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• Chilliwack RCMP seek help in identifying robbery suspect

  28-04-2023 23:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly robbed a gas station earlier this year.
  On February 23, 2023 at 8:12 p.m., Chilliwack RCMP officers received a report of a robbery at a gas station in the 45000 block of Yale Road. It was reported that the man threatened the clerk with a suspected firearm and demanded money.
  Chilliwack RCMP, including the Integrated Police Dog Service, arrived on scene within minutes; however, the suspect
  
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• Veteran forward CJ Sapong happy for new adventure north of the border with Toronto FC

  28-04-2023 23:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Now on his fifth MLS team, newly acquired Toronto FC forward CJ Sapong says uprooting your family doesn’t get any easier.
  Especially with a wife and kids aged two and five. But he’s happy to land with TFC.
  “Definitely a surprise,” Sapong, asked about this week’s trade from Nashville, said after training Friday. “It’s been a little bit of a whirlwind. Fortunately I’m able to get right into the group and focus on a game (Saturday agai
  
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• Old Montreal fire: Inspectors cited building owner multiple times before deadly blaze

  28-04-2023 23:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Inspectors reported multiple fire code violations during visits to an Old Montreal heritage building in the years leading up to a fire last March that killed seven people.
  Documents released by the City of Montreal under access to information laws show that inspectors cited the building’s owner for violations on multiple occasions between 2009 and 2020. 
  Inspectors repeatedly found issues with the building’s fire alarm system, fire doors, emergency lighting and
  
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• UPDATE: Eric William Hansen charged after attempted bank ... - Hope Standard

  28-04-2023 23:08 via news.google.com
  
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• Colorado Avalanche quiet about forward Nichushkin’s absence after police report

  28-04-2023 22:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SEATTLE — The Colorado Avalanche did not comment Friday on either the status of forward Valeri Nichushkin, who has been away from the team for a few days, or on a police report about an incident at the team hotel in Seattle last weekend. 
  Colorado coach Jared Bednar again said Friday that Nichushkin is away from the team for personal reasons. Asked later if Nichushkin was not with the Avs because of a violation of team rules, Bednar again reiterated the personal reasons.
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• PHOTOS/VIDEO: Chilliwack Secondary students celebrate diversity ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-04-2023 22:32 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘Vibrant’ Maple Leafs hit the road with another chance to close out Lightning

  28-04-2023 22:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Sheldon Keefe and his players were set to head to the airport and board a plane they would have preferred see stay on the tarmac.
  The Maple Leafs had allowed a chance to close out the Tampa Bay Lightning in their first-round playoff series slip away less than 24 hours earlier.
  Familiar themes kept Toronto from once again getting out from under a generation of post-season torment, along with a more-recent narrative of not being able to put away opponents on the ropes.
  The Leafs dr
  
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• Canadian defensive back Isaiah Thomas verbally commits to University of Miami

  28-04-2023 22:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Isaiah Thomas’s immediate future is secure and with months to spare.
  The six-foot-two, 205-pound Canadian safety at Clearwater Academy International has verbally committed to the University of Miami. Thomas had originally set a deadline of late August/early September to decide which school he’d attend in 2023 after receiving 27 scholarship offers.
  Auburn, Boston College, Florida, Florida State, Indiana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Penn State, Rutgers, Wisconsin and Miami — all Power F
  
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• Oilers looking to match desperate Kings’ sense of urgency to clinch series in Game 6

  28-04-2023 21:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The roles have been reversed.
  In last season’s first-round playoff matchup, the Edmonton Oilers took a 2-1 series lead and the Los Angeles Kings stormed back to take Games 4 and 5. That meant the Oilers had to play desperate hockey in Game 6 in order to survive. They did — and went on to take the series.
  This year, the results are backwards five games into the series. It’s the Kings that had the 2-1 series lead, lost two in a row, and now face elimination in Sa
  
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• Application for jury to see photo of Myles Gray’s injuries made too late: coroner

  28-04-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BURNABY, B.C. — The British Columbia coroner presiding over the inquest into the death of Myles Gray says the jury won’t be allowed to see a photo of the man’s injuries because the application was made too late. 
  Coroner Larry Marzinzik says his view on admitting photos would have been “very different” had the lawyer for Gray’s family, Ian Donaldson, brought it up earlier.
  Gray, who was 33 years old, died in August 2015 after a beating by police that left
  
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• B.C. Crown Prosecutor says Ibrahim Ali killed girl, 13, during sexual assault

  28-04-2023 21:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — A trial has heard that a 13-year-old girl from Burnaby, B.C., was passing through a neighbourhood park when she was dragged into the forest by Ibrahim Ali, sexually assaulted and strangled.
  In an opening statement at B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver, Crown attorney Isobel Keeley told the jury the trial will hear evidence that will show the murder was random, but DNA evidence proves Ali sexually assaulted her.
  Ali is charged with first-degree murder and entered a not guilty plea
  
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• Toronto FC goalkeeper Sean Johnson renews acquaintances with New York City FC

  28-04-2023 20:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC’s Sean Johnson welcomes the New York City FC team he used to captain to BMO Field on Saturday.
  The 33-year-old goalkeeper is no stranger to facing a former club.
  In December 2016, Chicago traded him to Atlanta, which promptly flipped him to NYCFC. He was the longest-tenured Fire player at the time, having joined Chicago as a fourth-round pick (51st overall) in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft and made 176 starts over seven years.
  “It’s just a part of the business,” John
  
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• Chilliwack RCMP explains why it asked public, media to not post images, video of police incident

  28-04-2023 20:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack RCMP Sgt. Krista Vrolyk has explained the rationale behind the RCMP’s request to limit picture and video circulation surrounding Thursday’s police incident during which an armed man tried to rob the downtown CIBC at 9245 Young Road.
  Sgt. Vrolyk, the primary media spokesperson for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack, asked a reporter from Fraser Valley Today on Thursday (Apr. 27) at 12:51 p.m. to not post pictures and video of the in
  
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• Abbotsford Police arrest 38-year-old man, William Tickle, in Uber driver assault

  28-04-2023 20:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford Police have arrested a 38-year-old man after he was caught on video assaulting an Uber driver with several punches to his face earlier this month.On Tuesday, April 18, at 6:47 a.m., Abbotsford Police patrol officers responded to the 2300 block of McCallum Road for an assault on an Uber driver, according to Sgt. Walker, media relations spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department. Prior to police arrival, the suspect fled the scene on foot. Patrol officers condu
  
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• Canada’s entertainment production sector awaiting direction for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-04-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Conrad Black says he’s regained the Canadian citizenship he renounced in 2001

  28-04-2023 20:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conrad Black says his Canadian citizenship has been restored more than 20 years after he renounced it. 
  Black gave up his citizenship in 2001 during a well-publicized fight with then-prime minister Jean Chretien over accepting a British peerage. 
  Black provided The Canadian Press with a copy of an opinion piece he says is to be published Saturday by the National Post, the newspaper he founded and regularly contributes to, saying he received his Canadian passport at his h
  
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• Charges laid in random assault of Uber driver in Abbotsford - Chilliwack Progress

  28-04-2023 20:22 via news.google.com
  
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• Prolific offender from Chilliwack gets conditional sentence order for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  28-04-2023 20:10 via news.google.com
  
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• N. Carolina justices hand GOP big win with election rulings

  28-04-2023 19:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In massive victories for Republicans, the North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased.The rulings likely give the GOP-controlled legislature the ability to rework the state’s congressional map for next year’s election to help Republicans gain seats in the narrowly divided U.S. House. Under the previous map,
  
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• PHOTOS/VIDEO: Spring sun shines down on Chilliwack Tulip ... - Hope Standard

  28-04-2023 19:32 via news.google.com
  
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• PHOTOS/VIDEO: Spring sun shines down on Chilliwack Tulip Festival - Chilliwack Progress

  28-04-2023 19:32 via news.google.com
  
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• Colorado governor signs gun control bills after massacre

  28-04-2023 19:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado’s governor signed four gun control bills Friday, following the lead of other states struggling to confront a nationwide surge in violent crime and mass shootings, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded Second Amendment rights.Before the ink was even dry on Gov. Jared Polis’ signature, gun rights groups sued to reverse two of the measures: raising the buying age for any gun from 18 to 21, and establishing a three-day waiting period betwee
  
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• Former Trudeau Foundation CEO says she resigned after pushback on donation audit

  28-04-2023 18:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The former CEO of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says she resigned because some members of its board of directors refused to recuse themselves from involvement in an independent forensic audit into a 2016 donation that she says was linked to China.
  Pascale Fournier and eight other board members of the foundation resigned on April 11.
  Fournier was a witness at the House of Commons ethics committee this morning as part of its study on foreign interference in Canada.
  She says
  
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• BVMR pledges to engage with off-road groups if ski resort moves forward to next stage

  28-04-2023 18:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — In response to concerns from recreational groups that they are being ignored, the company behind the proposed all-season mountain resort planned for the mountains east of Chilliwack says it will consult and work collaboratively with them and other public user groups if the project moves to the next stage.
  Bridal Veil Mountain Resort released a statement on Friday, April 21 in which it acknowledges the work of backcountry recreational groups, recognizes their tremendous contrib
  
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• Canadian teams Anderson, Rajala to play for gold at world senior curling championship

  28-04-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — Canada will play for gold in both the women’s and men’s finals at the world senior curling championships.
  Sherry Anderson’s Saskatoon rink beat Switzerland’s Monika Gafner 7-3 in the women’s semifinal Friday. Howard Rajala’s foursome from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. topped Joel Larway of the United States 8-2 on the men’s side to reach the gold-medal game.
  Anderson, alongside vice-skip Patty Hersikorn, second Brenda Goert
  
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• Future of Teck remains unclear after tumultuous week

  28-04-2023 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The future of Canada’s largest diversified mining company remains unclear after a tumultuous week that saw Teck Resources Ltd. pull its restructuring plan at the last hour while mining giant Glencore pursues its takeover efforts of the company.
  Vancouver-based Teck cancelled a Wednesday shareholder vote on its plan to split into a metal and a coal company and said it is still opposed to any deal with Glencore, adding that it remains committed to its own plan to become two
  
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• CFL fines for teams for exceeding 2022 salary cap

  28-04-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Grey Cup-champion Toronto Argonauts were among four teams that exceeded the CFL’s salary cap last season, the league announced Friday.
  The others were the Montreal Alouettes, Ottawa Redblacks and Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 
  The CFL’s salary cap last season was $5.35 million. The teams were fined the exact amount they were over.
  Montreal was fined $794 while Ottawa’s penalty was $11,994. Toronto will have to pay $49,735 while Winnipeg will be forced to ante
  
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• Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard loses to Italy’s Marina Trevisan at Madrid Open

  28-04-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MADRID — Canada’s Eugenie Bouchard is out of the Madrid Open after losing to Martina Trevisan of Italy, 6-2, 7-5, in the Round of 64 on Friday.
  Bouchard went 3-for-3 on breakpoints during the match, but was broken six times by Trevisan, who’s 20th in the WTA rankings.
  The 29-year-old Bouchard, of Montreal, advanced to the Round of 64 by defeating Ukrainian Dayana Yastremska 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-2 in the first round on Wednesday.
  In doubles play, Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and
  
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• Coroner says drowning of Montreal firefighter accidental, recommends more training

  28-04-2023 17:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner is recommending that Montreal firefighters be better trained on water rescues, after the 2021 drowning of firefighter Pierre Lacroix in the St. Lawrence River.
  Coroner Géhane Kamel says neither Lacroix nor the three other firefighters who came to the aid of boaters in distress on Oct. 17, 2021, were properly trained in whitewater rescues.
  Lacroix, 58, perished after he became trapped under a HammerHead rescue boat that capsized in the Lachine Rapids.
  Kame
  
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• Rosedale Popkum Village now includes plans for grocery and dental

  28-04-2023 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — About five months ago, relying on information from its building department, Fraser Valley Regional District staff indicated the upcoming Starbucks and DQ commercial development in Popkum, at 52964 Yale Road, would have four commercial retail units designated as health, phone, beauty and “Iris.”However, in documents attached to the Fraser Valley Regional District board meeting held Thursday, April 27, the developer of the property has now labeled the four additional
  
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• Mechanical issue in Canadian plane delays Sudan airlift, as Turkish plane shot at

  28-04-2023 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand says Canadian evacuation flights in Sudan have been hampered by a mechanical issue in one military plane that has since been resolved.
  Anand won’t specify what the mechanical issue is, saying her officials will explain to reporters this afternoon. 
  But she says another problem that emerged is an oil patch on a runway used for evacuations in Sudan.
  She says roughly 250 Canadians have been evacuated out of the East African country, which has f
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will attend King’s coronation in London next week

  28-04-2023 17:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to attend the coronation of King Charles in London next week alongside dignitaries from around the world. 
  Trudeau’s office is likely to unveil more details about his trip to the United Kingdom later today.
  The coronation of the 73-year-old monarch will take place at Westminster Abbey on May 6 in a religious ceremony conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
  Canadians will be able to celebrate the coronation at a special event
  
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• Streaming bill may create two-tier system, hurting Cdn. creators: producers group

  28-04-2023 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — At least one Canadian media production association says the country’s new streaming legislation could create a two-tier system where foreign streamers are held to lower standards than Canadian broadcasters.
  The Canadian Media Producers Association says Bill C-11, which was passed Thursday, could result in foreign streamers being allowed to use fewer Canadian creators in the production of Canadian programming.The group representing thousands of companies in the TV, film and
  
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• Squamish fighter Jamey-Lyn Horth set for UFC debut on Fight Night card in Las Vegas

  28-04-2023 17:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Jamey-Lyn Horth told herself she would move away from martial arts if she didn’t make the UFC by the time she was 33.
  The unbeaten fighter from Squamish, B.C., finally got the call from the UFC in March, six days before her 33rd birthday, and makes her UFC debut Saturday in Las Vegas.
  Horth (5-0-0) takes on American (All Hail) Hailey Cowan (7-2-0) on a Fight Night card.
  “I was going to give myself until I was 33 to see where my career would take me,” Horth explained. “And
  
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• ‘No easy games’ as CF Montreal looks to carry momentum into Kansas City

  28-04-2023 16:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — With two consecutive wins and cleans sheets under their belt, CF Montreal will be riding a wave of momentum and hoping to exact revenge against Sporting Kansas City on Saturday evening. 
  The last time Montreal (2-6-0) faced Kansas City away from home, they suffered their worst defeat in club history, falling 7-1 in 2019.
  CF Montreal defender George Campbell says a little momentum can go a long way.
  “It gives us a lot of confidence and I think we’ve been good in
  
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• High Court dismisses Crown appeal in ‘Surrey Six’ 2007 gang murder case

  28-04-2023 16:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the Crown’s appeal in a 2007 gangland murder case, where two men argued police misconduct tainted their convictions. 
  Gangsters Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston were both found guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy in 2014, seven years after the executions of six people in a highrise apartment building in Surrey, B.C.
  Their lawyers argued before the high court last October that the judge in their initial trial erred in no
  
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• Canada falls to U.S. in semifinal at world mixed doubles curling championship

  28-04-2023 14:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of — Canada’s Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing will play for the bronze medal after falling 6-2 to the United States in a semifinal match at the world mixed doubles curling championship on Friday.
  The U.S. duo of Cory Thiesse and Korey Dropkin stole crucial single points in the first and sixth ends, and then a crushing deuce in the seventh, to end Canada’s gold-medal hopes.
  Thiesse and Dropkin shot a combined 92 per cent on Friday.
  Jones and Laing will
  
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• In The News for April 28 : How did Canada’s economic growth fare in February?

  28-04-2023 10:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what’s on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 28 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Statistics Canada is set to release its February reading for economic growth this morning.
  The federal agency will also provide estimates for March and the first quarter of the year.
  After recording zero growth in the fourth quarter, the Canadian economy bounced back in January as
  
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• Trudeau, buoyed by Biden visit, visits Council on Foreign Relations to talk up Canada

  28-04-2023 10:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will take his Canadian sales pitch to an influential U.S. audience this morning.
  Trudeau is at the Council on Foreign Relations, a respected New York think tank, to promote Canada as a wise investment and trusted trading partner. 
  The idea is to capitalize on the momentum that was generated by last month’s visit to Ottawa by U.S. President Joe Biden. 
  The centrepiece of that visit was a new Canada-U.S. strategy for the extraction, de
  
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• Amid Ukraine war, pope to give vision for Europe in Hungary

  28-04-2023 10:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Pope Francis plans to outline his vision for the future of Europe during a three-day visit to Hungary starting Friday, with Russia’s war in Ukraine, migration flows and Hungary’s tense relations with Brussels looming large over the pontiff’s weekend journey.
  Hungarian officials say Francis’ pilgrimage was designed primarily to let the pope minister to the country’s Catholic community and to encourage its members in their faith. But wit
  
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• Canada-U. S. meeting to focus on fight against cross-border gun smuggling, opioids

  28-04-2023 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Co-operation on targeting cross-border gun smuggling will top the agenda today when senior justice and public safety officials from Canada and the United States meet in Ottawa.
  The Canada-U. S. Cross-Border Crime Forum brings together Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, Justice Minister David Lametti and their U.S. counterparts, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland.
  The leaders plan to hold a news conference this afternoon.
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• B.C. government to announce Surrey police service decision, RCMP or municipal force

  28-04-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — A decision is due today on who will police the Metro Vancouver city of Surrey: the RCMP or the municipal Surrey Police Service.
  British Columbia Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth says the government has reached a decision on which law enforcement agency it will approve after months of difficult deliberations.
  The city had hired numerous policing staff and even a new chief for the Surrey Police Service when voters elected a mayor and several councillors last fall who opposed
  
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• Federal workers strike for 10th day as negotiations on pay, remote work continue

  28-04-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Workers in Canada’s largest federal public service union are hitting the picket lines for the 10th day as negotiations continue. 
  Both sides are facing pressure to reach a deal, though there is no talk of back-to-work legislation being on the way.
  According to an update from Treasury Board President Mona Fortier earlier this week, wages and remote work are among the points of contention in the labour dispute. 
  The federal government is offering a nine per cent wage
  
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• PHOTOS/VIDEO: Spring Sun Shines Down On Chilliwack Tulip ... - Abbotsford News

  28-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Millions of tulips have burst into colour at this Chilliwack festival ... - Daily Hive

  28-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Abbotsford, Chilliwack, First Nations And Province Sign Flood ... - Abbotsford News

  28-04-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Jets eliminated from post-season after 4-1 loss to Golden Knights

  28-04-2023 07:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LAS VEGAS — The Winnipeg Jets were eliminated from the NHL post-season on Thursday night after dropping a 4-1 decision to the Vegas Golden Knights.
  Chandler Stephenson scored twice while Mark Stone and William Karlsson added singles as the top-seeded Golden Knights won the best-of-seven series in five games. 
  Kyle Connor scored the lone goal for Winnipeg.
  Nikolaj Ehlers made his series debut for the Jets after missing over two weeks with an upper-body injury. Mark Scheifele (upper bod
  
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• Russia fires cruise missiles at Kyiv, other parts of Ukraine

  28-04-2023 06:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia fired more than a dozen cruise missiles at Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine early Friday, killing at least two people in an eastern city and striking a residential building in central Ukraine, officials said.
  Air raid sirens sounded around the capital in the first attack against the city in nearly two months and Ukraine’s air force intercepted 11 cruise missiles and two unmanned aerial vehicles over Kyiv, according to the Kyiv City Administration.There were
  
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• Ship comes under attack off Yemen, British military says

  28-04-2023 06:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship came under attack Friday off the coast of Yemen in unclear circumstances, a British military organization said.The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which provides support to ships across the Mideast, said the attack happened off Nishtun, Yemen, in the country’s far east near the border with Oman.It said shots had been fired at the unidentified vessel in the Gulf of Aden, with three boats chasing after it.
  The
  
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• Johansson leads after 1st day of JM Eagle LA Championship

  28-04-2023 04:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Linnea Johansson shot a 7-under 64 to take a one-shot lead after the first round of the JM Eagle LA Championship on Thursday at Wilshire Country Club. 
  Johansson had a bogey-free round, one of just five in the first round. 
  “Obviously a great day, great round,” said Johansson, who had a morning tee time. “Played fearless golf today and really went after a lot of pins and managed to hit them very close and roll in the putts. I actually managed
  
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