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• Jets forward Niederreiter says players need to ‘leave it all out there’

  30-03-2023 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — When Winnipeg Jets head coach Rick Bowness criticized some players this week for lack of effort, veteran forward Nino Niederreiter agreed there have been “passengers” on the struggling team’s ride to the playoffs.
  After the Jets were shut out 3-0 by the league-worst San Jose Sharks on Tuesday – the third time they’ve been blanked in their past seven games – Bowness’s frustration spilled through his post-game comments.
   “The in
  
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• Canada Soccer, CONCACAF officials defend controversial Canadian Soccer Business deal

  30-03-2023 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani and former Canada Soccer president Nick Bontis have defended Canada Soccer’s controversial deal with Canadian Soccer Business, telling a parliamentary committee that the contract provided the governing body with more guaranteed revenue that it had received previously.
  Montagliani said that before the CSB agreement there was “absolutely no domestic media market” for national team games and Canada Soccer had to spend its own mo
  
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• Quebec pedophile hunters face child pornography distribution charges

  30-03-2023 23:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GATINEAU, Que. — Members of a self-proclaimed group of Quebec pedophile hunters have been arrested and face 38 charges including distribution of child pornography.
  Gatineau police say six people were arrested Thursday as part of a crackdown on the vigilante group.
  Five of the suspects, four men and a woman aged 24 to 27, face charges of distributing child pornography.
  Some of them also face charges of intimidation and forcible confinement while a sixth suspect, a 40-year-old man from a nea
  
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• Rush for diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic puts cross-border sales in spotlight

  30-03-2023 23:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Canadian Pharmacists Association says protecting Canadian drug supplies from mass exportation to the U.S. market remains a priority in light of British Columbia’s recent move to limit sales of the diabetes drug Ozempic, which has been hyped as a weight-loss treatment.
  Joelle Walker, the association’s vice-president of public and professional affairs, says cross-border sales of Canadian drugs to Americans seeking lower prices has been a long-standing issue for th
  
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• 6 people charged in deadly fire at Mexican detention center

  30-03-2023 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican court on Thursday issued arrest orders for six people in relation to the fire that killed 39 migrants at a detention facility earlier this week in the border city of Ciudad Juarez, according to the federal prosecutor leading the investigation.
  Sara Irene Herrerías said the six include three officials from the National Immigration Institute, two private security guards contracted by the agency and the person who allegedly started the fire. She said they w
  
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• Popkum resident eager to see more visitors to her Little Free Library

  30-03-2023 23:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  POPKUM — A community library just doesn’t have the same feel if it turns dormant or the books don’t fly off the shelf like they once did.Popkum resident Rachelle Loeppky knows the feeling. She says the Mayberry Little Free Library came to Popkum almost two years ago when she and her family moved there after enjoying a number of years in a busy neighbourhood on Mayfair Avenue in Chilliwack, just northeast of Chilliwack Secondary.
  “Our family are the second stewards of the
  
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• Liberal minister’s sister-in-law appointed as interim ethics commissioner

  30-03-2023 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has been named interim ethics commissioner as her office launches a search for a permanent new conflict-of-interest watchdog.
  Martine Richard, who has been employed in the office as a lawyer since 2013, was appointed for the six-month stint this week.
  Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc. 
  A spokesperson for the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner says that as
  
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• RCMP on the lookout for construction site crook caught on camera

  30-03-2023 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — It seems like the bad guys work overtime to swindle hard-working folks out of their property, equipment, or whatever else they can get their hands on.Surrey RCMP is asking for the public’s assistance with identifying a suspect who broke into a Whalley construction site.
  On February 5, 2023, at approximately 6:54 a.m., Surrey RCMP responded to a break in at a construction site in the 10700-block of 138 Street. The suspect stole tools and security cameras from the site, prior
  
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• National sport organizations face safe-sport deadline, risk losing funding

  30-03-2023 22:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A flurry of national sport organizations signing up with the new Office of the Sports Integrity Commissioner is expected in the coming days, or their funding could get cut off.
  The office with lawyer and former artistic swimmer Sarah-Ève Pelletier at its helm was established as one remedy to Canada’s safe-sport crisis.
  Athletes have been testifying before parliamentary committees in recent months about the sexual, emotional and physical abuse they’ve experienced pursuing their
  
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• Russia arrests Wall Street Journal reporter on spying charge - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Obscured vision, perception played role in Tofino, B.C., harbour crash: safety board

  30-03-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — The Transportation Safety Board highlights the importance of designated landing areas in harbours that are busy with marine and air traffic as it releases a report on a crash between a float plane and a water taxi in Tofino, B.C.
  The water taxi and a Tofino Air Beaver float plane carrying six people collided while heading for the same dock in October 2021.
  The pilot and passengers were able to safely get out of the aircraft, although three sustained minor injuries, and wit
  
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• Judicial council takes next step in review of complaint against Supreme Court’s Brown

  30-03-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Judicial Council is taking the next step in its review of a complaint against Supreme Court of Canada Justice Russell Brown concerning alleged events at an Arizona resort.
  Christopher Hinkson, chief justice of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and chairperson of the council’s judicial conduct committee, has decided to refer the matter to a judicial conduct review panel. 
  In turn, the five-member panel can decide that an inquiry committee should be estab
  
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• Men, young boys increasingly targeted by sextortion scams, B.C. ... - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 22:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Concerns raised over recommendation to phase out RCMP police training Depot in Regina

  30-03-2023 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says a recommendation to phase out the RCMP Depot police training academy in Regina would make it harder to get more boots on the ground.A report into the 2020 shooting rampage in Nova Scotia that left 22 people dead says the Depot training program should be phased out by 2032 for a new model that would see provinces establish three-year policing degrees.
  Moe says this change would prevent Mounties from being placed into communities sooner, noting th
  
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• U.S. argues for immunity in MK-ULTRA mind-control case before Quebec Court of Appeal

  30-03-2023 22:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A lawyer for the United States government told Quebec’s highest court today that the country should be immune from prosecution for the infamous brainwashing experiments at McGill University from the 1940s to the 1960s.
  The U.S. government says it cannot be sued for the project known as MK-ULTRA — allegedly funded by the Canadian government and the CIA — because foreign states had absolute immunity from lawsuits in Canada during that period. 
  The court case
  
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• Joint Base Andrews on lockdown after armed person reported

  30-03-2023 22:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A military base in Maryland has been locked down for reports of a man carrying an “assault-style” rifle on Thursday, authorities said.
  Joint Base Andrews was locked down after the person was reported seen near the base’s housing area, according to the base’s Facebook page.Staff Sgt. Jared Duhon, a spokesperson for the base, said no shots have been fired. There was no immediate report of any injuries and additional details were not immediately avail
  
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• Major public-service union and to begin mediated negotiations with federal government

  30-03-2023 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government and the Public Service Alliance of Canada, a union representing 165,000 federal public servants, are expected to begin mediated negotiations on Sunday as a possible strike looms.
  The union announced strike votes for workers in the core public service in January amid a protracted labour dispute, with final votes to be cast by April 11.
  If workers opt for a strike, the union would be able to begin one within 60 days, as long as it gives the government three da
  
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• Appropriate for Alberta premier to discuss COVID case with accused, deputy says

  30-03-2023 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — An Alberta deputy premier says it was appropriate for his boss to phone up a pastor and discuss his upcoming criminal trial on charges stemming from protests over pandemic restrictions. 
  Kaycee Madu says Premier Danielle Smith has a broad mandate to reduce divisions over the COVID-19 pandemic while helping the province grow. 
  Madu says in pursuing that mission, Smith is free to contact whomever she wants.
  Smith is coming under renewed criticism over a leaked phone conv
  
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• OPINION: A Chilliwack murder that will never see justice - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 21:32 via news.google.com
  
  OPINION: A Chilliwack murder that will never see justice  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Cubs’ Marcus Stroman commits MLB’s 1st pitch-clock violation

  30-03-2023 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs right-hander Marcus Stroman committed Major League Baseball’s first pitch-clock violation in the third inning of Thursday’s opening day game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
  With no outs, rookie Brice Turang on second base and Christian Yelich at the plate, plate umpire Ron Kulpa called the violation on Stroman at Wrigley Field. Kulpa pointed to his wrist in announcing the call, and the automatic ball made it a 2-2 count against Yelich.
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• MPs debate bill that would outlaw advertising sugar to Canadian kids

  30-03-2023 21:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Trix may be for kids, but a Quebec Liberal MP does not want that kind of cereal or other sugary foods marketed that way anymore.
  A parliamentary health committee is discussing Patricia Lattanzio’s private member’s bill, which seeks to reduce childhood obesity by forbidding advertisements for sugary food and drinks aimed at kids under 13.
  Conservatives have opposed the bill, which passed an initial vote in the House of Commons in September, on the basis that it may crea
  
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• Aquarium agrees to return Lolita the orca to Pacific 50 years after captivity

  30-03-2023 21:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MIAMI — An orca known as Lolita could be heading back to her home waters in the Pacific Northwest, ending more than 50 years of tank captivity, after a deal was struck between the Miami Seaquarium and advocates pushing for her release.
  The aquarium and the group Friends of Lolita say in a statement the orca could be relocated to an open ocean sanctuary in her home waters in the next 18 to 24 months.
  Lolita is estimated to be 57 years old and has been in captivity in the Florida park since
  
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• Ukraine, Finland looking for Canadian help to rebuild economy amid war: ambassadors

  30-03-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ukraine’s ambassador to Canada is urging Canadian businesses to see her country’s eventual recovery as an economic bonanza worth investing in.
  Yuliya Kovaliv says at a lunch event for corporate groups in Ottawa that her country is focused on winning the war against Russia’s invasion, but that the next step will be a rebuilding of major infrastructure and services in Ukraine.
  She says Ukraine will need a Marshall Plan-style funding package to get back on its feet
  
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• Ruth and Naomi’s offers free Easter dinner, eyes dental clinic for underserved Chilliwack residents

  30-03-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Ruth and Naomi’s humble beginnings originated when founders Ted and Ann Stoker served sandwiches out of the back of their vehicle in 1995.Twenty-eight years later, the registered Canadian charity based in Chilliwack has grown to meet the physical, social and spiritual needs of a growing community by serving up to 380 meals a day, supporting men and women in a residential addiction recovery setting, and sustaining low-income families with access to safe, affordable housin
  
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• New FBI docs: Las Vegas mass shooter was angry at casinos

  30-03-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The high-roller gambler who opened fire on concertgoers on the Las Vegas Strip had lost tens of thousands of dollars while gambling weeks before the mass shooting and was upset about how the casinos had treated him, according to FBI documents made public this week.
  The documents reveal the strongest indication of a motive for the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. They paint a detailed account of gunman Stephen Paddock’s final days before the Oct. 1,
  
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• Arizona Dairy Queen on the hunt for missing red spoon statue

  30-03-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The owners of a Dairy Queen in Phoenix remain perplexed — and slightly amused — as to why someone would steal the giant red spoon that adorned their restaurant.
  “We were kind of upset but then more puzzled,” Puja Kalra said Wednesday. “What are they going to do with a spoon?”
  She and her husband, Raman Kalra, say the spoon-snatching occurred sometime between late Friday and early Saturday. The 15-foot-tall (4.5 meter) spoon stood against t
  
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• Nelson-based group advocates for province-wide transit service - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 20:53 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. Lions to add Wally Buono, Waterboys founders to their Wall of Fame

  30-03-2023 20:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Wally Buono, the CFL’s all-time leader in coaching wins, and Waterboys founders Dennis Skulsky, Moray Keith, Jamie Pitblado and Tom Malone will be added to the B.C. Lions Wall of Fame this summer.
  In a statement, the Lions said the inductions will be made Aug. 12 when the Lions host the Calgary Stampeders.
  “Being recognized is always about the people around you,” Buono said. “I was blessed with great ownership, a great staff and many, many great players
  
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• Pucker up? B.C. scientist says T. rex had lips - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 20:00 via news.google.com
  
  Pucker up? B.C. scientist says T. rex had lips  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• 911 recordings show terror at Nashville school during attack

  30-03-2023 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Nashville authorities released 911 calls Thursday that capture the terror inside an elementary school during this week’s mass shooting as people in hushed voices urged dispatchers to send help with sirens, crying and gunfire audible in the background.
  One caller told a dispatcher that she could hear gunshots as she hid in the closet of the The Covenant School’s art room. The recording started just before 10:13 a.m. Monday.
  “It sounds like somebody
  
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• Inquiry calls for changes to clarify relationship between RCMP, federal government

  30-03-2023 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A public inquiry is calling for a clearer definition of the relationship between the federal minister of public safety and the commissioner of the RCMP. 
  The Mass Casualty Commission, which examined the circumstances and aftermath of the April 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, says the RCMP Act should clarify that the top Mountie acts according to written directions of the minister, instead of under the minister’s direction.
  During the inquiry’s public hearings,
  
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• Timeline of April 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting

  30-03-2023 19:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRURO, N.S. — The final report released Thursday into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting chronicles minute by minute how the tragedy unfolded.
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  After 9 p.m. on April 18, the killer’s rampage began when he violently assaulted his partner, Lisa Banfield.
  Gabriel Wortman handcuffed Banfield in the back of his replica police cruiser. He told her he would kill her if she tried to run away.
  He poured gasoline throughout the home they shared in Portapique, N.S., before lighting it an
  
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• Chilliwack realtors honour retired real estate agent Liz Tutt

  30-03-2023 19:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — After two years, members of the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB) were decked out in their finest at an awards ceremony earlier this month to not only celebrate the COVID-19 years, but recognize a tireless volunteer and member from Chilliwack.During its gala on Saturday, March 18 at Evergreen Hall in downtown Chilliwack, CADREB took time to honour longtime realtor, member and volunteer Liz Tutt by presenting her with an Honorary Membership award, according to
  
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• White House: Russia, N. Korea engaged in food for arms deal

  30-03-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Thursday said it has new evidence that Russia is looking again to North Korea for weapons to fuel the war in Ukraine, this time in a deal that would provide Pyongyang with needed food and other commodities in return.
  It’s the latest accusation that Russia, desperate for weaponry and restricted by sanctions and export controls, is turning to “rogue” nations to help it continue to prosecute the 13-month-old war.
  “As part of this pr
  
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• NHLPA boss Marty Walsh outlines early priorities in new role

  30-03-2023 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Marty Walsh is a big-time sports fan.
  He’s now in a big-time job with the NHL Players’ Association.
  The former U.S. secretary of labor in President Joe Biden’s cabinet met the media for the first time today to outline some of his early aims in the new role.
  Walsh joins the union at a time of growing revenues in hockey, and with talks on a new collective bargaining agreement looming with the current deal set to expire in 2026. 
  The former mayor of Boston tol
  
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• Liberals must create national autism framework after Tory bill gets unanimous support

  30-03-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A bill that commits the government to tabling a federal framework on autism will become law after passing unanimously in the House of Commons this week.
  Conservative member of Parliament Mike Lake, a longtime advocate for such a framework, delivered a speech on Wednesday to mark the moment.
  Lake spoke about the triumphs and struggles of his child, Jaden, who looked on from the gallery, and discussed the importance of embracing people who have autism.Conservative MPs gave Lake a st
  
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• Inquiry into N.S. mass shooting calls for sweeping changes to gun laws

  30-03-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The inquiry into a mass shooting that left 22 people dead in Nova Scotia in 2020 is calling on the federal government to ban all semi-automatic handguns and many types of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns.
  The Mass Casualty Commission released its final report today, making a series of recommendations aimed at tightening gun laws.
  That includes developing a “standardized schedule and definitions” of 206 prohibited firearms in the Criminal Code. 
  Parliament is sti
  
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• Blue Jays put pitchers Ryu and White on injured list to finalize opening day roster

  30-03-2023 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Pitchers Hyun Jin Ryu and Mitch White were placed on Toronto’s injured list as the Blue Jays finalized their opening day roster.
  Ryu was put on the 15-day IL retroactive to March 27 as he continues to recover from Tommy John surgery he had on June 18.
  White was also placed on the 15-day IL retroactive to March 27 with right elbow inflammation.
  Toronto began its season on Thursday in St. Louis in the first of a three-game interleague series against the Cardinals.
  Ryu made six starts for the
  
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• Supreme Court of Canada to review Charter arguments in fentanyl trafficking case

  30-03-2023 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will look at whether police violated a man’s Charter rights while impersonating a drug dealer in order to arrest him.
  The sequence of events began in June 2017 when police in Guelph, Ont., seized the cellphone of a known drug dealer and noticed incoming text messages about a suspected transaction for heroin, likely laced with deadly fentanyl.
  Police responded to the messages and arranged to have the drugs delivered to the dealer’s home.
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• Carbon price and rebates rising Saturday in Ontario, Prairies

  30-03-2023 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — It will cost many Canadians a bit more to fill their gas tanks or heat their houses next month as the national carbon price rises Saturday in the three Prairie provinces and Ontario.
  At the same time, the government is increasing the size of the carbon price rebate cheques issued to families in those provinces to offset the cash crunch to family budgets.
  The carbon price is meant to encourage people to cut back on their use of greenhouse-gas emitting fuels, while the rebate accomp
  
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• Regulator defends finding that Alberta’s largest earthquake was ... - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
  Regulator defends finding that Alberta’s largest earthquake was ...  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• More lawsuits filed against Penticton Indigenous friendship centre ... - Chilliwack Progress

  30-03-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Judge’s ruling undercuts US health law’s preventive care

  30-03-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge in Texas who previously ruled to dismantle the Affordable Care Act struck down a narrower but key part of the nation’s health law Thursday in a decision that opponents say could jeopardize preventive screenings for millions of Americans.
  The ruling by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor comes more than four years after he ruled that the health care law, sometimes called “Obamacare,” was unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court late
  
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• Law exempting on-farm fuel from carbon tax heading to Senate

  30-03-2023 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A private member’s bill that would create specific carve-outs for farmers in Canada’s carbon pricing scheme has passed in the House of Commons. 
  The bill would exempt farmers from paying for emissions from natural gas and propane they use for certain activities performed on their farms, such as drying grain, preparing feed, irrigating and heating barns. 
  It passed with the support of Conservative, NDP, Bloc Québécois and Green Party MPs, with a
  
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• Former Conservative MP Candice Bergen to help run Tory election campaign in Manitoba

  30-03-2023 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WINNIPEG — Candice Bergen has signed on to co-chair the Manitoba Progressive Conservative election campaign, weeks after resigning her seat in the House of Commons.
  Bergen, who was the member of Parliament for Portage-Lisgar for 15 years, says she aims to unite the provincial Tories in advance of the election scheduled for Oct. 3.
  “I would say the role I’m playing now is … reaching out, in terms of bringing people together, bringing all the different coalitions that make
  
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• Gushue wearing the Maple Leaf again at world men’s curling championship

  30-03-2023 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Sin City wasn’t kind to Canadian skip Brad Gushue. He’s hoping a return to the nation’s capital will work more in his favour.
  After settling for silver in his last two trips to the world men’s curling championship in Las Vegas, Gushue will try to get back to the top of the podium at the 2023 playdowns starting Saturday at TD Place.
  “If we can really just enjoy it and ride that wave, I think good things can happen,” Gushue said. “But it&rsq
  
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• A capsule look at the 2023 world men’s curling championship field

  30-03-2023 18:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A capsule look at the 13 teams competing in the April 1-9 world men’s curling championship at TD Place.
  Teams listed in alphabetical order, athletes from skip to lead.
  CANADA
  Brad Gushue, Mark Nichols, E.J. Harnden, Geoff Walker
  Gushue guided the St. John’s, N.L.-based team to a world title in 2017 but settled for silver in two subsequent appearances. Harnden’s brother, Ryan, has joined the team as an alternate.
  CZECH REPUBLIC
  Lukas Klima, Marek Cernovsky, Radek
  
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• Abandoned trailers removed, but encampment effects persist in Chilliwack River Valley

  30-03-2023 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The B.C. government has reportedly had two abandoned trailers from uninhabited sites in the Chilliwack River Valley, but a Chilliwack cleanup volunteer says there’s still a long way to go.
  According to Ross Aikenhead, a volunteer who visits several homeless encampments in the area north and south of Chilliwack Lake Road and documents them meticulously, cleanup crews authorized by the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resources (FLNR) reportedly removed two burnt RV
  
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• Key recommendations of Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry

  30-03-2023 18:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRURO, N.S. — Here are some of the main recommendations from the public inquiry into the mass shooting that claimed 22 lives in Nova Scotia on April 18-19, 2020:
  — An external, independent review of the RCMP, including a review of the contract system under which the RCMP provide policing services to much of rural Canada.
  — After the review, identification by the federal public safety minister of tasks that are suitable to a federal policing agency and ones that are better reass
  
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• Quebec children under 14 to be banned from working most jobs

  30-03-2023 18:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The Quebec government has tabled a bill that would prevent children under the age of 14 from working most jobs.
  Labour Minister Jean Boulet says Bill 19 is the result of a recommendation from a legislature committee and on recent reports noting a rise in workplace injuries involving children.
  Bill 19 would ban people under the age of 14 from the workforce except for certain jobs, including newspaper delivery, babysitting, day camp monitoring or tutoring.
  The legislation would also
  
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