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• UFV's Jackson Jacob wins individual title at Canadian University ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 23:54 via news.google.com
  
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• Ottawa offers $1.5 million for security at Pride parades after rise in hate crimes

  05-06-2023 23:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Trudeau government is earmarking $1.5 million for LGBTQ community organizations to boost security measures at Pride parades and other events this summer.
  The money matches a request by a national umbrella group, Fierté Canada Pride, which will distribute it to local committees that apply.
  The funding can be used for expenses such as vehicle and crowd control, barricades, fees for paid-duty police or private security.
  Organizations supporting gender and sexual minorities
  
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• Oklahoma school board approves what would be the 1st taxpayer-funded religious school in US

  05-06-2023 23:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state school board in Oklahoma voted Monday to approve what would be the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional.The Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 3-2 to approve the application by the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma to establish the St. Isodore of Seville Virtual Charter School. The online public charter school would be open to students acro
  
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• Daytime killing of 53-year-old man linked to Montreal Mafia: source

  05-06-2023 22:32 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Montreal police say they’re investigating the daytime shooting death of a 53-year-old man in the parking lot of a suburban shopping centre.
  The victim’s identity has not been released, but a source confirmed to The Canadian Press that he was well-known Montreal Mafia figure Francesco Del Balso.
  Police suspect Del Balso was behind the attempted murder in mid-March of Leonardo Rizzuto, the son of late Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto.
  Officers stopped Del Balso several days later at the Montrea
  
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• Swimming Canada questioned in Ottawa safe-sport hearing about CEO’s departure

  05-06-2023 22:28 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Swimming Canada was questioned Monday by a member of Parliament over its chief executive officer taking leave just over a year out from the 2024 Summer Games in Paris.
  The Canadian women’s swim team’s six medals accounted for over a quarter of the country’s 22 medals at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio and another half-dozen in Tokyo in 2021 represented a quarter of 24.
  Multi-medallists Penny Oleksiak, Maggie Mac Neil and Kylie Masse, as well as breakout star Summer McIntosh, are
  
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• Launch of search for graves at former Yukon residential school triggers raw emotions

  05-06-2023 22:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CARCROSS, Yukon — A Yukon First Nations community has begun its search for unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school with a ceremony that triggered strong emotions.
  Yukon’s Residential School Missing Children Project says the first site of the search effort is the former Chooutla Residential School in Carcross, Yukon, where a company will use ground-penetrating radar and drones to locate possible unmarked graves.
  The announcement of the search held at the Carcross/Ta
  
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• Paul Bernardo’s transfer to prison that treats sex offenders not unusual: professor

  05-06-2023 22:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Notorious serial killer Paul Bernardo’s transfer to a medium-security prison that specializes in treating violent rapists almost two decades after his conviction is not unusual, says a Quebec criminology professor who studies sexual murderers.
  Bernardo, who has been serving a life sentence for kidnapping, torturing and killing 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy in the early 1990s near St. Catharines, Ont., was quietly transferred to La Macaza Institution, a medium-se
  
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• Alberta's provincewide state of emergency to end as wildfire ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 22:10 via news.google.com
  
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• Canada looks to get past U.S. to represent North America at World Rugby U20 Trophy

  05-06-2023 21:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  After a three-year absence due to the pandemic, World Rugby’s under-20 competition returns this summer.
  And Canada is looking to be part of it.
  The Canadian under-20 side takes on its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday, on the campus of University of South Carolina Upstate (formerly known as the University of South Carolina Spartansburg), in the opener of a two-match qualifier for the World Rugby U20 Trophy. The second leg is Saturday at the same venue.
  The aggregate-points winner will represent
  
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• Brad Rihela recognized for work with Chilliwack Minor Hockey ... - Mission City Record

  05-06-2023 21:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Brad Rihela recognized for work with Chilliwack Minor Hockey ... - Hope Standard

  05-06-2023 21:45 via news.google.com
  
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• Second flight carrying migrants lands in Sacramento; California officials say Florida set up travel

  05-06-2023 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Another group of approximately 20 migrants have arrived in Sacramento on a private flight.The plane arrived on Monday morning, said Tara Gallegos, a spokeswoman for California Attorney General Rob Bonta. It follows the arrival of 16 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia on Friday.Bonta’s office has made contact with the new arrivals and believes their trip to Sacramento was arranged by the same company. Bonta says the travel appears to have been arranged by t
  
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• 3 wildfires burn at least 42 hectares near Agassiz-Harrison ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 21:24 via news.google.com
  
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• Second round of voting on now to name City of Chilliwack's new ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 21:18 via news.google.com
  
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• Roughriders head coach, GM both have a lot riding on 2023 CFL season

  05-06-2023 20:25 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Craig Dickenson has a lot riding on the 2023 CFL season.
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders head coach is entering the final year of his contract. And Dickenson isn’t alone as general manager Jeremy O’Day’s deal also only covers the upcoming campaign.
  Dickenson guided Saskatchewan to the West Division final in 2019 and ’21 (CFL didn’t play in 2020 due to global pandemic), losing to the eventual Grey Cup-champion Winnipeg Blue Bombers both times. But the Riders (6-12) were
  
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• Voting now open for Chilliwack’s new bike lane sweeper

  05-06-2023 20:23 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack residents are being asked to vote on the city’s new bike lane sweeper now that over 400 name suggestions have been submitted and a top ten list has been compiled.The City of Chilliwack said in a news release Monday (June 5) that it has published a top ten list of the best names and is asking residents to vote for the winner.The top ten suggested names are Cheamboni, Dust in Time, Dusty McBristles, Little Bo Sweep, Obi Wan Cleanobi, Sweeperella, Sweeping Beauty
  
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• Young piano artists sought to perform next spring with Chilliwack ... - Hope Standard

  05-06-2023 20:13 via news.google.com
  
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• Young piano artists sought to perform next spring with Chilliwack ... - Agassiz Harrison Observer

  05-06-2023 20:13 via news.google.com
  
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• Young Piano Artists Sought To Perform Next Spring With Chilliwack ... - Abbotsford News

  05-06-2023 20:13 via news.google.com
  
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• CARP chapter questions impact of B.C. health care announcements ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 19:55 via news.google.com
  
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• India among top actors for foreign interference in Canada: national security adviser

  05-06-2023 19:26 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser says India is among the top sources of foreign interference in Canada.
  Jody Thomas says “a number of state actors and non-state proxies” are conducting foreign interference in Canada, and at a conference last week she listed three countries that Ottawa has frequently cited: China, Russia and Iran.
  But Thomas also specifically mentioned India, a country the Liberals highlighted in their Indo-Pacific strateg
  
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• Abbotsford Police Department selects new media relations spokesperson

  05-06-2023 19:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Effective Monday, June 5, Constable Artur Stele is the new media relations spokesperson for the Abbotsford Police Department.Constable Stele officially replaces Sgt. Paul Walker, who held the role of media relations spokesperson for approximately two years. Sgt. Walker becomes the new sergeant-in-charge of the Abbotsford Police Department’s Traffic Enforcement Unit.“We’re excited to welcome Constable Art Stele as our new Media Relations Officer,” Abbots
  
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• Number of Quebec wildfires rises to 164, at least 114 are out of control

  05-06-2023 19:01 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Quebec government says there are 164 wildfires burning across the province, including at least 114 that are out of control.
  Kateri Champagne Jourdain, the minister responsible for the Côte-Nord region, told reporters in Sept-Îles, Que., that the fires in her region northeast of Quebec City are unprecedented.
  One of the two fires threatening Sept-Îles is just six or seven kilometres from the city.
  Champagne Jourdain says 138 Canadian Armed Forces soldiers ar
  
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• Ducks hire former Leafs, Islanders assistant Greg Cronin as head coach

  05-06-2023 18:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — The Anaheim Ducks have hired veteran NHL assistant and AHL head coach Greg Cronin to be their new head coach.
  Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek announced the decision Monday to hire the 60-year-old Cronin, who will be a first-time NHL head coach.
  Cronin has 12 years of experience as an NHL assistant with the Toronto Maple Leafs and in two stints with the New York Islanders. The Massachusetts native has been the head coach of the AHL’s Colorado Eagles since 2018
  
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• It will take days to collect debris from plane that flew over Washington, crashed in rural Virginia

  05-06-2023 18:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Four were killed when an unresponsive plane that flew over the nation’s capitol crashed in Virginia, leaving behind “highly fragmented” wreckage in a mountainous area that will take days to gather and sort, federal authorities said Monday.A day after the unresponsive plane prompted the military to scramble fighter jets, the Federal Aviation Authority said in a brief update that the pilot and three passengers were killed and that the plane was “dest
  
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• Ann Davis Transition Society boosts temporary capacity to take on legal advocacy clients

  05-06-2023 18:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Chilliwack non-profit society Ann Davis Transition Society says it has temporarily increased its ability to accept legal advocacy clients and therefore offer more services for Chilliwack-area residents who could use them.In a Facebook post Friday afternoon (June 2), Ann Davis states that it has temporarily boosted its capacity to take on legal advocacy clientsand its corresponding ability to offer increased one-on-one client hours with its advocate.“At Ann Davis Transiti
  
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• New Hampshire Gov. Sununu rules out 2024 presidential bid, citing already crowded GOP field

  05-06-2023 18:37 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said Monday that he will not seek the presidency in 2024.The 48-year-old Republican governor, a frequent critic of former President Donald Trump, made the announcement on CNN and followed up with a post on social media.“I will not seek the Republican nomination for president in 2024,” Sununu tweeted. “The stakes are too high for a crowded field to hand the nomination to a candidate who earns just 35 percent of the vote, and I will help to ensure
  
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• Ticats land Canadian defensive lineman Kongbo from Lions

  05-06-2023 18:07 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  HAMILTON — The Hamilton Tiger-Cats acquired Canadian defensive lineman Jonathan Kongbo from the B.C. Lions on Monday for a conditional fourth-round 2024 draft pick.
  Hamilton originally obtained the pick Feb. 23 in the deal that sent American quarterback Dane Evans to B.C..
  Kongbo, 27, signed with B.C. last month. He appeared in 26 games over two seasons with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (2019, 2021), registering 29 tackles and four sacks.
  The six-foot-five, 266-pound Kongbo appeared in three
  
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• Average single-family home in CADREB sold for nearly $900K in May

  05-06-2023 17:55 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Compared to May 2022, sales of homes, condos and apartments in May 2023 increased steadily, and the average price of a single-family home in the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board (CADREB) jurisdiction sold for just under $900,000.According to stats released by CADREB last week, there were 214 homes that sold in May 2023, 86 townhouses changed hands, and 48 transactions involving condos occurred in the 31-day month of May. It’s a significant increase from May 2022
  
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• Calgary ’88 Olympic Games leader Bob Niven dead at 80

  05-06-2023 17:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CALGARY — One of the men who brought the Winter Olympic Games to Calgary in 1988 has died.
  Bob Niven, who was president of the bid committee, died May 26 at the age of 80.
  Niven was vice-chair of the organizing committee and served as mayor of the Olympic village during the Games.
  Canada Olympic Park named its high-performance training facility in his honour.
  The legacy facilities from the 1988 Winter Games gave athletes a place to train and compete and helped make Canada a strong winter s
  
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• Sudan crisis: Canada to match $5 million in donations

  05-06-2023 17:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ottawa is matching donations to Canadian groups working to help people affected by the humanitarian crisis in Sudan.
  The Humanitarian Coalition, which includes a dozen organizations, says Ottawa will match up to $5 million in funds donated by Canadians this month.
  In mid-April, brazen violence broke out between Sudan’s military and its paramilitary force, turning the capital of Khartoum into a war zone from which Canada and other nations evacuated their citizens.
  The United Nations says th
  
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• Poilievre threatens to filibuster budget bill if Liberals don’t meet demands

  05-06-2023 17:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is threatening to use procedural tools to delay passage of the federal budget in the House of Commons if the Liberals don’t meet his demands.
  During a news conference this morning, Poilievre outlines two conditions to avoid potential filibustering by his party.
  He is calling on the federal government to present a plan to balance its budget “in order to bring down inflation and interest rates.”
  He also demands the Liberals canc
  
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• Davenport, Iowa, officials: 3 bodies recovered at apartment collapse site; no others thought missing

  05-06-2023 17:21 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three bodies have been recovered from the site of a collapsed six-story apartment building in Davenport, Iowa, and no other people are thought to be missing, city officials said.
  THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Recovery efforts continued Monday at the site of a partially collapsed building in Davenport, Iowa, where one man was found dead and two others remain missing.
  Branden Colvin Sr.’s bo
  
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• Former Vice President Pence filing paperwork launching 2024 presidential bid in challenge to Trump

  05-06-2023 17:12 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence is filing paperwork on Monday declaring his campaign for president in 2024, setting up a challenge to his former boss, Donald Trump, just two years after their time in the White House ended with an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and Pence fleeing for his life.
  Pence, the nation’s 48th vice president, will formally launch his bid for the Republican nomination with a video and kickoff event in Des Moines, Iowa, on Wednesday, which is h
  
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• Anand: China irresponsible over Taiwan Strait collision risk with Canada, U.S. ships

  05-06-2023 17:11 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Defence Minister Anita Anand says Beijing acted irresponsibly on the weekend in the Taiwan Strait, where Washington says a Chinese warship forced a U.S. vessel to avoid a collision.
  The Canadian frigate HMCS Montreal was present when, Washington says, a Chinese vessel overtook an American destroyer, veering across its bow at a distance of 137 metres.
  The Chinese ship did not attempt a similar manoeuvre on the Canadian frigate, which was behind the American destroyer.
  In a statemen
  
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• Chilliwack Mural Festival will be bigger, bolder in its 3rd year ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 17:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Business Sense with Glenn Rogers - Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 16:30 via news.google.com
  
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• One man dies in motorcycle collision in Abbotsford - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 16:11 via news.google.com
  
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• Hormone patches or creams for menopause symptoms may have lower blood pressure risk than pills

  05-06-2023 16:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Women often use hormone therapy to relieve hot flashes and other menopause symptoms — and new research suggests patches or creams may be safer for their blood pressure than pills.
  As women’s bodies produce lower levels of reproductive hormones during menopause their risk for heart disease rises. High blood pressure further increases that risk — but it’s not clear whether there’s a link with hormone therapy for menopause symptoms.
  Canadian res
  
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• France’s spectacular abbey Mont-Saint-Michel celebrates 1,000th birthday

  05-06-2023 16:06 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — France’s beloved abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel has reached a ripe old age. It’s been 1,000 years since the laying of its first stone.The millennial of the UNESCO World Heritage site and key Normandy tourism magnet is being celebrated until November with exhibits, dance shows and concerts. French President Emmanuel Macron is heading there on Monday.
  Macron plans to deliver a speech and to see a new exhibit tracing the Romanesque abbey’s history via 30 objects and
  
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• Montreal Canadiens sign winger Cole Caufield to eight-year extension

  05-06-2023 15:33 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — The Montreal Canadiens have signed Cole Caufield to eight-year contract extension, the team announced Monday.
  The deal, which will pay the 22-year-old winger an average annual salary of US$7.85 million, runs through the 2030-31 season.
  Caufield scored 26 goals and added 10 assists in 46 games in 2022-23 before he underwent season-ending surgery on his right shoulder in February.
  Despite missing nearly half the season, Caufield led the Canadiens in goals for the second consecutiv
  
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• Ons Jabeur defeats Bernarda Pera in straight sets to reach French Open quarterfinals

  05-06-2023 15:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  PARIS (AP) — Bernarda Pera could not win a single game on her serve Monday as she was eliminated in straight sets in the fourth round of the French Open.
  Facing seventh-seeded Ons Jabeur of Tunisia, the unseeded American was broken eight times on Court Philippe Chatrier and lost 6-3, 6-1. Jabeur won 15 of 16 points on Pera’s second serve.
  Jabeur, the runner-up at Wimbledon last year, advanced to the quarterfinals at Roland Garros for the first time in her career.
  Jabeur also struggle
  
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• PODCAST: Is it time for a B.C. provincial police force? - Chilliwack ... - Chilliwack Progress

  05-06-2023 14:40 via news.google.com
  
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• One dead following motorcycle vs car collision in Abbotsford

  05-06-2023 13:39 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — A 58-year-old man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving was involved in a two-vehicle crash Sunday (Jun.4) evening in Abbotsford.
  In a news release, Abbotsford Police say the crash between a car and the motorcycle occurred at 6:27 p.m. at the intersection of Gladwin Road and Nanaimo Crescent.
  The 21-year-old woman driving the car suffered non-life-threatening injuries. She is cooperating with the police investigation.
  While still in the initial stages of the investigat
  
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• Premiers need to keep talking about the health-care crisis: medical associations

  05-06-2023 12:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The Canadian Medical Association and 14 other organizations representing health workers are urging premiers to keep health care at the top of the agenda at their next meeting in July.
  The provincial and territorial leaders met several times last year to compare notes on the health-care crisis and call on the federal government to give them more money to fix it.
  In February, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a deal that will see Ottawa give $196 billion for the Canada Health
  
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• In The News for June 5, 2023: What will the PM have to say to wildfire evacuees?

  05-06-2023 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 Monday, June 5, 2023 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to provide an update on the wildfires that have forced thousands of people from their homes and caused widespread property damage in several provinces.
  Trudeau will appear in Ottawa today alongside a number of ministers, includ
  
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• Trudeau and ministers to provide update as wildfires burn in multiple provinces

  05-06-2023 10:05 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to provide an update on the wildfires that have forced thousands of people from their homes and caused widespread property damage in several provinces. 
  Trudeau will appear in Ottawa today alongside a number of ministers, including Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
  His announcement comes as several provinces have been dealing  with dangerous wildfires that have burned tens of
  
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• What about Kristen, Leslie’s rights, asks lawyer for Bernardo victims after transfer

  05-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Paul Bernardo should be returned to a maximum-security prison, the lawyer representing the families of his young murder victims said as he called on  the Correctional Service of Canada to be more transparent about what led to his transfer to a medium-security facility in the first place.
  Tim Danson represents the relatives of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, who Bernardo kidnapped, tortured and murdered in the early 1990s.
  Danson said he was informed
  
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• Watchdog’s relations with spy community ‘particularly strained’ over last year

  05-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Newly released documents say the intelligence community’s relationship with its key watchdog has been particularly strained over the last year due to a “level of resistance” to scrutiny.
  The assessment appears in briefing materials prepared for Canada’s top public servant in advance of a late January meeting with the chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency. 
  The notes were disclosed to The Canadian Press in response to a request t
  
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• Union gives failing grade to companies handling veterans rehabilitation contract

  05-06-2023 10:04 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — A union representing workers at Veterans Affairs Canada says a deal to privatize rehabilitation services has been a failure. 
  The $570-million contract with Lifemark Health Group and WCG International Consultants was supposed to take the strain off case managers and help veterans access services. 
  But the Union of Veterans’ Affairs Employees has given the deal a failing grade in a new report card, issued six months after the contract kicked in. 
  It says instea
  
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