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• Hugely popular Gwynne Vaughan plant sale returns for 25th year in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  25-05-2023 23:54
  
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• Chilliwack middle schoolers square off at inaugural touch football ... - Chilliwack Progress

  25-05-2023 23:50
  
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• Texas lawmakers recommend impeaching Attorney General Ken Paxton after Republican investigation

  25-05-2023 23:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton teetered on the brink of impeachment Thursday after years of scandal, criminal charges and corruption accusations that the state’s Republican majority had largely met with silence for years until now.In an unanimous decision, a Republican-led investigative committee that spent months quietly looking into Paxton recommended impeaching the state’s top lawyer. The state House of Representatives could vote on the recommendation
  
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• Aldergrove man charged with manufacturing firearms involving 3D technology

  25-05-2023 23:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A 33-year-old man from Aldergrove faces one charge of manufacturing firearms and five counts of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking following a multi-year investigation by law enforcement.In a statement Thursday (May 25), criminal charges have now been laid against Tyson Saverio Santolla after investigators from the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit – British Columbia (CFSEU-BC) conducted an investigation into alleged firearms manufacturing.
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• Swimming Canada CEO to take personal leave of absence

  25-05-2023 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Swimming Canada says chief executive officer Ahmed El-Awadi will be taking a personal leave of absence starting Monday.
  The organization’s board of directors made the announcement to staff and key partners earlier today.
  Suzanne Paulins, who currently serves as director of operations and sport development, has been appointed acting CEO.
  The announcement comes just over a year out from the 2024 Paris Olympics.Canada has emerged as a swimming power in recent years and is expec
  
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• All-star kicker Rene Paredes combines football and firefighting this CFL season

  25-05-2023 23:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Rene Paredes is the most veteran player in the Calgary Stampeders’ locker room and a rookie at the fire station.
  The six-time CFL all-star kicker and two-time Grey Cup winner with the Stampeders has a hybrid season ahead of him combining football with firefighting.
  The 2022 season would have been the last for Paredes if he, the Stampeders and the Calgary Fire Department hadn’t come up with a plan for him to pursue both professions in 2023.
  So there’s been a few
  
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• Innovative program helps B.C. patients with overdose-related brain injuries

  25-05-2023 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  RICHMOND, B.C. — A program that is the first of its kind in Canada aims to help British Columbians living with mild to moderate overdose-related brain injuries.
  The Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions says the initiative, offered by Vancouver Coastal Health through a multidisciplinary team at Richmond Hospital, has already helped more than 40 people.
  A ministry statement says the Cognitive Assessment and Rehabilitation for Substance Use program provides specialized supports for people
  
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• Quebec adopts motion calling for release of documents from 1995 referendum probe

  25-05-2023 22:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec’s legislature has unanimously adopted a motion calling on the province’s chief electoral officer to release all documents related to an investigation into illegal spending ahead of the 1995 referendum.
  The 2006 investigation, overseen by retired judge Bernard Grenier, concluded that two federalist organizations funded by Ottawa failed to report spending of more than $500,000.
  More than 90 witnesses appeared during the closed-door inquiry and more than 4,500 documents were ente
  
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• Toronto FC’s injury list shorter for game against D.C. United but still holes to fill

  25-05-2023 22:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC’s injury list is a little shorter this week but the slumping MLS club still has holes to fill for Saturday’s game against visiting D.C. United.
  Listed as out on TFC’s injury list Thursday were defenders Sigurd Rosted and Shane O’Neill, midfielders Michael Bradley, Jonathan Osorio, Alonso Coello and Victor Vazquez and forwards Adama Diomande. Forward Deandre Kerr was listed as questionable, going through concussion protocols.
  Toronto was without 10 players for l
  
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• Eflin gets 7th win, Rays beat struggling Manoah and Blue Jays 6-3

  25-05-2023 22:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Zach Eflin became major leagues’ third seven-game winner, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat struggling Alek Manoah and Toronto 6-3 on Thursday to take three of four from the Blue Jays.
  Eflin (7-1) allowed one run and six hits in seven innings as the major league-leading Rays (37-15) stole seven bases for the second time this season and improved to 24-5 at home. He joined teammate Shane McClanahan (8-0) and Minnesota’s Joe Ryan (7-1) as the big leagues winn
  
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• Ottawa to spend $2.5 billion on small vessels as it replaces aging Coast Guard fleet

  25-05-2023 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government says it will invest $2.5 billion in new money to renew the Canadian Coast Guard’s fleet of small vessels.
  The coast guard plans to acquire up to 61 small vessels, including 34 search-and-rescue lifeboats.
  It’s part of an ongoing effort to replace the small craft, barges and work boats that service Canada’s shallow coastal waters and inland waterways with new, modern equipment.
  The procurement is also expected to include a near-shore fishery
  
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• Canadian rider Derek Gee records his fifth top-five finish at Giro d’Italia

  25-05-2023 22:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VAL DI ZOLDO, Italy — Canadian Derek Gee finished fourth in Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia on Thursday, his fourth top-five finish in his first Grand Tour event.
  The 25-year-old from Ottawa, riding for the Israel-Premier Tech team, also has three second-place finishes and another fourth in the 21-stage, 3,489.2-kilometre race that ends Sunday in Paris.
  Geraint Thomas celebrated his 37th birthday with another strong ride in the mountains to retain the pink jersey. Thomas crossed immedi
  
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• Canada beats host Finland 4-1 to reach semifinals at world hockey championship

  25-05-2023 21:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TAMPERE, Finland — Canada is moving on to the semifinals at the world hockey championship.
  Jack Quinn, Samuel Blais, Michael Carcone and Tyler Toffoli scored as Canada defeated Finland 4-1 today at the Nokia Arena.
  Teemu Hartikainen tallied for the host team with just over three minutes left in the third period.
  Toffoli answered less than a minute later to restore Canada’s three-goal cushion.
  The game was a rematch of the last three finals.
  Finland beat Canada for gold last May with
  
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• Israeli cabinet minister’s unofficial visit comes amid strained relations

  25-05-2023 21:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An Israeli cabinet minister’s plan to visit Canada next week comes amid an already turbulent relationship between Ottawa and that country’s far-right government.
  Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli is scheduled to speak at a private Christian college near Toronto next week and attend a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the State of Israel on Parliament Hill.
  But the trip was not arranged through official diplomatic channels, which two protocol experts say mak
  
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• Abbotsford Police asking for public’s help in locating missing teen

  25-05-2023 21:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a 14-year-old teenager who was last seen in central Abbotsford on Sunday, May 21.In a Facebook post at 12:27 p.m. on Thursday (May 25), Abbotsford Police say they need help locating 14-year-old Kristian Lyons, who was last seen over the weekend. All attempts to locate the male have been unsuccessful.Kristian is described as 5’5″ tall with brown hair and brown eyes. His weight was not
  
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• Province plans for new cancer centre in Kamloops, B.C.

  25-05-2023 21:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — The British Columbia government is preparing to build a new cancer care centre in Kamloops.
  Health Minister Adrian Dix says the new centre at the Royal Inland Hospital will include radiation therapy, meaning patients will no longer have to travel the roughly two hour trip to Kelowna for that treatment.
  Dix says a “concept plan” for the centre, which was promised as part of the 2020 election, has been approved, and a business plan will be completed this calendar
  
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• Environmental groups launch legal challenge against B.C.’s Roberts Bank port project

  25-05-2023 21:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Five environmental groups have launched a combined legal challenge against the port expansion plan at Roberts Bank, south of Vancouver, that was approved by the federal government last month.
  The coalition, which includes the David Suzuki Foundation, the Georgia Strait Alliance, the Raincoast Conservation Foundation and the Wilderness Committee, says in a statement that it has filed an application in Federal Court for judicial review of Terminal 2’s approval.
  It said the
  
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• Singh asks Trudeau for certain conditions before getting security clearance

  25-05-2023 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is asking the prime minister to allow more members of his party to briefed on foreign interference attempts, after the leaders of the Conservatives and Bloc Québécois declined to obtain the required security clearance.
  Singh says in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today that he wants those two spots given to members of his team who would accompany him in the briefings. 
  Singh is also asking Trudeau for a briefing on h
  
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• Hwy. 1 west of Abbotsford gridlocked due to another vehicle incident

  25-05-2023 21:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Yet another vehicle incident is slowing down westbound traffic on Highway 1 between Abbotsford and Langley.Drive B.C. wrote on Twitter at 12:02 p.m. that a vehicle incident on westbound Highway 1, east of 264 Street between Langley and Abbotsford, is blocking the left lane. Emergency services are on scene, and motorists should expect delays due to heavy congestion.Google Maps is showing dark red traffic between 264 Street (exit 73) and Mount Lehman Road (exit 83).
  
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• Yarrow Farm Market opens for the season Friday

  25-05-2023 21:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Over 70 vendors will be on hand for the season-opening kickoff of the Yarrow Farm Market on Friday, May 26 at Yarrow Pioneer Park.Captains Tattoo Company Ltd. has volunteered to put together a kids table to entertain the younger ones, while Envision Financial will be handing out popcorn.Food vendors include Rolled West Coast, Candy’s Lemonade, The Bannock Stand, and Chicken on Tires.Vendors consist of Old Yale Brewing, Little House Creations, Lake Bottom Cider, Boostani,
  
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• Power of 2023 Atlantic hurricanes depends on outcome of El Niño versus global warming

  25-05-2023 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — The Canadian Hurricane Centre says forecasting the ferocity of hurricanes off Canada’s East Coast this year is difficult because of competing factors in the global climate.  
  Meteorologist Bob Robichaud says much depends on whether this season’s El Niño — characterized by above-average water temperatures over the Pacific Ocean — has its usual calming impact on the Atlantic waters. 
  Robichaud says that in El Niño years, high-altitude
  
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• Quebec will require economic immigrants to speak French before arriving: Legault

  25-05-2023 20:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec Premier François Legault says the province will require that the vast majority of economic immigrants to Quebec speak French before they arrive. 
  Sixty-five per cent of immigrants to Quebec come through the economic immigration stream, which is controlled by the province.
  Legault says his government is also considering increasing the number of immigrants it accepts every year to 60,000 people from 50,000 people, by 2027. 
  He says the rise in immigration would come from pe
  
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• BC EggFest barbecue festival is back in Chilliwack this weekend ... - Chilliwack Progress

  25-05-2023 20:32
  
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• BC EggFest Barbecue Festival Is Back In Chilliwack This Weekend - Abbotsford News

  25-05-2023 20:32
  
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• Quebec provincial police conduct raid in Mohawk community of Kanesatake

  25-05-2023 19:44 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — Investigators with the Quebec provincial police’s financial crimes unit are conducting searches in a Mohawk community near Montreal.
  The Mohawk Council of Kanesatake says provincial police are searching the band office and the health centre in connection with an investigation into the community’s COVID-19 task force.
  The council said in a post on Facebook that the grand chief and the manager of the community’s health centre are co-operating with investigators.
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• B.C. Premier embarks on trade mission in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Vietnam

  25-05-2023 19:42 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby is heading to Asia on a trade mission that makes stops in Japan, Korea, Singapore and Vietnam.
  But the premier’s tour itinerary, released by his office on the day of his departure, does not include China.
  Eby says in a statement the overseas mission will bolster B.C.’s trade and investment ties in the Indo-Pacific region, the world’s fastest growing economic zone.
  B.C. cabinet ministers Josie Osborne and Brenda Bailey, and Jag
  
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• Southern Irrigation partners with Salvation Army to save the pink car from being crushed

  25-05-2023 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Southern Irrigation in Chilliwack is on a mission to save a visible landmark in town that has withstood the test of time and bylaw compliance.
  Granted, the pink car that welcomes Highway 1 motorists to Chilliwack is still around, but its fate is resting tenuously on whether Chilliwack residents can step up to the plate and preserve the eye-catching beacon of a bygone era for a good cause.
  When Southern Irrigation took over the property formerly occupied by Pick-a-Part at 43645
  
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• Familiar foe Tsitsipas could await Canada’s Auger-Aliassime at French Open

  25-05-2023 19:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime may need to get past a familiar foe to secure a breakthrough run at the French Open.
  The 10th seed from Montreal was drawn into a bracket at the clay-court Grand Slam that could include a fourth-round matchup against No. 5 Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece.
  The two young stars have met eight times on the ATP Tour, with Tsitispas holding a 5-3 edge.
  Auger-Aliassime won the last meeting in the final of last year’s Rotterdam Open for his fir
  
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• Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack

  25-05-2023 19:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group was sentenced Thursday to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a weekslong plot that culminated in his followers attacking the U.S. Capitol in a bid to keep President Joe Biden out of the White House after the 2020 election.
  Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far in the hundreds of Capito
  
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• Inspections to begin on First Nation due to wildfire in Northwest Territories

  25-05-2023 19:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAY RIVER, N.W.T. — The K’atl’odeeche First Nation says it is to begin inspecting buildings today on the reserve, but it is not yet safe for residents to return as a wildfire continues to burn.
  About 3,500 residents from the reserve and nearby town of Hay River in the southern Northwest Territories were forced to leave their homes on May 14.
  An evacuation order has been reduced to an evacuation alert in Hay River, meaning the general public can return, but people should be prep
  
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• Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney loses attempt to have lawsuit thrown out

  25-05-2023 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Alberta’s top court is denying an attempt by former Alberta premier Jason Kenney to have a defamation lawsuit against him thrown out.
  Kenney is facing a lawsuit by five environmental groups, which was filed after an inquiry into whether the groups were using foreign funding and misinformation to landlock Alberta oil.
  The Allan inquiry found the groups were doing nothing wrong and simply exercising their freedom of speech.But the groups charge that Kenney continued to deliberately misrepres
  
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• Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec join Ottawa in investigating ChatGPT

  25-05-2023 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  EDMONTON — The governments of Alberta, British Columbia and Quebec are joining the federal privacy commissioner in investigating the company behind the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, ChatGPT.
  Alberta’s privacy authority says the joint investigation would see if OpenAI, which is the parent company of ChatGPT, obtained valid consent from Canadians to collect, use and disclose their personal information via its chatbot.
  ChatGPT, which was launched in November, uses already exi
  
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• Man arrested after car collides with gates of Downing Street, where UK prime minister lives

  25-05-2023 18:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — A car collided Thursday with the gates of Downing Street in central London, where the British prime minister’s home and offices are located, setting off a rapid security response in one of London’s most-fortified sites.
  The Metropolitan Police force said a man was arrested Thursday afternoon at the scene on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving. There were no reports of injuries.
  It was unclear whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was in his office at t
  
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• RCMP invites Hope residents to community policing event Thursday night

  25-05-2023 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HOPE — The Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment in Chilliwack is on the final leg of a series of community meetings designed to solicit feedback from the very residents it serves between Chilliwack and Boston Bar.
  Hope residents are invited to directly share their input on community policing strategies for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment (UFVRD) at a meeting Thursday night, May 25 at the Hope Recreation Centre, 1005 6th Avenue, starting at 6 p.m.At a minimum, As RCMP personn
  
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• Public safety minister announces funding for Akwesasne after migrant deaths

  25-05-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The federal government is announcing funding to help the Akwesasne Mohawk Territory fight organized crime, after the death of eight migrants in the St. Lawrence River earlier this year.
  Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is in the community today where he’s announcing more than $12 million in funding for policing and other initiatives over the next five years.
  The money includes a $10.4-million funding renewal to help the Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service fight organized c
  
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• More than one-quarter of Quebec teachers not legally qualified: auditor general

  25-05-2023 18:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Quebec’s auditor general says more than one-quarter of teachers who worked in the province’s classrooms during the 2020-21 school year weren’t legally qualified.
  Guylaine Leclerc presented her annual report today, revealing that more than 30,000 people who taught in schools during that period did not earn a teaching certificate or a provisional qualification.
  The Quebec government has said it turns to uncertified people to teach in schools because of a shortage of qualified tea
  
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• Run for Mom draws record number of participants on Mother’s Day in Chilliwack

  25-05-2023 17:40 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — The Fraser Valley Health Care Foundation says the 23rd annual Run for Mom event on Sunday, May 14 along the Vedder Rotary Trail in Chilliwack attracted a record-high number of registrations this year.In a press release issued Wednesday (May 24), FVHCF reports 163 attendees turned out for this year’s event, which raises funds for the maternity ward at Chilliwack General Hospital.“The turnout for Run for Mom was fantastic” said Liz Harris, executive director fo
  
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• Opposition MPs to seek testimony from foreign interference watchdog David Johnston

  25-05-2023 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Opposition MPs are looking to put former governor general David Johnston, who is investigating allegations of foreign interference, in the hot seat.
  Members of a parliamentary procedure committee are set to discuss an invitation to Johnston at a meeting this afternoon. 
  The Conservative, NDP and Bloc MPs said in a letter earlier this week that they want Johnston to explain why he decided against recommending a public inquiry on foreign meddling.
  The special rapporteur release
  
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• Canada’s Chan, Rochette named ambassadors for 2024 figure skating worlds in Montreal

  25-05-2023 17:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — Canadian figure skating great Patrick Chan still remembers the feeling of competing at a world championships on home soil.
  “It’s the closest thing to competing at the Olympic Games in Vancouver,” Chan said.
  Skate Canada announced Thursday that Chan and fellow former Olympian Joannie Rochette will be event ambassadors when the World Figure Skating Championships return to Canada next year in Montreal from March 18-24.
  It’s Montreal’s first time hostin
  
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• Chirping sounds lead airport officials to bag filled with smuggled parrot eggs

  25-05-2023 17:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) — The 24 bright green baby parrots began chirping and bobbing their heads the second anyone neared the large cages that have been their homes since hatching in March.
  The Central American natives, seized from a smuggler at Miami International Airport, are being raised by the Rare Species Conservatory Foundation — a round-the-clock effort that includes five hand feedings a day in a room filled with large cages.At just 9 weeks old, these parrots have already surv
  
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• Lake Louise men’s downhills tentatively on next season’s racing schedule

  25-05-2023 17:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — Men’s World Cup downhill ski races are tentatively scheduled to return to Lake Louise, Alta., this year and continue over 30 years of racing there.
  The international governing body of skiing’s calendar has the men competing Nov. 22-26, 2023, at the ski resort in Banff National Park, but with a “to be confirmed” designation.
  Lake Louise has been the traditional opener of the men’s speed season, but it would be the second stop in 2023-24 after Zermatt-
  
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• South Carolina renews abortion ban around 6 weeks of pregnancy, setting up legal fight

  25-05-2023 17:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s governor signed a bill Thursday banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy, setting up an anticipated legal challenge from providers.
  The law, which goes into effect immediately, restores the ban South Carolina had in place when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year. The ban was overturned by the state’s highest court as a violation of the state constitution’s right to privacy.
  That decision had left abort
  
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• YOUR PERSPECTIVE: Putting people first

  25-05-2023 17:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  For many of us in B.C., the May long weekend is the unofficial start of summer. Whether it’s the first camping trip or the first lake swim of the year, it reminds us of all we have to look forward to over the coming months.
  This summer I can’t wait to spend time in my community, visiting some of my favourite local farmers markets and festivals. As an MLA, summer is one of the best times for me to talk to people, to get a sense of what they want to see from their provincial government
  
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• Blazers’ Logan Stankoven eyeing ‘surreal’ moment to hoist Memorial Cup in hometown

  25-05-2023 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Lifting the Memorial Cup in front of his hometown fans would be a dream come true for Kamloops Blazers star Logan Stankoven.
  The 20-year-old centre leads his Blazers into the four-team Canadian major junior championship on Friday. Kamloops fell in the Western Hockey League’s Western Conference final to the eventual champion Seattle Thunderbirds in six games on May 8, but as Memorial Cup hosts the Blazers get a second chance to win it all.
  “Would be pretty surreal,” Stankoven to
  
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• A capsule look at the 2023 Memorial Cup

  25-05-2023 15:15 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A capsule look at the four teams competing in the Memorial Cup in Kamloops, B.C.
  Teams are listed by conference, along with their respective regular season records. The tournament runs from Friday to June 4.
  WHL, Seattle Thunderbirds (54-11-1-2)
  The Thunderbirds made the tournament for just the third time in franchise history after winning their second-ever Western Hockey League title on May 19. Seattle swiftly put away Eastern Conference power Winnipeg Ice in five games. 
  Led by Canadian w
  
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• Canada’s weather-delayed opener at CONCACAF U-20 tournament rescheduled for Friday

  25-05-2023 15:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Canada’s weather-delayed opener against Jamaica at the CONCACAF Women’s U-20 Championship has been rescheduled for Friday.
  The two teams had been slated to meet Wednesday at Estadio Olimpico Felix Sanchez but the game, along with the U.S.-Panama matchup in the nightcap of the Group A doubleheader, was called off due to bad weather.
  Canada and seven other countries are fighting for CONCACAF’s three berths at next year’s FIFA U-20 W
  
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• In The News for May 25 : New rules for reporting reactions to natural health products

  25-05-2023 10:18 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 May 25 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  A new plan to force hospitals to report adverse effects of “natural health products” such as herbal remedies and supplements has come as a surprise to manufacturers, who say they were blindsided by the proposed change.
  The federal government included the plan in the 2023
  
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• Industry blindsided by Ottawa’s plan to track ill effects of natural health products

  25-05-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A new plan to force hospitals to report adverse effects of “natural health products” such as herbal remedies and supplements has come as a surprise to manufacturers, who say they were blindsided by the proposed change.
  The federal government included the plan in the 2023 budget bill, which is still making its way through the House of Commons.
  It would see natural health products fall under the same category as pharmaceuticals when it comes to how they are monitored onc
  
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• Canadian researcher helps define new standards for diagnosing concussions

  25-05-2023 10:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Remembering what happened after she hit her head on the ice while playing hockey is tough for Meg Kerekes, but she knows how that particular headache felt — “like a one-pound weight on the spot that got hit.”
  “I forget if they took me out or if I finished the rest of the game. I think I might have finished the game,” she said of thesuspected concussion in September 2018 when she was playing amateur hockey during her high school years in Vancouver.
  
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• BC EggFest barbecue festival is back in Chilliwack this weekend ... - Mission City Record

  25-05-2023 09:00
  
  BC EggFest barbecue festival is back in Chilliwack this weekend ...  Mission City Record
  
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