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• Unions holds rally in Iqaluit as housing authority strike nears 70-day mark

  26-05-2023 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  IQALUIT, Nunavut — Northern unions are calling on the federal government to stop the use of replacement workers as a strike by unionized staff with the Iqaluit Housing Authority nears the 70-day mark.
  The Nunavut Employees Union and delegates of the Public Service Alliance of Canada North rallied in support of the 13 striking workers in Iqaluit, where a union convention is being held.They called on federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Reagan, who has promised to introduce legislation bar
  
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• Muslim, civil liberties groups challenge Quebec school prayer room ban in court

  26-05-2023 23:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A civil rights organization and a national Muslim advocacy group are the latest to launch a legal challenge of Quebec’s decree banning prayer rooms in public schools.
  The National Council of Canadian Muslims and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association are seeking a judicial review of the government decree on behalf of a plaintiff whose teenage son had sought a space to pray along with some other Muslim students at a Montreal-area high school last October.
  The school provi
  
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• Highway 1 eastbound slow through Langley due to vehicle incident

  26-05-2023 23:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGLEY — Drive B.C. tweeted Friday afternoon that a vehicle incident near 216 Street has blocked the left lane of eastbound Highway 1.
  “Reminder: Eastbound vehicle incident before 216 Street blocking the left lane. Expect delays due to congestion,” Drive B.C. posted on Twitter at 1:44 p.m. Friday afternoon.
  More specifically, Drive B.C. says a vehicle incident between 208 Street and Glover Road has resulted in the left lane being blocked. The next update from Drive B.C. is 2:1
  
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• Traffic stop in Popkum lands two guys in jail for warrants, coke, meth and fentanyl

  26-05-2023 22:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  POPKUM — While most people were still asleep, two guys inside a vehicle in the middle of the night near the Popkum roundabout last week were up to no good.On Friday, May 19, at 3:50 a.m., an Agassiz RCMP member initiated a traffic stop in the area of the Popkum roundabout, where Esso and Tim Hortons are located. Two men were observed in the vehicle and both were found to have outstanding warrants for their arrest, according to a statement from Sgt. Mike Sargeant of the Agassiz RCMP detachm
  
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• Go By Bike week returns to Chilliwack - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  26-05-2023 22:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Missing elderly man found deceased

  26-05-2023 21:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — An elderly man from Vancouver Island who went missing last week and was last seen in Hope has been found deceased.In a statement from Agassiz RCMP Sgt. Michael Sargent, media relations spokesperson for the Upper Fraser Valley Regional Detachment, the RCMP confirmed Friday morning that Leslie Desfosses, 89, of Saanich has been located deceased.“Our sincere condolences to the family and friends,” Sgt. Sergeant said. “The RCMP would like to thank the media and p
  
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• Chilliwack prolific offender receives conditional sentence for credit ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-05-2023 21:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Chilliwack Prolific Offender Receives Conditional Sentence For ... - Abbotsford News

  26-05-2023 21:45 via news.google.com
  
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• New system will bring families of immigrants to Canada faster: Fraser

  26-05-2023 21:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says the government is using a new system to bring spouses, children and parents of recent immigrants to Canada more quickly. 
  Family members who want to move to Canada can apply to join their sponsor while they wait for their permanent residency to be approved, but they’re often denied the necessary visa because of concerns they’re unlikely to leave once it expires.
  The new system uses advanced analytics to identify people who hav
  
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• Americans should be exempt from Canada’s foreign housing tax, members of Congress say

  26-05-2023 21:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is urging the State Department to ask that Americans be exempted from Canada’s tax on foreign property owners.
  The group has written to Secretary of State Antony Blinken to complain that Ottawa is unfairly punishing U.S. citizens who own vacation properties north of the border. 
  The so-called underused housing tax took effect at the start of the year to discourage foreign real estate speculators from driving up housing prices.&nb
  
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• GOP-led Texas House to vote Saturday on possible impeachment of state Attorney General Ken Paxton

  26-05-2023 21:00 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House of Representatives will vote Saturday on whether to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton, an investigating panel announced Friday.
  The House will consider a resolution calling for Paxton’s impeachment at 1 p.m. Saturday, according to a statement released by the House Committee on General Investigating.
  The GOP-led committee spent months quietly looking into Paxton and recommended Thursday that the state’s top lawyer be impeached on 20 a
  
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• Aide: North Dakota Gov. Burgum running for GOP presidential nomination

  26-05-2023 20:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Two-term North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum, a former computer software entrepreneur, is running for the Republican presidential nomination, a political aide familiar with the plans told The Associated Press on Friday, putting him in an already crowded field dominated by ex-President Donald Trump,
  The aide said Burgum plans to launch his campaign with a June 7 event in Fargo, the largest city in North Dakota. The aide was speaking on the condition of anonymity because the event had not been publicize
  
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• Residential school memorial in downtown Vancouver closed after Indigenous ceremony

  26-05-2023 20:10 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The City of Vancouver says it has closed a residential school temporary memorial but will continue working with area First Nations to find a permanent space to honour victims and survivors.
  A statement from the city says a private burning ceremony was held Sunday before the memorial at Robson Square, in the city’s downtown core, was respectfully closed.
  The city says staff and volunteers have removed remaining items and structures at the Robson Square plaza and it will be
  
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• First female gynaecologist to begin working soon at Chilliwack General Hospital

  26-05-2023 19:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Once the credentialing and licensing process are completed, Dr. Nicolene Du Toit will become the first female obstetrician-gynaecologist to work at Chilliwack General Hospital.Dr. Du Toit, who was introduced at a Chilliwack Medical Staff Association function Thursday night (May 25) at the Chilliwack Curling Club, will join two male gynaecologists in Chilliwack sometime in the coming months, adding a valuable doctor to the roster of obstetrician-gynaecologists at CGH.Currently,
  
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• Auger-Aliassime, Andreescu lead Canadian singles hopes at French Open

  26-05-2023 19:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Canadian tennis scene reached new heights in recent years thanks to a young core of domestic talent that broke through on the sport’s biggest stages.
  A cooling-off period appears to have settled in this season. Canada’s top players will look to rectify that at the upcoming French Open. 
  At No. 10, Felix Auger-Aliassime is the highest-seeded Canadian at the second Grand Slam of the season. Denis Shapovalov, who also helped anchor Canada to a Davis Cup title last fall, is the
  
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• Disgruntled Italian Federico Bernardeschi benched for TFC game against D.C. United

  26-05-2023 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Disgruntled Italian star Federico Bernardeschi has been benched for Toronto FC’s game Saturday against D.C. United.
  Coach Bob Bradley said Bernardeschi is being held out in what he called a coach’s decision. He denied the move was disciplinary, saying the decision was made following a week of internal discussions.
  Toronto (2-5-7) is mired at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings. And it has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons this week in the wake
  
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• Canadian Derk Gee finishes second for fourth time at Giro d;italia

  26-05-2023 19:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TRE CIME DI LAVAREDO, Italy — Canadian Derek Gee recorded his fourth second-place finish at the Giro d’Italia on Friday, finishing behind Colombian Santiago Buitrago in a gruelling Stage 19.
  Buitrago finished 51 seconds ahead of Gee and one minute 46 seconds ahead of Magnus Cort and Primoz Roglič, who just missed out on bonus seconds. Buitrago caught Gee, the lone Canadian in the race, with 1.5 kilometres to go.
  The 25-year-old from Ottawa, in his first Grand Tour event, has six
  
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• Iowa law limits gender identity instruction, removes books depicting sex acts from school libraries

  26-05-2023 19:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa teachers will be banned from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through grade six, and all books depicting sex acts will be removed from school libraries, under a bill Republican Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Friday.
  The new law is among similar measures that have been approved in other Republican-dominated statehouses around the country. As with many of those proposals, Iowa Republicans framed their action as a commonsense effo
  
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• From Italy to B.C.: Jevoni Robinson has taken an unusual route to the CFL

  26-05-2023 19:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It was an assistant basketball coach who first spotted Jevoni Robinson and started his unlikely path to the CFL.
  Robinson was enrolled at North Carolina State and playing a pick-up game of basketball when assistant coach Bobby Lutz walked by.
  “He discovered me and he’s the one who actually, you know, pioneered my basketball career. He’s the one that brought me on,” Robinson said in an interview at the B.C. Lions’ training camp in Kamloops. “That’s how it
  
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• Fundraiser at Corky’s Irish Pub Friday night for man hoping to meet his family

  26-05-2023 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Corky’s Pub in Chilliwack will host a fundraiser Friday night (May 26) for a Chilliwack man who hopes to meet his family in Ontario for the first time.
  Ashley Johnson, an outreach support worker for adults with disabilities here in Chilliwack, says a client named Bob that she personally knows has been without family connections for 40 years. Around Christmas last year, Bob was able to connect with family in Mission, B.C.“He now has an opportunity to meet his Ontari
  
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• Central Vancouver Island to get cancer centre at Nanaimo hospital, says B.C. premier

  26-05-2023 18:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO, B.C. — Premier David Eby says the city of Nanaimo on central Vancouver Island is the latest British Columbia community to receive government approval for a cancer care centre.
  The centre will be located at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital.
  The announcement follows Thursday’s long-awaited approval of a new cancer treat facility at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops.
  The government also recently approved temporarily sending B.C. cancer patients to clinics in neighbouring Washi
  
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• Canada rugby coach among sport’s elite at Barbarians vs. World XV all-star game

  26-05-2023 18:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  As a former Welsh international, Kingsley Jones is used to being one of several Joneses on the roster.
  This weekend, the Canada rugby coach is assisting an Australian namesake in Eddie Jones with the two coaching the Barbarians against a World XV in Sunday’s Killik Cup rugby game at Twickenham.
  Kingsley Jones is savouring the moment. The two all-star sides feature more than 1,250 international caps between them.
  “It’s been excellent … To just have a couple of meetings wi
  
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• Judge says fire retardant drops are polluting streams but allows use to continue

  26-05-2023 18:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A judge ruled Friday that chemical retardant dropped on wildfires by the U.S. Forest Service is polluting streams in western states in violation of federal law, but said that it can keep being used to fight fires.
  The ruling from U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen in Montana came after environmentalists sued the government for dropping the red slurry material into waterways hundreds of times over the past decade.
  Government officials say chemical fire retardant is
  
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• About half of Canada’s environment ministers skip meeting on biodiversity loss

  26-05-2023 18:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — More than half of the provinces’ ministers have skipped out on a meeting with the feds and Indigenous leaders to discuss halting land and water loss in Canada. 
  Environment ministers from Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and the Northwest Territories attended the meeting. 
  The other provinces and territories sent their deputy ministers.
  The Liberal government is leading a 2030 biodiversity strategy to protect 30 per cent of land and
  
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• Death of Vancouver Island teen prompts ongoing criminal case, pleas for information

  26-05-2023 18:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DUNCAN, B.C. — RCMP on Vancouver Island say an investigation into the death of a 15-year-old girl in Duncan, B.C., earlier this month has been an “extreme priority” for officers.
  A news release from the North Cowichan/Duncan detachment confirms the teen, who hasn’t been officially identified, was found south of Duncan on May 15, semi-conscious and “under suspicious circumstances.”
  She died a short time later in hospital and the release says officers have thoro
  
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• Kevin Falcon pushes for widening of Hwy. 1 to Chilliwack during visit to Abbotsford

  26-05-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Expansion of Highway 1, infrastructure investment for flood mitigation, and holding government to account for the burdens on small business were just some of the topics that B.C. United leader Kevin Falcon touched on during a visit to Abbotsford this week.
  In a press release issued Friday morning (May 26), the Abbotsford Chamber of Commerce hosted Falcon, leader of the Official Opposition, for a sold-out Leaders Lunch event with Abbotsford’s business community this week.
  
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• Florida man pleads not guilty after Canada-U.S. human smuggling tragedy in Manitoba

  26-05-2023 17:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DULUTH, Minn. — A Florida man has pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges after the frozen bodies of a family of four migrants were found near the Canada-U.S. border last year. 
  Steve Shand, 48, entered the plea today via videoconference as part of his long-delayed arraignment in Duluth, Minn. 
  Shand faces one count each of bringing people into the U.S. illegally and of transporting them inside the country. 
  He was arrested in January 2022 in a remote area of northern
  
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• Montreal returns focus to MLS ahead of opening-day rematch with Miami

  26-05-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — With a spot in the Canadian Championship final booked, CF Montreal will now turn its attention back to Major League Soccer and an opening-day rematch of when it hosts Inter Miami on Saturday.
  Montreal and Miami have had similar roller-coaster seasons leading to identical records of 5-8-0. 
  After an excellent start to the campaign, Miami has struggled to find its footing and has had difficulty stringing together wins. A new-look attack filled with talent was brought in after
  
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• Judge halts South Carolina’s new stricter abortion law until state Supreme Court review

  26-05-2023 17:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A judge on Friday put a temporary halt to South Carolina’s new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
  The ruling by Judge Clifton Newman came just about 24 hours after Gov. Henry McMaster signed the bill. The decision means South Carolina reverts back to a ban at about 20 weeks after fertilization.
  “The status quo should be maintained until the Supreme Court reviews its decision,&rdquo
  
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• Violent, dangerous man sought by Abbotsford Police Department

  26-05-2023 17:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The Abbotsford Police Department is looking to locate a dangerous man with a lengthy rap sheet that includes violence against police.
  The Abbotsford Police Department posted on Facebook Friday morning (May 26) that it is public assistance in locating 28-year-old Jordan Cishecki, who is wanted on numerous charges of assaulting a police officer with a weapon, flight from police, dangerous driving, possession of stolen property, and prohibited driving.
  Cishecki is described as 5&
  
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• Two-time national champion Keegan Messing retires from competitive figure skating

  26-05-2023 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Two-time Canadian men’s champion Keegan Messing has retired from competitive skating.
  Messing, from Anchorage, Alaska, has represented Canada on the world stage since 2014.
  The 31-year-old won the Canadian title in 2022 and defended it in January at the Canadian championships in Oshawa, Ont.
  He won gold medals at the 2018 and 2022 Nebelhorn Trophy events, silver at Skate Canada International in 2018 and silver at the 2023 ISU Four Continents Championships.
  Messing represente
  
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• Hockey Canada chair on post-scandal response: ‘We did a lot of listening’

  26-05-2023 16:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hugh Fraser thought he had a decent handle on his new role.
  For the most part, that was true.
  Weeks into chairing Hockey Canada’s newly minted board of directors — and with plenty already on his plate as he looked to help resurrect the scandal-plagued national sport organization following months of cringe-inducing, in-the-muck headlines — Fraser was in Halifax for January’s world junior hockey championship final.
  The host country secured a dramatic overtime victory to cap
  
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• Fire still burning at Montreal heritage building that once housed monastery

  26-05-2023 16:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A major fire at a Montreal heritage building that broke out Thursday evening was still not out as of early today.
  The fire broke out just before 5 p.m. at the Monastère du Bon-Pasteur, a 19th century former monastery, and quickly became a five-alarm blaze requiring the intervention of 150 firefighters.
  The building located in the heart of downtown Montreal was built in 1846 and retained its religious vocation until the 1960s.
  It was formally recognized as a heritage site
  
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• Teck Resources promotes Ian Anderson to chief commercial officer

  26-05-2023 14:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. has promoted Ian Anderson to the post of chief commercial officer as the company continues work on a plan to separate its base metal and steelmaking coal operations.
  Anderson assumed the role effective May 16, succeeding Réal Foley, who is expected to help with the transition until his retirement in late November.
  Anderson was most recently Teck’s vice-president, logistics.
  The Vancouver-based mining company also announced that André Star
  
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• EDITORIAL: Dangerous speeding season is upon us - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  26-05-2023 14:00 via news.google.com
  
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• In The News for May 26 : Are Canadian homeowners covered in cases of flooding?

  26-05-2023 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 May 26 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  As the spring season brings higher flood risk to Canadians, as seen in British Columbia recently, experts say many homeowners remain without adequate insurance to cover extreme weather’s damage to their homes.
  “I would say that Canadians in general are not truly aware of
  
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• Feds warned about risks of delaying 24 Sussex decision almost a year before it closed

  26-05-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Almost a year before the closure of 24 Sussex Drive due to disrepair and an infestation of rodents, the chairman of the National Capital Commission’s board of directors warned that further delaying a cabinet decision on the fate of the residence would put the whole structure at risk.
  The mansion, which sits on a prime riverfront property a few kilometres from Parliament Hill, served as the home for Canada’s prime ministers between 1950 and 2015.
  Concerns about the dete
  
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• Indiana doctor reprimanded for talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old’s abortion

  26-05-2023 05:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana board decided Thursday night to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she violated patient privacy laws by taking publicly about providing an abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from neighboring Ohio.
  The state Medical Licensing Board voted that Dr. Caitlin Bernard didn’t abide by privacy laws by telling a newspaper reporter about the girl’s treatment in a case that became a political flashpoint in the national abortion debate days
  
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• Joe Pavelski scores in OT, Stars beat Golden Knights 3-2 to avoid West sweep

  26-05-2023 05:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Joe Pavelski scored on a power play at 3:18 of overtime and the Dallas Stars avoided a sweep in the Western Conference final with a 3-2 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday night.
  Jason Robertson scored twice for his first career multigoal playoff game for Dallas, which played without suspended captain Jamie Benn. Jake Oettinger had 37 saves, two nights after he was pulled 7:10 into Game 3 after allowing three goals on five shots.
  Benn was suspended two games by
  
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• Lululemon promises 2,600 new jobs after exemption from some immigration rules

  26-05-2023 02:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver-based company Lululemon says it will expand its headquarters in the city and create 2,600 jobs over the next five years.
  The announcement comes months after the federal government granted the company the ability to hire foreign workers for certain highly skilled positions, including management jobs, software engineers and computer technicians, without needing to apply for a labour market impact assessment.
  Federal Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne says if Ottawa ha
  
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• Redblacks host Alouettes as Bob Dyce looks for players to perform

  26-05-2023 01:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa Redblacks management and its coaching staff have liked what they’ve seen from training camp, but are excited to see what its players can do in game action.
  After two weeks of training camp Bob Dyce and the Ottawa Redblacks are ready to put the plan into action.
  The Redblacks host the Montreal Alouettes Friday evening in the first of two pre-season games. Ottawa will play its second game June 1 against the Toronto Argonauts in Guelph, ON.
  Dyce was named interim head coach last Octobe
  
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• Eby close to calling byelections in ridings once held by former premier, minister

  26-05-2023 00:51 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LANGFORD, B.C. — Premier David Eby says British Columbia’s legislature will have two new members this fall after he calls byelections in vacant ridings once held by former premier John Horgan and cabinet minister Melanie Mark.
  Eby says he will announce the dates for byelections in Greater Victoria’s Langford-Juan de Fuca riding and Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Vancouver-Mount Pleasant constituency “very shortly.”
  The premier says he will not set late summer e
  
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