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• Semi-automatic rifle ban passes Washington Legislature

  19-04-2023 23:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — A ban on dozens of semi-automatic rifles cleared the Washington state Legislature on Wednesday and the governor is expected to sign it into law.The high-powered firearms — once banned nationwide — are now the weapon of choice among young men responsible for most of the country’s devastating mass shootings.The ban comes after multiple failed attempts in the Legislature and in a year that has seen the most mass shootings during the first 100 days of
  
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• 2nd abortion regulation bill vetoed by Kansas governor

  19-04-2023 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ governor has vetoed legislation that would mandate clinics to tell patients that a medication abortion can be interrupted using an unproven drug regimen.Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed the bill Wednesday, again pushing back state GOP efforts to restrict abortion despite a decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights last year.
  The governor’s action marked the second time this month that she vetoed an anti-abortion bill approved by the GOP-con
  
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• FIFA Women’s World Cup trophy makes stop in Toronto ahead of July kickoff

  19-04-2023 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Sarah Gandoin has been to 81 countries and is welcome wherever she goes.
  Gandoin, from France, is FIFA’s senior trophy tour manager, which means she travels with some shiny carry-on luggage. On Wednesday, she was watching over the FIFA’s Women’ World Cup trophy as it was showcased in Toronto.
  “It’s amazing, the way it’s received everywhere in the world,” she said of travelling with the trophy. “People are so excited.”
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• Biden blasts GOP ‘wacko notions’ amid debt limit standoff

  19-04-2023 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ACCOKEEK, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden lambasted Republicans’ emerging trade-off plans to raise the nation’s debt limit only in exchange for budget cuts on Wednesday, declaring that GOP lawmakers are threatening a historic default on the nation’s obligations “unless I agree to all these wacko notions they have.”His remarks in a union hall speech came as House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who has struggled to unite Republicans around his own budget proposal, relea
  
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• Cost of carbon emissions nearly five times higher than previously thought: analysis

  19-04-2023 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says a new analysis of the social cost of carbon emissions suggests the cost of greenhouse-gas emissions is nearly five times higher than was previously thought.
  The analysis is done in concert with the United States Environmental Protection Agency to help determine whether the cost of implementing policies to cut emissions is higher than what those emissions would cost themselves.
  Greenhouse-gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane a
  
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• Manslaughter trial this summer in death of Langley’s Carson Crimeni - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  Manslaughter trial this summer in death of Langley’s Carson Crimeni  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Homeowner who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl pleads not guilty - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 23:00 via news.google.com
  
  Homeowner who shot Black teen Ralph Yarl pleads not guilty  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• MP Brad Vis outlines impact of federal strike on public services like passport renewals

  19-04-2023 22:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Back in the summer of 2022, Chilliwack residents grew accustomed to somewhat long lines at the downtown Service Canada location due to substantial passport backlogs at the time.
  In response to federal public sector job action announced earlier today, MP Brad Vis, representing Mission-Matsqui-Fraser Canyon including Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs, says Canadians should expect some service reductions now that federal workers from the Public Service Alliance of Canada have gone
  
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• Chilliwack to join Abbotsford, regional district, in calling for transit strike mediation - Global News

  19-04-2023 22:36 via news.google.com
  Chilliwack to join Abbotsford, regional district, in calling for transit strike mediation  Global News
  
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• Chilliwack to join Abbotsford, regional district, in calling for transit strike mediation

  19-04-2023 22:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  On Wednesday, Chilliwack council voted to join the cities of Abbotsford and Mission along with the Fraser Valley Regional District in a call for a mediator.
  
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• Minister’s sister-in-law steps down as ethics watchdog after committee launches probe

  19-04-2023 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The sister-in-law of a Liberal cabinet minister has stepped down as the interim ethics commissioner a day after a House of Commons committee agreed to investigate her appointment. 
  Martine Richard, who has worked in the commissioner’s office as a lawyer since 2013, took over the top job last month for a six-month stint.
  Richard is the sister-in-law of Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc, who was found to have breached conflict-of-interest rules in 2018 fo
  
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• ‘Get back to work’: Leafs pick up the pieces after ugly Game 1 loss to Lightning

  19-04-2023 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe calmly went over strategy and tactics.
  The Maple Leafs head coach also put on his amateur psychologist’s hat in the wake of a disastrous playoff opening.
  Toronto not only fell flat in Game 1 of its first-round series with the battle-tested Tampa Bay Lightning — Keefe’s team looked like a shadow of its 111-point regular-season self in an embarrassing 7-3 loss on home ice.
  Instead of the connected, committed, offensively talented and defensively resp
  
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• Canada’s Henderson, Szeryk prepare for new-look Chevron Championship in Texas

  19-04-2023 22:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Even after appearing in 42 majors — and winning two — Brooke Henderson is still learning how to balance the pressure and opportunity of playing in the biggest tournaments of the women’s golf season.
  Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ont., is the highest ranked Canadian at this week’s Chevron Championship, the first major of the LPGA Tour season. The 25-year-old Henderson said that she tries to stick to her usual preparation routines while being mindful of playing on some of t
  
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• Edmonton zoo employee ‘doing well’ following Burmese python bite - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 22:32 via news.google.com
  
  Edmonton zoo employee ‘doing well’ following Burmese python bite  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Cuba’s parliament ratifies President Díaz-Canel for new term

  19-04-2023 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Cuba’s National Assembly ratified President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Wednesday for a new five-year term, in a decision to maintain continuity as the island faces a deep economic crisis.More than 400 representatives to the assembly who were ratified by voters in March took office early Wednesday and then convened the chamber to elect the government’s leadership and the president.
  In his new term, Díaz-Canel must deal with soaring inflation and national shortages in food, med
  
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• B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains

  19-04-2023 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Bonaparte First Nation in British Columbia’s Interior is suing a shipping port company and several others, claiming railway infrastructure development has destroyed and disturbed its ancestral burial grounds. 
  In a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court, the First Nation says Ashcroft Terminals Ltd. and defendants that include the provincial and federal governments, misled the band about the scope of construction activities for a 300-acre railway termi
  
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• Edmonton Oilers ask fans to ‘refrain from throwing things on the ice’ at Rogers Place

  19-04-2023 22:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers are asking their fans to not turn cups and containers into projectiles at Rogers Place after a beverage nearly hit Los Angeles Kings captain Anze Kopitar in the aftermath of the series opener.
  The Kings scoring a power-play goal with 16 seconds left in regulation and another power-play goal in overtime for a 4-3 overtime win in Game 1 vexed Oilers fans, because their team led by two goals twice in the game.
  Glittering orange pompoms that awaited ticket-buyers
  
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• Senator to appear before parliamentary committee over inauthentic docs for Afghans

  19-04-2023 22:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A Manitoba senator who denies falsifying travel documents for Afghan refugees will be grilled by a committee of parliamentarians over allegations her actions may have left refugees stranded. 
  Sen. Marilou McPhedran, a lawyer and human rights advocate, gave a tearful speech in the Senate on Feb. 2, saying she was given a template for a visa facilitation letter by the chief of staff to the then-defence minister.
  The Immigration Department had issued several authentic letters di
  
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• Police release footage of suspect in most recent Surrey transit ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 21:35 via news.google.com
  
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• Islamophobia widespread in Canada, early findings of Senate ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Many passport renewals on pause during federal public service workers’ strike

  19-04-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Senjuti Sarker needed to renew her passport for an upcoming trip to Europe but her attempt at doing so failed Wednesday after federal public service workers went on strike. 
  Sarker, who was hoping to travel next week to attend an artistic program, said the labour disruption could completely upend her plans. 
  “I cannot travel if I don’t have my passport renewed,” she said outside a passport office in downtown Toronto.  “I’m a little sca
  
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• Break-in at N.W.T. government office results in privacy breach affecting 3,000 people

  19-04-2023 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  YELLOWKNIFE — The Northwest Territories government says a break-in at its Department of Education, Culture and Employment headquarters in Yellowknife has resulted in a privacy breach affecting about 3,000 people. 
  The government says the break-in occurred early on Sunday and items including hard drives were stolen.
  Those drives contained personal information of people on income assistance between 2006 and 2014 including names, mailing addresses, birth dates and, in some cases, social
  
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• Homeless man found in Maple Ridge may have been murdered: IHIT - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 21:20 via news.google.com
  
  Homeless man found in Maple Ridge may have been murdered: IHIT  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Sociologist says pandemic may have made Canadian youth less empathetic, meaner

  19-04-2023 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Increased time online during the pandemic may have made young Canadians meaner, a researcher said Wednesday, warning that declining empathy which emerged during isolation was now fostering increased cruelty during in-person interactions, including at school.  
  Kaitlynn Mendes, an associate professor at the University of Western Ontario, said during an Ontario Medical Association press conference that many parents may not be aware of their children’s increased exposure
  
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• As Supreme Court readies decision, White House vows to keep defending abortion rights

  19-04-2023 21:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — The White House is vowing to continue to defend abortion rights in the United States, regardless of what the Supreme Court decides. 
  The high court is expected to issue an interim decision today on a legal stalemate over the abortion drug mifepristone.
  Two different federal judges issued contradictory rulings almost simultaneously earlier this month on whether or not the drugs should be available in the U.S. 
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says whatev
  
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• Homeowner accused of shooting Ralph Yarl pleads not guilty

  19-04-2023 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old white man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City court will get its first insights Wednesday into the case of a white homeowner accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager on his way to pick up his twin brothers when he mistakenly showed up at 84-year-old Andre
  
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• Google ordered to pay $500,000 to Montrealer over links to post calling him pedophile

  19-04-2023 20:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has ordered Google to pay $500,000 to a Montreal man after the tech company restored a link to an online post falsely accusing him of being a pedophile.
  The man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, first found the defamatory post in 2006 when he used Google to search his name.
  While the man was able to have the link removed from search results that appear on Google’s Canadian site, the company later restored a link.
  The man, who
  
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• Edmonton zoo employee ‘doing well’ following Burmese python bite

  19-04-2023 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — A zoo employee is recovering after she was bitten by a Burmese python Tuesday morning.Debi Winwood, a spokesperson for Edmonton Valley Zoo, says the woman received immediate first aid from other employees and emergency services were called.She says the woman was taken to hospital for minor medical treatment and is doing well.Winwood says the city is reviewing what happened, including procedures for carrying the snake.She says all emergency protocols were followed.The snake, name
  
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• Chilliwack joins regional district, other cities asking province to ... - Hope Standard

  19-04-2023 20:33 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. enacts regulation to ensure protection of Ozempic supply for diabetes patients

  19-04-2023 20:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia is bringing in a new regulation immediately to ensure diabetes patients don’t face a shortage of the drug Ozempic, touted by celebrities for its weight loss side effects. 
  Health Minister Adrian Dix says the change will ensure patients in B.C. and Canada needing Ozempic to treat their Type 2 diabetes will continue to have access to that drug and others that may require it in the future. 
  Dix says the regulation will help prevent online or mail-or
  
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• Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. launches presidential campaign

  19-04-2023 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his longshot bid to challenge President Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination next year.Kennedy, a member of one of the country’s most famous political families who has in recent years been linked to some far-right figures, kicked off his campaign in Boston on Wednesday and likened his campaign to the American revolution.
  “My mission over the next 18 months of this campaign and throughout my presidency will be
  
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• Kent Mayor Sylvia Pranger to walk from Agassiz to Chilliwack for new pool

  19-04-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — District of Kent Mayor Sylvia Pranger will need a comfortable pair of runners this Saturday when she hits the ground walking from Agassiz to Chilliwack to support a new regional aquatic centre in her municipality.
  In a statement released Wednesday, the district says Mayor Pranger will be walking approximately 26 kilometres this Saturday, April 22 from the district’s municipal hall to the closest indoor pool facility, the Chilliwack Landing Leisure Centre, in Chilliwack.&ldq
  
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• Opening of 17th annual Chilliwack Tulip Festival - Global News

  19-04-2023 20:21 via news.google.com
  Opening of 17th annual Chilliwack Tulip Festival  Global News
  
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• IHIT deployed after unhoused male found dead in Pitt Meadows

  19-04-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PITT MEADOWS — The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) has been deployed following the discovery of the body of a 31-year-old unhoused male from Maple Ridge.In a news release Wednesday morning, IHIT said Ridge Meadows RCMP were advised on Monday, April 17 by a community partner that a 31-year-old unhoused male from Maple Ridge had not been for several days. Since this was deemed uncharacteristic, Ridge Meadows RCMP, who knew the individual, made proactive patrols in an attempt to
  
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• ‘Keira’s Law’ will strengthen laws surrounding domestic violence, advocates say

  19-04-2023 19:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadian lawmakers have passed a bill that includes a measure known as “Keira’s law,” which would ensure that judges receive education on domestic violence and coercive control in intimate partner and family relationships.
  The law is named after Keira Kagan, a four-year-old who was found dead with her father in 2020 in an apparent murder-suicide after being left in his care. 
  Anju Dhillon, the Liberal MP who introduced the law, said at a press conference tha
  
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• Power pole knocked down, vehicle rolled over in collision in Agassiz - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 19:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack educators searching for the gifted diamonds in the ... - Hope Standard

  19-04-2023 19:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack educators searching for the gifted diamonds in the ... - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 19:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack educators searching for the gifted diamonds in the ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  19-04-2023 19:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Canucks sign defenceman Elias Pettersson to three year, entry-level contract

  19-04-2023 19:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Defenceman Elias Pettersson has signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.
  The 19-year-old is not related to Canucks star centre Elias Pettersson.
  Pettersson, the blue-liner, spent the majority of the 2022-23 season with Orebro HK of the Swedish Hockey League. 
  He produced seven points (one goal, six assists) and six penalty minutes in 43 regular-season games.
  In the 2021-22 season, Pettersson suited up for the Orebro junior team and
  
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• Aid groups to testify on bill aiming to unblock humanitarian work in Afghanistan

  19-04-2023 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Humanitarian and development groups are expected to testify this afternoon as the House justice committee examines a bill that would amend the Criminal Code to allow aid workers to operate in Taliban-held Afghanistan.
  Charities say Global Affairs Canada has warned them that purchasing goods or hiring locals in Afghanistan would involve paying taxes to the terror group, and put them in breach of the Criminal Code as the law is currently written.
  Canada is far behind its allies in c
  
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• Radio-Canada should get back to core mandate, says Conservative Quebec senator

  19-04-2023 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives’ top Quebec Tory says the party’s concerns about the CBC do not apply to the broadcaster’s French-language wing, but one of its senators suggests there is a need to look at it mandate. 
  Quebec Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, speaking in French, told reporters on his way into the party’s weekly caucus meeting this morning that Radio-Canada’s mandate should be re-centred to its core mission. 
  Boisvenu says the party&rsqu
  
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• Feds aim to lock in equalization formula until 2029 as part of omnibus budget motion

  19-04-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government is aiming to lock in the equalization formula for payments to provinces until 2029, as part of an omnibus motion in Parliament that seeks to implement budget measures. 
  Some provincial politicians blasted the Liberals in 2018 after they similarly used a budget document to bury plans to extend the current formula until 2024.
  The latest promise of another five-year extension comes nearly 200 pages into a 400-plus page motion tabled in the House of Commons
  
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• Public liquor consumption may expand to other Chilliwack parks one day

  19-04-2023 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack Councillor Jeff Shields hinted at Tuesday’s council meeting that public liquor consumption could expand to other parks throughout Chilliwack.Councillors approved on Tuesday (Apr. 18) a recommendation from city staff that they approve the consumption of alcohol through Bylaw 2023, No. 5299, at Vedder Park between May 15 and October 31.
  A municipal staff report accompanying the liquor consumption vote says a pilot project was conducted in August 2020 during whic
  
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• Celebrate Earth Day by taking part in these green events in Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress

  19-04-2023 19:02 via news.google.com
  
  Celebrate Earth Day by taking part in these green events in Chilliwack  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• Alberta’s United Conservative government releases ‘aspirational’ plan on climate

  19-04-2023 18:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — Alberta’s United Conservative Party government is releasing a plan that it hopes will take the province to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
  The plan, which describes itself as “aspirational,” relies heavily on technologies such as carbon capture and storage.
  However, it contains few details on the pace of investment and construction required to achieve that goal.
  The plan also promises to consider a lower greenhouse gas cap from the oilsands and tougher fuel
  
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• Islamophobia widespread in Canada, early findings of Senate committee study indicate

  19-04-2023 18:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Islamophobia and violence against Muslims is widespread and deeply entrenched in Canadian society, early findings from a Senate committee studying the issue indicate. 
  Muslim women who wear hijabs – Black Muslim women in particular – are the most vulnerable, and confronting Islamophobia in a variety of public spheres is difficult, the committee on human rights has found. 
  “Canada has a problem,” committee chair Sen. Salma Ataullahjan said in a ph
  
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• Military procurement chief wants defence firms to stop overpromising, underdelivering

  19-04-2023 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Defence Department’s top procurement official says he would like to see defence companies put more focus on delivering what they have promised and less on trying to win the next contract.
  Assistant deputy minister of materiel Troy Crosby says he respects that companies are in the business of trying to make money, but that they also need to meet their commitments to the federal government, the military and Canadians.
  Defence companies like Airbus and Sikorsky Helicopters
  
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• Rebuilding trust with sponsors will be next challenge for Hockey Canada

  19-04-2023 18:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hockey Canada’s biggest upcoming challenge could be rebuilding the trust it once had with sponsors, suggested a marketing expert.
  The national sporting body had its federal funding restored by Canadian sport minister Pascale St-Onge on Sunday after meeting the conditions it needed to.
  Hockey Canada first saw its funding shut off by the federal government, while a number of sponsors have pulled dollars since last May, when it was revealed a woman alleged she was sexually assaulted by eight
  
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• Sudanese army, rivals announce another cease-fire

  19-04-2023 18:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan’s military and its paramilitary rival each have announced that they will abide by a 24-hour cease-fire, starting Wednesday evening, after a previous attempt at a truce failed a day earlier.
  The military said in a statement that the truce had begun at 6 p.m. local time on Wednesday, that it was “for humanitarian purposes” and would last until the next evening, “depending on whether the other side adheres to its provisions.”Earlier i
  
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