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• Plan for fate of crumbling 24 Sussex expected by fall, minister tells MPs

  29-05-2023 23:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Public Services and Procurement Minister Helena Jaczek says the Liberal government expects to have a plan for the future of 24 Sussex Drive by the fall.Jaczek appeared today before a House committee on government operations and was pressed by Opposition MPs on when her government intends to make a decision about the official residence of the prime minister.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family have not taken up residence in the mansion, which was closed to staff last fall d
  
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• Parliament votes down Conservative motion against safe supply of drugs

  29-05-2023 23:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has failed to persuade the House of Commons to condemn the Liberal government’s approach to fighting drug addiction.
  In a vote of 209 to 113 today, MPs defeated a motion presented by Poilievre.
  It took aim at the federal government’s harm reduction policies, but focused mainly on its decision to fund the supply of pharmaceutical alternatives as a replacement for certain illicit drugs.  
  The government has pointed to experts who
  
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• UFV to grant Honorary Degree to Dr. Bonnie Henry, Naxaxalhts’i Sonny McHalsie, Mike Retasket, and Judith Soon

  29-05-2023 23:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — The University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) is set to recognize four individuals with honorary degrees at its upcoming convocation ceremonies in June. In a news release, UFV says the four have made significant contributions to society and their communities.
  One of the recipients is Dr. Bonnie Henry, who played a pivotal role in leading British Columbia’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. UFV says Dr. Henry, the Provincial Health Officer of BC, has dedicated her career to
  
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• Quebec, Ottawa pledge $300 million for GM electric car battery component plant

  29-05-2023 22:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  BÉCANCOUR, Que. — The governments of Quebec and Canada are announcing $300 million in funding for a factory that will make components for electric vehicle batteries in Bécancour, Que., located about halfway between Montreal and Quebec City.
  The $600-million factory, a joint project between automaker General Motors and South Korean industrial materials maker POSCO Future M, was first announced by the companies last year.
  The factory will manufacture cathode-active materials, a
  
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• UFV men's soccer team signs striker from Chilliwack and winger ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-05-2023 22:28 via news.google.com
  
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• UFV Men’s Soccer Team Signs Striker From Chilliwack And Winger ... - Abbotsford News

  29-05-2023 22:28 via news.google.com
  
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• B.C.'s booming forest sector highlighted at global conference in ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-05-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Do you have the ugliest lawn in Chilliwack? City contest starts with ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-05-2023 21:59 via news.google.com
  
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• Winnipeg’s Katona looks to get back in UFC via a second go on ‘The Ultimate Fighter’

  29-05-2023 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Brad (Superman) Katona earned his way into the UFC by winning Season 27 of “The Ultimate Fighter” in 2018.
  One win and two losses later, the Winnipeg bantamweight was released by the mixed martial arts promotion. In order to get back in, Katona has returned to the reality TV show for Season 31, which debuts Tuesday.
  The show divides fighters into two teams living under the same roof in a Las Vegas mansion, isolated from the outside world as they train and fight. The last competitor s
  
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• CP NewsAlert: B.C. police say remains of Madison Scott, last seen in 2011, are found

  29-05-2023 21:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANDERHOOF, B.C. — Police in B.C. say the remains of Madison Scott who went missing in May 2011 have been found and they’re searching a rural property in Vanderhoof that is tied to the discovery. 
  RCMP say Scott’s remains were found “days ago,” but couldn’t say exactly when and where they were located. 
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Family of Quebec woman slain in 2017 suing police, says negligence led to killing

  29-05-2023 21:14 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The family of a Quebec woman who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2017 has filed a lawsuit against the local police department, alleging that negligence by officers led directly to her death.
  Daphné Huard-Boudreault, 18, had been in contact with police several times on the day of her death and was killed when she went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment in Mont-St-Hilaire, Que., to retrieve items.
  A police officer had said she would accompany Huard-Boudreault to the
  
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• New Democrat MP says she is target of foreign interference by China

  29-05-2023 20:54 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — New Democrat MP Jenny Kwan says Canada’s spy agency has told her she is an ongoing target of the Chinese government.
  The Vancouver member of Parliament says she was briefed Friday by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service
  She says CSIS informed her she was singled out by China in the 2019 federal election and that she remains a target because of her criticism of the Chinese government.
  Kwan says she cannot reveal specifics of Beijing’s alleged actions without break
  
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• Fraser Valley East communities participate in Gutsy Walk ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-05-2023 20:41 via news.google.com
  
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• Advisers on unmarked graves won’t work with Hague-based organization Ottawa hired

  29-05-2023 20:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A panel of Indigenous experts says it will not participate in engagement sessions hosted by an international organization Ottawa hired to provide advice on identifying possible human remains in unmarked graves.
  The National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials says today that after giving the matter careful thought, it has decided against involvement in the process. 
  The federal government and the National Centre for Truth and Reconc
  
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• Nun whose body shows little decay since 2019 death draws hundreds to rural Missouri

  29-05-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it’s a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as people think.
  Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was exhumed in April, according to a statement from the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, in Gower, Missouri.The nuns had been preparing for the addition of a St. Joseph shrine, and that involv
  
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• Man pleads guilty to murder, assault in B.C. library stabbing spree

  29-05-2023 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A man who stabbed numerous people in and around the Lynn Valley Library in North Vancouver two years ago has pleaded guilty to murder and other charges. 
  Yannick Bandaogo pleaded guilty in a New Westminster, B.C., court to second-degree murder, several charges of attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault. 
  Bandaogo was arrested shortly after the attack in March 2021 near the library where a woman was killed and six other people were hurt. 
  
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• Lawyers raising concerns new bail laws won’t be Charter compliant

  29-05-2023 19:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Criminal lawyers are raising concerns that proposed changes to Canada’s bail laws won’t be constitutional, as they eagerly await a statement explaining why the federal Liberals think the reforms comply with the Charter.
  Vancouver criminal lawyer Kyla Lee says the federal government’s proposed changes making it harder for some repeat violent offenders to get bail might not be Charter compliant, given that bail is a constitutional right. 
  The legislation curre
  
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• Canadian tennis player Gabriela Dabrowski a perennial contender in doubles

  29-05-2023 19:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  A decisive doubles victory in the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers last month helped Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski carry “a pretty good level” into her tournaments leading up to the French Open.
  Now she’s hoping to build on it at the second Grand Slam of the tennis season. 
  Dabrowski, ranked 18th in the world in doubles, will team with Brazil’s Luisa Stefani as the eighth seeds in the women’s competition and American Nathaniel Lammons in mixed doubles at Rol
  
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• Toronto FC, no stranger to drama and power struggles, looks for wins and some harmony

  29-05-2023 19:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Toronto FC is no stranger to drama or power struggles over the years.
  In 2014, the MLS club fired manager Ryan Nelsen and virtually his entire coaching staff in the wake of Nelsen’s public dressing down of then-general manager Tim Bezbatchenko. The dismissal, with unhappy star striker Jermain Defoe in the background, was effectively engineered by Bezbatchenko, who had summoned local reporters two days earlier to challenge his team “to take it up a notch.”
  TFC was 9-9-6, one pla
  
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• Northeastern B.C. wildfire grows as evacuations return north of Fort St. John

  29-05-2023 19:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — The British Columbia Wildfire Service says a blaze north of Fort St. John has grown significantly, forcing renewed evacuation orders and alerts. 
  The service website says the Donnie Creek wildfire charred an additional 275 square kilometres over the weekend.
  The fire, approximately 160 kilometres north of Fort St. John, remains out of control and is estimated to have burned a total of 1,575 square kilometres of trees and bush since it was sparked by lightning on
  
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• Minister reviewing CBC’s mandate with eye to making it less reliant on advertising

  29-05-2023 19:36 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is hinting that the Liberal government’s online news bill could help the national public broadcaster become less reliant on advertising dollars. 
  Rodriguez says he has begun reviewing CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate, including ways the government can provide more funds to the public broadcaster. 
  Rodriguez’s mandate letter from the prime minister says the goal in providing more money is to eliminate advertising during news a
  
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• Ex-El Salvador President Mauricio Funes sentenced to 14 years for negotiating with gangs

  29-05-2023 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — A judge sentenced former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes to 14 years in prison Monday for negotiating with gangs during his administration.
  Funes’ trial began in April with the former leader living in Nicaragua. El Salvador changed its laws last year to allow trials in absentia.
  Prosecutors had accused Funes of illicit association and failure to perform his duties for the gang truce negotiated in 2012. Funes had denied negotiating with the gangs
  
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• Sail Canada says coach fired because lack of money, not pregnancy

  29-05-2023 18:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Lisa Ross wants her job back.
  The two-time Olympic sailor for Canada was named to the national sailing team’s coaching staff three years ago.
  Nine days after telling Sail Canada in March that she was pregnant and would take maternity leave later this year, Ross was fired.
  Ross was in Andora, Italy, where she’d been coaching Canadian sailors at the European championship. She was about to head to Spain for more competitions and training camps.
  The 46-year-old from Mahone Bay, N.S., sai
  
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• ‘Tragic accident’ blamed for recent death of giraffe at Calgary Zoo

  29-05-2023 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — The Calgary Zoo says a “tragic accident” led to the recent death of one of its adult Masai giraffes.
  A statement from the zoo says a female giraffe named Emara died May 19 after tangling one of her horns in a cable surrounding her enclosure.
  The statement says a necropsy revealed Emara fell against the enclosure fence and died almost instantly of a broken neck.
  Emara, who had just turned 12, came to Calgary from the San Diego Zoo in 2016.
  The statement says she was a
  
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• Highway 1 closed westbound in Abbotsford by truck crash

  29-05-2023 15:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Abbotsford police say a large transport truck has collided with an overpass in Abbotsford, closing the westbound land of Highway #1 at the Number 3 Road exit.The crash occurred around 6 a.m., just as the rush hour was beginning.
  A large fire ensued as the truck and its load came to a stop.
  The Number 3 Road overpass has been closed in each direction while emergency crews tend to the scene. The overpass will not be opened until it can be inspected and its integrity can be confi
  
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• Canada’s Shapovalov advances, Auger-Aliassime ousted at French Open

  29-05-2023 15:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS — Denis Shapovalov advanced to the second round, while fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime earned an early exit at the French Open on Monday.
  Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., struggled at times but outlasted unseeded American Brandon Nakashima to post a 6-4, 7-5, 4-6, 3-6, 6-3 opening-round win.
  Shapovalov, the No. 26 seed, committed 15 double faults in a match that lasted three hours and 47 minutes.
  The Canadian will meet Italy’s Matteo Arnaldi in the second round.  
  
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• Vancouver police investigating fatal shooting linked to gang conflict ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-05-2023 15:00 via news.google.com
  
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• CP NewsAlert: Halifax wildfire still out of control, thousands forced from homes

  29-05-2023 14:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HALIFAX — A wildfire that has damaged or destroyed dozens of homes in suburban Halifax is still  burning out of control.
  Halifax deputy fire Chief David Meldrum says an estimated 14,000 people were forced to flee their homes after the rapidly spreading fire broke out Sunday afternoon northwest of Halifax.
  More coming.The Canadian Press
  
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• Fire chief in Iowa says one person rescued overnight from building collapse in Davenport

  29-05-2023 14:22 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — One more person has been rescued and taken to a hospital after a building collapsed in Iowa.Davenport Fire Chief Michael Carlsten said at a news conference on Monday that it was unclear how many people, if any, were still missing after an apartment building in the eastern Iowa city collapsed.Rescuers were called to the scene shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday. Fire crews rescued seven people and escorted more than a dozen others from the building in their initial response.
  
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• Mauricio Pochettino to become Chelsea manager on 2-year deal

  29-05-2023 14:20 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  LONDON (AP) — Chelsea hired Mauricio Pochettino as manager on Monday, tasking the Argentine coach with getting the best out of an expensively assembled squad that has underperformed at the start of a new era for the English club.
  Pochettino will take up the role on July 1, Chelsea said, after agreeing to a two-year contract, with the club having the option of keeping him on for a further year.
  It is Pochettino’s first coaching role since leaving Paris Saint-Germain in July last year
  
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• Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu sworn in as president amid hopes and skepticism

  29-05-2023 11:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Associated Press (AP) — Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu has been sworn in as president of Africa’s most populous country at a period of unprecedented challenges, leaving some citizens hopeful for a better life and others skeptical that his government would perform better than the one he succeeded.
  The former governor of Lagos, Nigeria’s economic hub, Tinubu, 71, was sworn in as Nigeria’s president in Abuja, the capital city, in the presence of thousands of Nigerians and sever
  
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• Poland’s president approves law on Russia’s influence that could target opposition

  29-05-2023 11:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish President Andrzej Duda said Monday he will sign a bill that creates a powerful commission, ostensibly meant to investigate Russian influence in Poland but which critics view as a tool to remove from political life the political opponents of the ruling party, mostly notably opposition leader Donald Tusk.
  Parliament on Friday approved the law, proposed by the right-wing ruling party, that may affect the outcome of fall parliamentary elections in which the ruling
  
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• Thousands flee wildfires near Halifax : In The News for May 29

  29-05-2023 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 29 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  The Halifax Regional Municipality has opened an evacuation centre to accommodate thousands of residents fleeing wildfires near suburban communities northwest of Halifax.
  The evacuation centre at the Canada Games Centre, located at 26 Thomas Raddall Drive, was opened to support impact
  
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• Election day: Alberta voters go to the polls, expected nail-biter between UCP, NDP

  29-05-2023 10:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  It’s election day in Alberta in what polls suggest could be a nail-biter finish between the province’s two dominant parties. 
  Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party is fighting to win a second consecutive majority government, while Rachel Notley’s NDP is trying to regain the government it lost to the UCP in 2019. 
  Both leaders have been premier and leaders of the official Opposition. 
  To win, the NDP would have to continue its dominance in Edmonton, fli
  
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• VIDEO: Vehicle-versus-motorcycle crash in Chilliwack stops traffic - Surrey Now Leader

  29-05-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Chillsounds local music event coming to downtown Chilliwack for ... - Chilliwack Progress

  29-05-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Anannarukarn holds off Furue to win LPGA Match Play

  29-05-2023 04:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) — Pajaree Anannarukarn of Thailand capped off the longest week on the LPGA Tour with a 3-and-1 victory Sunday to win the Bank of Hope LPGA Match Play over Ayaka Furue of Japan.
  Anannarukarn, who beat Linn Grant of Sweden in the semifinals Sunday morning at Shadow Creek, took the lead for good with a birdie on the par-5 seventh hole.
  The Thai kept up the pressure on a hot day north of Las Vegas, with both players carrying umbrellas under a bright blue sky to fend
  
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• Blazers take care of business by crushing Petes 10-2 at Memorial Cup

  29-05-2023 03:19 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  KAMLOOPS, B.C. — What a difference a day and a drubbing can make at the Memorial Cup.
  Dejected and filled with doubts following an opening 8-3 loss to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Quebec Remparts on Friday night, the host Kamloops Blazers regrouped and vowed to take care of business Sunday against the Peterborough Petes.
  Mission accomplished.
  The Blazers jumped on the Ontario Hockey League champion Petes early and often en route to a 10-2 victory that included four power-
  
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• Grillo birdies second playoff hole to salvage win at Colonial

  29-05-2023 02:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Emiliano Grillo made a five-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole at Colonial to get his first PGA Tour victory in more than 7 1/2 years, after blowing a two-stroke lead with a double-bogey on the 72nd hole Sunday.
  Grillo curled in the winning putt at the 186-yard 16th hole, the same hole where he had taken the solo lead before needing a playoff. Grillo and Adam Schenk, who both finished at 8-under 272, had two-putt pars from 26 feet at No. 18 to start the pl
  
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• Vancouver police investigating fatal shooting linked to gang conflict

  29-05-2023 01:35 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Vancouver police are investigating the death of a 28-year-old man in a shooting that investigators believe was related to gang conflict in the region.
  Police say multiple people called to report the shooting outside a south Vancouver banquet hall near Fraser Street and Southeast Marine Drive at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
  They say officers performed CPR on the man until paramedics arrived, but he died from his injuries.
  Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the department.
  Police rel
  
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• B.C. district issues wildfire evacuation order in remote area north of Fort St. John

  29-05-2023 01:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The Peace River Regional District issued a new evacuation order as well as an alert Sunday in response to two wildfires burning in northeastern British Columbia.
  The district says the Donnie Creek and Tommy Lakes wildfires pose an immediate danger and everyone must leave an area that’s used primarily by industry.
  The evacuation order spans a remote area east of Highway 97, with the lower-level alert covering an area to the south.
  The BC Wildfire Service has estimated the Donnie Creek wildf
  
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• Canada’s LePage wins Hypo Meeting decathlon event, Warner finishes second

  29-05-2023 00:46 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  GÖTZIS, Austria — Canada’s Pierce LePage won the Hypo Meeting decathlon event for his first international title on Sunday.
  With the win, LePage ended fellow Canadian Damian Warner’s run of six straight wins at the event. 
  LePage, a 27-year-old from Whitby, Ont., who won silver at last year’s world championships, amassed 8,700 points, beating Warner’s 8,619, which was good for second. LePage’s score was one point short of his personal best.
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