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• Child porn suspect charged, already released by the courts: RCMP

  21-04-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — Following a lengthy investigation of approximately 18 months by the Surrey RCMP Internet Child Exploitation Unit (ICE), a 30-year-old Surrey man has been arrested for luring a child, child porn possession, and sexual interference.Surrey RCMP advised Friday (Apr. 21) that charges have been laid against Tanner Adam Duffy of Surrey for four counts of luring a child under 16, three counts of child porn possession, and one count each of sexual interference, sexual assault, forcible con
  
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• Vancouver officer testifies about efforts to resuscitate Myles Gray ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Premiers united in call for bail reform after meeting with police chiefs, says Eby

  21-04-2023 23:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says his provincial and territorial counterparts are unanimous in calling on the federal government to implement bail reforms and expand support to fight against guns and gangs in communities.
  Eby says the premiers met Friday with the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, where the importance of encouraging the federal government and provincial and municipal leaders to build safe communities was highlighted.
  The virtual meeting with police
  
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• Family says First Nations man brain-dead after altercation with Saskatchewan police

  21-04-2023 23:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SASKATOON — The family of a First Nations man in Saskatchewan is calling for accountability and justice after an altercation earlier this month with Prince Albert police left him on life support with no brain activity.
  The family of Boden Umpherville, 40, alleges officers used excessive force during a police stop in the city north of Saskatoon on April 1. 
  “I’m so sad. My heart is broken for my son,” his mother, Verna Umpherville, told a news conference in Saskatoon
  
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• South Surrey border traveller cleared of trafficking charges from 2014 - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 22:55 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack church pastor's Charter challenge over COVID ticket ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 22:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack church pastor's Charter challenge over COVID ticket ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  21-04-2023 22:49 via news.google.com
  
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• Team president Masai Ujiri wants to fix Raptors culture after coach Nick Nurse fired

  21-04-2023 22:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Masai Ujiri believes that change has to start at the top. That includes him, the Toronto Raptors team president.
  Ujiri was insistent that the Raptors have to refresh their culture after a disappointing season led to the firing of head coach Nick Nurse on Friday. Ujiri said that he personally has to do “many things” to recapture the energy of Toronto’s first NBA championship team in 2019.
  “Look at the roster maybe in a different way. We have to figure out s
  
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• B.C.’s kelp forests battle climate change, offer crucial environmental ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 22:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Register for city-wide garage sale in Chilliwack before it's too late - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 22:28 via news.google.com
  
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• VIDEO: B.C. trades students compete in Skills Canada competitions ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 22:26 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada’s premiers, police chiefs reup calls on Ottawa to reform bail

  21-04-2023 22:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The association representing Canada’s chiefs of police is calling for the extension of a federal guns and gangs strategy and urgent reforms to the country’s bail system after a meeting with provincial and territorial premiers Friday. 
  Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson, who chairs the Council of the Federation, said a key focus of the meeting was on reforms to protect communities by keeping repeat violent offenders off of the streets. 
  Justice Minister David
  
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• CPL clubs allowed affiliations with lower-division teams under pilot project

  21-04-2023 22:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Canadian Premier League clubs will be allowed to share talent with teams in lower divisions under a pilot project announced Friday.
  The plan allows all eight CPL franchises to partner with one team in either League1 Ontario, League1 BC, Ligue1 Quebec, League1 Alberta Exhibition Series, Alberta Men’s Soccer League, USL League Two and the top men’s leagues in Manitoba and Nova Scotia.
  The CPL clubs will be able to send players to their designated affiliate to earn addit
  
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• Coroner says Montreal police used unnecessary force, lacked training in man’s death

  21-04-2023 22:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A coroner’s report into the 2017 death of a man killed by Montreal police says arresting officers used unnecessary force and lacked proper training in de-escalation tactics.
  Coroner Luc Malouin says in his report released today on the death of Koray Kevin Celik that police were unprepared when they arrived at his home on March 6, 2017, in the Montreal neighbourhood of Île-Bizard.
  His parents called police because they wanted to prevent Celik, 28, from driving a car w
  
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• Liberals table legislation to overhaul passenger rights charter

  21-04-2023 21:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberals have put forward legislation that aims to make good on their pledge to tighten passenger rights rules after a year marked by travel chaos and a ballooning complaints backlog.
  Tabled in the House of Commons as part of a broader budget bill Thursday, the new provisions ratchet up penalties on airlines, shore up the complaint process and target luggage and flight disruption loopholes that allow airlines to steer clear of customer compensation.
  Sylvie De Bellefeuille, a l
  
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• First Nations in B.C. died at a much higher rate from toxic drugs, health authority

  21-04-2023 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The chief medical officer of British Columbia’s First Nations Health Authority says the toxic drug crisis in 2022 was the most devastating year so far for Indigenous people, their families, and communities. 
  Dr. Nel Wieman says First Nations people are disproportionately dying from illicit drugs in B.C. and the gap continues to widen.
  First Nations people represent 3.3 per cent of B.C.’s population, but the health authority says 16.4 per cent of those who died
  
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• Judge in Prince Rupert, B.C., strikes arguments as ‘stupid’ in contempt case

  21-04-2023 21:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PRINCE RUPERT — A provincial court judge in Prince Rupert, B.C., has sentenced a 46-year-old man to a year in jail for contempt of court, ruling he tried to circumvent the justice system with “pseudo-legal” and “stupid” arguments.Judge David Paterson says in a ruling his issued this week that he sentenced Prince Rupert resident Cameron Hardy to a year in jail, in part to deter others from subjecting the court to the theory known as “organized pseudo-legal comm
  
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• New this week: David Bowie, ‘Fatal Attraction’ and Smokey - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 21:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Hazardous debris cleared away with new bike lane sweeper in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 21:26 via news.google.com
  
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• Strike leaves military heating, wastewater plants without sufficient staff

  21-04-2023 21:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The union representing Defence Department employees says the government dropped the ball by not declaring staff at heating and wastewater plants on several military bases as essential workers.
  The Union of National Defence Employees is part of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, and its members have been on strike since Wednesday.
  National president June Winger says that’s led to issues at bases in Petawawa, Ont., Kingston, Ont., Winnipeg and Halifax.
  She says the Treasur
  
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• Canadian Premier League teams wrap up busy first week facing familiar foes

  21-04-2023 21:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s more of the same in the Canadian Premier League this weekend as York United FC hosts Vancouver FC and Pacific FC entertains Cavalry FC.
  The two games — in Toronto on Saturday and Langford, B.C., on Sunday — are rematches of midweek Canadian Championship preliminary-round contests at the same venues.
  Atletico Ottawa, meanwhile, downed HFX Wanderers FC 3-1 in cup play Wednesday in Toronto. The two teams tied 1-1 in the CPL season opener last Saturday at Ottawa’s TD Pla
  
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• Veterans warned of longer wait times due to federal public service strike

  21-04-2023 21:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Ill and injured veterans are being warned they could face longer-than-expected wait times in accessing certain benefits and services due to the federal public service strike.
  Veterans Affairs Canada says former service members who are already receiving financial and medical assistance from the government should see minimal disruptions.
  But those applying for new benefits or trying to contact the department with questions or concerns can expect delays. 
  Veterans Affairs says i
  
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• Bergeron doesn’t travel with Bruins for games in Florida

  21-04-2023 21:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Boston captain Patrice Bergeron did not accompany the Bruins on their trip to Florida for Games 3 and 4 of an Eastern Conference first-round series with the Panthers.
  He missed Game 1 due to illness and Game 2 to an unspecified upper-body injury. Game 3 is Friday evening.
  “We believe Game 5 is likely,” Bruins coach Jim Montgomery said.
  Bergeron was the Bruins’ third-leading scorer in the regular season with 27 goals and 31 assists for 58 points.
  The 3
  
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• Discredited Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond voluntarily returns another honorary degree

  21-04-2023 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FREDERICTON — Former judge and law professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, whose claims of Indigenous ancestry have been discredited, has returned another honorary degree.
  A statement from Kim Fenwick, the acting president and vice-chancellor of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, says the former British Columbia representative for children and youth “voluntarily relinquished” the honorary degree.
  The statement says a university committee reviewed documents related to questions a
  
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• Vancouver officer testifies about efforts to resuscitate Myles Gray after beating

  21-04-2023 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURNABY, B.C. — A Vancouver police officer told a coroner’s inquest that “time was standing still” as they waited for advanced life support paramedics to arrive and help revive 33-year-old Myles Gray after he was beaten by officers trying to arrest him.
  Const. Derek Cain described to the jury their efforts to resuscitate Gray, who he says was sweating profusely, wasn’t communicating normally, and had “superhuman” strength.
  Cain, who had worked as a param
  
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• Two people injured at Dene High School in La Loche, Sask., one in custody

  21-04-2023 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LA LOCHE, Sask. — Two people have been injured at Dene High School in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche.
  The Northern Lights School Division says the two individuals are being treated and the person responsible is in RCMP custody.
  The school has not provided further details about what happened, but says RCMP are to comment further.The division says the school is safe and that there is no current threat.It says it is doing everything it can to provide supports and care for stu
  
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• Frequent shootings put US mass killings on a record pace

  21-04-2023 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. is setting a record pace for mass killings in 2023, replaying the horror on a loop roughly once a week so far this year.
  The carnage has taken 88 lives in 17 mass killings over 111 days. Each time, the killers wielded firearms. Only 2009 was marked by as many such tragedies in the same period of time.
  Children at a Nashville grade school, gunned down on an ordinary Monday. Farmworkers in Northern California, sprayed with bullets over a workplace grudge. Dancers
  
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• Chilliwack garage sale on Saturday to benefit widows, orphans in Kenya

  21-04-2023 20:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — A garage sale like no other happens Saturday, April 22 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 7350 Barrow Road in Greendale west of Chilliwack.The annual garage sale is a fundraiser for Voice of Hope Kenya, which assists widows and orphans in Africa.There will be a barn full of excellent used items to purchase along with concessions like coffee, cinnamon buns, hot dogs with all the fixings, chili, chips, and cold drinks.Coffee is free, and food items are reasonably priced from BBQ’d h
  
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• ‘Very difficult situation:’ Canadians in Khartoum take shelter amid violence

  21-04-2023 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Abdelgadir Eltayeb and his family have no electricity, dwindling food and water, and haven’t been able to venture far from the home in Khartoum where they took shelter after violence exploded in Sudan’s capital this week. 
  The Canadian, who is visiting relatives in Sudan with his wife and two children, says fighting between the country’s army and its rival paramilitary force has unleashed chaos.
  “It’s a very difficult situation,” the 68-ye
  
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• Four off-road groups in B.C. sign letter opposing Bridal Veil Mountain Resort

  21-04-2023 20:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Four off-road organizations in British Columbia have published an open letter to media and local government in which they openly oppose the proposed ski area east of Chilliwack known as Bridal Veil Mountain Resort.
  In a letter obtained by Fraser Valley Today dated April 13, four off-road organizations say they are adamantly opposed to BVMR and have applauded recent efforts by the Cascade Skyline Gondola project to hear their concerns about potential impacts posed by the propos
  
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• Chilliwack experiment allowing 'responsible' drinking in riverside ... - Mission City Record

  21-04-2023 20:05 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack experiment allowing 'responsible' drinking in riverside ... - Hope Standard

  21-04-2023 20:05 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Experiment Allowing ‘responsible’ Drinking In Riverside ... - Abbotsford News

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• Jets’ Ehlers day to day with injury, Bowness hopeful he’ll be cleared for Game 3

  21-04-2023 19:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Jets coach Rick Bowness says he’s hopeful that Nikolaj Ehlers will soon get medical clearance to return to the lineup for their first-round playoff series against the Vegas Golden Knights.
  Ehlers has practised with the team but did not play the first two games at T-Mobile Arena due to an upper-body injury. 
  The forward hasn’t played since suffering the injury on April 11 in a game against the Minnesota Wild.
  Winnipeg posted a 5-1 win in the best-of-seven series
  
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• Chilliwack man who killed Carlton Leith to be sentenced for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 19:31 via news.google.com
  
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• Syracuse offensive lineman Bergeron moves atop final CFL Scouting Bureau list

  21-04-2023 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Syracuse offensive tackle Matthew Bergeron moved atop the CFL Scouting Bureau’s spring top-20 prospects list.
  The six-foot-five, 318-pound native of Victoriaville, Que., was fifth on the winter list, which was released in January. The Scouting Bureau compiles the top-20 prospects for the CFL draft, which will be held May 2.
  Bergeron became a starter at Syracuse as a freshman. A team captain in 2022, Bergeron allowed four sacks in 686 snaps and was penalized three times in 1
  
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• NFL suspends 5 players for violating gambling policy

  21-04-2023 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Three NFL players were suspended indefinitely Friday for betting on NFL games in the 2022 season, while two other players, including the 12th overall draft pick a year ago, received six-game suspensions for betting on non-NFL games at a league facility.
  Detroit Lions wide receiver Quintez Cephus, Lions safety C.J. Moore and Washington Commanders defensive end Shaka Toney are sidelined for the entire 2023 season and may petition for reinstatement afterward.Lions wide receivers St
  
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• ‘Guys are just so amped up’: NHLers talk playoff intensity after regular-season slog

  21-04-2023 19:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Steven Stamkos has twice hoisted the Stanley Cup.
  The Tampa Bay Lightning captain also made the final on two other occasions.
  He knows what it takes to reach the top of that playoff mountain in the chase for hockey’s Holy Grail — and what it feels like to come up just short.
  To get there, however, teams must take that annual first step of surviving the fast-paced, at-times chaotic opening round.
  The initial salvo of the NHL post-season is peppered by a sharp uptick in hostilities as
  
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• Trudeau to travel to New York for next week’s star-studded Global Citizen summit

  21-04-2023 19:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to head to New York next week for an international summit championing sustainable development and human rights. 
  Summit host Global Citizen bills the event as a forum to address some of the most urgent challenges facing humanity and the planet. 
  The Prime Minister’s Office says Trudeau will champion women’s rights when he joins other world leaders, artists and musicians at the event April 27-28. 
  Other scheduled a
  
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• Federal public-service strike lands in middle of political battle for working class

  21-04-2023 19:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has often been followed by crowds of people looking to snag selfies, but with the largest federal public-sector strike in decades underway, Jagmeet Singh is the one receiving rock-star treatment in Ottawa.
  The federal NDP leader visited the picket line near Parliament Hill multiple times this week, appearing to be the only party leader to have shown face-to-face support to the thousands of public servants who walked off the job starting Wednesday.
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• Mohawk Mothers, McGill reach deal to search for graves at site of former hospital

  21-04-2023 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — McGill University and a group of Indigenous elders have reached a deal to search for the possibility of unmarked graves at the former site of a Montreal hospital.
  The Mohawk Mothers allege there are bodies of Indigenous patients buried on and around the old grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital, which McGill is renovating to expand its campus.The Mothers say they have uncovered evidence of graves following interviews with survivors of mind-control experiments that took place in
  
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• Labour board flags ‘irregularities,’ low turnout in public service strike vote

  21-04-2023 18:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal labour board has found low turnout and irregularities of significant concern with the strike vote that led more than 100,000 public servants to walk off the job this week.
  The board found in a decision posted Thursday that the Public Service Alliance of Canada failed to properly let members know it had shortened the voting period by eight days, moving the deadline from April 19 to April 11.
  Only about 35 per cent of members of the bargaining unit actually cast a ballot
  
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• Hassan Diab’s supporters urge Canada to rebuff extradition after guilty verdict

  21-04-2023 18:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Supporters of Hassan Diab are calling on Canada to refuse any new extradition request from France after a court found the Ottawa sociology professor guilty of a 1980 bombing.
  Diab, who has always maintained innocence, was tried in absentia in Paris for the attack on a synagogue that killed four and wounded 46.
  A French court sentenced Diab to life in prison today and issued an arrest warrant for him.
  Following lengthy proceedings that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canad
  
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• Council extends Chilliwack wellness centre, clients can get drugs checked there

  21-04-2023 18:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack City Council has agreed the extend the operations of a wellness centre shelter located just west of Young Road near an existing supportive housing building, and about a block from another supportive housing complex under construction, at its meeting this past Tuesday (Apr. 18).Agenda item 7.18 called for councillors to approve a policy resolution that would not enforce a zoning bylaw or B.C. Building Code for the building at 45951 Trethewey Avenue, the former home o
  
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• Canadian academic convicted in 1980 Paris synagogue bombing

  21-04-2023 18:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — A Paris court has convicted a Lebanese-Canadian academic in absentia on terrorism charges and sentenced him to life in prison over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46.
  The court issued an arrest warrant for suspect Hassan Diab, lives in Ottawa, Canada and denies wrongdoing. His lawyers say he was in Lebanon at the time of the attack and is a victim of mistaken identity.
  The trial that marked the culmination of decades of investigation in
  
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• Top lightweights Charles Oliveira, Beneil Dariush to meet in UFC 289 co-main event

  21-04-2023 18:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A lightweight bout between former champion Charles (do Bronx) Oliveira and Beneil Dariush has been confirmed as the co-main event of UFC 289 in Vancouver.
  Oliveira (33-9-0 with one no-contest) is ranked the UFC’s No. 1 contender at 155 pounds while Dariush (22-4-1) is No. 4.
  The previously announced UFC 289 main event features American Julianna (The Venezuelan Vixen) Pena and bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes. The two have met twice already with Pena dethroning Nunes at UFC 269 in Decembe
  
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• Insurance association warns federal dental plan could lead employers to drop coverage

  21-04-2023 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An association of health insurance providers warns it might not be worth it for small businesses to provide dental benefits to some employees once the government launches a national dental plan, and is pitching a tax credit to convince them not to drop their coverage. 
  The Liberals announced in their latest federal budget that they would spend $13 billion over the next five years to provide uninsured low- and middle-income Canadians with access to dental care through a federa
  
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• Former industry minister takes job at Rogers two years after leaving office

  21-04-2023 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former Liberal industry minister Navdeep Bains is joining Rogers as the company’s new chief corporate affairs officer.
  Rogers announced several new appointments to its executive leadership team on Thursday, including Bains and a former Shaw executive. 
  Bains served in Prime  Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet as industry minister from 2015 until early 2021, and chose to not run for re-election that year.
  The industry minister is responsible for overseeing the
  
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• Cooled Jets: Some outlets covering road games remotely instead of staffing in person

  21-04-2023 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — Gary Lawless spent years in the media business in Winnipeg before leaving journalism in 2017 for a similar job in Las Vegas. 
  A longtime writer and broadcaster, Lawless was part of the Manitoba media contingent that would regularly staff road games. Now employed by the NHL’s Golden Knights as an online columnist and on-camera insider, he has noticed scrums of visiting reporters in the Vegas-Winnipeg first-round NHL playoff series haven’t been as deep as they we
  
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• UBC students construct one of Canada’s first ‘carbon-minimal ... - Chilliwack Progress

  21-04-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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