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• Republicans object to replacing Feinstein on Judiciary panel

  18-04-2023 23:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans blocked a Democratic request to temporarily replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday, leaving Democrats with few options for moving some of President Joe Biden’s stalled judicial nominees.
  South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, objected to a resolution offered by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that would have allowed another senator to take Democrat Feinste
  
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• ‘Like an earthquake’: NYC parking garage partially collapses

  18-04-2023 23:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A parking garage partially collapsed Tuesday in lower Manhattan’s Financial District, and firefighters were searching for people who might have been trapped in the debris, authorities said. One person was seen being carried out on a stretcher.Bystander video showed cars hanging precariously from a buckled upper deck of the three-story building, a few blocks from City Hall and the Brooklyn Bridge, and about half a mile (0.8 km) from the New York Stock Exchange.“I
  
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• RCMP asking for help in locating missing Mission teenager

  18-04-2023 23:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — Mounties in Mission are asking for the public’s help in locating a 16-year-old female who was last seen on Sunday, April 16.According to Cpl. Jason Raaflaub, media relations spokesperson for the Mission RCMP, Stephane Thibault was last seen on Sunday, Apr. 16 leaving a residence in the Mission area and was reported missing by a close family member.Thibault is known to frequent the Mission area and possibly Burnaby. Thibault is described as a Caucasian female, 16 years of ag
  
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• HFX Wanderers coach happy to be back competing in Canadian Championship

  18-04-2023 23:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The last time Patrice Gheisar was in the Canadian Championship, he was coaching Ontario’s Vaughan Azzurri against the CPL’s HFX Wanderers FC.
  The Canadian Premier League side dispatched Gheisar’s semi-pro team in the first round of the 2019 tournament, but only on the away goals rules after the Azzurri won the second leg 1-0 in Halifax to knot the aggregate score at 3-3.
  Now Gheisar is back in the cup competition, this time leading Halifax. The Wanderers face Atletico Ottawa on
  
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• Man injured in shooting in downtown New Westminster - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 23:15 via news.google.com
  
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• VIDEO: Three young Ukrainians talk about one year living in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 23:10 via news.google.com
  
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• MP Brad Vis helps secure nearly $6 million for waterfront upgrades in Harrison Hot Springs

  18-04-2023 23:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HARRISON HOT SPRINGS — MP Brad Vis, representing Harrison Hot Springs and Agassiz in his Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon riding, announced Monday (Apr. 17) that he has helped secure nearly $6 million toward waterfront infrastructure upgrades for the Village of Harrison Hot Springs.“I am pleased to have helped secure over $13 million for Village of Cache Creek, Village of Harrison Hot Springs and Village of Lytton for infrastructure projects through the Canada Community Building Fund,&r
  
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• Liberal minister promises plan on Access to Information as MPs highlight woes

  18-04-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Treasury Board President Mona Fortier says she hopes to share a plan in coming months for improving the key federal transparency law and how it is managed.
  Fortier is telling a House of Commons committee today she expects the plan for making the Access to Information Act more effective will come before the end of the year.
  MPs are peppering Fortier with questions at a meeting about the much-maligned access regime.
  For a $5 fee, people can use the access law to ask for a range of f
  
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• Auditor general ‘assessing’ mandate in terms of Trudeau Foundation ask to investigate

  18-04-2023 22:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal auditor general’s office says it is still “assessing” its mandate as it relates to a request from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation to investigate its handling of two donations with possible links to the Chinese government. 
  The foundation’s interim board chair wrote to the office last week, saying it would welcome an investigation by auditor Karen Hogan into donations made in 2016 and 2017 that totalled $140,000. 
  The foundation c
  
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• 22 deaths in Chilliwack, 20 in Abbotsford to date in 2023 from 'toxic ... - Hope Standard

  18-04-2023 22:23 via news.google.com
  
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• 22 Deaths In Chilliwack, 20 In Abbotsford To Date In 2023 From ... - Abbotsford News

  18-04-2023 22:23 via news.google.com
  
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• RCMP investigating fatal shooting in rural Grand Forks - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Cheer athlete given lifetime ban for using and trafficking cocaine

  18-04-2023 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A cheer athlete and athlete support person, has been handed a lifetime ban for multiple anti-doping rule violations, the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport announced Tuesday.
  The ban is retroactive to March 13.
  The CCES said Alex “Marcus” Vargas acknowledged his own use of cocaine, as well as the administration and trafficking of cocaine to a protected person, in his role as an athlete support person, during the Alberta Cold Snap Classic cheerleading competition in Ed
  
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• Canadian men to open this summer’s Gold Cup on home soil at Toronto’s BMO Field

  18-04-2023 21:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada will open this summer’s Gold Cup in Toronto against a yet-to-be decided qualifying team before heading to Houston to complete Group D play against Guatemala and Cuba.
  The 47th-ranked Canada men will play one of Guadeloupe, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Grenada on June 27 at BMO Field. Unranked Guadeloupe plays No. 104 Trinidad and Tobago while No. 170 Guyana meets No. 175 Grenada with the two winners facing off in qualifying play to see who joins Group D.
  The Canadians will then f
  
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• 4 fatally shot in Maine home, followed by gunfire on highway

  18-04-2023 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YARMOUTH, Maine (AP) — Four people were fatally shot in a Maine home in a crime that was linked to gunfire that erupted later Tuesday on a busy interstate highway about 25 miles away, leaving three people injured and a person in custody, police said.
  The bodies were found in a home in Bowdoin a short time before three people were shot in their vehicles to the south on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, authorities said.
  Maine State Police said the shootings were connected but didn’t immedia
  
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• Here’s what the looming public-service strike would look like for hybrid workers

  18-04-2023 21:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s federal public servants will need to show up at the picket line for four hours each day if they go on strike — even if their union has been trying to negotiate permanent work-from-home arrangements with the government. 
  The Public Service Alliance of Canada says that if it doesn’t reach a deal with the federal government by 9 p.m. EDT tonight, some 155,000 federal workers across the country are prepared to strike as of Wednesday. 
  Many of those
  
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• Police say several injured in western German city gym attack

  18-04-2023 20:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German police say several people have been injured in an attack at a gym in the western city of Duisburg.
  Tuesday evening’s attack occurred in the old city of Duisburg and police asked residents to avoid the area.
  “According to current information, one person has injured other people with an object” at a gym, Duisburg police tweeted. “The situation is currently still confusing.”
  Police said a large number of officers were at the scene.
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• Sheriff: Arrest warrant moot for kidnapping of Emmett Till

  18-04-2023 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff says in a new court filing that there’s no point in serving an arrest warrant on a white woman in the 1955 kidnapping that led to the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till because last year a grand jury decided not to indict the woman.
  Till’s kidnapping and killing became a catalyst for the civil rights movement when his mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in their hometown of Chicago after his brutalized body was pulled from a
  
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• B.C. politician ‘pretty pessimistic’ after son loses family doctor to ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 20:40 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘Done and dusted’: Liberal’s controversial online streaming bill back before Senate

  18-04-2023 19:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s controversial online-streaming bill is back in the upper chamber today, where a senator who opposed it expects it to pass.
  After more than a year of debate and revisions, Alberta Sen. Paula Simons says she would really like to see Bill C-11 “done and dusted” this week.
  She says this is not because she wants to ram it through, but because the Senate has already shown its worth through changes to the bill.
  Last month, the House of Commons a
  
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• Canada’s Zach Edey declares for NBA draft, maintains college eligibility

  18-04-2023 19:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian star centre Zach Edey declared for the NBA draft on Tuesday.
  The Toronto native made his announcement on Twitter, mentioning that he would maintain his college eligibility. 
  Edey averaged a career-best 22.3 points, 12.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks across 34 games in a breakout junior season for the Purdue Boilermakers. 
  The seven-foot-four, 305-pound Edey finished sixth in the NCAA in scoring and second in rebounding. 
  He led Purdue to a Big Ten championship and the Boilermak
  
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• Canada’s premiers set to meet with police chiefs over public safety risks

  18-04-2023 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canada’s premiers will meet with the association representing police chiefs this week over the concern of a recent spike in violence across the country.
  Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson, who chairs the Council of the Federation, says the premiers want to hear the views of the chiefs on public safety risks and threats, and their perspectives on the need for federal criminal law and justice reform.
  A statement from the premiers calls on the federal government to renew and en
  
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• Why doesn’t Canada make its own baby formula when we have the raw ingredients?

  18-04-2023 19:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — If infant formula has become akin to liquid gold for parents stressed about empty store shelves this year, Canada may be sitting on a potential treasure trove — if only it could process the raw elements.
  Canada has a surplus of the main ingredient for infant formula, but without a market for the product, dairy producers say a lot of it is either going to waste or being sold on the cheap as animal feed.
  The material, called solid non-fat, is basically what is left over from r
  
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• Canada’s women’s basketball squad to host Japan in exhibition in Victoria

  18-04-2023 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Canada’s women’s basketball team is set to host Japan in a June exhibition game, Canada Basketball announced Tuesday.
  The contest will take place June 2 at Victoria’s Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre.
  Canada is ranked No. 5 in the world. Japan, meanwhile, is ninth, but is the reigning Olympic silver medallist.
  The Canadian team will have a training camp from May 22-29 in Edmonton. The game will be a month out from the FIBA Women’s AmeriCup 2023, which will r
  
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• ‘Shockingly huge’ steelhead salmon escape fish farm, threatening ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Pearl Life Renewal staff gear up for Hope Rising event this Friday

  18-04-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Since it opened only six years ago, Pearl Life Renewal Society in Chilliwack has welcomed over 230 women who have come through its doors seeking refuge and assistance.The front-line ministry in Chilliwack exists to help women who are homeless, struggling with addiction, and have been sexually abused, exploited, and in prostitution.
  As it strives to meet the needs of a vulnerable, marginalized population with tangible solutions, Pearl Life is poised to highlight its ministry pl
  
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• Mont-Tremblant evacuates residents amid flooding, other Quebec cities warn residents

  18-04-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Several municipalities in Quebec’s Laurentians region, north of Montreal, are warning residents to take precautions as local rivers spill their banks. 
  Mont-Tremblant, Que., officials asked residents of about 65 homes near the Diable River to evacuate on Monday evening, warning that the river would reach flooding levels overnight.
  The City of St-Jérôme, Que., has issued a provisional warning to people living in several parts of the community near the du N
  
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• Saskatchewan minister asked man guilty of domestic violence to return service medal

  18-04-2023 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  REGINA — Saskatchewan’s agriculture minister says he requested a public service medal be returned as the recipient had been charged with domestic violence.
  David Marit says in a statement that it’s not appropriate for someone guilty of domestic abuse to receive a medal or an honour from the province.
  Jim Wickett, a former chairman of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association from Rosetown, Sask., was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Medal inDecember.
  
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• Major reforms to air passenger rights needed, says House committee report

  18-04-2023 19:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee is recommending sweeping changes to Canada’s air passenger rights framework.
  The report from the House of Commons transport committee calls on the government to tighten compensation rules for travellers whose flights are cancelled or significantly delayed.
  Released Tuesday, the paper comes after chaotic travel seasons over the summer and winter holidays brought on by soaring demand, labour shortages and poor weather.
  The report’s 21 recommenda
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Growing demand, growing impact: Why volunteering with the Alzheimer Society of B.C. is more important than ever before

  18-04-2023 19:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The last few years, we’ve all had to adapt how we live and work – and volunteers have been no exception. In response to the challenges presented by the pandemic, we changed how we connect, and for many it was an opportunity to reflect on what really matters.
  At the Alzheimer Society of B.C., we found new ways to provide critical support to people living with dementia and their families. From remote support groups for caregivers and people living with dementia, to an online version of
  
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• Rock-hunting B.C. mom and daughter find giant prehistoric shark’s ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Bill re-drawing B.C.’s electoral map receives first reading - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Uber Eats launches cannabis delivery service in Vancouver, Victoria

  18-04-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A partnership between Uber Eats and cannabis resource company Leafly means British Columbia residents are now able to order legal pot and have it delivered to their door.
  Uber Canada says, starting immediately, B.C. residents over the age of 19 can use the Uber Eats app to order marijuana from local, licensed retailers.
  The statement from Uber Eats says its delivery workers won’t be involved because certified staff from the cannabis retailer will instead deliver the order
  
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• Chilliwack's Zach Benson cements status as top NHL draft prospect - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 18:30 via news.google.com
  
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• BC Coroners Service says nearly 600 toxic drug deaths in first three months of 2023

  18-04-2023 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — Numbers released by the BC Coroners Service show deaths from toxic, unregulated drugs have nudged record levels across the province for the second year in a row.
  The coroners service says 596 lives were lost between January and March.
  It says that’s the second highest total ever recorded over the first three months of a calendar year, behind only 2022 when 599 people died. 
  The figures also show that 2,314 deaths due to toxic drugs occurred last year, making the annua
  
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• As federal workers threaten to strike, tonight’s deadline for a deal looms large

  18-04-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The clock is ticking for the government and Canada’s largest federal public-service union to reach an agreement by a deadline of 9 p.m. EDT tonight. 
  If they don’t, some 155,000 workers are prepared to walk off the job on Wednesday.
  Mediated contract negotiations between the Public Service Alliance of Canada and the government began in early April and continued through the weekend in what the union describes as the government’s last chance to reach a deal.&n
  
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• Chilliwack Chamber/CEPCO video series shares positive stories of ... - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 18:07 via news.google.com
  
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• Regina Pats phenom Connor Bedard remains top North American prospect for NHL Draft

  18-04-2023 18:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Canadian junior hockey phenom Connor Bedard remains the No. 1 North American prospect for the upcoming NHL Draft, according to the final rankings released Tuesday by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau.
  The Regina Pats star finished the Western Hockey League season with 71 goals and 72 assists for 143 points in 57 games to lead all Canadian Hockey League players in scoring. Bedard, from North Vancouver, B.C., can become the first WHL player selected first overall since Ryan Nugent-H
  
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• Streams Foundation to host free dinner this weekend at Evergreen Hall

  18-04-2023 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack-based Streams Canada Foundation, a local nonprofit doing good things in the community, will host a free multicultural dinner this Sunday, April 23 from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Evergreen Hall.Supported by the City of Chilliwack, Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board, and Vancity, the Spring Fest & Dinner will feature live music by Fall & Rise, dance performances by Chilliwack Dance School and Priya BollyDance, dinner from Pabla Curry House, coffee and t
  
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• Chilliwack skaters lead Fraser Valley Rush into Esso Cup - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 17:55 via news.google.com
  
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• Littlest intruder: Toddler crawls through White House fence

  18-04-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A toddler on Tuesday earned the title of one of the tiniest White House intruders after he squeezed through the metal fencing on the north side of the executive mansion.
  U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division officers, who are responsible for security at the White House, walked across the North Lawn to retrieve the tot and reunite him with his parents on Pennsylvania Avenue. Access to the complex was briefly restricted while officers conducted the reunification. Officers
  
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• U.S. crackdown on fentanyl trade underway as Canada vows ‘public health approach’

  18-04-2023 17:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Senior members of President Joe Biden’s cabinet will be in Ottawa in the coming weeks to meet with their Canadian counterparts about cracking down on fentanyl. 
  The timing of this year’s Cross-Border Crime Forum is still unconfirmed, but U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas are expected to attend. 
  Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says a continental strategy for dealing with fentanyl will be a key
  
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• Nature Chilliwack chose nature-based solutions to biodiversity crisis - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 17:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Sudanese army, rival forces agree to 24-hour cease-fire - Chilliwack Progress

  18-04-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• UN says leaving Afghanistan would be ‘heartbreaking’

  18-04-2023 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations is ready to take the “heartbreaking” decision to pull out of Afghanistan in May if it can’t persuade the Taliban to let local women work for the organization, the head of the U.N. Development Program said.
  U.N. officials are negotiating with the Afghan government in the hope that it will make exceptions to an edict this month barring local women from working for the organization, UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner told The Associated
  
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• Teen pleads guilty in Iowa teacher’s beating death

  18-04-2023 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — One of two Iowa teenagers charged in the beating death of an Iowa high school teacher has pleaded guilty to first-degree murder
  Willard Miller changed his plea to guilty Tuesday morning and admitted that he served as a lookout while Jeremy Goodale beat 66-year-old Nohema Graber, their Spanish teacher at Fairfield High School. Her body was found in a Fairfield park in November 2021.
  Prosecutors said the evidence shows that both Miller and Goodale struck Graber with a
  
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• Odd spiral appears amid northern lights in Alaska night sky

  18-04-2023 16:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern light enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes.The cause early Saturday morning was a little more mundane than an alien invasion or the appearance of a portal to the far reaches of the universe. It was simply excess fuel that had been released from a SpaceX rocket that launched from California about three hours befor
  
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• Montreal-area mayor discloses being sex assault victim of ex-PQ member Harold LeBel

  18-04-2023 16:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The mayor of a Montreal suburb has revealed herself as the sexual assault victim of ex-Parti Québécois legislator Harold LeBel.
  Catherine Fournier had asked Quebec Superior Court Justice Serge Francoeur during a hearing last month to remove the publication ban on her identity.
  Francoeur on April 6 approved the request, which enters into effect today — coinciding with the broadcast of a documentary about Fournier’s case.
  Fournier was with the PQ from Dec
  
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• At least six fires break out in Chilliwack Saturday, including suspicious vehicle fire

  18-04-2023 15:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack firefighters responded to at least six fires on Saturday, April 15, as fire crews were deployed for an assortment of fires and scenarios over the weekend.Of the six fires, Chilliwack Fire Department responded to five of the six while the Chilliwack River Valley Fire Department responded to a vehicle fire on Saturday night that appears to be suspicious in nature.Chilliwack firefighters responded to a trailer fire at a homeless encampment early Saturday morning, befor
  
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• Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce selects new CEO

  18-04-2023 15:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Following an extensive cross-country search for a new executive, the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce announced Monday (Apr. 17) it has hired Alex Mitchell as its new CEO.The appointment of Mitchell marks the culmination of a rigorous recruitment process that was overseen by a CEO search committee with support from Leaders International, an executive search company enlisted by the Abbotsford Chamber.
  “On behalf of the Board, we are delighted to announce that Alex Mitchell
  
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