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• The Oilers power play is elite. But so far, the penalty kill is doing heavy lifting

  20-04-2023 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The Edmonton Oilers power play is good — really good. But it might be their penalty-killing that will determine if they get past the Los Angeles Kings in the first round of the playoffs.
  The Oilers power play is one of the scariest things in all of pro sports. In the regular season, it scored at a clip of once every three chances — a historic high. 
  Leon Draisaitl scored 32 times on the power play this season, coming within two of Tim Kerr’s NHL record for
  
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• Kansas governor vetoes bills on trans youth care, bathrooms

  20-04-2023 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor on Thursday vetoed Republican legislation aimed at ending gender-affirming care for children and teens, and another, sweeping GOP proposal for preventing transgender people from using bathrooms and other public facilities associated with their gender identities.
  Gov. Laura Kelly’s actions highlighted how her Republican-leaning state has become a fiercely contested battleground as GOP lawmakers across the U.S. target LGBTQ+ rights
  
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• Montreal university to keep donation linked to Chinese government influence effort

  20-04-2023 23:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Montreal university says it will keep a donation from two Chinese businessmen that has been linked to an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  The Université de Montréal says it has not been able to confirm allegations from an unnamed national security source reported in The Globe and Mail that the donation was part of a political interference operation.
  The university says it would be difficult to repay the money and
  
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• Twitter begins removing blue checks from users who don’t pay - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Lacrosse Canada narrows roster for upcoming men’s field world championship

  20-04-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Curtis Dickson is ready to get a measure of redemption on field lacrosse’s highest stage.
  Dickson was one of several veterans named to Lacrosse Canada’s 26-player short list earlier this week for the upcoming world field lacrosse men’s championship in San Diego. Dickson had been the tournament’s outstanding attackman when Israel hosted the championship in 2018, even though Canada lost to the United States in a 9-8 upset in the gold-medal game.
  “I think everybody tha
  
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• Joly tells Canadians in Sudan to shelter in place as ‘dire’ clashes close airport

  20-04-2023 22:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the country’s army and its rival paramilitary force.
  The streets of the capital of Khartoum were generally calm a week ago, but a skirmish over a planned transition to democratic rule escalated into raging battles between the two groups.The Global Affairs Department knows of roughly 1,500 Canadians registered as being in Su
  
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• Vancouver Canucks assistant coach Jason King will not return next season

  20-04-2023 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Canucks are making a change to their coaching staff.
  Assistant coach Jason King will not return to the team next season, general manager Patrik Allvin announced Thursday.
  King, of Corner Brook, N.L., coached five seasons as an assistant with Vancouver’s American Hockey League affiliate, then the Utica Comets, from 2016 to 2020 before making the jump to the NHL coaching staff.
  The 41 year old was a seventh-round Canucks draft pick in 2001, and went on to play
  
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• Jets forward Barron weighs in on recovery after taking skate to the face in Game 1

  20-04-2023 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Looking like an extra in a horror movie, Winnipeg Jets forward Morgan Barron said the reaction to his new-look forehead has been varied.
  “Some guys have told me it looks better than they expected and some guys look at me like I’m a science project,” he said Thursday. “So I’m kind of getting both ends of the spectrum. But it feels pretty good actually. 
  “I think it feels better than it looks.”
  Barron needed over 75 stitches to repai
  
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• Insigne returns but Bernardeschi now listed as questionable for Toronto FC

  20-04-2023 21:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The door to the trainer’s room keeps swinging for Toronto FC.
  One week after Lorenzo Insigne — in a 14-minute cameo appearance off the bench — returned to action after missing six games with a groin injury, fellow Italian Federico Bernardeschi is questionable for Saturday’s visit to the Philadelphia Union (2-4-2) with a lower body injury.
  Bernardeschi has been an offensive force since making his TFC debut alongside Insigne last July. The 29-year-old winger
  
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• Officer told not to make handwritten notes after death of Myles Gray, inquest hears

  20-04-2023 21:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURNABY, B.C. — A Vancouver police officer says a senior member of the force who was acting as a union representative told him not to make any handwritten notes about the confrontation that resulted in the death of 33-year-old Myles Gray in 2015.
  Const. Joshua Wong told the British Columbia coroner’s inquest into Gray’s death that he was sitting at the department with his notebook out when the union representative told him not to make notes.
  Wong said he typed up a statement wh
  
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• Top Google exec says ‘everybody loses’ with online news bill at House committee

  20-04-2023 21:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A top Google executive told a House of Commons committee today that the Liberal government’s online news bill would create a situation where everybody loses. 
  Google’s vice president for news, Richard Gringas, says the bill’s passage would incentivize clickbait content over high-quality local journalism, and likely require the company to pay publishers for non-factual or misleading content.
  Gringas says the company would prefer to contribute to a media fund
  
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• First Nations group calls for changes to Cannabis Act - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 21:19 via news.google.com
  
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• June UFC 289 card in Vancouver gets influx of Canadian fighter talent

  20-04-2023 21:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Six Canadians and one Canadian-based fighter have been added to the June 10 UFC 289 card at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena.
  The six Canadians are flyweight Jasmine Jasudavicius, bantamweight Aiemann Zahabi, featherweights Kyle (The Monster) Nelson and (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu, welterweight (Proper) Mike Malott and middleweight Marc-Andre (Power Bar) Barriault.
  Strawweight Diana (Warrior Princess) Belbita was born in Romania but trains out of Stoney Creek, Ont.
  The UFC has more than 600 fighters on i
  
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• Hope woman completes Boston Marathon - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 20:48 via news.google.com
  
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• Roberts asked to testify on court ethics amid Thomas reports

  20-04-2023 20:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary chairman has invited Chief Justice John Roberts to testify next month on ethical standards at the court, a hearing that would undoubtedly focus on business transactions and travel involving Justice Clarence Thomas.
  Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said there has been a “steady stream of revelations” regarding Supreme Court justices “falling short of ethical standards expected of other federal judges.”“The time has come for a
  
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• Strike thwarted prisoners advocate from entering Edmonton facility

  20-04-2023 20:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An organization that helps women in the justice system says it is concerned about an ongoing strike by Canada’s largest public-service union after one of its advocates was unable to access an Edmonton prison.
  Emilie Coyle, executive director of the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, says she is worried about further restrictions at a time when some correctional institutions are already dealing with staffing shortages.
  Coyle says Correctional Service of Canada s
  
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• B.C. First Nation says 40 unmarked graves found around former residential school

  20-04-2023 20:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SECHELT, B.C. — The shishalh Nation on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on or near the site of the former St. Augustine’s Residential School. 
  A statement from the nation says it listened to elders and survivors of the residential school and stories shared of missing children have now been confirmed. 
  The nation says ground-penetrating radar is one of the tools it used
  
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• Tornadoes kill 3 in central US; new storms possible Thursday

  20-04-2023 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLE, Okla. (AP) — Strong storms with tornadoes and hail killed at least three people in the central U.S., injuring others, destroying homes and leaving thousands without power Thursday.
  Two deaths were in the small town of Cole, 25 miles (41 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City, and a third person who was injured by the tornado has died, but it was not clear where the person was injured, said Deputy Sheriff Scott Gibbons of McClain County, Oklahoma.
  “There are definitely dozens of var
  
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• Popkum Starbucks opening this summer, hiring baristas and supervisors

  20-04-2023 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  POPKUM — Move over, Tim Hortons. There’s a new coffee shop coming to Popkum in about four months.
  Starbucks has posted on Indeed that it is hiring barista and shift supervisor positions for the upcoming opening of its store at 52964 Yale Road, at the intersection of Highway 9 (Agassiz-Rosedale Highway) and Yale Road.
  Semi Lee, a Starbucks manager, confirmed in an email Thursday morning that the new location is currently hiring. She posted on Facebook that the new Starbucks will be op
  
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• Petition to oust woke Chilliwack school board chair surges - True North

  20-04-2023 19:53 via news.google.com
  
  Petition to oust woke Chilliwack school board chair surges  True North
  
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• Canada’s Dillon Brooks trying to get under LeBron’s skin for Grizzlies

  20-04-2023 19:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Calling the NBA’s all-time leading scorer — regular season and playoffs — old and just another player might not seem very smart to most folks. 
  For Dillon Brooks, that’s just the Grizzlies’ defender trying to get under LeBron James’ skin. 
  Brooks is one of the NBA’s best defenders. He started off the mind games before their first-round Western Conference series was locked in, saying he wanted to face James and the La
  
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• Chilliwack city councillor sounds alarm about potentially high radon ... - Hope Standard

  20-04-2023 19:48 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack city councillor sounds alarm about potentially high radon ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 19:48 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack city councillor sounding the alarm about high radon ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 19:48 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C. stores broke privacy laws on facial ID technology, privacy commissioner says

  20-04-2023 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia’s privacy commissioner says Canadian Tire stores that used facial recognition technology didn’t adequately notify their customers and didn’t get consent to collect the personal information. 
  Michael McEvoy’s report says even if the four stores he investigated had obtained permission, they were still required to show a reasonable purpose for collecting the information, which the investigation found they didn’t do. 
  Twelve C
  
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• Canada’s EV battery contract with Volkswagen could be worth more than $13 billion

  20-04-2023 19:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — German auto giant Volkswagen has secured an exclusive contract with Canada that could be worth more than $13 billion over the next 10 years to build an electric-vehicle battery plant in southwestern Ontario.
  Volkswagen announced last month it had chosen the town of St. Thomas to build its first overseas gigafactory.
  It was known that Canada and Ontario had both put money on the table to lure Volkswagen but until now neither have disclosed exactly how much.
  Industry Minister Fran&c
  
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• ‘A tough loss’: Maple Leafs moving on minus suspended forward Michael Bunting

  20-04-2023 19:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Maple Leafs are moving on minus Michael Bunting.
  They don’t have any other choice.
  Toronto head coach Sheldon Keefe and his players were largely tight-lipped about the three-game suspension handed to the gritty winger for his illegal check to the head on Tampa Bay defenceman Erik Cernak in Tuesday’s opener of the teams’ first-round playoff series.
  “I knew he was gonna get something,” Keefe said Thursday morning ahead of Game 2 against the Lightni
  
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• Quebec ministers sorry for broken promise on ‘third link’ tunnel in capital

  20-04-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — A parade of government ministers took turns today issuing sorrowful regrets for breaking a major election promise to build a multi-purpose vehicle tunnel linking Quebec City to its south shore.
  Transport Minister Geneviève Guilbault confirmed that the tunnel would instead be reserved for public transit only, saying reduced car traffic in the region since the COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t justify the project. 
  The so-called “third link” across the St. Law
  
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• Fraser Health confirms maternity unit closures of 10 days in May, June at CGH

  20-04-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A Fraser Health spokesperson has confirmed there will be sporadic closures of the maternity ward at Chilliwack General Hospital in May and June for as many as 10 days.
  Fraser Health Authority spokesperson Nick Eagland said in an email Wednesday night (Apr. 19) that they are aware of sporadic gaps in obstetrical coverage in May and June at CGH and patients may need to head to Abbotsford Regional Hospital to have their babies delivered.
  “We are aware of sporadic gaps in ob
  
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• Committee weighs bill to make feds accountable to Parliament on future pandemic plans

  20-04-2023 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A parliamentary health committee is weighing the need for new legislation that would force the Pubic Health Agency of Canada to table its plans to prevent and prepare for future pandemics in the House of Commons.
  Nate Erskine-Smith, a Liberal backbencher who is eyeing the Ontario Liberal leadership, is behind the private member’s bill.
  He says the government needs to be held accountable on a regular basis so parliamentarians, experts and the public can make sure the governme
  
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• Tsitsipas, Rublev to represent Team Europe at Laver Cup in Vancouver

  20-04-2023 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Top-seeded men’s players Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece and Andrey Rublev of Russia are joining Bjorn Borg’s Team Europe for this year’s Laver Cup in Vancouver.
  Tsitsipas, ranked fourth in the world, will appear in the event for a fourth time, while Rublev, ranked fifth, will make his second appearance.
  The announcement comes after top-ranked Americans Taylor Fritz and Frances Tiafoe joined Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime on John McEnroe’s Team World
  
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• B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 19:00 via news.google.com
  
  B.C. First Nation sues port firm, others for disrupting ancestral remains  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• ‘Nightmare ooze’ a strain on cannabis industry: UBC Okanagan ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 18:55 via news.google.com
  
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• Do not disturb is a hockey player’s best friend during Stanley Cup playoffs

  20-04-2023 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — NHL players’ phones start chiming and pinging like casinos when the playoffs start.Moms, dads, siblings, cousins, minor hockey teammates, high-school classmates and that guy who fixed the garage door once are all excited someone they know will contend for a Stanley Cup.
  In the digital age, they have the means to constantly convey that enthusiasm via direct messages or social-media messaging.Many players filter or prioritize, or they’d spend every minute off the ice o
  
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• Canada’s Dabrowski, partner Stefani lose in doubles quarterfinal at Stuttgart Open

  20-04-2023 18:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  STUTTGART, Germany — Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazilian partner Luisa Stefani are out of the Stuttgart Open.
  The duo lost in the doubles quarterfinal to Alexa Guarachi of Chile and New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe in straight sets, 7-5, 7-6 (4).
  Dabrowski and Stefani won just 45 per cent of their points on second serve, while their opponents won second service points at an 80 per cent clip.
  Guarachi and Routliffe will move on to play American Desirae Krawczyk and Demi Schuur
  
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• Greenpeace calls for charges over releases from Imperial’s Kearl oilsands mine

  20-04-2023 18:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An environmental group is calling for Imperial Oil to be charged over releases of toxic wastewater from its Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta. 
  The call from Greenpeace comes as executives from the company are scheduled to testify before a House of Commons committee probing what happened with notifications around the releases.
  Overnight, Greenpeace projected a sign on the facade of the Supreme Court saying “Charge Imperial Now.”
  The demand was sparked by a n
  
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• Oklahoma court upholds Richard Glossip’s murder conviction

  20-04-2023 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma appeals court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of death row inmate Richard Glossip, paving the way for Glossip to be executed on May 18, despite the state attorney general’s concerns about some testimony and evidence.
  Glossip can still plead his case for clemency to the five-member Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board, which could recommend that the governor spare Glossip’s life by commuting his sentence to life in prison without parole.
  Glo
  
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• Chilliwack City Council urges B.C. govt. to take action on bus strike

  20-04-2023 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council has directed city staff to join other cities and send a letter to Labour Minister Harry Bains due to the impasse between CUPE 561 and First Transit that has suspended all bus service in Chilliwack and surrounding communities the past month.At its meeting Tuesday (Apr. 18), councillors endorsed sending a letter to Minister Bains alongside other cites as the transit dispute drags on with no end in sight.
  The official text of the motion states: “Coun
  
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• Montreal police ask for public help as they investigate assaults on two Hasidic Jews

  20-04-2023 18:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal police hate crimes unit is asking for the public’s help as it attempts to identify a young man who assaulted two Hasidic Jews on the night of Jan. 20.
  In a security video of the first attack, the suspect can be seen walking down a sidewalk in the city’s Outremont borough while a man dressed in clothing typical of the Hasidic community walks in the other direction on the road.
  The suspect pauses before running between two parked cars and violently pushing
  
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• Vancouver park board looks to create ‘appropriate’ swimwear policy ... - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 18:21 via news.google.com
  
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• US moves military assets to Djibouti for possible Sudan evac

  20-04-2023 18:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is moving military assets to a Naval base in the tiny Gulf of Aden nation of Djibouti to prepare for the possible evacuation of U.S. Embassy personnel from Sudan.
  Two Biden administration officials say the deployments to Camp Lemmonier in Djibouti are necessary because of the current uncertain situation in Sudan, where fighting is raging between two warring factions..
  The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to describe the administration’s plannin
  
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• B.C., federal government strike deal around home and community care - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 18:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Indigenous groups going to court over Quebec’s French-language reforms

  20-04-2023 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — Two Indigenous groups are going to court over the reforms passed last year to Quebec’s French-language law.
  The Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador and the First Nations Education Council are seeking judicial review before the Quebec Superior Court regarding 14 articles in the Charter of the French Language, which was amended by Bill 96 last June.
  They say the legislation infringes on their rights to self-determination and to teach children their ancestral languages.
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• Quebec education minister issues directive banning prayer rooms in schools

  20-04-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Quebec’s education minister is moving forward with a promise to ban prayer rooms in schools.
  Bernard Drainville issued a directive late Wednesday saying schools must ensure that none of their spaces are used for religious practices, including prayer. 
  The order comes after Drainville said earlier this month that he had learned of at least two Montreal-area schools permitting students to gather for prayer.
  He says schools are not places of worship and the concept of pr
  
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• Chilliwack General Hospital maternity ward facing May closures ... - Hope Standard

  20-04-2023 17:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack General Hospital maternity ward facing May closures - Chilliwack Progress

  20-04-2023 17:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack General Hospital maternity ward facing May closures ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  20-04-2023 17:45 via news.google.com
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Keeping communities safer

  20-04-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The safety of British Columbians is a top priority for our government, and that includes making sure that people feel safe in their own communities. Right now, our province is taking action to tackle issues related to repeat violent offenders.
  We are establishing 12 community hubs through the Repeat Violent Offender Intervention Initiative (ReVOII), which will help bring a coordinated approach to the issue of repeat violent offenders in Abbotsford, Kamloops, Surrey, New Westminster, Nanaimo, Kel
  
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• Feds can’t say which regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions are working: audit

  20-04-2023 16:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco says the federal government doesn’t know how well its regulations are working to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
  One of his spring audits issued today looks at five regulations intent on reducing emissions from cars and trucks, power plants and oil and gas production.
  DeMarco says while Environment and Climate Change Canada used scientific modelling to estimate how many emissions each of the regulations would eliminate, it did not meas
  
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• Family of N.S. student murdered in drug deal deliver impact statements in court

  20-04-2023 16:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia judge heard victim impact statements today during a sentencing hearing for a former Halifax medical student who murdered a 22-year-old man during a drug deal.
  William Sandeson had testified in his trial before a Nova Scotia Supreme Court jury that he killed physics student Taylor Samson in self-defence on Aug. 15, 2015, and dumped his body into a river. 
  He was found guilty of second-degree murder on Feb. 18 after jurors deliberated for 23 hours.
  Those convicte
  
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