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• Appeal Court hears trucker convicted of killing Edmonton woman wants new trial

  23-03-2023 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s Court of Appeal heard arguments Thursday that a former Ontario truck driver should be tried for a third time in the 2011 death of an Indigenous woman.
  Bradley Barton, 55, was sentenced to 12 1/2 years for manslaughter in the death of Cindy Gladue, a Métis and Cree woman who bled to death in a bathtub at the Yellowhead Inn in Edmonton.
  Peter Sankoff, one of Barton’s lawyers, said the exclusion of some evidence and the question of consent should warran
  
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• Feds give Kamloops, B.C., nation $12.5 million for healing centre

  23-03-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The federal government is contributing $12.5 million to the construction of a healing centre at the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation almost two years after the nation announced the discovery of 215 suspected unmarked graves near a former residential school. 
  Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu told a crowd in Kamloops, B.C., that the nation has led the way in opening the eyes of the country to the truths that were always known to Indigenous Peoples. 
  
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• Artists sought for street banner project recognizing 'uniqueness' of ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 23:47 via news.google.com
  
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• Minister Dix announces urgent care centre coming to Kelowna - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 23:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Clean electricity grid, new tax credits will be among highlights of federal budget

  23-03-2023 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s push for a zero-emission electricity grid will get a significant funding boost in the federal budget on March 28, including with new tax credits expected to encourage the development of renewable power sources like wind and solar.
  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has expressed an intention to limit new spending in this budget, amid the inflationary worries and affordability pressures on most Canadians.
  But she also has made clear Canada can’t hold back too m
  
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• Squamish, B.C., LNG facility plans to achieve net-zero emissions at operation’s start

  23-03-2023 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SQUAMISH, B.C. — Proponents of a British Columbia liquefied natural gas export facility have unveiled plans to achieve net-zero emissions commitments in the construction phase and for its future operations.
  Woodfibre LNG says in a statement it plans to meet net-zero emissions by the time operations start at the south coast export facility in 2027.
  Company president Christine Kennedy says emission reduction opportunities are a priority for the project as it implements a strategy that will r
  
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• Chilliwack Mall redevelopment will see new commercial building ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 23:07 via news.google.com
  
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• Alberta legislature wraps up with attacks, insults; next stop is May 29 election

  23-03-2023 22:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Alberta legislature wrapped up its spring sitting Thursday with politicians on both sides of the aisle test-driving insults and expected attack lines ahead of the scheduled May 29 provincial election. 
  The Opposition NDP lambasted Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government for hiking fees, fighting with doctors, proposing royalty breaks for oil companies, firing educational support staff, breaking COVID-19 rules and failing to deliver promised e
  
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• Canadians Marino, Sebov out at Miami Open after losing to seeded Americans

  23-03-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino and Toronto’s Katherine Sebov were eliminated from the Miami Open tennis tournament on Thursday after each lost a second-round match to a seeded American opponent.
  Marino was defeated 6-4, 6-3 by sixth seed Coco Gauff, while Sebov fell 6-3, 6-1 to third seed Jessica Pegula.
  Marino broke Guaff to go up 3-2 in the second set, but the American won four straight games to claim the match.
  Sebov started well, trading breaks with Pegula to sit at 2-2
  
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• Trudeau stayed in $6,000 London hotel suite for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral

  23-03-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Prime Minister’s Office says Justin Trudeau and his wife, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, stayed in a $6,000 per night hotel suite while attending the funeral for Queen Elizabeth II.
  The stay at the Corinthia London hotel became the subject of public debate last fall when media honed in on the details of the $400,000 trip, after obtaining documents through access-to-information requests.
  But Trudeau’s office and Global Affairs Canada did not respond to questions la
  
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• Alberta auditor general seeks reforms to how province manages oilpatch liabilities

  23-03-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s auditor general says the province’s system for managing environmental risks from old oilpatch facilities needs significant improvement.
  In a report issued today, Doug Wylie says the Alberta Energy Regulator lacks important safeguards to ensure abandoned wells, pipelines and other infrastructure are cleaned up safely.
  He says the regulator needs better public reporting and better ways to measure its results.
  Wylie recommends that energy companies be given a
  
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• Regina Rams defensive lineman Bennett looking forward to practices at CFL combine

  23-03-2023 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Anthony Bennett can’t wait to hit the practice field at the CFL combine.
  The gregarious Regina Rams defensive lineman has no issues going through individual drills and testing. But his true passion is lining up in his stance, getting off the ball quickly and imposing his will on a rival offensive lineman.
  And starting Friday, the six-foot-three, 230-pound Bennett will have ample opportunity to do just that at Edmonton’s Commonwealth Stadium Field House. It will be the first of three
  
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• Okanagan double murder trial set for summer of 2024 - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Canucks sign defenceman Christian Wolanin to two-year, two-way extension

  23-03-2023 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks have signed defenceman Christian Wolanin to a two-year, two-way contract extension.
  The 28-year-old has three assists and a plus-4 defensive rating over 15 games since being recalled to Vancouver from the American Hockey League’s Abbotsford Canucks.
  He has 55 points (goals, 49 assists) in 49 games with Abbotsford to lead the team, and all AHL defencemen, in scoring.
  Wolanin has recorded 23 points (six goals, 17 assists) and 20 penalty minutes in 85 c
  
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• Kikuchi turns in another strong spring start as Jays blank Twins 3-0

  23-03-2023 21:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT MYERS, Fla. — Toronto starter Yusei Kikuchi turned in another impressive spring training start as the Blue Jays downed the Minnesota Twins 3-0 on Thursday.
  Kikuchi struck out nine over five scoreless innings, scattering three hits and allowing one walk over his start.
  The lefty lowered his spring earned-run average from 1.38 to 1.00. He is 2-1 with 25 strikeouts over 18 innings in six pre-season starts.
  Kikuchi came into the season on the heels of a mediocre debut season with the Jays
  
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• Korte-Moore not concerned with being top-ranked prospect at CFL combine

  23-03-2023 21:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  At six foot five and 262 pounds, Lake Korte-Moore definitely stands out in a crowd.
  So it’s no surprise the University of British Columbia defensive lineman is the centre of attention at the CFL combine in Edmonton. But Korte-Moore entered the individual testing Thursday with the added burden of being the top-ranked player in the field of 67 Canadians auditioning before league officials.
  “I feel like maybe a few years ago it would’ve hit me hard,” Korte-Moore said. &ldquo
  
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• Boy who killed two officers previously apprehended under Mental Health Act: police

  23-03-2023 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Police in Edmonton say a 16-year-old boy who shot and killed two officers a week ago had been apprehended in November under the Mental Health Act and taken to hospital for assessment.
  Police also say the same gun was used in a shooting days before the killings at a nearby restaurant that left a man injured. 
  Police say detectives are working to trace the origins of the gun and how it came to be in the boy’s possession, and that other people could face charges.
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• Chilliwack RCMP continue to search for suspect in 2021 ATM thefts

  23-03-2023 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An investigation that has been ongoing for nearly two years has yielded the recovery of a large amount of stolen cash and a number of items of high value. However a suspect in the thefts continues to roam free.
  Chilliwack RCMP have released details of their investigation into the theft of cash from ATM machines in the Upper Fraser Valley region in July 2021. Surveillance video captured a woman posing as a janitor as she took large quantities of cash from different banks.
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• Chilliwack RCMP search for woman, vehicle linked to ATM thefts ... - CTV News Vancouver

  23-03-2023 20:39 via news.google.com
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• Country music star Jon Pardi coming to Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 20:34 via news.google.com
  
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• Georgia governor signs law curbing transgender care for kids

  23-03-2023 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia will ban most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies for transgender people under 18 with a new bill signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday.
  Lawmakers gave final approval to Senate Bill 140 on Tuesday, despite impassioned pleas from Democrats and LGBTQ advocates against what has become the most fiercely contested bill of Georgia’s 2023 legislative session.
  It’s part of a nationwide effort by conservatives to restrict transgen
  
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• B.C. government announces multi-year boost to subsidize veterinary education

  23-03-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The British Columbia government says it is permanently doubling the number of subsidized seats for people who want to train to become veterinarians and practise in the province. 
  Education Minister Selina Robinson says the government will provide $21.8 million over three years to subsidize students who want to train to be vets at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatchewan. 
  B.C. has been funding 20 seats at the university, but Robinson says the new mon
  
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• 1 million march in France, unions call new pension protests

  23-03-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — French unions have called for new nationwide protests next week, which will coincide with King Charles III’s planned visit to France.
  The announcement follows record turnout in Thursday’s demonstration in Paris against President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular bill to increase the retirement age from 62 to 64.
  French authorities say 119,000 people marched through the capital, which the Interior Ministry said was the biggest so far for Paris.
  Over one million peop
  
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• B.C. salmon farm closure decision was necessary, says DFO amid court challenges

  23-03-2023 20:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — The federal government is standing by its decision not to renew licences for 15 open-net Atlantic salmon farms in British Columbia’s Discovery Islands, despite recent court challenges.
  A statement from the office of Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray says her decision last month against renewing the licences for the farms off Vancouver Island near Campbell River was difficult but necessary.
  The statement says recent science suggests uncertainty about risks posed to wild salmo
  
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• Authorities: 1 person fatally shot during rescue of migrants

  23-03-2023 20:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A hostage rescue in Houston in which one person was fatally shot on Thursday first began days ago when three migrants were kidnapped from a vehicle in a neighboring county, according to a prosecutor.The three migrants had been traveling in a vehicle on Interstate 10 in Waller County on March 18 when they were stopped by an unknown number of individuals and forced into another vehicle, said Sean Whittmore, a prosecutor with the Waller County District Attorney’s Office.T
  
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• NTSB: Crews failed to de-ice road before massive Texas crash

  23-03-2023 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The company responsible for maintaining a Texas interstate where 130 vehicles crashed in icy conditions two years ago, killing six, failed to address the deteriorating road conditions, federal officials said Thursday.
  That portion of Interstate 35 West in Fort Worth was not treated with salt the morning of the Feb. 11, 2021, crash, the National Transportation Safety Board said.The agency said that while North Tarrant Express Mobility Partners Segment 3 had pretreated the sout
  
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• White Rock knife-brandishing incident ‘highlights gap in mental ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 19:55 via news.google.com
  
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• Track bans transgender athletes, tightens rules for Semenya

  23-03-2023 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Track and field banned transgender athletes from international competition Thursday, while adopting new regulations that could keep Caster Semenya and other athletes with differences in sex development from competing.
  In a pair of decisions expected to stoke outrage, the World Athletics Council adopted the same rules as swimming did last year in deciding to bar athletes who have transitioned from male to female and have gone through male puberty. No such athletes currently compete at the highest
  
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• Chilliwack-area non-profits receive community gaming grants from ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack-area non-profits receive community gaming grants from ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  23-03-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Trudeau, Biden could agree to end ‘loophole’ in Safe Third Country Agreement: source

  23-03-2023 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada and the United States are negotiating a deal that could designate all 8,900 kilometres of their shared border as an official crossing under the Safe Third Country Agreement.
  A Canadian government official with knowledge of the talks says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Joe Biden will discuss the issue when they meet in Ottawa on Friday.
  The Canadian Press is granting anonymity to the official to discuss matters not yet made public.
  The bilateral treaty that Cana
  
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• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says conservatives must learn to win in ‘big cities’

  23-03-2023 19:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says conservatives must learn how to win in “big cities.”
  Smith made the comment to a room of conservatives gathered in Ottawa for the annual conference of the Canada Strong and Free Network, formerly called the Manning Centre.
  With Albertans set to go the polls in a provincial election this year, Smith says the United Conservative Party has more ground to gain in the province’s two largest cities: Calgary and Edmonton. 
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• Blues GM Doug Armstrong to lead Canada at men’s world championship

  23-03-2023 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Doug Armstrong has been named Canada’s general manager for the upcoming men’s world hockey championship in Finland and Latvia.
  The St. Louis Blues executive was tabbed by Hockey Canada on Thursday as part of a management team that will also see Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman serve in an associate role.
  Shane Doan, who works in the Arizona Coyotes’ front office, was named as an assistant GM, while Hockey Canada senior vice-president of hockey operations Scott
  
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• RCMP looking for female suspect in Chilliwack-area ATM thefts - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Beijing denies meddling after MP Han Dong’s resignation from ... - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Surrey murder victim unknown to police, just moved to the city, police say

  23-03-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Homicide investigators say the man who died in a shooting in Surrey last week had no known ties to the ongoing gang conflict in Metro Vancouver.
  Thirty-eight-year-old Aren Smith has been identified as the man found dead in a parked vehicle on March 13.
  Police say they responded to reports of shots fired just before 8 a.m. that day and found Smith’s body.
  Investigators say Smith and his family had only recently moved to the city.
  The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team say
  
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• Surrey, B.C., murder victim unknown to police, just moved to the city, police say

  23-03-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY, B.C. — Homicide investigators say the man who died in a shooting in Surrey, B.C., last week had no known ties to the ongoing gang conflict in Metro Vancouver.
  Thirty-eight-year-old Aren Smith has been identified as the man found dead in a parked vehicle on March 13. 
  Police say they responded to reports of shots fired just before 8 a.m. that day and found Smith’s body. 
  Investigators say Smith and his family had only recently moved to the city. 
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• MPs vote in favour of including invisible disabilities in national housing strategy

  23-03-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Members of Parliament have voted unanimously in favour of urging the government to address the needs of people with invisible disabilities in its national housing strategy.
  Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga introduced the motion, which calls on the government to include an expert on disabilities in its National Housing Council.
  It also asks the government to formally recognize the barriers people with disabilities face when it comes to finding a home.
  Invisible disabilities include ment
  
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• For Canada-U.S., close personal ties between leaders not necessary — but they help

  23-03-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Hollywood has Ben and Jennifer. Music fans have Beyoncé and Jay-Z. But in Canadian politics right now, it’s all about Justin and Joe. 
  OK, so maybe Justin Trudeau and Joe Biden don’t capture the North American zeitgeist like a glitzy celebrity couple. But there’s palpable affection between the prime minister and the U.S. president — and those who know say it’s authentic. 
  “They relax around each other, and there is a warmth
  
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• Track stymies Russian path to Olympics due to war in Ukraine

  23-03-2023 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Track and field leaders signaled Thursday that it will be nearly impossible for Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete at the Paris Olympics next year if the war in Ukraine continues.
  The World Athletics Council kept its ban on Russian athletes in international events in place “for the foreseeable future.” It’s a move that goes directly against the International Olympic Committee’s efforts to find a way for Russian athletes to compete as neutrals in upcoming events.
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• BC RCMP - Chilliwack RCMP seek public assistance in identifying a ... - BC.RCMP-grc.gc.ca

  23-03-2023 18:39 via news.google.com
  
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• Greenshields returns but others are missing from Canadian roster for Hong Kong Sevens

  23-03-2023 18:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Julia Greenshields returns from injury for the first time since December. but Canada coach Jack Hanratty is missing other bodies through injury and 15s commitments ahead of the Hong Kong Sevens.
  Canada, which stands eighth in the overall standings, will compete in Pool A with No. 1 New Zealand, No. 7 Britain and invitational host side Hong Kong in the sixth of seven women’s stops on the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
  The competition runs March 31 through April 2 at Hong Kong Stadium.
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• Let the (Greater Vernon) B.C. Winter Games begin - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• McKee neighbourhood plan setback following Abbotsford City Council error

  23-03-2023 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A procedural error means Abbotsford City Council will need to repeat the approval of the bylaw for the McKee Neighbourhood Plan next week.
  In a news release, civic officials say the error occurred with the first and second readings of the bylaw and was only discovered after a lengthy March 6 public hearing.
  It means city council will need to reintroduce the bylaw from the beginning and host another public hearing on the bylaw.“As a municipal office, we are legislatively
  
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• Nebraska trans health bill advances, despite filibuster vow

  23-03-2023 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Legislature voted Thursday to advance a contentious bill that seeks to ban gender-affirming care for minors, despite threats from two lawmakers that they would filibuster the rest of the session.
  The vote came on the third day of debate, in which lawmakers angrily accused one another of hypocrisy and a lack of collegiality. With the bill’s advancement, Omaha Sens. Megan Hunt and Machaela Cavanaugh have promised to filibuster every bill that comes bef
  
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• Dog stabbed to death in Shuswap - Chilliwack Progress

  23-03-2023 18:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Feds: Woman charged in Wyoming clinic fire opposes abortion

  23-03-2023 17:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A woman accused of setting fire last year to a Wyoming abortion clinic that was under construction told investigators that she opposes abortion and was experiencing anxiety and nightmares over the facility opening, authorities say in court documents.
  According to the court filing, 22-year-old Lorna Roxanne Green, of Casper, told Matthew T. Wright, an agent with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, that she broke into the Wellspring Health Acce
  
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• EU leaders endorse joint ammo purchases for Ukraine

  23-03-2023 17:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders have endorsed a plan for sending Ukraine 1 million rounds of artillery ammunition within the next 12 months to help the country counter Russia’s invasion forces.
  EU foreign and defense ministers approved the plan for a fast-track purchasing procedure earlier this week, and the leaders of the bloc’s 27 member nations gave it their political blessing at a summit in Brussels Thursday.
  “Taking into account the security and defense intere
  
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• Trudeau mulls response to ‘appalling and abhorrent’ Uganda LGBTQ death-penalty bill

  23-03-2023 17:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA, Kan. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling on Uganda to repeal legislation the East African country passed this week to bring in a death penalty targeting members of the LGBTQ community.
  The legislation prescribes the death penalty for the offence of “aggravated homosexuality,” such as having sex while being HIV positive, and life imprisonment for homosexuality, as well as jail terms of up to 20 years for those promoting LGBTQ rights.
  Trudeau says he wants to &ldqu
  
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• Sex assault victim of ex-PQ legislator Harold LeBel wants her identity made public

  23-03-2023 17:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RIMOUSKI, Que. — The victim in the sexual assault case involving ex-Parti Québécois member Harold LeBel has asked a judge to lift a publication ban on her identity.
  The woman asked Quebec Superior Court Justice Serge Francoeur today to lift the ban on April 18, when a documentary about her case is scheduled to be released.
  Francoeur says he would take the victim’s request under advisement and issue a ruling shortly.
  The victim told the court that in the documentary she
  
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