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• 'A situation that's unprecedented.' Quebec confronted with over 150 ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 23:56 via news.google.com
  
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• Curb student truck drivers during rush hours, Surrey councillor says ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 23:55 via news.google.com
  
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• Quebec provincial politicians vote to increase base pay by $30,000

  06-06-2023 23:48 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  QUEBEC — The members of Quebec’s national assembly have voted to increase their base salaries by $30,000.
  The government bill was supported by the governing Coalition Avenir Québec and the Opposition Quebec Liberal Party.
  The province’s two smaller opposition parties, the Parti Québécois and Québec solidaire, voted against the increase.
  With the increase, the base salary of provincial legislators will rise from $101,561 to $131,766.
  Those with additi
  
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• Global News says its reporting on MP Han Dong was result of detailed investigation

  06-06-2023 23:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Global News and its parent company Corus Entertainment say in response to a lawsuit filed by Han Dong that their reporting about the Toronto MP was based on a detailed investigation involving multiple sources.
  Dong’s lawyers served the media company with a libel notice in March and called for a full apology and retraction for what they described as “false, malicious, irresponsible and defamatory statements” about him.
  Global had published a story that month citin
  
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• PGA-LIV merger shocks golf world ahead of Canadian Open

  06-06-2023 23:17 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  On the eve of the RBC Canadian Open, news of a merger between the PGA Tour, European Tour and LIV Golf shocked the golf world — including one of Canada’s best players.
  “Nothing like finding out through Twitter that we’re merging with a tour that we said we’d never do that with,” Mackenzie Hughes, a PGA golfer of Dundas, Ont., wrote on Twitter.
  It’s the second straight year the Saudi Arabian-funded LIV Golf will be at the centre of discussion at Canada&rs
  
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• Vancouver Island scuba divers spot sixgill shark in rare shallow-water sighting

  06-06-2023 23:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NANAIMO, B.C. — A group of British Columbia scuba divers on Vancouver Island spotted a bluntnose sixgill shark on a recent dive in Alberni Inlet, capturing what they say is rare footage of the animal in shallow waters. 
  Connor McTavish says he and fellow diversGarrett Clement, Danton West and Matteo Endrizzi were exploring around a shipwreck late last month when he spotted something out of the corner of his eye.
  McTavish says he used a flashlight and hand signals to alert the others t
  
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• Known travellers from 13 more countries can skip visa to come to Canada: minister

  06-06-2023 23:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Low-risk travellers from 13 more countries will be able to skip a visa application if they want to visit Canada, the immigration minister announced Tuesday.
  An expanded program would allow people to instead apply for an electronic travel authorization: a digital travel document that costs $7 and can be processed in minutes. 
  Travellers from the 13 countries can qualify for the faster, cheaper option if they have either held a Canadian visa in the last 10 years or currently ho
  
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• BC Ferries eyes replacement for famed but money-losing Pacific ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 22:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Judge rejects Montreal homeless camp injunction, site to be dismantled by June 15

  06-06-2023 22:41 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — A Quebec Superior Court judge has refused to extend an injunction protecting a homeless encampment under a busy Montreal highway, ruling the tent city must be dismantled by June 15 as planned.
  A legal clinic had assisted the campers in obtaining a pair of injunctions earlier this year, buying more time to find housing solutions for the roughly 15 to 20 people who were living under the Ville Marie Expressway.
  Many of the residents are vulnerable, and some have serious health issu
  
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• Chiefs Continue to Prioritize BC Player Development

  06-06-2023 22:18 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  With the start of a new era for the British Columbia Hockey League, comes new regulations in regard to team rosters. Many of the previous rules will remain in place, but others will change as part of the BCHL’s goal to continue growing into a world-class development league for college-tracking athletes.
  While this allows players from around the world to now join the league, the Chilliwack Chiefs remain committed to prioritizing the development of hockey players raised in British Columbia.
  
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• 500 Atira workers unionize to improve the safety of residents ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 22:15 via news.google.com
  
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• Winnipeg sophomore receiver Dalton Schoen among CFL players to watch in 2023

  06-06-2023 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — Dalton Schoen has a tough act to follow this season with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  His own.
  The six-foot-one, 218-pound receiver took the CFL by storm in 2022. The 26-year-old American immediately clicked with Bombers starter Zach Collaros, emerging as the league’s leading receiver (70 catches, 1,441 yards and 16 TDs) en route to being named its top rookie.
  Collaros followed suit, being named the CFL’s outstanding player for a second straight season.
  The only blemish
  
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• Toronto Blue Jays send struggling right-hander Alek Manoah down to minors

  06-06-2023 21:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays are sending right-hander Alek Manoah down to the minors after his latest disappointing start.
  Manoah gave up six earned runs in just one-third of an inning in Monday’s 11-4 loss to the Houston Astros at Rogers Centre.
  He was a finalist for the American League Cy Young Award last season but has struggled mightily over the first two months of the 2023 season.
  Manoah hasn’t won a game in over two months. 
  He has a 1-7 record and 6.36 earned-run
  
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• Former Canadian international plans next step from aboard his floating home in Spain

  06-06-2023 21:30 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Newly retired as a soccer player, former Canadian international Issey Nakajima-Farran is working on his future aboard a boat in Barcelona. It’s his floating home.
  Football has already taken the 39-year-old Nakajima-Farran around the globe. The former Toronto FC, CF Montreal and Pacific FC midfielder has played club football in Australia, Cyprus, Denmark, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Spain as well as North America.
  Now he plans his next step.
  An accomplished artist and video enthusiast, N
  
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• CFL commissioner Ambrosie can finally concentrate on football to open 2023 season

  06-06-2023 21:29 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  TORONTO — It’s a welcomed change for Randy Ambrosie.
  For the first time in a while, the CFL commissioner can concentrate solely on the start of a regular season and not the immediate future of one of its franchises. In fact, with the sale of the Montreal Alouettes in March to businessman Pierre Karl Peladeau, the league seems to be on very solid ground given the quality of its nine ownership groups.
  What’s more, the CFL and its players are in the second season of a seven-year c
  
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• Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie files paperwork launching 2024 Republican presidential bid

  06-06-2023 21:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has filed paperwork formally launching his bid for the Republican nomination for president ahead of a town hall event in New Hampshire Tuesday evening.
  Christie has cast himself as the only candidate in the field willing to directly take on former President Donald Trump. The campaign will be the second for the former governor and federal prosecutor, who lost to Trump in 2016 and went on to become a close on-and-off adviser before breaki
  
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• Trained divers to clean up Cultus Lake June 24 during Cultus Lake Day festivities

  06-06-2023 20:50 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CULTUS LAKE — During the hundreds of dives he has undertaken at Cultus Lake, Chilliwack resident and skilled free diver Steve Clegg has uncovered everything you could possibly imagine from the bottom of the popular recreational lake.That includes tires, phones, drones, wedding rings, aluminum cans, glass bottles, footwear, cowboy boots, car parts, and much more.Which is why Clegg, a passionate environmental steward, will join forces with fellow trained divers for what Tourism Chilliwack is
  
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• Man charged in 2018 Chilliwack murder faces long wait for next ... - Hope Standard

  06-06-2023 20:50 via news.google.com
  
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• Man Charged In 2018 Chilliwack Murder Faces Long Wait For Next ... - Abbotsford News

  06-06-2023 20:50 via news.google.com
  
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• ‘Dirty deal’: protesters disrupt Joe Manchin event over Mountain Valley pipeline

  06-06-2023 20:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  WASHINGTON — Sen. Joe Manchin’s latest legislative victory is stirring up anti-pipeline sentiment in the U.S. capital.Protesters who snuck into the event unfurled banners and locked arms today at a D.C. event shortly after the West Virginia Democrat took the stage.Climate activists are furious that fast-tracking Manchin’s Mountain Valley pipeline project was part of the debt-ceiling agreement passed last week.Manchin, long a key swing vote in a divided Congress, was one of the
  
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• Chilliwack Curling Club to offer indoor pickleball in air-conditioned setting

  06-06-2023 20:08 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  CHILLIWACK — Playing a game of pickleball can sure work up a sweat in any setting or environment, let alone being outdoors in Chilliwack as one of the warmest places in Canada.That’s why an announcement from the Chilliwack Curling Club this past week that it will offer air-conditioned pickleball comfort is welcome news for the hundreds of pickleball players in Chilliwack, adding another venue for the growing number of pickleball enthusiasts.“Just in time for the heat, air-condi
  
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• Beavers from 1st Abbotsford Scouts collect clothing and donate money to Ground Zero Ministries

  06-06-2023 19:27 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ABBOTSFORD — Beavers from 1st Abbotsford Scouts who were working towards their North Star award did more than fulfill a requirement for a service project.The Abbotsford-area youth collected 562 pounds of used clothing for recycling and $129 to donate to Ground Zero Ministries to buy water for the homeless.
  The North Star award is completed in the final year of Beavers, known as White Tails. The youth have five tasks they need to complete, including volunteering and completing a service pro
  
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• Village Classic Car Show 2023 preparing to take over downtown ... - Hope Standard

  06-06-2023 19:17 via news.google.com
  
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• Village Classic Car Show 2023 preparing to take over downtown ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 19:17 via news.google.com
  
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• Kienan LaFrance signs with B.C. Lions after 3 seasons with Roughriders

  06-06-2023 18:56 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — The B.C. Lions say they have signed veteran running back Kienan LaFrance after he was released by the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  LaFrance had 91 yards on 18 carries and hauled in 14 receptions for 97 yards across 43 regular season games with the Riders.
  The Winnipeg native was selected 45th overall in the 2015 draft by the Ottawa Redblacks and spent two seasons in the nation’s capital.
  He started off playing on the special teams before moving to the offence for Ottawa and
  
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• Liberals accuse Tories of 'hijacking' Parliament after threatening to ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 18:33 via news.google.com
  
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• Sex harassment case involving Trudeau Foundation should be heard in N.L., lawyer says

  06-06-2023 18:24 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ST. JOHN’S, N.L. — The lawyer representing a woman who alleges she was sexually harassed by a former Northwest Territories premier says her client would likely have to end her lawsuit if a judge determines the trial should be moved to Quebec.
  Kathryn Marshall, with the Toronto-based law firm Levitt Sheikh, argued in Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court today that the case should be heard in that province, because that is where the alleged misconduct took place.
  She says her client
  
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• Job action at Capilano U in B.C., as contracts inked with staff at five other schools

  06-06-2023 18:16 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Job action has halted all classes at Capilano University in North Vancouver.
  A statement on the university’s website says classes are suspended at its main campus and its Sechelt campus on the Sunshine Coast. 
  MoveUP, which represents the Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union, Local 378, says on its website that talks between the university and union collapsed over continued demands for concessions.
  The job action comes as the Ministry of Finance announces
  
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• Stellantis has what it needs to make decision on Windsor battery plant: Champagne

  06-06-2023 17:59 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Stellantis and LG Energy Solutions have what they need to make a decision on a proposed electric vehicle battery plant in Windsor.
  A spokeswoman for Stellantis says the two companies received a “written offer” and is currently analyzing it.
  The companies put the brakes on construction of the plant in May after their talks with Ottawa stalled.
  The original deal was signed in March 2022 but was reopened after the
  
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• RCMP makes 26 arrests for retail theft, arrests one guy twice in 90 minutes

  06-06-2023 17:58 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  SURREY — A collaborative effort by Surrey RCMP, Transit Police and Delta Police has resulted in 26 arrests and the recovery of thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise during a one-day operation in Guildford, including one repeat offender who was arrested twice in one day.In a news release Monday from Corporal Vanessa Munn, Surrey RCMP’s North Community Response Unit, in partnership with Metro Vancouver Transit Police Service Crime Suppression Team and Delta Police Service Patrol S
  
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• PGA Tour, Europe to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf feud

  06-06-2023 17:45 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The PGA Tour ended its expensive fight with Saudi Arabia’s golf venture and now is joining forces with it, making a stunning announcement Tuesday of a merger that creates a commercial operation with the Public Investment Fund and the European tour.
  As part of the deal, the sides immediately are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf.
  From the golf side, still to be determined is how players like Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson can rejoin the PGA Tour after defecting last year for signin
  
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• Ottawa gives updated deal to federal union that signed agreement before PSAC strike

  06-06-2023 17:34 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — The federal government has given an updated deal to a public-service union that signed its collective agreement in the fall in order to match deals reached with the Public Service Alliance of Canada during a strike this spring. 
  A spokeswoman for the Treasury Board confirmed today that the agreement for a comptrollership group was adjusted to align with the tentative agreements reached with PSAC and other unions. 
  The deal between the Association of Canadian Financial Of
  
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• Evacuees can return in Sept-Îles, but more than 160 wildfires still burning in Quebec

  06-06-2023 17:31 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  MONTREAL — One Quebec city that had been threatened by approaching wildfires has lifted an evacuation order, but other parts of the province continue to deal with out-of-control blazes that are taxing firefighting resources.
  About 6,000 residents of Sept-Îles, Que., and the nearby Innu community of Mani-Utenam had been under an evacuation order since Friday after one of three fires in the region neared the area.
  Sept-Îles Mayor Steeve Beaupré told a news conference today
  
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• Poilievre calls on Liberals to make killers like Bernardo stay in max-security prison

  06-06-2023 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should see to it that mass murderers serve their entire sentences in maximum-security prison. 
  The call comes as Trudeau’s government deals with the fallout from a Correctional Service of Canada decision to transfer Paul Bernardo to a medium-security institution in Quebec. 
  Anne Kelly, commissioner of the federal correctional service, announced the move was under review after Public Safety Mini
  
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• PGA Tour, Europe to merge with Saudis and end LIV Golf litigation

  06-06-2023 17:09 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  The most disruptive year in golf ended Tuesday when the PGA Tour and European tour agreed to a merger with Saudi Arabia’s golf interests, creating a commercial operation designed to unify professional golf around the world.
  As part of the deal, the sides are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf against each other effective immediately.
  Still to be determined is how players like Brooks Koepka and Dustin Johnson, who defected to Saudi-funded LIV Golf for nine-figure bonuses, can rejoin t
  
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• Research advances date for likely summer ice-free Arctic by a decade

  06-06-2023 17:02 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  New research has moved up the time by which the Arctic Ocean is predicted to be free of summer ice. 
  A paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature has concluded that those northern waters could be open for months at a time as early as 2030, even if humanity manages to drastically scale back its greenhouse gas emissions. 
  “It brings it about a decade sooner,” said Nathan Gillett, an Environment and Climate Change Canada scientist and one of the co-authors of the study.&nbs
  
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• Internal docs suggest Trudeau wants China blocked from Pacific Rim trade deal

  06-06-2023 16:57 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — An internal document suggests Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants China kept out of a Pacific Rim trade bloc, despite the Liberals publicly insisting it would welcome anyone who meets the trade deal’s standards.
  China has been trying since 2019 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade bloc that includes Canada and multiple countries in Asia and Latin America.
  Trade Minister Mary Ng reiterated Canada’s stance on China jo
  
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• Eustaquio, Huitema honoured as Canada Soccer players of the month for May

  06-06-2023 16:53 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Midfielder Stephen Eustaquio and striker Jordyn Huitema have been named Canada Soccer’s Players of the Month for May. 
  Eustaquio helped FC Porto reach the final of the Portuguese Cup (Taça de Portugal) while Huitema scored three goals for NWSL’s OL Reign during the month. 
  Eustaquio played 349 minutes in all competitions as Porto won five straight in May. The club went on to defeat SC Braga 2-0 on Sunday to lift the Portuguese cup. 
  Huitema played in all five of
  
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• Conservative filibuster threatens potential citizenship for children born abroad

  06-06-2023 16:52 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Advocates for would-be Canadians born abroad say Conservative efforts to filibuster amendments to the Citizenship Act are threatening their hopes of passing their nationality on to their children and grandchildren.
  As it stands, Canadian parents who were born abroad cannot pass their citizenship down to their child unless the child was born in Canada.
  The NDP and Liberals proposed a change that would allow those parents to pass down Canadian citizenship if they can prove they&rsqu
  
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• Teck Resources receives indications of interest for steelmaking coal business

  06-06-2023 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  VANCOUVER — Teck Resources Ltd. says it has received a number of indications of interest regarding potential transactions involving the company’s steelmaking coal business as it works to split the operations from its base metals business.
  The Vancouver-based company says its board and independent special committee will consider and evaluate the proposals received to determine whether they are in the best interests of Teck’s shareholders and other stakeholders.
  Teck called off a
  
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• David Johnston expected to begin public meetings on foreign interference next month

  06-06-2023 16:49 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  OTTAWA — Former governor general David Johnston says he will begin holding public meetings next month on foreign interference attempts in Canada’s elections.  
  Johnston, whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed to investigate the issue, is appearing before a parliamentary committee today for a marathon three hours of testimony.
  Johnston released a report last month that found significant shortcomings in the way the federal government handles intelligence about alleged foreig
  
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• Canada’s Gee rewarded for Giro exploits with new long-term Israel Premier-Tech deal

  06-06-2023 16:38 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canadian rider Derek Gee has been rewarded for his breakout performance at the Giro d’Italia with a new long-term contract with Israel Premier-Tech.The 25-year-old from Ottawa was promoted to Israel-Premier Tech’s pro team in May 2022, signing a three-year deal in moving up from the team’s academy. On Tuesday, Israel Premier-Tech said it had replaced that with a new contract that runs through 2028.
  “We knew Derek had a big engine when we took a chance on him, and signed h
  
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• PODCAST: Building and renovating healthier homes can improve ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 14:40 via news.google.com
  
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• Pope briefly in hospital for scheduled tests two months after bronchitis, returns to Vatican

  06-06-2023 12:43 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis went to the hospital Tuesday for tests and returned back to the Vatican, witnesses and news reports said, two months after he was hospitalized with an acute case of bronchitis.
  The ANSA news agency said Francis went to Rome’s Gemelli hospital Tuesday morning for tests. Witnesses at the Vatican’s Perugino gate, one of the main entrances to the city state, told The Associated Press Francis returned to the Vatican a short while later, and greeted guards as
  
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• Tottenham hires Ange Postecoglou as latest manager after his departure from Celtic

  06-06-2023 11:47 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Ange Postecoglou was hired as Tottenham manager on Tuesday as the English Premier League club begins its latest reboot after another turbulent season.
  The former Celtic manager is the fourth permanent manager to be hired since Mauricio Pochettino’s departure in 2019 and will be tasked with the responsibility of turning Spurs’ fortunes around after 15 years without a trophy.
  He signed a four-year contract and follows on from Jose Mourinho, Nuno Espirito Santo and Antonio Conte, who al
  
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• In The News for June 6 : Feds say Canada on track to have worst wildfire season ever

  06-06-2023 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 June 6 …
  What we are watching in Canada …
  Canada’s emergency preparedness minister says images of wildfires burning across the country are some of the most severe ever witnessed in Canada and the current forecast for the next few months indicates the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity.
  Bill Blair
  
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• Feds warn 2023 on track to be the worst fire season ever seen in Canada

  06-06-2023 10:03 via fraservalleytoday.ca
  
  Canada’s emergency preparedness minister says images of wildfires burning across the country are some of the most severe ever witnessed in Canada and the current forecast for the next few months indicates the potential for continued higher-than-normal fire activity.
  Bill Blair and six other federal cabinet ministers provided an update Monday on Canada’s wildfire situation, even as smoke from fires north and west of the city covered Parliament Hill’s Peace Tower in a grey haze.
  
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• Village Classic Car Show 2023 Preparing To Take Over Downtown ... - Abbotsford News

  06-06-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Uber launches in Victoria, Kelowna and Chilliwack - CBC.ca

  06-06-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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• Man charged in 2018 Chilliwack murder faces long wait for next ... - Chilliwack Progress

  06-06-2023 09:00 via news.google.com
  
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