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• Western University running back suspended four years for violating anti-doping rule

  10-05-2023 23:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport announced Wednesday that Western University running back Edouard Wanadi has been suspended four years for violating an anti-doping rule.
  The CCES says a Wanadi urine sample collected on Oct. 11, 2022, during out-of-competition doping control revealed the presence of GW501516, a prohibited metabolic modulator.
  Wanadi waived his right to a hearing and admitted his violation, says the CCES, which is imposing the provisional ban beginning on Nov
  
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• Ohio Constitution change aimed at thwarting abortion rights push appears headed to August ballot

  10-05-2023 23:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — After a critical vote Wednesday, the Ohio House agreed to send to voters in August a measure making it more difficult to amend the state’s constitution, just months before an amendment guaranteeing abortion rights lands on the statewide ballot.
  It asks voters to raise the threshold for future constitutional amendments from 50% plus one to a 60% supermajority.
  The Ohio Statehouse resounded with protests before the House voted to approve the resolution.The measure
  
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• Federal, Nunavut governments’ Inuit employment plans not meeting promises: arbitrator

  10-05-2023 23:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — An arbitrator has sided with the organization representing Nunavut Inuit, ruling that plans by the federal and territorial governments to increase Inuit employment in the territory are not meeting commitments in the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.Part of the 1993 agreement aims to increase Inuit employment in the public service in Nunavut to levels representative of the territory’s Inuit population — 85 per cent.
  In a dispute that went to arbitration in 2020,
  
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• Tap of a button: Uber approved to launch in Kelowna, Victoria - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 23:30 via news.google.com
  
  Tap of a button: Uber approved to launch in Kelowna, Victoria  Chilliwack Progress
  
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• B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report

  10-05-2023 22:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — An Indigenous-led report into a massive wildfire nearly six years ago that destroyed more than 100 homes and scorched a vast swath of British Columbia’s Interior says the blaze resulted in up to $1 billion per year in ongoing nature and ecosystem losses.The Elephant Hill wildfire burned more than 1,900 square kilometres of forests, grasslands and properties in the summer of 2017, directly affecting numerous First Nations and other communities.The report was released Wedne
  
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• Lead foot costs driver an arm and a leg in Agassiz

  10-05-2023 22:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AGASSIZ — A lead foot can cost an arm and a leg and then some.A Fraser Valley motorist learned that lesson the hard way after being clocked at over 100 kilometres an hour in a posted 50-km/hr zone near the Agassiz RCMP detachment, and Mounties were there at the right time to impound the unwise driver’s vehicle.On Tuesday evening, May 9, at 10:30 p.m., an Agassiz RCMP member was conducting traffic enforcement on the section of the Lougheed Highway that runs in front of the Agassiz RCM
  
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• Man crashes car after avoiding deer on Dewdney Trunk Rd.

  10-05-2023 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MISSION — A man who succeeded in avoiding a deer late last week wasn’t so lucky when he subsequently crashed into a cedar tree on Dewdney Trunk Road west of Mission last week.According to a social media post from the Mission RCMP, Mounties responded at around 10 p.m. on Friday night, May 5 to a report of a single-vehicle collision on Dewdney Trunk Road near Welch Avenue. The driver told police that he swerved after a deer jumped out onto the road in front of his vehicle. While he was
  
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• There’s still time to register for Sunday’s 5K Run for Mom along Vedder Trail

  10-05-2023 22:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — There’s still time to register for this Sunday’s Run for Mom on an already special day devoted to the amazing, tireless dedication of moms everywhere.
  The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation (FVHCF), along with Chilliwack General Hospital, will host the 23rd annual 5k Run for Mom to raise funds for the maternity department in support of mothers and babies this Sunday, May 14.
  Online registration for the run is available until this Friday, May 12 at noon. 
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• Toronto Six re-sign captain Shiann Darkangelo to two-year contract

  10-05-2023 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Six announced Wednesday they have re-signed captain Shiann Darkangelo to a two-year contract.
  Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
  Darkangelo, of Brighton, Mich., helped lead the Six to their first Isobel Cup in franchise history in March.
  The 29-year-old forward, who has served as captain of the Six in all three of the team’s seasons, had 12 goals and 13 assists in 24 Premier Hockey Federation games last season.
  Before joining the Six, Darkangelo played for th
  
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• Chad Kelly eager to prove himself as Toronto Argonauts starting quarterback

  10-05-2023 21:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GUELPH, Ont. — Chad Kelly is over the 2022 Grey Cup game.
  Toronto’s backup quarterback played a pivotal role in the Argonauts’ stunning 24-23 upset win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. But with the start of the CFL team’s rookie camp Wednesday at the University of Guelph, Kelly said it’s time to look ahead and not live in the past.
  “Essentially, you don’t want to see any Grey Cup stuff,” Kelly said. “You don’t want to talk about it, we&r
  
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• ‘Not on my watch’: Seamus O’Regan rejects Liberals’ disinformation resolution

  10-05-2023 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan says the Liberal government is keen to tackle the problem of disinformation, but that will not include regulating the use of sources.
  Members of the federal Liberal party approved a new resolution regarding disinformation that could venture into regulating journalistic practices, but O’Regan says the federal government would never implement it “on his watch.”
  It calls for fighting the rise of disinformation through efforts tha
  
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• 1st babies born in Britain using DNA from 3 people - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 21:00 via news.google.com
  
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• All Star Wrestling returns to Abbotsford on June 3 - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 20:56 via news.google.com
  
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• Forward Ariel Lassiter is making a name for himself with CF Montreal

  10-05-2023 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Midfielder Bryce Duke was on everyone’s mind upon his arrival to CF Montreal, but forward Ariel Lassiter has found a way to make himself part of the conversation.
  When CF Montreal sporting director Olivier Renard acquired Duke from Inter Miami FC, he knew the 22-year-old fit the team’s philosophy. Renard saw Duke as a player to develop who could help Montreal win while also having high resale potential.
  For now, Duke is proving him right.
  Renard could also say he mad
  
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• Toronto FC cup loss to Montreal exacerbated by ugly scenes in the BMO Field stands

  10-05-2023 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Ugly scenes in the stands at BMO Field during Toronto FC’s 2-1 loss to rival CF Montreal in Canadian Championship play Tuesday prompted an investigation by TFC officials and condemnation from Montreal.
  Toronto, which has hoisted the Voyageurs Cup eight times and finished runner-up five times, exited at the first hurdle this year after getting a bye to the preliminary round as 2022 runner-up.
  The game was married by several episodes in the stands, captured in video posted on
  
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• B.C. university wants to offer remote degrees in the Northwest ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 20:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec to table bill giving politicians base pay bump of $30,000

  10-05-2023 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The Quebec government is set to table a bill that would give members of the legislature the highest base salary out of all provincial politicians in the country.
  The bill is to be introduced Thursday by Premier François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government and would increase base salaries by $30,000 — to $131,766.
  A committee mandated by the government recommended the increase to attract strong candidates.
  Members of the legislature often have add
  
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• Residents rescue dog from Chilliwack River Valley backcountry

  10-05-2023 20:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The story of a dog who was apparently tied to the back of a Ford pickup truck at one point on property in the Chilliwack River Valley, and later found languishing in backcountry bush, has a happy ending.Social media lit up on the Facebook the past week with the story of a jittery dog who needed a stable home, but would flee whenever humans would try to approach him.
  “Every time someone tried putting a leash on him, he would growl and try to bite,” said Chilliwack r
  
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• Canadian men in relegation battle in business end of World Rugby Sevens Series season

  10-05-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  While Argentina looks to join New Zealand in securing a berth at the 2024 Paris Olympics, the battle at the other end of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series standings will add more drama to the penultimate stop of the men’s season in France this weekend.
  The 14th-ranked Canadians are in the thick of it, facing a relegation battle.
  The All Blacks defeated Argentina 19-17 in the final in Singapore last month to become the first men’s team to join host France at the Olympics. The second-
  
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• Township of Langley, B.C., votes to stop sharing RCMP services with City of Langley

  10-05-2023 20:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY, B.C. — The council for the Metro Vancouver Township of Langley, B.C., has voted for a plan to have its own RCMP detachment in a separation that the mayor says is over unfair costs. 
  The township currently shares the force with the City of Langley, but township Mayor Eric Woodward says the goal of a dedicated detachment is to improve services for its community, which is much larger geographically and growing at a faster rate than its neighbour. 
  Woodward says the township
  
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• B.C. snow levels vary widely - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 19:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Ontario bill seeks to secure movable soccer nets, named for teen killed

  10-05-2023 19:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — An Ontario bill that would require movable soccer goals to be secured – named in memory of a 15-year-old boy who was killed by one – has passed a key hurdle and may become law later this year.
  Garrett Mills, from Napanee, Ont., was playing in a park on May 12, 2017, with his girlfriend and his best friend, hanging off the crossbar of a movable soccer net and doing chin-ups, when the 200-pound structure fell on top of him.
  Ric Bresee, who represents the eastern Ontario
  
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• School board approves rental relief for Chilliwack Youth Health ... - Hope Standard

  10-05-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• School board approves rental relief for Chilliwack Youth Health ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  10-05-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• MPs to vote on House probe into Chinese envoy’s alleged targeting of Michael Chong

  10-05-2023 19:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The House of Commons is set to vote this afternoon on whether a committee should probe allegations of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government against Conservative MP Michael Chong. 
  Debate on the motion has taken priority in the chamber since it was tabled on Monday, and a vote has been scheduled to take place after today’s question period. 
  Canada expelled a Chinese diplomat this week over a newly surfaced 2021 report by the Canadian Security Intelligen
  
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• Modelled tsunami would take 20 minutes to reach Vancouver Island ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• China working to get Canadians ‘at each other’s throats ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Canadians can apply to renew their passports online beginning this ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 19:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec government rejects Trudeau’s immigration plan, fears decline of French

  10-05-2023 19:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canada’s plan to increase immigration is stoking fears among Quebec’s political class, who say the changes would reduce the province’s influence in the country and make it harder to protect French.
  Provincial legislature members today adopted a motion declaring Canada’s plan incompatible with the protection of French in Quebec and that the province must have complete control over its immigration. 
  Premier François Legault said Tuesday that Que
  
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• Wildfire evacuation order over for hamlet of Evansburg in west-central Alberta

  10-05-2023 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Officials have lifted an evacuation order for the hamlet of Evansburg, Alta., about 120 kilometres west of Edmonton.
  Residents were told to leave on May 1 as dry and windy conditions fuelled wildfires that put the hamlet and surrounding rural area at risk.
  Some nearby communities remain under a mandatory evacuation order, including Wildwood, Lobstick Resort and Hansonville.
  Alberta’s wildfire status dashboard is reporting 76 active wildfires today, 26 of which are out of control.
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• On heels of damning sex abuse verdict, Trump to face voters on live CNN town hall

  10-05-2023 18:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is about to make more must-see TV — this time on the heels of a damning verdict in a New York courtroom. 
  The former U.S. president was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation Tuesday in the civil suit brought by the magazine writer E. Jean Carroll.
  Tonight, he’ll take questions from voters in New Hampshire during a live television town hall hosted by CNN, Trump’s favourite media foil. 
  The famously combative front-runner for the R
  
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• Federally regulated workplaces will soon provide menstrual products for free

  10-05-2023 18:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Federally regulated workplaces are expected to begin offering free menstrual products to workers starting in mid-December.
  Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan has announced changes to the Canada Labour Code that would ensure access to such products beginning Dec. 15.The Liberals promised in their 2021 election campaign to make free tampons and pads available in federally regulated workplaces, and set up a fund to make menstrual products available to vulnerable people.
  The 2022 fe
  
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• NHL tough guys die 10 years younger than their fellow players, study finds

  10-05-2023 18:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A study of former National Hockey League players shows that enforcers who spent a lot of time dropping their gloves or in the penalty box lived significantly shorter lives than their peers.
  Researchers at Columbia University in New York reached the conclusion after analyzing data from 6,039 NHL players from 1967 to last spring.
  The study, published Wednesday in the JAMA Network Open, found that enforcers died on average a decade younger than comparable peers who were drafted at
  
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• Women inappropriately touched in 2 groping incidents: RCMP - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 18:34 via news.google.com
  
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• Suspect arrested after women report being inappropriately touched ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 18:34 via news.google.com
  
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• Flooding of Bonaparte River means more evacuation orders for Cache Creek, B.C.

  10-05-2023 18:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CACHE CREEK, B.C. — The risk of flooding has prompted more evacuation orders for residents in the Village of Cache Creek, B.C., as higher temperatures quickly melt of mountain snowpacks. 
  In his latest order, Mayor John Ranta says about two dozen more properties have to evacuate due to the immediate danger caused by flooding of the Bonaparte River.
  Cache Creek, about 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, remains under a flood warning. 
  Last week the community dealt with rising c
  
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• Abbotsford’s Ledgeview Golf Club ready to host RBC Canadian ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 18:20 via news.google.com
  
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• Pender Island alpaca, llama sanctuary turn wool into yarn - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 18:05 via news.google.com
  
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• Vermont governor signs shield bills that protect providers who offer medicated abortion

  10-05-2023 18:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vermont’s Republican governor signed abortion and gender affirming shield bills into law Wednesday that include protecting access to a medication widely used in abortions even if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration withdraws its approval of the pill, mifepristone.
  The bills protect providers from discipline for providing legally protected reproductive and gender affirming health care services. Vermont is the first state to protect access to medication abortion in a shield law, according
  
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• B.C. Highway Patrol pulls over American doing 262 km/hr on the Coq

  10-05-2023 18:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MERRITT — An American motorist may regret his need for speed after he was caught driving 262 kilometres an hour in a 120-km zone Sunday afternoon.
  In a press release from authorities, a member of the B.C. Highway Patrol was conducting speed enforcement in the northbound lanes of Highway 5, about 22 kilometres south of Merritt, when the officer observed a red Alfa Romeo Giulia rapidly overtaking two vehicles. The officer determined that the vehicle was traveling at a ridiculous speed of 262
  
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• Chicken transport truck ends up in ditch in Chilliwack closing Prest ... - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 17:53 via news.google.com
  
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• City of Chilliwack seeks names for its new bike lane sweeper

  10-05-2023 17:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — City staff are asking the public to weigh in on an innovative machine making its way around town cleaning Chilliwack’s network of bike lanes.The city wrote in a press release Monday (May 8) that it has a new bike lane sweeper, designed to clear debris from bike lanes and fit behind traffic delineators, but it needs a name.Residents are invited to submit their suggestions for a name that sweeps away the competition in the city’s bike lane sweeper naming contest.
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• Celebrity bidding war for Ottawa Senators could be a boon for the franchise: experts

  10-05-2023 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A celebrity bidding war for a minority ownership stake in the NHL’s Ottawa Senators stands to lift the team’s profile to new heights, while serving as a safe way for stars to park their money.
  Experts say that while some hockey fans may be surprised to see names such as Ryan Reynolds, Snoop Dogg and reportedly The Weeknd throw their hats into the ring, the opportunity to own one of just 32 NHL teams doesn’t come around often.
  Associate professor of sport management at Brock Uni
  
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• Township votes to split from shared RCMP detachment with City - Chilliwack Progress

  10-05-2023 17:30 via news.google.com
  
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• Ban on trans health care for kids heads to Missouri governor

  10-05-2023 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Transgender minors in Missouri no longer will have access to puberty blockers, hormones or gender-affirming surgery under legislation passed by the Republican-led legislature Wednesday.
  The ban also affects some adults — Medicaid health care won’t cover any gender-affirming care in the state, and surgery will no longer be available to prisoners and inmates.Gov. Mike Parson is expected to sign it — he threatened to keep lawmakers working beyond t
  
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• Canada will help train Ukrainian soldiers in Latvia as war drags on

  10-05-2023 17:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand announced today that Canadian military members and their Latvian counterparts will begin training Ukrainian soldiers in Latvia this month. 
  That means Canada is adding a third country to its training efforts under Operation Unifier, which is already active in Poland and the United Kingdom.
  Anand made the announcement after a bilateral meeting with the Latvian defence minister in Ottawa, saying the commitment is an acknowledgment that Russia’
  
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• Army sergeant who fatally shot BLM protester in Texas sentenced to 25 years

  10-05-2023 17:13 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Army sergeant was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting an armed protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Texas in July 2020.
  Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has said he wants to pardon Daniel Perry, who argued he shot and killed Garrett Foster in self-defense. The 28-year-old Foster, a white Air Force veteran, was legally carrying an AK-47 rifle during the demonstration in downtown Austin against police killings and racial inj
  
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• Trudeau to visit South Korea, attend G7 leaders’ summit in Japan next week

  10-05-2023 16:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to travel to Asia next week for an official visit to South Korea and the G7 leaders’ summit in Japan. 
  A news release today says Trudeau will visit Seoul between May 16 and 18 and meet with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to advance shared priorities, including economic and energy security, the path to net-zero emissions and human rights. 
  The prime minister is also expected to promote the Indo-Pacific strategy that th
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Canada will allow online passport renewal services this fall

  10-05-2023 16:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Canadians will be able to apply to renew their passports online beginning this fall, says Immigration Minister Sean Fraser.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: BC Housing scandal speaks volumes about NDP’s failed leadership

  10-05-2023 16:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As the housing crisis in B.C. continues to worsen, British Columbians were shocked this week to learn the extent of the chaos and mismanagement at BC Housing — the Crown corporation tasked with building affordable housing in our province.
  A new report from Ernst and Young (EY) found serious conflict of interest and financial mismanagement issues at the organization and its largest housing provider, Atira Women’s Resource Society. Concerningly, the worst of the wrongdoings took place
  
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