximize space within city limits - Chilliwack Progress

  21-03-2023 13:40 via news.google.com
  
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