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• Federal government directs $13.8 million towards safe sport in budget

  28-03-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian government committed $13.8 million in Tuesday’s budget to addressing safe sport issues that have dominated headlines over the last year.
  Federal sport minister Pascale St-Onge has said the sport system is in crisis.
  Tearful athletes have testified at parliamentary committee meetings in recent months about the sexual, mental and physical abuse they’ve experienced, and how the sport system has failed to address it.
  The budget committed $13.8 million over three years starti
  
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• Quick quotes from the release of Canada’s 2023 federal budget

  28-03-2023 23:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberals released their 2023-24 budget on Tuesday.
  Here are some quotes about the spending plan from the finance minister, opposition leaders and the head of the Assembly of First Nations. 
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  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland:
  “We are reducing government spending while taking great care not to reduce the services and direct support that Canadians rely on.”
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  “By exercising fiscal restraint, we’re ensuring that we
  
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• Abbotsford Police asking for help in finding missing 66-year-old man

  28-03-2023 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a missing 66-year-old man.
  The Abbotsford Police Department wrote on Twitter that it is asking for the public’s help in locating 66-year-old Roy Heide. He was last seen in the 34000 block of Gladys Avenue on Wednesday, March 22.He is described as 5’8″ tall, with grey hair and blue eyes. He has grey facial hair in the shape of a goatee and appears to have glasses.Anyone with inf
  
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• N.S. woman sought in firearms case released after RCMP find no evidence of gun

  28-03-2023 23:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The RCMP say officers have interviewed and released a woman who was being sought in relation to a firearms complaint on Sipekne’katik First Nation in central Nova Scotia on Sunday night.
  Spokesman Cpl. Chris Marshall said today in a release that investigators determined there was “insufficient” evidence to lay charges, and there was no evidence found that the woman had ever been in possession of a gun.
  Police say the case began at 4:45 p.m. when a person advised a Mountie patro
  
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• Railway closures to impact Yarrow, Vedder Road later this week

  28-03-2023 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Motorists in Chilliwack should plan for two upcoming road closures due to maintenance involving two railway crossings later this week.Southern Railway will conduct rail repairs to a rail crossing at Yarrow Central Road and Vedder Mountain Road this Thursday, March 30 at 5 p.m. until Friday, March 31 at 7 a.m.The City of Chilliwack notes that the tracks will be impassable. Motorists are urged to use Keith Wilson Road instead.A section of Vedder Road will be closed for 16 hours
  
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• Budget 2023: Ottawa threatens to freeze U.S. firms from green tax credits, contracts

  28-03-2023 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa is threatening a tit-for-tat with Washington over green tax credits and government procurement policies that risk freezing out Canadian businesses.
  This year’s federal budget announces two consultations aimed at responding to the Biden administration’s massive spending bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, which sets out policies that advantage the U.S. domestic economy.Ottawa is threatening to structure its own clean-energy tax credits in a way that would bar or disadvantage Ame
  
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• Feds outline $83B in clean economy tax credits in bid to compete with U.S. incentive

  28-03-2023 22:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Serious money is heading for Canadian industries looking to reduce emissions after the federal government unveiled its answer to the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act.
  The spending commitments announced in Tuesday’s federal budget include tax credits for investments in clean electricity, clean-tech manufacturing, and hydrogen that together are expected to cost some $55 billion through to the 2034-35 fiscal year.
  Total tax incentives amount to almost $83 billion over that timefram
  
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• Budget 2023: Key highlights from the federal Liberals’ spending plan

  28-03-2023 22:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government has released a 2023-24 spending plan that prioritizes spending on health care, transitioning Canadian businesses to a clean economy and offering affordability measures to help Canadians dealing with high prices from inflation.Here are the key highlights from this year’s federal budget:
  – $40.1 billion: Projected federal deficit for the coming fiscal year.
  – $59.5 billion: New spending over the next five years, with $8.3 billion to b
  
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• Nine police officers recently killed in Canada; here is a look at their deaths

  28-03-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A veteran Quebec provincial police officer was stabbed to death Monday night after she tried to arrest a suspect in Louiseville, Que., about 100 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Sgt. Maureen Breau, who had two children, had more than 20 years of experience and was four days away from starting a new job as an investigator. 
  The 35-year-old suspect, whose identity has not been released, was later shot and killed by other officers who arrived on the scene.
  At least eight other police officers
  
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• Budget 2023: Feds commit consultation money for Indigenous resource sharing

  28-03-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is committing $8.7 million to hold more consultations on Indigenous resource sharing, in a budget that offers relatively little new spending on its reconciliation agenda.
  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled a spending plan that prioritizes Canada’s transition to a greener economy, offering billions in new tax credits, as well as health care and affordability.
  Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples remains a major priority for Prime Minist
  
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• Budget 2023: What you missed, from phone chargers and concert fees to air travel

  28-03-2023 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — For Canadians fed up with chargers that don’t fit their cellphones, hidden fees, air-travel disruptions and cosmetic testing on animals, the Liberal government says help is on the way.Those and others are among the countless measures contained in the federal budget plan unveiled by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland.Here are some of the less-prominent promises being made:Common chargers: Tired of trying to find the right charger for your phone? Noting the European Union rece
  
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• Budget 2023: Projected cost of federal dental program set to more than double

  28-03-2023 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The new federal budget shows the government’s dental-care insurance program is now set to cost more than double what the Liberals originally thought, adding another $7.3 billion over five years.
  Last year, the government set up a temporary dental benefit for uninsured children under the age of 12 in families with a household income of less than $90,000.
  That benefit will be scrapped by June 2024. In its place, Tuesday’s budget shows the Liberals are planning a governme
  
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• Budget 2023: Liberals follow through on big promises in deal with NDP

  28-03-2023 22:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government has continued to fulfil its promises to the NDP within its second federal budget since the parties struck a confidence-and-supply agreement in March 2022.
  New Democrats have agreed to prop up the minority government on key votes, including budgets, until June 2025 in exchange for movement on shared priorities. 
  Here are the key NDP-approved initiatives that were penned into the agreement and made it into this year’s budget: 
  Dental care: More
  
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• Budget 2023: Liberals add foreign interference office, new money-laundering rules

  28-03-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government plans to launch a National Counter-Foreign Interference Office, amid ongoing scrutiny of allegations that Beijing interfered in recent federal elections.
  Tuesday’s federal budget earmarked $56 million over five years for measures to combat foreign interference, threats and covert activities. 
  The Mounties are slated to receive most of that money before April 2026 in support of efforts to investigate threats and pr
  
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• Budget 2023 belt-tightening: Liberals order federal spending review, cuts

  28-03-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federal departments and agencies are being told to start tightening their belts as the Trudeau government looks for ways to pay for its latest budget promises while easing recent criticism over its use of outside consultants such as McKinsey & Company.
  But while Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the savings won’t come at the expense of service to Canadians, others aren’t so sure given what happened when Stephen Harper’s Conservatives ordered similar cut
  
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• North Saanich, B.C., councillor resigns after referring to mayor as ‘Mr. Hitler”

  28-03-2023 22:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH SAANICH, B.C. — A councillor from North Saanich, B.C., has resigned after referring to the mayor as “Mr. Hitler” during a council meeting.
  Coun. Brett Smyth says in his letter of resignation that the decision to leave immediately was not an easy one but was made necessary — but not specifically — after an “offhanded comment” he made at a recent council meeting.
  At a March 20 meeting, Smyth took issue with a decision not to livestream advisory commi
  
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• Federal budget 2023 includes $59.5 billion in new spending, looks to increase revenue

  28-03-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government announced $59.5 billion of new spending over the next five years as part of a narrowly focused budget that also promises to find savings in the public service and increase tax revenues.  
  Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget, tabled in the House of Commons, has three main focuses: the clean economic transition, health care and cost-of-living relief. 
  To finance these priorities, the Liberals are promising to find $9.8 billion of saving
  
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• NewsAlert: $491B budget invests in clean electricity, health care

  28-03-2023 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s 2023 federal budget promises “transformative investments” in Canada’s green economy and expanded dental care, all while claiming Ottawa can rein in the cost of running the government.
  The budget projects program spending will reach nearly $491 billion in the coming fiscal year, with the deficit now set to reach $40 billion.
  Over the next five years, the government will increase spending by nearly $60 billion and no longe
  
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• More work needed to make hockey safe for LGBTQ people: former pro player

  28-03-2023 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — NHL players refusing to participate in Pride nights around the league shows hockey still isn’t safe for a number of LGBTQ people, says one of the first male professional players to publicly come out as gay. 
  Brock McGillis is working to change the sport he loves through a new non-profit, Alphabet Sports Collective, which looks to make hockey safer for people of all sexualities and gender identities.
  “I think (the Pride night controversy) is just a testament tha
  
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• ‘It’s really sad’: Neighbour describes chaotic scene after Calgary house explosion

  28-03-2023 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Rima Rifai thought her furnace had exploded Monday when the house across the street burst into a ball of fire, sending 10 people to hospital with serious injuries.
  When she opened the front door to the street, Rifai saw the home her neighbour has lived in for 20 years was destroyed.
  “The whole top of the house was completely blown off and there were all of these people coming out of the house,” Rifai said in an interview Tuesday outside her home in the neighbourhood e
  
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• Final two victims of Old Montreal fire identified, investigation to focus on cause

  28-03-2023 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Police say the final two victims of a March 16 fire in Old Montreal that killed seven people have been identified. 
  Montreal police Insp. David Shane confirmed today that Charlie Lacroix and Walid Belkahla, both 18, died when fire destroyed the three-storey building.
  Martin Guilbault, a division chief at the Montreal fire department, says that after a final search of the ruins, investigators have confirmed that no other victims remain.
  He says the investigation will now foc
  
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• Fernandez, Townsend advance to doubles semifinals at Miami Open

  28-03-2023 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Canada’s Leylah Fernandez and American partner Taylor Townsend advanced to the Miami Open women’s doubles semifinals Tuesday with a 2-6, 7-6 (4), 10-8 win over Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and Lyudmyla Kichenok of Ukraine.
  Fernandez and Townsend were accurate on 88.9 per cent of first serves in the final set and won 66.7 per cent of total service points.
  Ostapenko and Kichenok, seeded third in the women’s doubles draw, won the first set after converting two of their
  
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• Health care professionals fight decision to reject access to psilocybin for training

  28-03-2023 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada violated the rights of hundreds of patients awaiting access to psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy when it rejected applications from health-care professionals to consume the restricted drug for training purposes, a lawyer for the workers argued in Federal Court on Tuesday. 
  Nicholas Pope said there aren’t enough health-care professionals licenced to provide psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy and Health Canada’s decision means patients may have difficulty accessing therapist
  
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• Kikuchi strong again as Jays lose Grapefruit League finale to Phillies

  28-03-2023 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CLEARWATER, Fla. — Yusei Kikuchi put in one last strong pitching performance this spring as the Toronto Blue Jays ended their Grapefruit League campaign Tuesday with a 6-5 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
  Kikuchi pitched 2 2/3 no-hit innings of relief, racking up six strikeouts over that span.
  The left-hander finished spring training with a 2-1 record, a 0.87 earned-run average and 31 strikeouts over seven appearances, including six starts.
  The Phillies won the game in the bottom of the
  
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• 2 Chilliwack men to receive bravery awards after rescuing dump ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 21:33
  
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• Court rules in favor of victim’s family in ‘Serial’ case

  28-03-2023 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — A Maryland court did not give the family of the murder victim in the case chronicled in the hit podcast “Serial” enough time to attend a court hearing in person that led to Adnan Syed’s release, a Maryland appellate court ruled Tuesday, and it ordered a new hearing to be held.
  Though Syed’s conviction has been reinstated, he will not be taken back into custody.
  In a 2-1 decision, the Appellate Court of Maryland ruled the state’s law provi
  
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• Two people die in house fire on Skwah First Nation

  28-03-2023 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Two adults have died as the result of a fire that broke out on Skwah First Nation Saturday morning.In a statement released Tuesday morning, Chilliwack Fire Chief Ian Josephson said 35 firefighters from five fire halls in Chilliwack were dispatched for a structure fire on Landing Drive on Skwah First Nation Saturday morning. The call came in at 7:25 a.m. Saturday.Fire crews arrived to discover a fully engulfed structure fire. Firefighters extinguished the fire, accessed the sin
  
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• Tornado-spawning U.S. storms may get worse due to warming - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 20:50
  
  Tornado-spawning U.S. storms may get worse due to warming  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Chilliwack’s biggest garage sale returns this Saturday

  28-03-2023 20:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — It’s hard to resist the allure of heavily discounted goods like clothing, household items, trinkets, tools, and other deals just waiting to be had.Therein lies the appeal of Chilliwack’s biggest garage sale as it holds its third sale this Saturday, April 1 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Chilliwack Heritage Park, 44140 Luckakuck Way.It’ll be a wall-to-wall extravaganza of unique and discounted items, market vendors, and assorted antiquities since the Chilliwack Thri
  
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• Mark Weightman returns as president/CEO of the Montreal Alouettes

  28-03-2023 20:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Mark Weightman is back as president and chief executive officer of the Montreal Alouettes.
  The club announced Weightman’s appointment Tuesday. He will take office April 11.
  This will mark Weightman’s second stint with Montreal. He was with the organization from 1996 to ’16, serving as president/CEO from 2013 to 2016.
  Weightman takes over from Mario Cecchini, who served as interim president while the CFL negotiated the sale of the franchise to Quebec businessman
  
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• VIDEO: Hope Slough saw Chilliwack volunteers planting trees over ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 20:32
  
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• Shattered: Catholic community of L’Arche confronts its founder’s lies - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 20:30
  
  Shattered: Catholic community of L’Arche confronts its founder’s lies  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Olympiques, Phoenix lead CHL’s top 10 rankings ahead of playoffs

  28-03-2023 20:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Two teams from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League lead the Canadian Hockey League’s top 10 rankings ahead of the 2023 playoffs.
  The Gatineau Olympiques, after finishing the QMJHL regular season on a 23-0-1 run, are ranked No. 1, one spot ahead of the Sherbrooke Phoenix.
  The No. 5 Quebec Remparts and No. 7 Halifax Mooseheads, who boast the QMJHL’s top three scorers in Jordan Dumais, Josh Lawrence and Alexandre Doucet, round out the league’s remaining teams on the list.
  Leadin
  
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• Boy Scouts’ $2.4 billion bankruptcy plan upheld by judge

  28-03-2023 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal district court judge has upheld the approval of a $2.4 billion bankruptcy reorganization plan aimed at resolving tens of thousands of child sexual abuse claim against the Boy Scouts of America.
  The ruling docketed Tuesday rejects arguments by non-settling insurance companies and attorneys representing dissenting abuse survivors that the reorganization plan was not proposed in good faith and improperly strips the insurers and survivors of their rights.
  The rulin
  
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• Alberta Energy Regulator to launch third-party probe of Kearl oilsands tailings leak

  28-03-2023 20:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Alberta Energy Regulator says it will launch an independent investigation into the tailings leak at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oilsands mine.
  The regulator says in a news release today it is looking for a qualified, impartial third party to conduct the probe. 
  It says the inquiry will relate to issues around notification of the spill and what it calls “other potential process issues.” 
  It says the review’s findings will be released to the public.
  Last May, Imperia
  
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• Unprecedented construction needed in B.C. to offset record ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 20:10
  
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• AP Sources: Judge rules Pence must testify before grand jury

  28-03-2023 20:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that former Vice President Mike Pence will have to testify before a grand jury after he was subpoenaed by the special counsel investigating efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
  That’s according to two people familiar with the ruling, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it remains under seal.
  The people said, however, that the Pence would not have to answer questions ab
  
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• Veteran jockey Luis Contreras to chase third Plate victory

  28-03-2023 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The name might be different, but the goal remains the same for jockey Luis Contreras.
  Since 1952, the opening leg of Canada’s Triple Crown was known as the Queen’s Plate, in honour of Queen Elizabeth II. But following her death last year and King Charles III’s ascension to the throne, North America’s longest continuously run stakes race will revert to The King’s Plate, starting this year.
  And in 2023, the 37-year-old native of Mexico City will chase
  
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• Chilliwack prolific offender found guilty of 6 illegal drug trafficking ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 19:49
  
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• Airbnb: 79 per cent of Quebec rentals in February not certified, housing group says

  28-03-2023 19:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A report by a Montreal tenants’ rights association says 79 per cent of the roughly 30,000 units in Quebec that were available for rent in February on Airbnb were not certified by the province.
  The Coalition of Housing Committees and Tenants Associations of Quebec says Airbnb has contributed to the housing shortage because the platform takes units off the long-term rental market.
  The group says that in some regions of the province, the number of February listings without re
  
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• Police: Nashville shooter bought 7 guns before school attack

  28-03-2023 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Nashville school shooter legally bought seven firearms in recent years and hid the guns from their parents before the attack at a Christian school where the suspect killed three children and three adults, police said Tuesday.
  Police said the shooter did not specifically target their victims during the shooting at The Covenant School on Monday. The suspect, Audrey Hale, was a former student at the school.
  Authorities said Hale was not on their radar before the at
  
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• American elementary school bans Miley, Dolly duet from class concert - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 19:30
  
  American elementary school bans Miley, Dolly duet from class concert  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Canadian tennis player Andreescu says she’s waiting on test results after injury

  28-03-2023 19:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — Canadian tennis player Bianca Andreescu provided an injury update of sorts on Tuesday, saying she’s still waiting on official test results after injuring her lower left leg at the Miami Open.
  Andreescu, from Mississauga, Ont., was hurt Monday night in the second set of her fourth-round match against Russia’s Ekaterina Alexandrova.The 22-year-old was moving across the baseline when she fell to the hardcourt and clutched her lower leg in pain. She was wheeled off the cour
  
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• Greece: 2 held in alleged plot to attack Jewish restaurant

  28-03-2023 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Two men accused of planning an extremist attack on a Jewish restaurant in central Athens and possibly other targets that would produce mass civilian casualties have been arrested on terrorism charges in Greece, police said Tuesday.The suspects were charged with membership in a terrorist organization and were being held at police headquarters in the Greek capital, authorities said. A third man, who is not in Greece, was wanted for questioning and charged in absentia.Go
  
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• National Inuit organization seeking $1.6 billion for school food program

  28-03-2023 19:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A national Inuit organization is calling for about $1.6 billion in federal funding over 15 years to set up a co-ordinatedschool food program in the North. 
  Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami released a report last week, developed through the Inuit-Crown Food Security Working Group, advocating for a breakfast and lunch program in 75 schools across Inuit Nunangat, or Inuit homeland in Canada. Inuit Nunangat encompasses 51 communities in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut, northern Quebec
  
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• Ram pickup sought by Chilliwack RCMP in shooting eluded police officers by just minutes

  28-03-2023 19:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — As RCMP investigators continue to pore over video and gather evidence following Saturday night’s apparent gang-related shooting near Peach Park at the entrance to the Vedder Rotary Trail, the driver of a white Dodge Ram pickup truck sought by investigators appears to have evaded police by about six minutes.What’s more, the Dodge Ram pickup truck appears to have only been in the Peach Road corridor leading to Peach Park for an entire span of nearly three minutes bef
  
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• Walmart Canada CEO says retailer not trying to profit from inflation - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 18:40
  
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• Review: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ puts the funny in fantasy - Chilliwack Progress

  28-03-2023 18:20
  
  Review: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ puts the funny in fantasy  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Republicans, Democrats spar on Capitol Hill over Canada-U.S. migration ‘crisis’

  28-03-2023 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats are doing battle today over what one side calls a “crisis” of illegal immigration at the Canada-U.S. border. 
  Democrats on the House Committee on Homeland Security say their Republican counterparts are trying to manufacture a non-existent crisis.
  Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.), chairman of the homeland security oversight subcommittee, says border patrol agents are ill-equipped to deal with an increase in migrants entering the U.S. from Cana
  
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• Toronto Arrows trade rights to veteran Canadian Kyle Baillie to Old Glory D.C.

  28-03-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Arrows have traded the rights to veteran forward Kyle Baillie to Old Glory D.C. in exchange for salary cap considerations next season.
  The Arrows had acquired the Canadian international from the NOLA Gold in October 2021 in exchange for a second-round selection in the 2022 Major League Rugby collegiate draft. While Baillie saw action in 10 games for Toronto in 2022, he was not re-signed for the 2023 season.
  Still, under Major League Rugby rules, the Arrows retained hi
  
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